Faculty Research Publications

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Below are a sample of recent 2020-2025 publications from WKU Physics and Astronomy Faculty. This list is a good starting point to see which faculty are working on some of today's most interesting research challenges. Bold text represents WKU faculty, and names preceded with an asterisk (*) represent former/current students of the department.  Some disciplines recognize author order as a representation of contribution to the paper, while other simply list authors alphabetically.

2025

Clarkson, D. L. Kontar, E. P., Chrysaphi, N., Emslie. A. G., Jeffrey, N. L. S., Krupar, V., & Vecchio, A. (2025). “Tracing the Heliospheric Magnetic Field via Anisotropic Radio-Wave Scattering”. Nature Scientific Reports, 15, 11335. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-95270-w

Severino, M., Perrett, K., Giles, E, Arbuckle, D., Emslie, A. G., Hudson, H. S., Nickerson, C., Moundalak, R., Arbuckle, G. Galloway, J., & Cavalier, D. (2025). “A Model for Success: How SciStarter's Partnerships with Eclipse Soundscapes and SunSketcher Engaged Communities and Amplified Impact in Participatory Science”. Bulletin of the AAS, 56 (9). https://doi.org/10.3847/25c2cfeb.5792d55f

*Inomjon Majidov, *Yaran Allamyradov, *Zikrulloh Khuzhakulov, *Salizhan Kylychbekov, Ali Oguz Er, Phase Transition and Controlled Zirconia Implant Patterning Using Laser-Induced Shockwaves, Applied Sciences 2025, 15(1), 362; https://doi.org/10.3390/app15010362

Conference proceedings; *Berdimyrat Annamuradov, *Zikrulloh Khuzhakulov, Mikhail Khenner, Jasminka Terzic, and Ali Oguz Er "Surface morphologies and crystallinities of a zirconium (Zr) thin film on Si(100) by pulsed laser deposition", Proceedings Volume 13352, Nanoscale and Quantum Materials: From Synthesis and Laser Processing to Applications 2025; 133520A (2025) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3043635

Chen, H,, Stanimirović, S., Pingel, N. M., Dempsey, J., Buckland-Willis, F., Clark, S. E., Dénes, H., Dickey, J. M., Gibson, S., Jameson, K., Kemp, I., Leahy, D., Lee, M.-Y., Lynn, C., Ma, Y. K., McClure-Griffiths, N. M., Murray, C. E., Nguyen, H., Uscanga, L., van Loon, J. Th., & Vázquez-Semadeni, E. (2025), "A Neutral Hydrogen Absorption Study of Cold Gas in the Outskirts of the Magellanic Clouds Using the GASKAP-H I Survey''. The Astrophysical Journal, 169, 284. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/adc67c

Kemp, I. P., Pingel, N. M., Worth, R., Wake, J., Mitchell, D. A., Midgely, S. D., Tingay, S. J., Dempsey, J., Dénes, H., Dickey, J. M., Gibson, S. J., Jameson, K. E., Lynn, C., Ma, Y. K., Marchal, A., McClure-Griffiths, N. M., Stanimirović, S., & van Loon, J. Th. (2025), "Processing of GASKAP-H I Pilot Survey Data Using a Commercial Supercomputer'', Astronomy and Computing, 51, 100901. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2024.100901

Lynn, C., Marchal, A., McClure-Griffiths, N. M., Miville-Deschênes, M.-A., Murray, C. E., Nguyen, H., Dempsey, J., Teodoro E. D., van Loon, J. Th., Dickey, J. M., Lee, M.-Y., Joncas, G., Ma, Y. K., Pingel, N., Stanimirović, S., Kemp, I., Gibson, S. J., & Dénes, H. (2025), "Considerations with Stacking Absorption Spectra: Cold H I Gas in Cirrus Region of the Milky Way'', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 536, 3538. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2818

Buckland-Willis, F., Miville-Deschênes, M. A., Marchal, A., Dawson, J. R., Dénes, H., Di Teodoro, E. M., Dickey, J. M., Gibson, S. J., Kemp, I. P., Lynn, C., Ma, Y. K., McClure-Griffiths, N. M., Murry, C. E., Pingel, N. M., Stanimirović, S., & Van Loon, J. Th. (2025), "Multi-phase H I Clouds in the Small Magellanic Cloud Halo'', Astronomy & Astrophysics, 693, 239. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202452645

Charles H. McGruder III (2025), “Galileo vs. Aristotle, Principles of Equivalence and the Gravitational Acceleration of Atoms according to General Relativity”, Journal of Modern Physics, Vol.16 No.7, July 30, 2025, https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=144466

Charles H. McGruder III (2025), “General Relativity Explains Why Ball Lightning Does Not Fall”, Journal of Modern Physics, Vol.16 No.9, September 11, 2025, https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=145511

