Michael Strauss

Increasing the Number of Underrepresented Minorities in Astronomy: Executive Summary (2009)

Norman, Dara, Agueros, Marcel, Anderson, Scott F., Baker, Andrew, ...

Promoting racial and ethnic diversity is critically important to the future success and growth of the field of astronomy. The raw ability, drive and interest required to excel in the field is...

Increasing the Number of Underrepresented Minorities in Astronomy at the Undergraduate, Graduate, and Postdoctoral Levels (Paper I) (2009)

Norman, Dara, Agueros, Marcel, Anderson, Scott F., Baker, Andrew, ...

If the ethnic makeup of the astronomy profession is to achieve parity with the general population within one generation (~30 years), the number of underrepresented minorities earning graduate degrees...

Increasing the Number of Underrepresented Minorities in Astronomy Through K-12 Education and Public Outreach (Paper II) (2009)

Norman, Dara, Agueros, Marcel, Anderson, Scott F., Baker, Andrew, ...

In order to attract, recruit and retain underrepresented minority students to pursue Astronomy and related fields, we must ensure that there continues to be a well qualified pool of graduate and...

Crawling the Cosmic Network: Exploring the Morphology of Structure in the Galaxy Distribution (2009)

Bond, Nicholas, Strauss, Michael, Cen, Renyue

Although coherent large-scale structures such as filaments and walls are apparent to the eye in galaxy redshift surveys, they have so far proven difficult to characterize with computer algorithms....

Understanding the Astrophysics of Galaxy Evolution: the role of spectroscopic surveys in the next decade (2009)

Bell, Eric, Davis, Marc, Dey, Arjun, Van Dokkum, Pieter, Ellis, Richard, Eisenstein, Daniel, ...

Over the last decade optical spectroscopic surveys have characterized the low redshift galaxy population and uncovered populations of star-forming galaxies back to z ~ 7. This work has shown that the...

The Case for Deep, Wide-Field Cosmology (2009)

Scranton, Ryan, Albrecht, Andreas, Caldwell, Robert, Cooray, Asantha, Dore, Olivier, Habib, Salman, ...

Much of the science case for the next generation of deep, wide-field optical/infrared surveys has been driven by the further study of dark energy. This is a laudable goal (and the subject of a...

Exploring Dark Energy with Next-Generation Photometric Redshift Surveys (2009)

Zhan, Hu, Albrecht, Andreas, Cooray, Asantha, Habib, Salman, Heavens, Alan, Heitmann, Katrin, ...

The coming decade will be an exciting period for dark energy research, during which astronomers will address the question of what drives the accelerated cosmic expansion as first revealed by type Ia...

Astro2010 Decadal Survey Whitepaper: Coordinated Science in the Gravitational and Electromagnetic Skies (2009)

Bloom, Joshua S., Holz, Daniel E., Hughes, Scott A., Menou, Kristen, Adams, Allan, Anderson, Scott F., ...

It is widely expected that the coming decade will witness the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs). The ground-based LIGO and Virgo GW observatories are being upgraded to advanced...

The Galaxy Pairwise Velocity Dispersion as a Function of Local Density (2007)

Michael Strauss, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Renyue Cen

The standard method of measuring the galaxy pairwise velocity dispersion on small scales via the anisotropy in the two-point correlation function in redshift space suffers from the fact that it is a...

Xiaohui Fan (2007)

Xiaohui Fan, Michael Strauss, Donald P. Schneider, James E. Gunn, Robert H. Lupton, Brian Yanny, ...

We present photometric and spectroscopic observations of 15 high-redshift quasars (z ? 3:6) discovered from ¸ 140 deg 2 of five-color (u 0 g 0 r 0 i 0 z 0 ) imaging data taken by the Sloan Digital...

The Ratio of the Direct Photon Production Cross Section at 630 GeV and at 1800 GeV (2007)

Michael Strauss

We measure the ratio of the isolated direct photon prodution cross section at

The Ratio of the Direct Photon Production Cross Section at 630 GeV and at 1800 GeV (2007)

Michael Strauss

We measure the ratio of the isolated direct photon prodution cross section at # s = 630 GeV to that at # s = 1800 GeV for the central (|# | 0.9) and forward (1.6 2.5) rapidity regions. We compare the...

RECENT RESULTS ON JET PHYSICS (2007)

Michael Strauss

The study of jets gives insight into Quantum Chromodynamics and serves as a tool to search for physics not described by the Standard Model. Measurements of high energy jet cross sections probe the...

A Measurement of The Isolated Direct Photon Cross Section at 630 GeV (2007)

Michael Strauss, Sebastian Grinstein, Ricardo Piegaia

Preliminary Version 1.3 The inclusive cross section for isolated photons at # s = 630 GeV (Run 1c) is measured for the central (|# | 0.9) and forward (1.6 2.5) rapidity regions. We compare the result...

