Student Thesis Archive

2021

• Rochelle Julia Steele, “An Analysis of Two Photometric Redshift Methods and Their Uses for Finding Void Galaxies,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Masters Thesis, December 2021).

2020

• Caleb Gaunt, “Web-Based Controllers for the ROVOR Observatory,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, April 2020).

2019

• Christian D Draper, “Search for Dwarf Emission Line Galaxies in Galaxy Voids,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (PhD Dissertation, August 2019).
• Daniel Jones, “Photometric and Polarimetric Signatures of Geosynchronous Satellites,” Advisor: David Allred, Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, April 2019).
• Rochelle Steele, “Photometric Survey for Dwarf Galaxies Within Intergalactic Voids,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, April 2019).
• Nicholas Van Alfen, “Survey and Data Reduction of Blazars Using the ROVOR Telescope,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, April 2019).

2018

• Lauren Hindman, “Flaring Rate of Northern Blazars,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, May 2018).

2017

• McKay Osborne, “Extracting Long-term Periodicity in Markarian 501 from Optical Wavelength Filters,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, May 2017).
• Joe Rivest, “Optical Photometric Evidence for a Binary Black Hole in Mrk 501,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, May 2017).
• Parkes Whipple, “Blazar Polarimetry with the ROVOR Telescope,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Capstone, July 2017).

2016

• Marcus Holden, “Periodicity of Markarian 501,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
• Ryan Lesser, “Measuring Redshifts of Emission-line Galaxies Using Ramp Filters,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
• Katrina Pedersen, “Automating the Data Reduction Process for Geosynchronous Satellite Spectra,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, August 2016).

2014

• Adam George, “Light propagation through multilayer finger model,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, June 2014).
• Matthew McNeff, “Observing Astronomical Redshift Through Optical Red and Blue Slope Filtes,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, August 2014).

2013

• Nichole Millward Maughan, “Simulation of 810 nm Light Propagation Through the Human Finger for Non-Invasive Blood Analysis,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Masters Thesis, June 2013).
• Thayne McCombs, “Development of a Data Reduction Pipeline for the ROVOR Observatory,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, August 2013).

2012

• Benjamin Boizelle, “Establishing a Multi-year Monitoring Project of Low-luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, August 2012).

2011

• Evan Hansen, “Weather Station for the ROVOR Telescope,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, June 2011).
• Cynthia Knight, “The Nature of the Most Isolated Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, April 2011).
• Bret Little, “Telescope Automation through CelestialGrid,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, April 2011).
• Jacob Nelson, “The Variability of "Normal" Galactic Nuclei,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, April 2011).

2010

• Brian K Bucklein, “In Search of Empty Places: Voids in the Distribution of Galaxies,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (PhD Dissertation, July 2010).
• Cameron Pace, “BVRI Comparison Stars Near Selected Very-High Energy Blazars,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, May 2010).
• Richard Pearson, “Markarian 501 Monitoring Campaign Using ROVOR,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, May 2010).

2008

• Jonathan Daniels, “Light Curves For Supernova Sn2006jc,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, August 2008).
• Janalee Harrison, “Monitoring Variability In 1es 1959+650 With Rovor,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, December 2008).

2007

• Eric Allan, “Observing The Variability Of AGN: Aperture Photometry Vs. PSF Fitting,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, August 2007).
• Adam Johanson, “Galaxy Nuclear Variability As A Probe Of AGN Structure,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, April 2007).

2006

• Aaron Paget, “ROVOR: Protection From The Elements Ensuring Safe Observational Conditions,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Capstone, June 2006).

2005

• Christopher Olsen, “Collimation and Focusing of the Optics of the 22 Inch Rovor Telescope,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, August 2005).

2004

• Peter Brown, “Observing Gamma Ray Burst Afterglows from BYU's Orsen Pratt Observatory,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, August 2004).
• Joseph Hopper, “Current State of the Software Used to Control the Remote Observatory for Variable Object Research,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, January 2004).
• Stephen Richard McNeil, “Detection of Small-Amplitude Optical Variability in Galactic Nuclei,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (PhD Dissertation, August 2004).

2002

• Jonathan Barnes, “Goldhelox Phase 0/1 Safety Certification ,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Masters Thesis, December 2002).
• Jacob P. Fugal, “Characteristics of a Slitless Spectroscopic Near-Infrared Emission-Line Galaxy Survey,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Honors Thesis, April 2002).

1998

• David Rich Miller, “A Simulation of Synthetic Aperature Stellar Interferometry Using Post Acquisition Time Correlation,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Masters Thesis, April 1998).
• Peter W A Roming, “A Long-slit Spectral Analysis of the Nuclear Region of M101 and M33 and a Search for Non-Nuclear Seyfet Activity in M33,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (PhD Dissertation, August 1998).

1997

• Bryan Lee Paul, “Voids in the Nearby Universe: A Study of the CfA Redshift Catalog,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Masters Thesis, April 1997).
• Michael Dean Rice, “Galactic Distribution Function of Two Superclusters,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Masters Thesis, August 1997).

1995

• Eric George Bow Hintz, “Multicolor, Two-Dimensional Photometric Study of Galaxies in Rich Abell Clusters,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (PhD Dissertation, August 1995).
• Peter W A Roming, “An Imaging Search for Non-Nuclear Seyfert Activity and Evidence for Mass Outflow from the Nucleus of M101,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Masters Thesis, April 1995).

1994

• Kristen Adams, “A Presentation of the Mapping of LBN434 and Its Ramifications on the Assumption of Clear Seeing at high Galactic Lattitudes,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Honors Thesis, July 1994).