Andy's Research Page

In my younger days ;-), I did research in both physics and astrophysics, and, as of 2007, have begun to do a little again. You can get a flavor of it from my Community of Science entry. Or, if you are brave, you can read some of my papers (those marked PDF require that you have Acrobat Reader installed and those marked with an '*' are quite large, so may take a while to download).

For lighter reading, I have also included a copy of the issue of the Bulletin of the Oklahoma Ornithological Society where (starting on page 5) there is a brief note I wrote about the Ringed Turtle-Dove. It is interesting that this issue contains the last (posthumous) article written by George Miksch Sutton (whom I met a few times).

Type Title Journal Year Notes
[PDF] Narrow Band Photometry of the Broad Absorptions in Peculiar A Stars Astrophysical Letters 1977 Astronomy
[HTML] Non-LTE Level Populations of Si II in Supernova Envelopes Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Sciences 1979 Astrophysics - part of thesis work
[PDF]* Period Variations in Spectroscopic Binaries: SS Cygni and AE Aquarii Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1980 Astronomy
[PDF] Breakdown of the adiabatic-nuclear-rotation approximation for near-threshold e-H2 collisions Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics 1982 Physics
[PDF] Scaled adiabatic-nuclear-rotation theory for near-threshold rotational excitation in electron-molecule scattering Physical Review A 1984 Physics
[PDF]* Adiabatic approximations for the nuclear excitation of molecules by low-energy electron impact: Rotational excitation of H2 Physical Review A 1984 Physics
[PDF] Validity of the adiabatic nuclei theory for vibrational excitation of molecules by electron impact: The e-H2 system Physical Review A 1984 Physics
[PDF] Accuracy of Hartree-Fock wave functions for electron-H2 scattering calculations Physical Review A 1988 Physics
[PDF] Ringed Turtle Dove in Oklahoma Bulletin of the Oklahoma Ornithological Society 1990 Ornithology - (see p. 5)
[PDF] Through scattering theory with gun and camera: Coping with conventions in collision theory American Journal of Physics 2007 Physics
[PDF] Analytic Born completion in the calculation of differential cross sections for electron scattering from a linear molecule Physical Review A 2008 Physics
[PDF] Exact inclusion of exchange in calculations of cross sections for vibrational excitation of N2 by low-energy electrons Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics 2009 Physics

* = large file, slow download