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UCB Astronomy Theses
Recent theses are available online via ProQuest, and a smattering of older ones are stored on this website. It doesn't seem possible to link directly to ProQuest's list of Berkeley Astronomy ones in particular, but as of June 2012 you search them this way:
- Go to search.proquest.com
- Click on “Advanced Search”
- In the main search box, enter something like “au(chornock, ryan)” for an author search
- In the “Source type” box, check only “Dissertations & Theses”
- Your desired thesis will almost always be in the first page of results.
You can browse theses like this:
- 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)”
Below is a very incomplete listing of Berkeley theses. The format is indicated in brackets, with “[PQ]” indicating a link to ProQuest. “(P)” after a name denotes a degree received in Physics. Some of the direct file links are quite large, unsurprisingly, though others link only to abstracts.
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
- On the Evolution of Massive Galaxies [PQ] by Kristen L. Shapiro
- Merging Galaxies and Dark Matter Halos [PQ] by Andrew R. Wetzel
Fall 2009
- Astrophysical Applications of Spectropolarimetry [PQ] by Ryan T. Chornock
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)