2024

Adams, C. B. , Archer, A., Bangale, P. , Bartkoske, J. T. , Batista, P., Benbow, W. , Brill, A. , Caldwell, J. P., Carini, M., Christiansen, J. L., Chromey, A. J., Errando, M. , Falcone, A. , Feng, Q. , Finley, J. P., Foote, J. , Fortson, L. , Furniss, A. , Gallagher, G., Hanlon, W. , Hanna, D. , Hervet, O. , Hinrichs, C. E. , Hoang, J., Holder, J. , Humensky, T. B. , Jin, W. , Johnson, M. N. , Kaaret, P. , Kertzman, M., Kherlakian, M., Kieda, D. , Kleiner, T. K. , Korzoun, N. , Krennrich, F., Kumar, S. , Lang, M. J. , Lundy, M. , Maier, G. , McGrath, C. E., Millard, M. J. , Millis, J., Mooney, C. L. , Moriarty, P. , Mukherjee, R. , O'Brien, S. , Ong, R. A. , Pohl, M. , Pueschel, E. , Quinn, J. , Rabinowitz, P. L., Ragan, K. , Reynolds, P. T., Ribeiro, D. , Roache, E., Ryan, J. L. , Sadeh, I. , Sadun, A. C., Saha, L. , Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Shang, R. , Splettstoesser, M. , Tak, D. , Talluri, A. K., Tucci, J. V., Williams, D. A. , Wong, S. L. , VERITAS Collaboration, Jorstad, S. G. , Lico, R. , Lusen, P. , Marscher, A. P.   “A Multiwavelength Study to Decipher the 2017 Flare of the Blazar OJ 287”, 2024, ApJ, 973, 234 https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2024ApJ...973..134A/doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad64d0

Emslie, A. G., Allred, J. C., & Alaoui, M. (2024). “The Effects of Turbulent Electrical Resistivity on the Response of the Solar Atmosphere to Flare Energy Input I. Results of Radiative Hydrodynamic Simulations”. The Astrophysical Journal, 977, 246. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acf6c1

Henriksen. R. N., & Emslie, A. G. (2024). “An Event Horizon ‘Firewall’ Undergoing Cosmological Expansion”. Astronomy, 3, 255. https://doi.org/10.3390/astronomy3030016

Hudson, H. S., & Emslie, A. G. (2024) “The Shape of the Sun”. Astronomy & Geophysics, Vol. 65. https://doi.org/10.1093/astrogeo/atae018

Azzollini, F., Emslie, A. G., Clarkson, D. L., Chrysaphi, N., & Kontar, E. P. (2024). “Plasma Motions and Compressive Wave Energetics in the Solar Corona and Solar Wind from Radio Wave Scattering Observations”. The Astrophysical Journal, 968, 72. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad4154

Georgoulis, M. K., Yardley, S. L., Emslie, A. G., et al. (2024). “Prediction of Solar Energetic Events Impacting Space Weather Conditions”. Adv. Space Res., doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2024.02.030

*Yaran Allamyradov, *Justice ben Yosef, *Carli Street, *Hadley Whipple, *Inomjon Majidov, *Berdimyrat Annamuradov, Ali Oguz Er, The Photodynamic Therapy Review: Past, Present, Future, Opportunities, and Challenges, Photochem 2024, 4(4), 434-461; https://doi.org/10.3390/photochem4040027

Nguyen, H., McClure-Griffiths, N. M., Dempsey, J., Dickey, J. M., Lee, M.-Y., Lynn, C., Murray, C. E., Stanimirović, S., Busch, M. P., Clark, S. E., Dawson, J. R., Dénes, H., Gibson, S., Jameson, K., Joncas, G., Kemp, I., Leahy, D., Ma, Y. K., Marchal, A., Miville-Deschênes, M.-A., Pingel, N. M., Seta. A., Soler, J. D., & van Loon, J. Th. (2024), ``Local H I Absorption toward the Magellanic Cloud Foreground Using ASKAP'', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 534, 3478. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2274

*Humphrey, K., Gibson, S. J., & Noriega-Crespo, A. (2024), "Constraining Properties of Evolving Cold Interstellar Clouds''. WKU Student Scholar Showcase, #54, Western Kentucky University

Murray, C. E., Hasselquist, S., Peek, J. E. G., Willecke Lindberg, C., Almeida, A., Choi, Y., Craig, J. E. M., Dénes, H., Dickey, J. M., Di Doedoro, E. M., Federrath, C., Gerrard, I. A., Gibson, S. J., Leahy, D., Lee, M.-Y., Lynn, C., Ma, Y. K., Marchal, A., McClure-Griffiths, N. M., Nidever, D., Nguyen, H., Pingel, N. M., Tarantino, E., Uscanga, L., & van Loon, J. Th. (2024), "A Galactic Eclipse: The Small Magellanic Cloud Is Forming Stars in Two Superimposed Systems'', The Astrophysical Journal, 962, 120. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad1591

