Dissertation

I was granted a PhD by UC Berkeley in the Fall 2012 semester. ProQuest archives the official version of my dissertation. Here’s an unofficial version, with slight formatting tweaks to make it more readable than the version required by the university:

Exploring the Dynamic Radio Sky with the Allen Telescope Array (PDF, 20 MB, 194 pp)

Here’s the outline:

• Chapter 1: Introduction — unpublished elsewhere
• Chapter 2: Rapid Interferometric Software Development Using MIRIAD and Python — previously published as 2012 PASP 124 624 (arxiv:1203.0330, DOI:10.1086/666604)
• Chapter 3: The ATA Commensal Observing System — also available as ATA Memo #89 (arxiv:1201.5413, PDF)
• Chapter 4: Evaluating the Calorimeter Model with Broadband, Continuous Spectra of Starburst Galaxies — previously published as 2010 ApJ 710 1462 (arxiv:0912.0014, DOI:10.1088/0004-637X/710/2/1462)
• Chapter 5: ASGARD, A Large Survey for Slow Galactic Radio Transients: Overview and First Results — subsequently published as 2013 ApJ 762 85 (arxiv:1211.1042, DOI:10.1088/0004-637X/762/2/85)
• Chapter 6: The 2010 May Flaring Episode of Cygnus X-3 in Radio, X-Rays, and γ-Rays — previously published as 2011 ApJL 733 L20 (arxiv:1104.5248, DOI:10.1088/2041-8205/733/2/L20)
• Chapter 7: Conclusion — unpublished elsewhere
• Appendix A: Confused, Wide-Field Interferometric Imaging and Photometry — unpublished elsewhere
• Appendix B: Probability of Constancy From a Set of Measurements — published with Chapter 5

I also maintain a complete list of my publications.

Revision History of the Unofficial Dissertation

• 2015/02/16: prettify internal links
• 2014/02/03: add a link to the ProQuest copy in the first few pages
• 2012/12/20: add live links to the published versions of papers in chapter footnotes
• 2012/08/06: original version