DEPARTMENT OF
ASTRONOMY and ASTROPHYSICS
Theses 1997-

UofT Astronomy and Astrophysics Theses List

The following is a list of UofT theses in our collection (as having been supervised by someone in our department). Other departments do produce theses on astronomy/astrophysics topics.

They are all PhD theses.

2017-

2016

• Compact Object Binaries with Spinning Neutron Stars in Numerical Relativity / Nicholas A. Tacik Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• CHIME and Probing the Origin of Fast Radio Bursts / Liam Dean Connor Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Illuminating Mergers of Carbon-Oxygen White Dwarfs and Their Possible Link to Thermonuclear Supernovae / Chenchong Zhu Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Planetary Systems in Polarized Light: Debris Disk Observations and Instrumentation / Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Simulating the Universe: Nonlinear Formation and Evolution of Cosmic Structure / Jeffrey David Emberson Abstract or Full Text (pdf)

2015

• Dynamical Signatures of Dark Matter Substructures on Tidal Streams / Wayne Ngan Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Advancing Astronomical Instrumentation: an Adaptive Optics Kinematic Study of z ~ 1 Star-Forming Galaxies / Etsuko Mieda Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Modelling precessing binary black hole systems / Serguei Ossokine Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• A Study of Protoplanetary Disk Dynamics using Accelerated Hydrodynamics Simulations on Graphics Processing Units / Jeffrey Fung Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Polarimetry from the Stratosphere with SPIDER and BLASTPol / Jamil Aly Shariff Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• The Ages of Compact Early-Type Galaxies / Stephanie Keating Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Probing Interstellar Grain Alignment with Balloon-borne Submillimeter Observations / Natalie Gandilo Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• A Search for Supernova Type Ia Progenitors in the Magellanic Clouds / Kelly Lepo Abstract or Full Text (pdf)

2014

• On the Formation of Elliptical Galaxies via Mergers in Galaxy Groups / Dan S. Taranu Abstract or Full Text (pdf)

2013

• Measuring the 21-cm Power Spectrum from the Epoch of Reionization with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope / Gregory Paciga Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• In Search of an Imprint of Magnetization in the Balloon-borne Observations of the Polarized Dust Emission from Molecular Clouds / Juan Diego Soler Abstract Full Text (pdf)
• Probing the Role Played by Magnetic Fields in Star Formation with BLASTPol / Laura Fissel Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Dust and Gas in Different Galactic Environments / Daniela Pinheiro Goncalves Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• High Precision Cosmology with the Cosmic Background Radiation / Marzieh Farhang Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Weather on Substellar Worlds: A Study of Clouds, Variability and Binarity at the L/T Transition / Jacqueline Marie Radigan Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• The Interplay Between Starbursts and Their Interstellar Medium / Sherry Chia-Chen Yeh Abstract or Full Text (pdf)

2012

• Understanding the Earliest Stages of High-Mass Star Formation / Alana D. Rivera Ingraham Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Observational Studies of Interacting Galaxies and the Development of the Wide Integral Field Infrared Spectrograph / Richard Chueh-Yi Chou Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• The Milky Way’s Most Luminous Star Clusters: Engines of Galaxy Evolution / Mubdi Muhammad Rahman Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Growth of Planetesimals and the Formation of Debris Disks / Andrew Shannon Abstract or Full Text (pdf)

2011

• Structural Evolution of Quiescent Galaxies from the Peak of the Cosmic Star Formation Epoch / Ivana Damjanov Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• The Impact of Non-Thermal Processes in the Intracluster Medium on Cosmological Cluster Observables / Nicholas Ambrose Battaglia Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Supernova Rates, Rise-Times, and their Relations to Progenitors / Santiago Gonzalez Gaitan Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Disruption of Giant Molecular Clouds by Massive Star Clusters / Elizabeth Harper-Clark Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Probing the interstellar medium and massive star formation using submillimeter dust emission / Arabindo Roy Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Near-infrared Characterization of the Atmospheres of Alien Worlds / Bryce Croll Abstract or Full Text (pdf)

2010

• Extragalactic stellar populations in the near and mid-infrared: 1-30 micron emission from evolved populations, young and dusty star forming regions and the earliest stellar populations / Erin Mentuch Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Probing Early and Late Inflations Beyond Tilted ΛCDM / Zhiqi Huang Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Accretion Disks and the Formation of Stellar Systems / Kaitlin Michelle Kratter Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Correlations in the Cosmic Far-Infrared Background at 250, 350, and 500 microns Reveal Clustering of Star-Forming Galaxies / Marco P. Viero Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Probing Star Formation with High Resolution Spectroscopy: Multiplicity, Disk Braking, and Accretion in Chamaeleon I and Taurus-Auriga / Duy Cuong Nguyen Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Tidal Dissipation in Extrasolar Planets / Fernando Gabriel Pena Abstract or Full Text (pdf)