Volpara, A., Massa, P., Krucker, S., Emslie, A. G., Piana, M. & Massone, A. M. (2024). “Variation of the Electron Flux Spectrum along a Solar Flare Loop as inferred from STIX Hard X-ray Observations”. Astronomy &Astrophysics, 684, A185. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202348553

Charles H. McGruder III (2024). “Cosmology without the Cosmological Principle and without Violating the Copernican Principle: Taub-NUT Universe”, Journal of Modern Physics, Vol.15 No.8, July 11, 2024, https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=134461

Charles H. McGruder III (2024). “Extinction of Light in the Galactic Halo: First Observational Evidence of the Interaction of Light and Dark Matter”, Journal of Modern Physics, Vol.15 No.8, July 16, 2024, https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=134528

Charles H. McGruder III (2024). “Cosmological Gravitational Redshift, Spectral Shift and Time in the Taub-NUT Universe”, Journal of Modern Physics, Vol.15 No.9, August 30, 2024, https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=135697

Charles H. McGruder III, Dirk Schulze-Makuch(2024), “Astrobiological Constraints on Astrophysics”, Journal of Modern Physics, Vol.15 No.11, October 30, 2024, https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=136990

2023

Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Brown, D. N., Kolomensky, Y. G., Fritsch, M., Koch, H., Cheaib, R., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., Kozyrev, E. A., . . . Wu, S. L. (2023). "Search for heavy neutral leptons using tau lepton decays at BaBaR". Physical Review, 107(5). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.107.052009 

*Poore, Ethan, Carini, Michael, Dingler, Ryne, Wehrle, Ann, Wiita, Paul J., “A Comparative Study of TESS Light Curve Extraction Methods Applied to Blazars”, 2023, ApJ, 966, 158 https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2024ApJ...966..158P/doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad2fca

Wehrle, Ann E, Carini, Michael, Wiita, Paul J., Pepper, Joshua, Gauid, B. Scott, Pooge, Richard, Stassum, Kevian, Villaneuva Jr, Steven, “K2 Optical Emission from OJ 287 and Other -g-Ray Blazars on Hours to Weeks Timescales from 2014-2018, 2023, ApJ, 951, 58. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2023ApJ...951...58W/doi:10.3847/1538-4357/acd055

Carini, M.T., “Update on the 0.7-meter Bell Observatory Telescope”, 2023, Kentucky Area Astronomical Society Meeting

*Poore, E., Carini, M., “Blazars with TESS: Validating TESS reduction pipelines applied to blazars using ZTF observations.". (2023). BAAS, 55 (2), [#241, #360.26]. https://baas.aas.org/pub/2023n2i360p26/release/1 

Kontar, E. P., Emslie, A. G., Clarkson, D. L., Chen, X., Chrysaphi, N., Azzollini, F., Jeffrey, N. L. S., & Gordovskyy, M. (2023). “An Anisotropic Density Turbulence Model from the Sun to 1 AU Derived From Radio Observations”, The Astrophysical Journal, 956, 112. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acf6c1

Kontar, E. P., Emslie, A. G., Motorina, G. G., & Dennis, B. R. (2023). “The Efficiency of Electron Acceleration during the Impulsive Phase of a Solar Flare”. The Astrophysical Journal, 947, L13. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/acc9b7

*Khuzhakulov, Z., *Kylychbekov, S., Allamyradov, Y., Majidov, I., *Yosef, J. B., Er, A. Y., *Kitchens, C., Banga, S., Badarudeen, S., & Er, A. O. (2023). "Formation of picosecond laser-induced periodic surface structures on steel for knee arthroplasty prosthetics". Frontiers in Metals and Alloys,1. https://doi.org/10.3389/ftmal.2022.1090104 

*Beauchamp, I. L., & Gibson, S. J. (2023). “New Analysis of Cold Clouds in Perseus Spiral Arm”. WKU Student Scholar Showcase, #53, Western Kentucky University.

Ma, Y. K., McClure- Griffiths, N. M., Clark, S. E., Gibson, S. J., van Loon, J. Th., Soler, J. D., Putman, M. E., Dickey, J. M., Lee, M.- Y., Jameson, J. E., Uscanga, L., Dempsey, J., Dénes, J., Lynn, C., & Pingel, N. M. (2023). “H I Filaments as Potential Compass Needles? Comparing the Magnetic Field Structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud to the Orientation of GASKAP-H I Filaments”. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521, 60. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad462 

*Ochoa G., & Lee, T.-H. (2023). “Distance to RR Lyrae AO Tuc”. WKU Student Scholar Showcase, #53, Western Kentucky University.

*Ochoa G., & Lee, T.-H. (2023). “RR Lyrae Star AO Tuc as Standard Candle”. Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics, Auburn University.

