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Measurements of Snow Crystal Growth Dynamics in a Free-fall Convection Chamber
Kenneth G. Libbrecht, Helen C. Morrison, Benjamin Faber
We present a series of experiments investigating the growth of ice crystals from water vapor in the presence of a background gas. We measured growth dynamics at temperatures rangin…
Crystal Growth in the Presence of Surface Melting and Impurities: An Explanation of Snow Crystal Growth Morphologies
Kenneth G. Libbrecht
We examine the molecular dynamics of crystal growth in the presence of surface melting and surface impurities, and from this propose a detailed microscopic model for the growth of…
A Convection Chamber for Measuring Ice Crystal Growth Dynamics
Kenneth G. Libbrecht, Helen C. Morrison
We present the design of a general-purpose convection chamber that produces a stable environment for studying the growth of ice crystals from water vapor in the presence of a backg…
Observations of an Impurity-driven Hysteresis Behavior in Ice Crystal Growth at Low Pressure
Kenneth G. Libbrecht
We describe observations of a novel hysteresis behavior in the growth of ice crystals under near-vacuum conditions. Above a threshold supersaturation, we find that the ice growth r…
A Basic Thermodynamic Derivation of the Maximum Overburden Pressure Generated in Frost Heave
Kenneth G. Libbrecht
I describe a simple heat-engine derivation of the maximum overburden pressure that can be generated in frost heave. The method stems from the fact that useful work can, in principl…
Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts from Soft Gamma Repeaters
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, S. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels +2
We present the results of a LIGO search for short-duration gravitational waves (GWs) associated with Soft Gamma Repeater (SGR) bursts. This is the first search sensitive to neutron…