2009

• The Dynamic Atmospheres of Classical Cepheids: Studies of Atmospheric Extension, Mass Loss, and Shocks / Hilding Raymond Neilson Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Regge Calculus as a Numerical Approach to General Relativity / Parandis Khavari Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Numerical Experiments in Core-Collapse Supernova Hydrodynamics / Rodrigo A. Fernandez Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Evolving Starburst Model of FIR/sub-mm/mm Line Emission and Its Applications to M82 and Nearby Luminous Infrared Galaxies / Lihong Yao Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Weak Gravitational Lensing Uncertainties / Tingting Lu Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• The Morphology of Local Galaxies and the Basis of the Hubble Sequence / Preethi B. Nair Abstract or Full Text (pdf)

2007

• An Infrared Study of Distant Galaxy Clusters / Adam Virgil Muzzin Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Planetary system evolution: planet-disk interactions and planet ejection from binary systems / Lawrence Russell Mudryk Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• The Star Formation and Merger Evolution of Interacting Galaxies / Carrie R. Bridge Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Photometric Properties of Galaxy Populations in Group and Cluster Environments / I-hui Li Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• EXPLORE/OC: A Photometric Search for Transiting Extrasolar Planets in Southern Open Clusters / Brian Leverett Lee Abstract or Full Text (pdf)

2006

• Spectroscopic Investigations in the Orion Nebula / Kevin Blagrave Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Magnetars: Distances, Variability and Multi-Wavelength Observations / Martin Durant Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Internal Dynamics of Galaxy Clusters in the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey / Kris Blindert Abstract or Full Text (pdf)

2005

• Gravitational Lensing in an Exact Locally Inhomogenous Cosomology / Allen Attard Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Planet formation: protoplanetary disk removal and rotational stability of planets / Isamu Matsuyama Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• Cosmological Black Holes as Models of Cosmological Inhomogeneities / Megan McClure Abstract or Full Text (pdf)

2004

• Out-of-core Hydrodynamic Simulations of Cosmological Structure Formation / Hy Trac Abstract or Full Text (pdf)
• High Precision Optical Interferometry and Application to Be Stars / Christopher Tycner Abstract or Full Text (pdf) or (ps)
• The Canada-France Deep Fields-Photometric Redshift Survey: An Investigation of Galaxy Evolution Using Photometric Redshifts / Mark Brodwin Abstract or Full text (pdf)

2003

• A Wide-Field Imaging Survey of Low-Redshift Galaxy Clusters / Wayne Barkhouse Abstract
• Smear Fitting: A New Method of Obtaining Images From Interferometric Data / Rob Reid Abstract or Full text (14mb pdf).
• Searching for Missing Baryons / Pengjie Zhang Abstract

2002

• Gravitational Lensing of Polarized Sources / Chris Burns Abstract
• A multi-wavelength study of star formation around H II region / Jennifer Karr (abstract not available)
• The Red-Sequence Cluster Survey / Mike Gladders Abstract
• On the Evolution of the Clustering of Galaxies / Charles William Shepherd Abstract
• The Formation and Evolution of Galaxies: A Deep Submillimeter Survey / Tracy Webb Abstract

2001

• Molecular Gas in Interacting Galaxies / Ming Zhu Abstract or Full Text
• Observational Signatures of Convection in Solar Type Stars / Devon Hamilton Abstract

2000

• Internal knematics of CFRS glaxies at z around 0.6 / Gabriela Mallen-Ornelas Abstract
• Fe II Emission from HII regions and active galactic nuclei / Ekaterina Verner Abstract

1999

• Radio Continuum Studies of the Evolved Starburst in M82 / Michael Allen Abstract
• The Evolution of Cluster Elliptical Galaxies / Luis Felipe Barrientos Abstract
• Probing Magnetic Fields in Clusters of Galaxies / Tracy E. Clarke Abstract
• Multiwavelength Studies of Dust Associated With Galactic HII Regions / Charles Robert Kerton Abstract
• Star formation history of the universe / Marcin Sawicki Abstract

1998

• Evolution of of Extended Satellites in Massive Halos / Pierre Gravel Abstract
• Evolution of Elliptical Galaxies / Teresa Lynn Kroeker Abstract
• Molecular gas in Seyfert Galaxies / Padeli Peter Papadopoulos Abstract
• Cosmological gas-dynamics: Simulations of the Lyman-alpha forest / James Wright Wadsley Abstract

1997

• A deep imaging survey of brightest cluster galaxies /James Patrick Brown
• Distribution and time evolution of starspots on VW Cephei studied with doppler imaging / Paul David Hendry Abstract
• Sinking satellites and tilting disk galaxies / Siqin Huang
• Photometric properties of low-redshift galaxy clusters / Omar Lopez-Cruz Abstract

UofT Astronomy and Astrophysics Theses List