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Here is a
listing of my publications.
Refereed publications
``Quasars: What turns them off?'', Thacker, R. J., Scannapieco, E., &
Couchman, H. M. P., accepted for publication in The Astrophysical
Journal (2006).
``Quasars & Cosmic Evolution: The Role of Outflows'', Thacker, R. J.,
Scannapieco, E., & Couchman, H. M. P., in High Performance
Computing Systems and Applications, eds D. Clarke & R. Dupree (2006).
``A Parallel Adaptive P3M Code with
Hierarchical
Particle Reordering'', Thacker, R. J., & Couchman, H. M. P.,
Computer Physics Communications, 174, 540 (2006).
``The Source of Intergalactic Metals'', Scannapieco, E., Pichon, C.,
Aracil, B., Petitjean, P., Thacker, R. J., Bergeron, J. & Couchman, H.
M. P., Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society, 365, 651 (2006).
``A New Fast Parallel Statistical Measurement
Technique for Computational Cosmology'',
Thacker, R. J., & Couchman, H. M. P., to appear in
International Journal of High Performance
Computing and Networking
,
(2006).
``Simulating the joint evolution of quasars, galaxies and their
large-scale distribution'', Springel V., White S. D. M., Jenkins A.,
Frenk C. S., Yoshida N., Gao L., Navarro J., Thacker R., Croton D.,
Helly J., Peacock J. A., Cole S., Thomas P., Couchman H., Evrard A.,
Colberg J., and Pearce F., Nature, 435, 629 (2005).
``Trophic niche segregation in
the Nilotic ichthyofauna of Lake Albert (Uganda, East Africa):
Trophic generalists make good invaders'',
Campbell, L. M., Wandera, S. B., Thacker, R. J.,
Hecky, R. E. & Dixon, D. G., accepted for publication in
Environmental Biology
of Fishes, 74, 257 (2005).
``Toward an Improved Analytical Description of
Lagrangian Bias'', Scannapieco, E. & Thacker, R. J.,
The Astrophysical Journal 619, 1 (2005).
``Temporal Bias in the Clustering of Massive Cosmological Objects'',
Scannapieco, E.,
& Thacker, R. J., PHYSTAT 2003: Statistical Problems in
Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology, SLAC (Stanford)
Publication
(2004).
``On the Spatial Correlations of Lyman Break Galaxies'', Scannapieco, E.,
& Thacker, R. J., The Astrophysical
Journal, Letters 590, L69, (2003).
``HYDRA-MPI: An Adaptive Particle-Particle, Particle-Mesh code
for conducting Cosmological Simulations on MPP
Architectures'', Thacker R. J., Pringle, G., Couchman, H. M. P. & Booth,
S., in High Performance
Computing Systems and Applications, ed D. Senechal, NRC Research
Press,
(2003).
``Violence in the Dark Ages'', Thacker, R. J., Scannapieco, E., & Davis,
M., The Astrophysical Journal, 581, 836, (2002).
``High-Redshift Galaxy Outflows and the Formation of Dwarf Galaxies'',
Scannapieco, E., Thacker, R. J., & Davis, M., The
Astrophysical Journal, 557, 605 (2001).
``Star Formation, Supernovae Feedback and the Angular Momentum Problem in
Numerical CDM Cosmogony: Half Way There?'', Thacker, R. J., & Couchman,
H. M. P., The Astrophysical Journal, Letters, 555, L17 (2001).
``Implementing Feedback in Simulations of Galaxy Formation: A Survey of
Methods'', Thacker, R. J. & Couchman, H. M. P.,
The
Astrophysical Journal, 545, 728 (2000).
``Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics in Cosmology: A Comparative Study of
Implementations'', Thacker, R. J., Tittley, E. R., Pearce, F. R.,
Couchman, H.
M. P., & Thomas, P. A., Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society, 319, 619 (2000).
``Simulating Galaxy Formation on SMP's'', Thacker, R. J., Couchman, H.
M. P., & Pearce, F. R., in
High Performance
Computing Systems and Applications, Kluwer Academic (1998).
Papers in preparation
``Quasars: What turns them off?'', Thacker,
R. J., Scannapieco E., & Couchman, H. M. P.
``Self-similar gravitational clustering'' Sheth, R., Colberg, J., Thacker
R. J., Couchman, H. M. P., Gardner, J. P. & Smith R. E.
``Small-scale structure in CDM'', Elahi, P.,
Widrow, L., &
Thacker R. J.
Non-refereed publications and books
``Computational Astrophysics'', Hakkila, J., Buzasi, D. & Thacker,
R., review chapter,``CRC Computer Science and
Engineering Handbook'', 2nd Edition.
``Numerical Simulation of the Formation of Galaxies: The End of the
Beginning?'', Couchman, H. M. P., & Thacker, R. J., Proceedings DRAO
conference ``Seeing Through the Dust'', eds. Taylor, A.R., Landecker,
T. & Willis, A. (2001).
`` The Angular Momentum Problem in CDM
Cosmologies: The End of the Beginning?'', Couchman, H. M. P., & Thacker,
R. J., Proceedings IAU Symposium 208, eds. Makino, J. & Hut P.
(2001).
``Structure Formation from Numerical Simulations'', Thacker R. J. &
Davis M., in The Hy-Redshift Universe:
Galaxy Formation and Evolution at High Redshift, ASP Conference series
(1999).
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