*Miracle, S., & Lee, T.-H., Shaw, R., & Stanghellini, L. (2023). “Galactic Archeology of Planetary Nebulae”. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 55 [#241, #177.35]. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023AAS...24117735M 

Massa, P., Hurford, G. J., Volpara, A., Kuhar, M., Battaglia, A. F., Xiao, H, Casadei, D., Perracchione, E., Garbarino, S., Guastavino, S., Collier, H., Dickson, E. C. M., Emslie, A. G., Ryan, D. F., Maloney, S. A., Schuller, F., Warmuth, A., Massone, A. M., Benvenuto, F., Piana, M. & Krucker S. (2023). “The STIX Imaging Concept”. Solar Phys., 298, 114. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-023-02205-7

Massa, P, Emslie, A. G., Hannah, I. G., & Kontar, E. P. (2023). “Robust Construction of DEM Profiles and Maps from AIA data using a Regularized Maximum Likelihood Method”, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 672, 120. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202345883

Stiefel, M., Battaglia, A., Barczynski, K., Collier, H., Volpara, A., Massa, P., Schwanitz, C., Tynelius, S., Harra, L., & Krucker, S. (2022). "Solar flare hard X-rays from the anchor points of an eruptive filament". Astronomy and Astrophysics, 670, A89. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202245044

Rodriguez, L., Warmuth, A., Andretta, V., Mierla, M., Zhukov, A. N., Shukhobodskaia, D., Niemela, A., Maharana, A., West, M. J., Kilpua, E. K. J., Möstl, C., D’Huys, E., Veronig, A. M., Auchère, F., Battaglia, A. F., Benvenuto, F., Berghmans, D., Dickson, E. C. M., Dominique, M., Massa P., . . . Verbeeck, C. (2023). "The Eruption of 22 April 2021 as Observed by Solar Orbiter: Continuous Magnetic Reconnection and Heating After the Impulsive Phase". Solar Physics, 298(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-022-02090-6

Maccari, I., Pokharel, B. K., Terzic, J., Dutta, S., Jesudasan, J., Raychaudhuri, P., Lorenzana, J., De Michele, C., Castellani, C., Benfatto, L., & Popović, D. (2023). "Transport signatures of fragile glass dynamics in the melting of the two-dimensional vortex lattice". Physical Review, 107(1). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.107.014509

*Beauchamp, I., & Beaklini, P. (2023). “High Mass Star Formation Studied through IRDCs”. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 55 [#241, #273.04]. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023AAS...24127304B 

*Ochoa, G., Kulkarni, S., Girish, O., Hernandez, H., Lu, J., Russell, C., Risin, S., & Freed, R. (2023). “Measuring the Position Angle and Separation of WDS 13550-4235 and WDS 14082+3645”. The Journal of Double Star Observations, 19 (2), 212. http://www.jdso.org/volume19/number2/Ochoa_212_222.pdf 

2022

Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Brown, D., Kolomensky, Y. U. G., Fritsch, M., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Cheaib, R., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., . . . Wu, S. L. (2022). "Search for an Axionlike Particle in B Meson Decays". Physical Review Letters, 128(13). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.128.131802 

Mu2e Collaboration (including Brown D.). (2022). "Mu2e Run I Sensitivity Projections for the Neutrinoless µ− → e−  Conversion Search in Aluminum". arXiv (Cornell University). https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2210.11380 

Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Brown, D., Kolomensky, Y. G., Fritsch, M., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Cheaib, R., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., . . . Wu, S. L. (2022). "Search for Lepton Flavor Violation in ϒ(3S)→e±μ∓". Physical Review Letters, 128(9). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.128.091804 

Banerjee, S., Brown, D., Brown, D., Calafiura, P., Calcutt, J., Canal, P., Diamond, M., Elvira, D., Evans, T. M., Fatemi, R., Genser, K., Hatcher, R. D., Himmel, A., Johnson, S. J., Jun, S. Y., Kelsey, M., Kourlitis, E., Kutschke, R. K., Lima, G. F., . . . Yarba, J. (2022). "Detector and Beamline Simulation for Next-Generation High Energy Physics  Experiments". arXiv (Cornell University). https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2203.07614 

Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Brown, D., Kolomensky, Y. G., Fritsch, M., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Cheaib, R., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., . . . Wu, S. L. (2022). "Search for Darkonium in e+e− Collisions". Physical Review Letters, 128(2). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.128.021802 

Carini, M.“WKU’s Bell Observatory: an observatory for all of Kentucky”. (2022). Kentucky Area Astronomical Society Meeting. KAM - PROGRAM (google.com)

Emslie, A. G., & Bradshaw, S. J. (2022). "Temperature and Differential Emission Measure Profiles in Turbulent Solar Active Region Loops". The Astrophysical Journal, 939(1), 19. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac961b

