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UCB Astronomy Theses
Recent theses are available online via ProQuest. It doesn't seem possible to link directly to a list of Berkeley Astronomy ones in particular, but as of June 2012 you can browse them this way:
- Go to search.proquest.com
- At the top of the page, select “Browse”
- Select “Dissertations and Theses”
- Select “Browse by Location”
- Expand “United States – California”, then “University of California, Berkeley”
- View the documents with the “astronomy” keyword. (This has more results than “astrophysics” so hopefully it's more inclusive, but maybe you need to check both?)
- You probably then want to sort by “Publication Date (most recent first)”
Local Copies
There is also a selection of theses, in various formats, stored locally. Check out the list below. Unsurprisingly, some of the files are quite large, although several are abstracts only. “(P)” after a name denotes a degree received in Physics. As should be obvious, this selection is very incomplete.
Fall 2011
- The Diverse Environments of Gamma-Ray Bursts [PQ] by Daniel Alan Perley
- Spectral Observations and Analyses of Low-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae [PQ] by Jeffrey Michael Silverman
- Anisotropic Turbulence and Protostellar Feedback in Molecular Clouds [PQ] by Charles Edward Hansen
Fall 2010
- Mergers and Mass Assembly of Dark Matter Halos in a Λ–Cold Dark Matter Universe [PQ] by Onsi Joe Fakhouri
Spring 2010
- Merging Galaxies and Dark Matter Halos [PQ] by Andrew R. Wetzel
Spring 2008
- The Supernova Rate in the Local Universe [PDF] by Jesse Frederick Leaman
Fall 2006
- A High Angular Resolution Survey of Circumstellar Dust around Herbig Ae/Be Stars [PDF] by Marshall D. Perrin
Spring 2006
- Stellar Magnetic Activity and the Detection of Exoplanets [ADS] by Jason Thomas Wright
Fall 2005
- Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxies at High Redshift: Direct Detection of Young Galaxies in a Young Universe [PDF] by Steven A. Dawson
- Computational and Theoretical Investigations of Star Formation [PDF] by Mark R. Krumholz (P)
- Spectral Energy Distributions of Embedded Protostars and Dusty Galaxies [PS] by Sukanya Chakrabarti (P)
- The Super Star Cluster Population of the M82 Nuclear Starburst [PDF] by Nate McCrady
Spring 2005
- Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies: Observational Tests of the Cold Dark Matter Paradigm on Small Scales [PDF] by Joshua D. Simon
- Molecular Cloud Populations Across Galactic Environments [PDF] by Erik Rosolowsky
Fall 2002
- Infrared Spectroscopy of Massive Stellar Clusters in Starbursts [PDF] by Andrea Gilbert
- The Detection and Characterization of Low Mass Companions to Sunlike Stars [PS.gz] by James P. Lloyd
Fall 2002
- What and Where Are the MACHO Microlenses? [PDF] by Cailin Nelson (P)
Fall 2001
- Precision Multi-Telescope Timing of Millisecond Pulsars [PS.gz] by Andrea Lommen
- Star Formation from the Galaxy to the Cosmos [PS.gz] by Jonathan Tan
- Titan's Atmosphere at High-Resolution [PDF] by Henry Roe
Spring 2001
- The Role of Heating and Enrichment in Structure Formation [PS.gz] by Evan Scannapieco (P)
Fall 2000
- The Geometry and Cosmological Utility of Core-Collapse Supernovae [PS.gz] by Doug Leonard
- Distances and Stellar Populations of Elliptical Galaxies [PS.gz] by Michael Liu (P)
- Non-Radial Oscillations of Accreting Neutron Stars and Rotational Evolution During Type I X-Ray Bursts [PS.gz] by Andrew Cumming (P)
- Radial Gas Flows and Star Formation in Spiral Galaxies [PDF] by Tony H. Wong
Spring 2000
- Observational Cosmology from z=0.001 to z ~ 1 [PS.gz] by Jeffrey Newman
- Signatures of Dark Matter [PS.gz] by Edward Baltz
Fall 1999
- Magnetism and Rapid Photometric Variability in Symbiotic Binary Stars [PS.gz] by Jennifer Sokoloski (P)
Spring 1999
- Faint Galaxy Redshift Survey behind Massive Clusters [TXT] by Brenda Frye
- Interstellar Dust as a Cosmological Foreground [PS.gz] by Douglas P. Finkbeiner (P)
- Big Bang Leftovers in the Microwave: Cosmology with the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation [PS.gz] by Eric Gawiser (P)
Spring 1998
- Millisecond Pulsars: Decoding Magnetospheres [PS.gz] by Shauna M. Sallmen
- New Views of LINERs: Ultraviolet Properties and Optical Spectropolarimetry [PS] by Aaron J. Barth
- Protostellar Winds, Jets, and Chondritic Meteorites [PS] by Hsien Shang
Fall 1997
- High Frequency Very Long Baseline Interferometry Observations of Active Galactic Nuclei [PS] by Geoffrey C. Bower
- Millimeter Observations of Low Mass Star Formation in Rho Ophiuchus A and B1 [PS] by Theodore T. Yu
- The Ecology of the Cygnus Loop in Multi-Wavelength Observations [PS] by Nancy A. Levenson
- Mass Segregation in Globular Clusters M92, 47 Tucanae, and Omega Centauri [PS] by Albert J. Anderson
- Models of Interacting Stellar Winds [PS] by Francis P. Wilkin
Spring 1997
- Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Globular Clusters with Central Density Cusps [PS] by Craig A. Sosin (P)