ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
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- Christensen, Philip
- 2 Arizona State University
- 1 Butler, Nathaniel
- 1 Desch, Steven J
- 1 Groppi, Christopher E
- 1 Mauskopf, Philip
- 1 Rubin, Mark E.
- more
- 1 Scowen, Paul
- 1 Sharp, Thomas
- 1 Wheeler, Caleb Wheeler
- 2 English
- Astrophysics
- 1 Charon
- 1 Engineering
- 1 Geophysics
- 1 Ices
- 1 Kuiper belt objects
- 1 Planetology
- more
- 1 Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities
- 1 SIS
- 1 Thermal Histories
- 1 Trans-neptunian objects
- 1 array
- 1 heterodyne
- 1 magnet
- 1 receivers
- 1 terahertz
- Dwarf Galaxies as Laboratories of Protogalaxy Physics: Canonical Star Formation Laws at Low Metallicity
- Evolutionary Genetics of CORL Proteins
- Social Skills and Executive Functioning in Children with PCDH-19
- Deep Domain Fusion for Adaptive Image Classification
- Software Defined Pulse-Doppler Radar for Over-The-Air Applications: The Joint Radar-Communications Experiment
In this thesis I model the thermal and structural evolution of Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) and explore their ability to retain undifferentiated crusts of rock and ice over geologic timescales. Previous calculations by Desch et al. (2009) predicted that initially homogenous KBOs comparable in size to Charon (R ~ 600 km) have surfaces too cold to permit the separation of rock and ice, and should always retain thick (~ 85 km) crusts, despite the partial differentiation of rock and ice inside the body. The retention of a thermally insulating, undifferentiated crust is favorable to the maintenance of subsurface liquid and …
- Contributors
- Rubin, Mark E., Desch, Steven J, Sharp, Thomas, et al.
- Created Date
- 2013
The Kilopixel Array Pathfinder Project (KAPPa) advances the number of coherent high-frequency terahertz (THz) receivers that could be packed into a single focal plane array on existing submm telescopes. The KAPPa receiver, at 655-695 GHz, is a high frequency heterodyne receiver that can achieve system temperatures of less than 200 K, the specification for ALMA band-9. The KAPPa receiver uses a novel design of a permanent magnet to suppress the noise generated by the DC Josephson effect. This is in stark contrast to the benchmark solution of an electromagnet that is both too expensive and too large for use in …
- Contributors
- Wheeler, Caleb Wheeler, Groppi, Christopher E, Butler, Nathaniel, et al.
- Created Date
- 2016