Emslie, A. G., & Oliver, T. P. (2022). "On the variation of apparent weight with altitude above a planet with an atmosphere". Physics Education, 57(6), 065009. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6552/ac885f

Allred, J. C., Kerr, G. K., & Emslie, A. G. (2022). "Solar Flare Heating with Turbulent Suppression of Thermal Conduction". The Astrophysical Journal, 931(1), 60. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac69e8

Piana, M., Emslie, A. G., Massone, A. M., & Dennis, B. R. (2022). "Hard X-Ray Imaging of Solar Flares". Springer EBooks. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87277-9

*Hakimov, S., *Kylychbekov, S., Harness, B., Neupane, S., *Hurley, J., *Brooks, A. G., Banga, S., & Er, A. O. (2022). "Evaluation of silver nanoparticles attached to methylene blue as an antimicrobial agent and its cytotoxicity". Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy, 39, 102904. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdpdt.2022.102904 

Goun, A., Frederick, E., Er, A. O., Bernasek, S. L., & Rabitz, H. (2022). "Deprotonation of phenol linked to a silicon dioxide surface using adaptive feedback laser control with a heterodyne detected sum frequency generation signal". Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 24(32), 19443–19451. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1cp05613a 

West, J. L., Campbell, J. L., Kothes, R., Safi-Harb, S., Singh, P., Foster, T., Gaensler, B. M., George, S. J., Gibson, S. J., Ricci, R., Stil, J., & Taylor, A. R. (2022). “Discovery of a Peculiar Filamentary Structure Connected to the Coherent Magnetic Field of the Outer Galaxy”. The Astrophysical Journal, 941, 6. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac9b58 

*Beauchamp, I. L., & Gibson, S. J. (2022). “New Analysis of Cold Clouds in Perseus Spiral Arm”. Southeast Section of the American Physical Society (SESAPS) Conference, #89, University of Mississippi. https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/SES22/Session/K02.2 

Dempsey, J., McClure-Griffiths, N. M., Murray, C., Dickey, J. M., Pingel, N. M., Jameson, K., Dénes, H., van Loon, J. Th., Leahy, D., Lee, M.- Y., Stanimirovíc, S., Breen, S., Buckland-Willis, F., Gibson, S. J., Imai, H., Lynn, C., & Tremplay, C. D. (2022). “GASKAP-H I Pilot Survey Science III: An Unbiased View of Cold Gas in the Small Magellanic Cloud”. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 39, 34. https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2022.18 

Dawson, J. R., Jones, P. A., Purcell, C., Walsh, A. J., Breen, S. L., Brown, C., Carretti, E., Cunningham, M. R., Dickey, J. M., Ellingsen, S. P., Gibson, S. J., Gómez, J. F., Green, J. A., Imai, H., Krishnan, V., Lo, N., Lowe, V., Marquarding, M., & McClure-Griffiths, N. M. (2022). “SPLASH: Data Description and Release”. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512, 5131. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac636 

*Beauchamp, I. L., & Gibson, S. J. (2022). “New Analysis of Cold Clouds in Perseus Spiral Arm”. WKU Student Research Conference #52. Western Kentucky University

Campbell, J. L., Clark, S. E., Gaensler, B. M., Marchal, A., Deshpande, A. A., George, S. J., Gibson, S. J., Ricci, R., Stil, J. M., & Taylor, A. R. (2022). “A Comparison of Multi-Phase Magnetic Field Tracers in a High-Galactic Latitude Region of the Filamentary Interstellar Medium”. The Astrophysical Journal, 927, 49. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac400d 

Lee, T.-H. (2022). "Instrument Projects for Acoustics Students Who Are Non-Science Majors". American Association of Physics Teachers 2022 Summer Meeting. Grand Rapids, MI, HB04. https://appt-sm.secure-platform.com/a/solicitations/40/sessiongallery/schedule/items/756 

*Brunt, W., & Lee, T.-H. (2022), “Using Standard Candles to Measure Distances”. Kentucky Area Astronomical Society Meeting, Austin Pea University. KAM - PROGRAM (google.com)

*Miracle, S., & Lee, T.-H. (2022). “Elemental Abundances of Planetary Nebulae”. WKU Student Research Conference, #52, Western Kentucky University.

*Brunt, W., & Lee, T.-H. (2022). “Photometric Distance to Rx For”. WKU Student Research Conference, #52, Western Kentucky University.

