Publications

Refereed Publications

Simulation of Stark Broadened Hydrogen Balmer Line Shapes for DA White Dwarf Synthetic Spectra, Cho, P., Gomez, T. A., Montgomery, M. H., Dunlap, B. H., Fitz Axen, M., Hobbs, B., Hubeny, I., and Winget, D. E., (Manuscription submitted for publication 2021)
"All-Order Full-Coulomb Quantum Spectral Line-Shape Calculations," Gomez, T. A., Nagayama, T., Cho, P., Zammit, M. C., Fontes, C. J., Kilcrease, D. P., Bray, I., Hubeny, I., Dunlap, B., Montgomery, M. H., and Winget, D. E. (Manuscript submitted for publication, 09/2021)
Observation of ionization trends in a laboratory photoionized plasma experiment at Z, Mayes, D. C., Mancini, R. C., Lockard, T. E., Hall, I. M., Bailey, J. E., Loisel, G. P., Nagayama, T., Rochau, G. A., and Liedahl, D. A., Phys Rev E, vol. 104, no. 3, p. 035202, 2021.
I Spy Transits and Pulsations: Empirical Variability in White Dwarfs Using Gaia and the Zwicky Transient Facility, Guidry, J. A., Vanderbosch, Z. P., Hermes, J. J., Barlow, B. N., Lopez, I. D., Boudreaux, T. M., Corcoran, K. A., Dunlap, B. H., Bell, K. J., Montgomery, M. H., Heintz, T. M., Winget, D. E., Winget, K. I., and Kuehne, J. W., ApJ, vol. 912, no. 2, id.125, 24 pp., 2021.
Experimental methods for laboratory measurements of helium spectral line broadening in white dwarf photospheres, Schaeuble, M.-A., Nagayama, T., Bailey, J. E., Dunlap, B. H., and Patel, S., Physics of Plasmas, vol. 28, no. 6, article id.062902, 2021.
The Pulsating White Dwarf G117-B15A: Still the Most Stable Optical Clock Known, Kepler, S. O., Winget, D. E., Vanderbosch, Z. P., Castanheira, B. G., Hermes, J. J., Bell, K. J., Mullally, F., Romero, A. D., Montgomery, M. H., DeGennaro, S., Winget, K. I., Chandler, D., Jeffery, E. J., Fritzen, J. K., Williams, K. A., Chote, P., and Zola, S., ApJ, vol. 906, no. 1, id. 7, 10 pp., 2021.
Illuminating White Dwarf Spectra through Laboratory Experiments at Cosmic Conditions, Winget, D. E., Montgomery, M. H., Dunlap, B. H., Cho, P. B., Schaeuble, M.-A., and Gomez, T. A., High Energy Density Physics, vol. 37, id. 100853, 2020.
WD1032 + 011, an inflated brown dwarf in an old eclipsing binary with a white dwarf, Casewell, S. L., Belardi, C., Parsons, S. G., Littlefair, S. P., Braker, I. P., Hermes, J. J., Debes, J., Vanderbosch, Z., Burleigh, M. R., Gänsicke, B. T., Dhillon, V. S., Marsh, T. R., Winget, D. E., and Winget, K. I., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 497, no. 3, pp. 3571-3580, 2020.
A White Dwarf with Transiting Circumstellar Material Far outside the Roche Limit, Vanderbosch, Z., Hermes, J. J., Dennihy, E., Dunlap, B. H., Izquierdo, P., Tremblay, P.-E., Cho, P. B., Gänsicke, B. T., Toloza, O., Bell, K. J., Montgomery, M. H., and Winget, D. E., ApJ, vol. 897, no. 2, id. 171, 2020.
