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Mendelsohn, Eric J.; Newberg, Heidi Jo; Shelton, Siddhartha; Widrow, Lawrence M.; Thompson, Jeffery M.; Grillmair, Carl J. (1 February 2022). "Estimate of the Mass and Radial Profile of the Orphan–Chenab Stream's Dwarf-galaxy Progenitor Using MilkyWay@home". The Astrophysical Journal. 926 (2): 106. arXiv:2201.03637. Bibcode:2022ApJ...926..106M. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac498a. S2CID 245853837. Donlon, T.; Newberg, H.; Weiss, J.; Guffey, A.; Thompson, J. (2021-06-01). "A Trifurcated Sagittarius Stream in the South". AAS/Division of Dynamical Astronomy Meeting. 53 (5): 403.03. Bibcode:2021DDA....5240303D. Mendelsohn, E. J.; Newberg, H. J.; Shelton, S.; Widrow, L.; Thompson, J.; Grillmair, C. (2021-06-01). "Estimate of the Mass and Radial Profile of the Orphan Stream's Dwarf Galaxy Progenitor Using MilkyWay@home". AAS/Division of Dynamical Astronomy Meeting. 53 (5): 403.01. Bibcode:2021DDA....5240301M. Mendelsohn, E. J.; Newberg, H. J.; Donlon, T.; Thompson, J. M. (2020-08-01). "N-Body Simulations with MilkyWay@home". AAS/Division of Dynamical Astronomy Meeting. 52 (4): 200.01. Bibcode:2020DDA....5120001M. Donlon, Thomas; Newberg, Heidi Jo; Sanderson, Robyn; Widrow, Lawrence M. (2020-10-01). "The Milky Way's Shell Structure Reveals the Time of a Radial Collision". The Astrophysical Journal. 902 (2): 119. arXiv:2006.08764. Bibcode:2020ApJ...902..119D. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/abb5f6. S2CID 219708644. Shelton, Siddhartha; Newberg, Heidi Jo; Weiss, Jake; Bauer, Jacob S.; Arsenault, Matthew; Widrow, Larry; Rayment, Clayton; Desell, Travis; Judd, Roland; Magdon-Ismail, Malik; Mendelsohn, Eric; Newby, Matthew; Rice, Colin; Szymanski, Boleslaw K.; Thompson, Jeffery M.; Varela, Carlos; Willett, Benjamin; Ulin, Steve; Newberg, Lee (14 February 2021). "An Algorithm for Reconstructing the Orphan Stream Progenitor with MilkyWay@home Volunteer Computing". arXiv:2102.07257. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
Newberg, Heidi Jo; Shelton, Siddhartha; Mendelsohn, Eric; Weiss, Jake; Arsenault, Matthew; Bauer, Jacob S.; Desell, Travis; Judd, Roland; Magdon-Ismail, Malik; Newberg, Lee A.; Newby, Matthew; Rayment, Clayton; Rice, Colin; Szymanski, Boleslaw K.; Thompson, Jeffery M. (June 2019). "Streams and the Milky Way dark matter halo". Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 14 (S353): 75–82. doi:10.1017/S174392131900855X. S2CID 208163330. Shelton, Siddhartha; Newberg, Heidi Jo; Weiss, Jake; Bauer, Jacob S.; Arsenault, Matthew; Widrow, Larry; Rayment, Clayton; Desell, Travis; Judd, Roland; Magdon-Ismail, Malik; Mendelsohn, Eric; Newby, Matthew; Rice, Colin; Szymanski, Boleslaw K.; Thompson, Jeffery M. (2021-02-14). "An Algorithm for Reconstructing the Orphan Stream Progenitor with MilkyWay@home Volunteer Computing". arXiv:2102.07257. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
Weiss, Jake; Newberg, Heidi Jo; Desell, Travis (22 October 2018). "A Tangle of Stellar Streams in the North Galactic Cap". The Astrophysical Journal. 867 (1): L1. arXiv:1807.03754. Bibcode:2018ApJ...867L...1W. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/aae5fc. S2CID 55047680. Shelton, Siddhartha (December 2018). Constraining dwarf galaxy properties using tidal streams (Thesis). Bibcode:2018PhDT.......235S. hdl:20.500.13015/2346. Weiss, Jake (2018). The Stellar Density of the Major Substructure in the Milky Way Halo (Thesis). ProQuest 2125438843. Weiss, Jake; Newberg, Heidi Jo; Newby, Matthew; Desell, Travis (27 September 2018). "Fitting the Density Substructure of the Stellar Halo with MilkyWay@home". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 238 (2): 17. arXiv:1808.06659. Bibcode:2018ApJS..238...17W. doi:10.3847/1538-4365/aadb92. S2CID 119327847. Newberg, Heidi Jo; Shelton, Siddhartha; Weiss, Jake (2018-01-01). "Characterizing Milky Way Tidal Streams and Dark Matter with MilkyWay@home". American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #231. 231: 212.07. Bibcode:2018AAS...23121207N. Newberg, Heidi; Shelton, Siddhartha (2018-04-01). "Reconstructing the Dwarf Galaxy Progenitor from Tidal Streams Using MilkyWay@home". AAS/Division of Dynamical Astronomy Meeting. 49: 303.02. Bibcode:2018DDA....4930302N. Dumas, Julie; Newberg, Heidi J.; Niedzielski, Bethany; Susser, Adam; Thompson, Jeffery M.; Weiss, Jake; Lewis, Kim M. (16 September 2015). "Testing the Dark Matter Caustic Theory Against Observations in the Milky Way". The Astrophysical Journal. 811 (1): 36. arXiv:1508.04494. Bibcode:2015ApJ...811...36D. doi:10.1088/0004-637x/811/1/36. S2CID 62792604. Weiss, Jake; Newberg, Heidi Jo; Arsenault, Matthew; Bechtel, Torrin; Desell, Travis; Newby, Matthew; Thompson, Jeffery M. (2016-01-01). "Using A New Model for Main Sequence Turnoff Absolute Magnitudes to Measure Stellar Streams in the Milky Way Halo". American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #227. 227: 341.19. Bibcode:2016AAS...22734119W. Shelton, Siddhartha; Newberg, Heidi Jo; Arsenault, Matthew; Bauer, Jacob; Desell, Travis; Judd, Roland; Magdon-Ismail, Malik; Newby, Matthew; Rice, Colin; Thompson, Jeffrey; Ulin, Steve; Weiss, Jake; Widrow, Larry (2016-01-01). "Measuring Dark Matter With MilkyWay@home". American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #227. 227: 139.11. Bibcode:2016AAS...22713911S. Xu, Yan; Newberg, Heidi Jo; Carlin, Jeffrey L.; Liu, Chao; Deng, Licai; Li, Jing; Schönrich, Ralph; Yanny, Brian (11 March 2015). "Rings and Radial Waves in the Disk of the Milky Way". The Astrophysical Journal. 801 (2): 105. arXiv:1503.00257. Bibcode:2015ApJ...801..105X. doi:10.1088/0004-637x/801/2/105. S2CID 119124338. Scibelli, Samantha; Newberg, Heidi Jo; Carlin, Jeffrey L.; Yanny, Brian (2 December 2014). "Census of blue stars in SDSS DR8". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 215 (2): 24. arXiv:1411.5744. Bibcode:2014ApJS..215...24S. doi:10.1088/0067-0049/215/2/24. S2CID 8621834. Newberg, Heidi Jo (August 2012). "Determining distances to stars statistically from photometry". Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 8 (S289): 74–81. arXiv:1411.5999. doi:10.1017/S174392131202114X. S2CID 119071864. Xu, Yan; Newberg, Heidi (May 2013). "Exploration of Galactic Structures beyond the Sun toward the anti-center of the Milky Way". Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 9 (S298): 450. doi:10.1017/S1743921313007151. S2CID 123228241. Newberg, Heidi Jo; Newby, Matthew; Desell, Travis; Magdon-Ismail, Malik; Szymanski, Boleslaw; Varela, Carlos (May 2013). "MilkyWay@home: Harnessing volunteer computers to constrain dark matter in the Milky Way". Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 9 (S298): 98–104. arXiv:1411.6003. doi:10.1017/S1743921313006273. S2CID 8058974. Newby, Matthew (August 2013). The Sagittarius tidal stream and the shape of the galactic stellar halo (Thesis). Bibcode:2013PhDT........69N. hdl:20.500.13015/971. ProQuest 1466022697. Newby, Matthew; Cole, Nathan; Newberg, Heidi Jo; Desell, Travis; Magdon-Ismail, Malik; Szymanski, Boleslaw; Varela, Carlos; Willett, Benjamin; Yanny, Brian (13 May 2013). "A Spatial Characterization of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy Tidal Tails". The Astronomical Journal. 145 (6): 163. arXiv:1304.1476. Bibcode:2013AJ....145..163N. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/145/6/163. Guevara, Gustavo; Desell, Travis; LaPorte, Jason; Varela, Carlos A. (1 April 2011). "Modular Visualization of Distributed Systems". CLEI Electronic Journal. 14 (1). doi:10.19153/cleiej.14.1.7. S2CID 4876137. Desell, Travis; Magdon-Ismail, Malik; Newberg, Heidi; Newberg, Lee A.; Szymanski, Boleslaw K.; Varela, Carlos A. (2016-12-30). "A Robust Asynchronous Newton Method for Massive Scale Computing Systems". arXiv:1702.02204. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
Desell, Travis; Magdon-Ismail, Malik; Szymanski, Boleslaw; Varela, Carlos A.; Willett, Benjamin A.; Arsenault, Matthew; Newberg, Heidi (2011). "Evolving N-Body Simulations to Determine the Origin and Structure of the Milky Way Galaxy's Halo Using Volunteer Computing". 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing Workshops and PhD Forum. pp. 1888–1895. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.731.7231. doi:10.1109/IPDPS.2011.346. ISBN 978-1-61284-425-1. S2CID 10643895. Desell, Travis; Anderson, David P.; Magdon-Ismail, Malik; New, Heidi; Szymanski, Boleslaw K.; Varela, Carlos A. (2010). "An analysis of massively distributed evolutionary algorithms". IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. pp. 1–8. doi:10.1109/CEC.2010.5586073. ISBN 978-1-4244-6909-3. S2CID 581517. Desell, Travis; Magdon-Ismail, Malik; Szymanski, Boleslaw; Varela, Carlos A.; Newberg, Heidi; Anderson, David P. (2010). "Validating Evolutionary Algorithms on Volunteer Computing Grids". Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 6115. pp. 29–41. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-13645-0_3. ISBN 978-3-642-13644-3. Cole, Nate; Desell, Travis; Lombraña González, Daniel; Fernández De Vega, Francisco; Magdon-Ismail, Malik; Newberg, Heidi; Szymanski, Boleslaw; Varela, Carlos (2010). "Evolutionary Algorithms on Volunteer Computing Platforms: The Milky Way@Home Project". Parallel and Distributed Computational Intelligence. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Vol. 269. pp. 63–90. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-10675-0_4. ISBN 978-3-642-10674-3. Desell, Travis (December 2009). Asynchronous global optimization for massive-scale computing (Thesis). hdl:20.500.13015/2902. OCLC 1150135368. Desell, Travis; Magdon-Ismail, Malik; Szymanski, Boleslaw; Varela, Carlos; Newberg, Heidi; Cole, Nathan (2009). "Robust Asynchronous Optimization for Volunteer Computing Grids". 2009 Fifth IEEE International Conference on e-Science. pp. 263–270. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.158.8407. doi:10.1109/e-Science.2009.44. ISBN 978-1-4244-5340-5. S2CID 5214001. Desell, Travis; Waters, Anthony; Magdon-Ismail, Malik; Szymanski, Boleslaw K.; Varela, Carlos A.; Newby, Matthew; Newberg, Heidi; Przystawik, Andreas; Anderson, David (2010). "Accelerating the Milky Way@Home Volunteer Computing Project with GPUs". Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 6067. pp. 276–288. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14390-8_29. ISBN 978-3-642-14389-2.