Massa, P., & Emslie, A. G. (2022). "Efficient identification of pre-flare features in SDO/AIA images through use of spatial Fourier transforms". Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2022.1040099

Volpara, A., Massa, P., Perracchione, E., Battaglia, A. F., Garbarino, S., Benvenuto, F., Massone, A. M., Krucker, S., & Piana, M. (2022). "Forward fitting STIX visibilities". Astronomy and Astrophysics, 668, A145. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202243907

Massa, P., Battaglia, A. F., Volpara, A., Collier, H. B., Hurford, G. J., Kuhar, M., Perracchione, E., Garbarino, S., Massone, A. M., Benvenuto, F., Schuller, F. P., Warmuth, A., Dickson, E. C., Xiao, H., Maloney, S. K., Ryan, D. H., Piana, M., & Krucker, S. (2022). "First Hard X-Ray Imaging Results by Solar Orbiter STIX". Solar Physics, 297(7). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-022-02029-x

Massa, P., Garbarino, S., & Benvenuto, F. (2022b). "Approximation of discontinuous inverse operators with neural networks". Inverse Problems, 38(10), 105001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6420/ac83e5

Katukuri, V. M., Lu, X., McNally, D., Dantz, M., Strocov, V. N., Sala, M. M., Upton, M., Terzic, J., Cao, G. F., Yazyev, O. V., & Schmitt, T. (2022). "Charge ordering in Ir dimers in the ground state of Ba5AlIr2O11". Physical Review, 105(7). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.105.075114

*Beauchamp, I., Belvedere, S., Hernandez, M., Himes, M., McCaffrey, T., Sanderson, K., & Wolfe, B. (2022), “VLA Radio Detection of MAXI J1816-195”. The Astronomer’s Telegram, #15481. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022ATel15481....1B 

*Ochoa, G., Kulkarni, S., Girish, O., Hernandez, H., Lu, J., Russell, C., Risin, S., & Freed, R. (2022). “Measuring the Position Angle and Separation of WDS 13550-4235 & WDS 14082+3645”. Southeast Section of the American Physical Society (SESAPS) Conference, #89, University of Mississippi. https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/SES22/Session/E01.10 

*Ochoa, G., Kulkarni, S., Girish, O., Hernandez, H., Lu, J., Russell, C., Risin, S., & Freed, R. (2022). “Measuring the Position Angle and Separation of WDS 13550-4235 & WDS 14082+3645”. Kentucky Academy of Science Meeting, #108, Morehead State University. https://mms.kyscience.org/members/publication/program_issue.php?iid=1112921 

2021

Brown, D. (2021). "Rare and forbidden decays of the D0 meson". Proceedings of 10th International Workshop on Charm Physics — PoS(CHARM2020). https://doi.org/10.22323/1.385.0052 

Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Brown, D., Kolomensky, Y. G., Fritsch, M., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Cheaib, R., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., . . . Cowan, G. A. (2021). "Study of the reactions e+e−→π+π−π0π0π0π0 and π+π−π0π0π0η at center-of-mass energies from threshold to 4.5 GeV using initial-state radiation". Physical Review, 104(11). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.104.112004 

Martin, M. C., Brown, D., & Ramos, K. S. (2021). "Computational Modeling of RNase, Antisense ORF0 RNA, and Intracellular Compartmentation and their Impact on the Life Cycle of the LINE Retrotransposon". Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 19, 5667–5677. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2021.10.003 

Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Brown, D., Kolomensky, Y. G., Fritsch, M., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Cheaib, R., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., . . . Babar. (2021). "Light meson spectroscopy from Dalitz plot analyses of ηc decays to η′K+K−". Physical Review, 104(7). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.104.072002 

Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Brown, D., Kolomensky, Y. U. G., Fritsch, M., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Cheaib, R., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., Y, S. R., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., . . . L, W. S. (2021). "Study of the reactions e+e−→2(π+π−)π0". Physical Review, 103(9). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.103.092001 

Horne, Keith , et al. (135 other authors, including Carini, M. T., and *Hicks, S.). (2021).  "Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. IX. Velocity–Delay Maps for Broad Emission Lines in NGC 5548". The Astrophysical Journal, 907(2), 76. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abce60

Williams, P. R. , et. al (157 other authors, including Carini, M. T., and *Hicks, S.).  "Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. XII. Broad-line Region Modeling of NGC 5548". (2021). ApJ, 902, 74 https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2020ApJ...902...74W/doi:10.3847/1538-4357/abbad7

*Beauchamp, I. L., & Gibson, S. J. (2021). “Examining and Cataloging HISA Features”. Kentucky Academy of Science Meeting, #107, Eastern Kentucky University (Virtual). https://mms.kyscience.org/members/publication/program_issue.php?iid=971169 

Lee, T.-H. (2021). "Engaging Students with Escape Room Activities". American Association of Physics Teachers 2021 Virtual Summer Meeting. PS.F-WE-2.05. https://aapt-wm.secure-platform.com/a/solicitations/18/sessiongallery/schedule/items/450 

*Miracle, S., & Lee, T.-H., Shaw, R., & Stanghellini, L. (2021). “Elemental Abundances of Planetary Nebulae”. Kentucky Academy of Science Meeting, #107, Eastern Kentucky University (Virtual). https://mms.kyscience.org/members/publication/program_issue.php?iid=971169 

*Brunt, W., Hancock, D., & Lee, T.-H. (2021). "Light Curves of the RR Lyrae Variable Star Rx For". WKU Student Research Conference, #51, Western Kentucky University.