X-ray heating and electron temperature of laboratory photoionized plasmas, Mancini, R. C., Lockard, T. E., Mayes, D. C., Hall, I. M., Loisel, G. P., Bailey, J. E., Rochau, G. A., Abdallah Jr., J., Golovkin, I. E., and Liedahl, D., Phys Rev E, vol. 101, no. 5, p. 051201, 2020.
Limits on Mode Coherence in Pulsating DA White Dwarfs Due to a Nonstatic Convection Zone, Montgomery, M. H., Hermes, J. J., Winget, D. E., Dunlap, B. H., and Bell, K. J., ApJ, vol. 890, no. 1, id.11, 10 pp., 2020.
Hb and Hy Absorption-line Profile Inconsistencies in Laboratory Experiments Performed at White Dwarf Photosphere Conditions, Schaeuble, M.-A., Nagayama, T., Bailey, J. E., Gomez, T. A., Montgomery, M. H., and Winget, D. E., ApJ, vol. 885, no. 1, id. 86, 12 pp., 2019.
Density-matrix correlations in the relaxation theory of electron broadening, Gomez, T. A., Nagayama, T., Kilcrease, D. P., Montgomery, M. H., and Winget, D. E., 2018, Phys. Rev. A, vol. 98, no. 1, id. 01250, 2018.
WDEC: A Code for Modeling White Dwarf Structure and Pulsations, Bischoff-Kim, A. and Montgomery, M. H., ApJ, vol. 155, no. 5, id. 187, 8 pp., 2018.
Matrix Methods for Solving Hartree-Fock Equations in Atomic Structure Calculations and Line Broadening, Gomez, T. A., Nagayama, T., Fontes, C., Kilcrease, D. P., Hansen, S., Montgomery, M. H., and Winget, D. E., Atoms, vol. 6, no. 2, p. 22., 2018.
Effect of higher-order multipole moments on the Stark line shape, Gomez, T. A., Nagayama, T., Kilcrease, D. P., Montgomery, M. H., and Winget, D. E., Phys. Rev. A, vol. 94, no. 2, id. 022501, 2016.
Laboratory Measurements of White Dwarf Photospheric Spectral Lines: H-beta, Falcon, R. E., Rochau, G. A., Bailey, J. E., Gomez, T. A., Montgomery, M. H., Winget, D. E., and Nagayama, T., ApJ, vol. 806, no. 2, id. 214, 11 pp., 2015.
An experimental platform for creating white dwarf photospheres in the laboratory: Preliminary results, Montgomery, M. H., Falcon, R. E., Rochau, G. A., Bailey, J. E., Gomez, T. A., Carlson, A. L., Bliss, D. E., Nagayama, T., Stein, M., and Winget, D. E., High Energy Density Physics, vol. 17, pp.168-174, 2015.
An experimental platform for creating white dwarf photospheres in the laboratory, Falcon, R. E., Rochau, G. A., Bailey, J. E., Ellis, J. L., Carlson, A. L., Gomez, T. A., Montgomery, M. H., Winget, D. E., Chen, E. Y., Gomez, M. R., and Nash, T. J., High Energy Density Physics, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 82-90, 2013.
A Gravitational Redshift Determination of the Mean Mass of White Dwarfs: DBA and DB Stars, Falcon, R. E., Winget, D. E., Montgomery, M. H., and Williams, K. A., ApJ, vol. 757, no. 2, id. 116, 9 pp., 2012.
A Gravitational Redshift Determination of the Mean Mass of White Dwarfs. DA Stars, Falcon, R. E., Winget, D. E., Montgomery, M. H., and Williams, K. A., ApJ, vol. 712, no. 1, pp. 585-595, 2010.

