Dr. Olenick currently serves as Professor of 物理 和 a teacher of popular courses
在物理学和天文学中. He has supervised over fifty undergraduate theses. He
also served as the Associate Project Director of the PBS television series, 机械宇宙 和 超越机械宇宙. He was also principal author of accompanying textbooks published by Cambridge University
新闻. He also received numerous grants from the National Science Foundation 和
美国.S. Department of Education for the development of curricular material (Comprehensive
物理概念课程， C3P) for use in high schools 和 for workshops for high school physics teachers.
专业领域
灾难性的变量
吸积盘
太阳系外行星搜索光度法物理教育
教育
M.S., Ph.D. 普渡大学物理系
B.S. in 物理, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Currently Editor for the deGruyter journal 开放的物理
- Currently Editor for the BioAccents journal 物理
- Reviewer for the National Science Foundation Graduate Re搜索 Fellowship Program
- Reviewer for 开放的物理 project at Rice University
- Reviewer for Open Astronomy project at Rice University
- Former Committee Member 和 Item Writer for the Graduate Record Exam 物理 Test
最近的课程
- 物理与技术
- PHY 3363计算物理
- PHY 2302天文学入门
- PHY 4328电动力学
- 量子力学
My re搜索, which was initially funded by the Nancy Cain 马库斯 和 Jeffrey A. 马库斯 Chair in Science, involves photometric studies, data analysis, 和 modeling of cataclysmic 变星(cv). Since then we have discovered 和 classified a new dwarf nova, observed exoplanetary 凌日, 和 discovered new binaries.
Cataclysmic variables are binary systems in which a white orbits with a normal star. The orbital periods of CVs typically range from approximately 0.5日至0日.6天. These binaries are quite small by astronomical sizes. 这些双星的演化 occurs through mass transfer from the secondary to 白矮星. 的光度 of CVs is dominated by the accretion disk. Strong tidal forces from 白矮星 pull hydrogen gas from the surrounding Roche lobe of the secondary 和 larger star 通过L1拉格朗日点. The gas spirals down around 白矮星 和 usually 形成一个吸积盘. If 白矮星 has a large magnetic field, the materials may be directed right onto the surface of the star. 当气体积聚时，形成 shell around 白矮星, thermonuclear fusion reactions can be re-ignited on 白矮星.
My current re搜索 into CVs focuses on improved ways of determining the mass ratio
through observations 和 accretion disk modeling 和 is carried out with collaborators
Dr. Michele Montgomery at 美国niversity of Central Florida 和 Dr. Irina Voloshina
at the Sternberg Institute of Moscow State University. 他的研究学生
accompanied him to Moscow 和 to Crimea for observations with Dr. 新沃洛希娜
cataclysmic variable stars as well as to Colorado to gather data to 搜索 for exoplanet
凌日.
I also 搜索 for exoplanets with students 和 my colleague, 阿瑟·斯威尼 in our
STExTS project--Small Telescope Extrasolar Transit 搜索. 从2011年开始
up telescopes during the summers in Pitkin, Colorado (elevation 9210 ft) 和 later
在上半岛. For the past two years we have used our telescopes at the
Monroe Robotic Observatory of 美国niversity of North Texas to gather data. 每一个
summer we gather data on approximately 3500 - 5000 stars for 30 - 38 nights 和 then
sift through the light curves looking for 凌日. 我们目前有7名候选人
寻找新的系外行星凌日.
During our transit 搜索es we have discovered numerous new stars, many of which are
now listed in the Variable Star Index of the American Association of Variable Star
Observers (AAVSO) 和 which we are currently writing up for publications. 这些发现
include RR Lyrae stars exhibiting the Blazhko effect 和 delta Scuti stars.
选择PUBLICATTIONS
- "Using Remote Telescopes for 太阳系外行星搜索" with 阿瑟·斯威尼, Laura Aumen, Ramses Gonzalez, Alex Henderson, Mark Rodriguez, Philip Lenzen, John Paul Jones, Proceedings of the Remote Telescopes for Re搜索 和 Education Conferrence (2018).
- “Photometric Observations 和 Numerical Modeling of SDSS J162520.29+120308.7” Michele Montogomery, Irina Voloshina, Kyle Meziere, 和 Vladimir Metlov, 新的天文学, 50, 43 (2017).
- Evolutionary Paths of AM CV’ns to Supernovae, Grant Proposal submitted 1 November 2016 to NASA, K2 Guest Observer Program Cycle 与米. 蒙哥马利和我. Voloshina.
- EWASS 2017 Session Organizer on "Undergraduate Re搜索 in Astronomy", Prague (2017).
- A Comparison of Observations 和 SPH Modeling of the Outbursts of the WZ Sge-Type 矮人新星SDSS J213806.5+261957，带I. Voloshina, M. 蒙哥马利市J. Rovny,. 《云顶集团4008om》, V. Metlov, in preparation for Astronomy 和 Astrophysics.
- The Superoutburst of SDSS J1625+120308 in July 2010, I. Voloshina R. Olenick说道,K. Meziere V. Metlov J. 罗夫尼，第九诉讼 Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Society of the Pacific 会议系列，卷. 451, p. 195-199 (2011).
演讲
- 白矮星是如何变成超新星的, LeTourneau University Colloquium, 27 October 2016
- Small Telescope Exoplanet Transit 搜索es, University of North Texas Colloquium, 17 November 2015
- STExTS—Small Telescope Extrasolar Planetary Transit 搜索, Colloquium at Michigan Technological University. 10月15日
- How White Dwarfs Evolve in Supernovae, Colloquium at Northern Michigan University, 14 September 2015