*Miracle, S., & Lee, T.-H. (2021). “Optical Spectrum of PN G309.0+00.8”. WKU Student Research Conference, #51, Western Kentucky University.

Lee, T.-H. (2021). “The Effectiveness of Immediate Feedback in Quizzes and Exams”, in ASP2020: Embracing the Future: Astronomy Teaching and Public Engagement. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, 531, 272. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021ASPC..531..272L 

Lee, T.-H., Fang, X., Shaw, R. A., Stanghellini, L., & *Miracle, S. (2021). “Abundance Analyses of Planetary Nebulae”. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 53 [#238, #130.07]. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021AAS...23813007L 

*Miracle, S., Lee, T.-H., Shaw, R. A., Stanghellini, L., & Fang, X. (2021). “Elemental Abundances of Planetary Nebulae”. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 53 [#238, #130.06]. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021AAS...23813006M

Fang, X., Lee, T.-H., Guerrero, M., Stanghellini, L., & Shaw, R. A. (2021). “Abundances and Gradients in the Milky Way Disk Based on Deep Spectroscopy of Compact Planetary Nebulae.” Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 53 [#237, #110.01]. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021AAS...23711001F 

Massa, P., Perracchione, E., Garbarino, S., Battaglia, A. F., Benvenuto, F., Piana, M., Hurford, G. J., & Krucker, S. (2021). "Imaging from STIX visibility amplitudes". Astronomy and Astrophysics, 656, A25. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202140946

Battaglia, A., Saqri, J., Massa, P., Perracchione, E., Dickinson, E. C. M., Xiao, H., & Veronig, A. (2021). "STIX X-ray microflare observations during the Solar Orbiter commissioning phase". Astronomy and Astrophysics, 656, A4. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202140524

Perracchione, E., Massa, P., Massone, A. M., & Piana, M. (2021). "Visibility Interpolation in Solar Hard X-Ray Imaging: Application to RHESSI and STIX". The Astrophysical Journal, 919(2), 133. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac158d

Massa, P., & Benvenuto, F. (2021). "Predictive risk estimation for the expectation maximization algorithm with Poisson data". Inverse Problems. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6420/abe950

Zhao, H., Zheng, H., Terzic, J., Song, W. H., Ni, Y., Zhang, Y., Schlottmann, P., & Cao, G. (2021). "Lattice flexibility in Ca3Ru2O7 : Control of electrical transport via anisotropic magnetostriction". Physical Review, 104(12). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.104.l121119

Shi, Z., Baity, P. G., Terzic, J., Sasagawa, T., & Popovic, D. B. (2019b). "Magnetic field reveals vanishing Hall response in the normal state of stripe-ordered cuprates". Nature Communications, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24000-3

2020

Crowter, K., Stairs, I. H., McPhee, C. A., Archibald, A. M., Boyles, J., Hessels, J. W. T., Karako-Argaman, C., Lorimer, D. R., Lynch, R., McLaughlin, M., Ransom, S. M., Roberts, M. S. E., Stovall, K., & Van Leeuwen, J. (2020). "The GBT 350-MHz Drift Scan Pulsar Survey – III. Detection of a magnetic field in the eclipsing material of PSR J2256–1024". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495(3), 3052–3064. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa933

Karako-Argaman, C., Kaspi, V. M., Lynch, R., Hessels, J. W. T., Kondratiev, V. P., McLaughlin, M., Ransom, S. M., Archibald, A. T., Boyles, J., Jenet, F. A., Kaplan, D. L., Levin, L. S., Lorimer, D. R., Madsen, E. C., Roberts, M. S. E., Siemens, X., Stairs, I. H., Stovall, K., Swiggum, J. K., & Van Leeuwen, J. (2020). "RRATtrap: Rotating Radio Transient identifier". Astrophysics Source Code Library, Record Ascl:2011.017. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ascl.soft11017K

Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Brown, D., Kolomensky, Y. G., Fritsch, M., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Cheaib, R., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., . . . Span. (2020). "Search for a Dark Leptophilic Scalar in e+e− Collisions". Physical Review Letters, 125(18). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.125.181801 

Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Brown, D., Kolomensky, Y. U. G., Fritsch, M., Koch, H., Schroeder, T. V., Cheaib, R., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., Y, S. R., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., . . . L, W. S. (2020). "Precision Measurement of the Ratio B(ϒ(3S)→τ+". Physical Review Letters, 125(24). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.125.241801 

Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Brown, D., Kolomensky, Y. G., Fritsch, M., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Cheaib, R., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., Y, S. R., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., . . . L, W. S. (2020). "Search for lepton-flavor-violating decays D0→X0e±μ∓". Physical Review, 101(11). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.101.112003 

Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Brown, D., Kolomensky, Y. U. G., Fritsch, M., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Cheaib, R., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., Y, S. R., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., . . . L, W. S. (2020). "Resonances in e+e− annihilation near 2.2 GeV". Physical Review, 101(1). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.101.012011 

Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Brown, D., Kolomensky, Y. G., Fritsch, M., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Cheaib, R., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., Y, S. R., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., . . . L, W. S. (2020). "Search for Rare or Forbidden Decays of the D0 Meson". Physical Review Letters, 124(7). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.124.071802 

Williams, P. R. , et. al (157 other authors, including Carini, M. T., and *Hicks, S.). (2020). "Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. XII. Broad-line Region Modeling of NGC 5548". The Astrophysical Journal, 902(1), 74. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abbad7

Carini, M. T., Wehrle, A. E., Wiita, P. J., *Ward, Z., & *Pendleton, K. (2020). "Measuring the Variability in K2 Optical Light Curves of 3C 273 and Other Fermi Active Galactic Nuclei in 2015–2017". The Astrophysical Journal, 903(2), 134. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abbb92 

Archer, A., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Brill, A., Buchovecky, M., Buckley, J. H., Carini, M., Christiansen, J. L., Chromey, A. J., Daniel, M. K., Errando, M., Falcone, A. D., Feng, Q., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gent, A. E., Georganopoulos, M., Gillanders, G. H., . . . Williamson, T. H. (2020). "VERITAS Discovery of VHE Emission from the Radio Galaxy 3C 264: A Multiwavelength Study". The Astrophysical Journal, 896(1), 41. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab910e 

Abeysekara, A. U., et al (263 other authors, including Carini, M. T.),"The Great Markarian 421 Flare of 2010 February: Multiwavelength Variability and Correlation Studies". (2020). ApJ, 890, 97, 2020, ApJ, 896, 41https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2020ApJ...890...97A/doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab6612 

*Abdisatarov, B., *Ilhom, S., *Kholikov, K., *Loomis, D., Dobrokhotov, V., Khenner, M., & Er, A. O. (2020). "Morphology and structure of Pb thin films grown on Si(111) by pulsed laser deposition". Applied Physics A, 126(3). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-020-3414-y 

Bradshaw, S. J., & Emslie, A. G. (2020). "Scaling Laws for Dynamic Solar Loops". The Astrophysical Journal, 904(2), 141. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abbf50

Bian, N., & Emslie, A. G. (2020). "Delay-time Distributions of Solar Energetic Particles. II. Effects of Magnetic Focusing". The Astrophysical Journal, 897(1), 34. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9364

Kerr, G. K., Alaoui, M., Allred, J. C., Bian, N. H., Dennis, B. R., Emslie, A. G., Fletcher, L., Guidoni, S. E., Hayes, L. A., Holman, G. D., Hudson, H. S., Karpen, J. T., Kowalski, A. F., Milligan, R. O., Polito, V., Qiu, J., & Ryan, D. H. (2020). "Solar Flare Energy Partitioning and Transport -- the Gradual Phase (a  Heliophysics 2050 White Paper)". ArXiv (Cornell University). https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2009.08407

Belekov, E., Kholikov, K., *Cooper, L. B., Banga, S., & Er, A. O. (2020). "Improved antimicrobial properties of methylene blue attached to silver nanoparticles". Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy, 32, 102012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdpdt.2020.102012 

Luo, G., Li, D., Tang, N., Dawson, J. R., Dickey, J. M., Bronfman, L., Qin, S.-L., Gibson, S. J., Plambeck, R., Finger, R., Green, A., Mardones, D., Koo, B.-C., & Lo, N. (2020). “Revealing the CO X-factor in Dark Molecular Gas through Sensitive ALMA Absorption Observations”. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 889, L4. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab6337 

Massa, P., Schwartz, R. H., Tolbert, A. K., Massone, A. M., Dennis, B. R., Piana, M., & Benvenuto, F. (2020). "MEM_GE: A New Maximum Entropy Method for Image Reconstruction from Solar X-Ray Visibilities". The Astrophysical Journal, 894(1), 46. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8637

Krucker, S., Hurford, G. J., Grimm, O., Kögl, S., Gröbelbauer, H., Etesi, L., Casadei, D., Csillaghy, A., Benz, A. O., Arnold, N., Molendini, F., Orleanski, P., Schori, D., Xiao, H., Kuhar, M., Hochmuth, N., Felix, S., Schramka, F., Marcin, S., Massa P., . . . Lin, R. P. (2020). "The Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX)". Astronomy and Astrophysics, 642, A15. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937362

Shi, Z., Baity, P. G., Terzic, J., Sasagawa, T., & Popovic, D. B. (2020). "Pair density wave at high magnetic fields in cuprates with charge and spin orders". Nature Communications, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17138-z