The Ratio of the Direct Photon Production Cross Section at 630 GeV and at 1800 GeV (2007)

Michael Strauss

We measure the ratio of the isolated direct photon prodution cross section at # s = 630 GeV to that at # s = 1800 GeV for the central (|# | 0.9) and forward (1.6 2.5) rapidity regions. We compare the...

The Ratio of the Direct Photon Production Cross Section at 630 GeV and at 1800 GeV (2007)

Michael Strauss

We measure the ratio of the isolated direct photon prodution cross section at # s = 630 GeV/c 2 to that at # s = 1800 GeV/c 2 for the central (|# | 0.9) and forward (1.6 2.5) rapidity regions. We...

A Measurement of The Isolated Direct Photon Cross Section at 630 GeV (2007)

Michael Strauss, Matthew Price

Preliminary Version 1.7 The inclusive cross section for isolated photons at # s = 630 GeV/c 2 (Run 1C) is measured for the central (|# | 0.9) and forward (1.6 2.5) rapidity regions. We compare the...

The Ratio of the Direct Photon Production Cross Section at 630 GeV and at 1800 GeV (2007)

Michael Strauss

We measure the ratio of the isolated direct photon prodution cross section at # s = 630 GeV/c 2 to that at # s = 1800 GeV/c 2 for the central (|# | 0.9) and forward (1.6 2.5) rapidity regions. We...

The Ratio of the Direct Photon Production Cross Section at 630 GeV and at 1800 GeV (2007)

Michael Strauss

We measure the ratio of the isolated direct photon prodution cross section at

A Measurement of The Isolated Direct Photon Cross Section at 630 GeV (2007)

Michael Strauss, Matthew Price

The inclusive cross section for isolated photons at # s = 630 GeV/c 2 (Run 1C) is measured for the central (|# | 0.9) and forward (1.6 2.5) rapidity regions. We compare the result with next to...

Gaussianity of Cosmic Velocity Fields and Linearity of the Velocity-Gravity Relation (2000)

Ciecielag, Pawel, Chodorowski, Michal, Kiraga, Marcin, Strauss, Michael, Kudlicki, Andrzej, Bouchet, François

We present a numerical study of the relation between the cosmic peculiar velocity field and the gravitational acceleration field. We show that on mildly non-linear scales (4-10 Mpc Gaussian...

A Measurement of The Isolated Direct Photon Cross Section at 630 GeV (2000)

Michael Strauss, Matthew Price

Preliminary Version 1.4 The inclusive cross section for isolated photons at # s = 630 GeV (Run 1C) is measured for the central (|# | 0.9) and forward (1.6 2.5) rapidity regions. We compare the result...

A Measurement of The Isolated Direct Photon Cross Section at 630 GeV (2000)

Michael Strauss, Matthew Price

Preliminary Version 1.6 The inclusive cross section for isolated photons at # s = 630 GeV (Run 1C) is measured for the central (|# | 0.9) and forward (1.6 2.5) rapidity regions. We compare the result...

A Measurement of The Isolated Direct Photon Cross Section at 630 GeV (2000)

Michael Strauss, Matthew Price

Preliminary Version 1.5 The inclusive cross section for isolated photons at # s = 630 GeV (Run 1C) is measured for the central (|# | 0.9) and forward (1.6 2.5) rapidity regions. We compare the result...

1. PERSONNEL During the reporting year the research staff consisted of (1998)

Neta Bahcall, Renyue Cen, Bruce Draine, Edward Fitzpatrick, Jeremy Goodman, J. Richard Gott, ...

This report provides a summary and bibliography for the research activities at the Princeton University Observatory and Department of Astrophysical Sciences during the period July 1, 1997 to June 30,...

VLA Observations of Ultraluminous IRAS Galaxies: Active Nuclei or Starbursts? (1995)

Crawford, Thomas, Marr, Jon, Partridge, Bruce, Strauss, Michael

We employed the Very Large Array (VLA) of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in C configuration to map 39 ultraluminous IRAS galaxies at 6~cm and 20~cm, at resolutions of ~ 4" and 15",...

Identification of differentially expressed mRNA species by an improved disply technique (DDRT-PCR) (1993)

Bauer, David, Muüller, Heiko, Reich, Jens, Riedel, Heidemarie, Ahrenkiel, Vibeke, Warthoe, Peter, ...

We have significantly Improved a method originally developed by Liang and Pardee [Science 257 (1992) 967–971] to display a broad spectrum of expressed genes and to detect differences In expression...

High level gene expression in mammalian cells by a nuclear T7-phage RNA polymerase (1989)

Lieber, Andre, Kiessling, Udo, Strauss, Michael

Here we describe a novel expression system for mammalian cells which is based on transcription of hybrid genes containing T7 phage promoters by a T7 phage RNA polymerase targeted to the nucleus of...

Erste klinische Erfahrungen mit einer Kapillarfilmniere. (1973)

Strauss, Michael.

Münster (Westfalen), Univ., Med. Fak., Diss. 1973. (Nicht f. d. Austausch.).