Conference Proceedings

The Wootton Center for Astrophysical Plasma Properties: First results for helium, Montgomery, M. H., Winget, D. E., Schaeuble, M.-A., Dunlap, B. H., and Fuchs, J. T., 2020, Proceeding of the International Astronomical Union, volume 15, Symposium S350: Laboratory Astrophysics: From Observations to Interpretation, April 2019, pp. 231 - 236
Influence of Projection Operator on Oxygen Line Shapes and its effect on Rosseland-Mean Opacity in Stellar Interiors, Gomez, T., Nagayama, T., Kilcrease, D., Hansen, S., Montgomery, M., and Winget, D., 2018, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts 231, volume 231 of American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 452.02
Numerical simulation of DA white dwarf surface convection, Zaussinger, F., Kupka, F., Montgomery, M., and Egbers, C., 2018, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1031(1), 012013
Helium at White Dwarf Photospheric Conditions: Preliminary Laboratory Results, Schaeuble, M., Falcon, R. E., Gomez, T. A., Winget, D. E., Montgomery, M. H., and Bailey, J. E., 2017, In 20th European White Dwarf Workshop, ed. P.-E. Tremblay, B. Gaensicke, & T. Marsh, volume 509 of Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, 231
From the Telescope to the Laboratory and Back Again: The Center for Astrophysical Plasma Properties, Montgomery, M. H., Winget, D., Schaeuble, M., Hawkins, K., and Wheeler, C., 2018, In American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts 231, volume 231 of American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 443.01
A survey of pulsating DA and DB white dwarfs Observations with the Whole Earth Telescope, Provencal, J. L., Montgomery, M., and Shipman, H., 2017, In European Physical Journal Web of Conferences, volume 152 of European Physical Journal Web of Conferences, 01012
Modeling the Spectra of Dense Hydrogen Plasmas: Beyond Occupation Probability, Gomez, T. A., Montgomery, M. H., Nagayama, T., Kilcrease, D. P., and Winget, D. E., 2017, In 20th European White Dwarf Workshop, ed. P.-E. Tremblay, B. Gaensicke, and T. Marsh, vol. 509 of Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, 143
Reaching Higher Densities for Laboratory White Dwarf Photospheres to Measure Spectroscopic Line Profiles, Falcon, R. E., Bailey, J. E., Gomez, T. A., Schaeuble, M., Nagayama, T., Montgomery, M. H., Winget, D. E., and Rochau, G. A., 2017, In 20th European White Dwarf Workshop, ed. P.-E. Tremblay, B. Gaensicke, and T. Marsh, vol. 509 of Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, 149
Which Hydrogen Balmer Lines are Most Reliable for Determining White Dwarf Atmospheric Parameters?, Falcon, R. E., Rochau, G. A., Bailey, J. E., Gomez, T. A., Montgomery, M. H., Winget, D. E., and Nagayama, T., 2015, In 19th European Workshop on White Dwarfs, ed. P. Dufour, P. Bergeron, and G. Fontaine, vol. 493 of Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, 399
The Z Astrophysical Plasma Properties (ZAPP) Collaboration, Montgomery, M. H., Bailey, J. E., Blancard, C., Carlson, A. L., Cohen, D., Cosse, P., Dunham, G., Durmaz, T., Ellis, J. L., Falcon, R. E., Faussurier, G., Gilleron, F., Golovkin, I., Gomez, M. R., Gomez, T., Hall, I., Hansen, S. B., Iglesias, C. A., Kernaghan, M., Lake, P. W., Liedahl, D., Lockard, T., MacArthur, J., MacFarlane, J. J., Mancini, R. C., Nahar, S. N., Nash, T. J., Nielsen, D. S., Pain, J. C., Pinsonneault, M., Pradhan, A. K., Rochau, G. A., Sherrill, M., and Winget, D. E., 2012, In American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts 219, vol. 219 of American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 238.06
Developing an Experimental Platform to Create White Dwarf Photospheres in the Laboratory, Falcon, R., Rochau, G. A., Bailey, J. E., Ellis, J. L., Carlson, A. L., Gomez, T., Montgomery, M. H., Winget, D. E., and Gomez, M. R., 2012, In American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts 219, volume 219 of American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 238.07
Creation of White Dwarf Photospheres in the Laboratory, Ellis, J., Falcon, R. E., Rochau, G. A., Winget, D. E., Bailey, J. E., and Montgomery, M. H., 2011, In American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, volume 217 of American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 433.24
Creating White Dwarf Photospheres in the Laboratory, Falcon, R. E., Rochau, G. A., Bailey, J. E., Ellis, J. L., Montgomery, M. H., Winget, D. E., Gomez, M. R., and Leeper, R. J., 2010, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1273(1), 436
A Gravitational Redshift Determination of the Mean Mass of DBA White Dwarfs, Falcon, R. E., Winget, D. E., Montgomery, M. H., and Williams, K. A., 2010, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1273(1), 13

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