Department of Physics & Astronomy

Publications (2012)

See also: 2011,2010,2009

Topics: Astrophysics, Experimental Physics, or Conference Proceedings and Preprints
Authors in bold are faculty; authors in italics are students or alumni.

Astrophysics

A Study of the Dark Core in A520 with the Hubble Space Telescope: The Mystery Deepens
Jee, M. J., Mahdavi, A., Hoekstra, H., Babul, A., Dalcanton, J. J., Carroll, P., Capak, P. , The Astrophysical Journal, 747, 96 (2012)

The Multi-Epoch nearby Cluster Survey: Type Ia Supernova Rate Measurement in z ~ 0.1 Clusters and the Late-time Delay Time Distribution
Sand, D. J., Graham, M. L., Bildfell, C., Zaritsky, D., Pritchet, C., Hoekstra, H., Just, D. W., Herbert-Fort, S., Sivanandam, S., Foley, R. J., Mahdavi, A. , The Astrophysical Journal, 746, 163 (2012)

Experimental Physics

Abruptly autofocusing and autodefocusing optical beams with arbitrary caustics
Chremmos, I. D., Chen, Z., Christodoulides, D. N., Efremidis, N. K. , Physical Review A, 85, 023828 (2012)

Symmetry-breaking diffraction and dynamic self-trapping in optically induced hexagonal photonic lattices
Liu, S., Hu, Y., Zhang, P., Gan, X., Lou, C., Song, D., Zhao, J., Xu, J., Chen, Z. , Applied Physics Letters, 100, 061907 (2012)

Conference Proceedings and Preprints

An updated determination of \alpha_s from tau decays
Boito, D., Golterman, M., Jamin, M., Mahdavi, A., Maltman, K., Osborne, J., Peris, S. , ArXiv e-prints, arXiv:1203.3146 (2012)

Evolution of the Red Sequence Giant to Dwarf Ratio in Galaxy Clusters out to z ~ 0.5
Bildfell, C., Hoekstra, H., Babul, A., Sand, D., Graham, M., Willis, J., Urquahart, S., Mahdavi, A., Pritchet, C., Zaritsky, D., Franse, J., Langelaan, P. , ArXiv e-prints, arXiv:1202.6058 (2012)

CLASH: Precise New Constraints on the Mass Profile of Abell 2261
Coe, D., Umetsu, K., Zitrin, A., Donahue, M., Medezinski, E., Postman, M., Carrasco, M., Anguita, T., Geller, M. J., Rines, K. J., Diaferio, A., Kurtz, M. J., Bradley, L., Koekemoer, A., Zheng, W., Nonino, M., Molino, A., Mahdavi, A., Lemze, D., Infante, L., Ogaz, S., Melchior, P., Host, O., Ford, H., Grillo, C., Rosati, P., Jiménez-Teja, Y., Moustakas, J., Broadhurst, T., Ascaso, B., Lahav, O., Bartelmann, M., Benítez, N., Bouwens, R., Graur, O., Graves, G., Jha, S., Jouvel, S., Kelson, D., Moustakas, L., Maoz, D., Meneghetti, M., Merten, J., Riess, A., Rodney, S., Seitz, S. , ArXiv e-prints, arXiv:1201.1616 (2012)

Experimental demonstration waveguide with arbitrary bending angles in hyperuniform disordered photonics materials
Man, W., Florescu, M., Hashemizad, S., Williamson, E., Liner, D., He, Y., Leung, B., Chaikin, P. , APS Meeting Abstracts, 28005 (2012)

An updated determination of \alpha_s from tau decays
Boito, D., Golterman, M., Jamin, M., Mahdavi, A., Maltman, K., Osborne, J., Peris, S. , ArXiv e-prints, arXiv:1203.3146 (2012)

Scaling properties of Wilson loops pierced by P-vortices
Dunn, P., Greensite, J. , ArXiv e-prints, arXiv:1202.6017 (2012)

The Gribov horizon and the one-loop color-Coulomb potential
Golterman, M., Greensite, J., Peris, S., Szczepaniak, A. P. , ArXiv e-prints, arXiv:1201.4590 (2012)

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