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Submissions from 2013

White Dwarfs in NGC 188, Elizabeth Jeffery, I. Platais, and Kurtis A. Williams

The Age and Stellar Parameters of the Procyon Binary System, James Liebert, Gilles Fontaine, Patrick A. Young, and Kurtis A. Williams

Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of The Polar Eu Cancri in the Open Cluster Messier 67, Kurtis A. Williams, Steve B. Howell, James Liebert, and Paul S. Smith

Photometric Variability in a Warm, Strongly Magnetic DQ White Dwarf, SDSS J103655.39+652252.2, Kurtis A. Williams, D. E. Winget, M. H. Montgomery, and Patrick Dufour

Submissions from 2012

Further investigation of white dwarfs in the open clusters NGC 2287 and NGC 3532, P. D. Dobbie, A. Day-Jones, Kurtis A. Williams, and S. L. Casewell

A Gravitational Redshift Determination of the Mean Mass of White Dwarfs: DBA and DB Stars, Ross E. Falcon, D. E. Winget, M. H. Montgomery, and Kurtis A. Williams

Time-series UV Photometry Of Two Variable Carbon-atmosphere (DQV) White Dwarfs, Kurtis A. Williams, M. H. Montgomery, and D. E. Winget

Submissions from 2011

Discovery of a ZZ Ceti in the Kepler Mission Field, J. J. Hermes, Fergal Mullally, R. H. Østensen, and Kurtis A. Williams

Ages of Old Open Clusters in the Kepler Field from Detached Eclipsing Binaries, Eric L. Sandquist, K. Brogaard, F. Grundahl, and M. Jeffries

The Effect of Environment on Shear in Strong Gravitational Lenses, Kenneth C. Wong, Charles R. Keeton, Kurtis A. Williams, and Ivelina G. Momcheva

Submissions from 2010

White Dwarfs in the HET Dark Energy Experiment, B. G. Castanheira, D. E. Winget, Kurtis A. Williams, and M. H. Montgomery

HST Observations of Hot DQ White Dwarfs, P. Dufour, G. Fontaine, P. Bergeron, and S. Béland

A Gravitational Redshift Determination of the Mean Mass of DBA White Dwarfs, Ross E. Falcon, D. E. Winget, M. H. Montgomery, and Kurtis A. Williams

A Gravitational Redshift Determination of the Mean Mass of White Dwarfs. DA stars, Ross E. Falcon, D. E. Winget, M. H. Montgomery, and Kurtis A. Williams

Lessons Learned from the "Age of the Milky Way" Teacher Professional Development Workshop Evaluation, M. K. Hemenway, S. Degennaro, K. Fricke, E. Jeffery, and Kurtis A. Williams

A Detailed Model Atmosphere Analysis of Cool White Dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Mukremin Kilic, S. K. Leggett, P.-E. Tremblay, and Ted von Hippel

Visitors from the Halo: 11 GYR Old White Dwarfs in the Solar Neighborhood, Mukremin Kilic, Jeffrey A. Munn, Kurtis A. Williams, and P. M. Kowalski

Discovery of a GeV Blazar Shining Through the Galactic Plane, J. Vandenbroucke, R. Buehler, M. Ajello, K. Bechtol, and Kurtis A. Williams

Deriving the Age of an Individual WD: SDSS, Bok, USNO, and Bayes, Ted von Hippel, Mukremin Kilic, Jeff Munn, and Kurtis A. Williams

Discovery of a Nova-Like Cataclysmic Variable in the Kepler Mission Field, Kurtis A. Williams, Domitilla de Martino, Roberto Silvotti, and Ivan Bruni

The HST White Dwarf Cooling Sequence of the Old Open Cluster NGC 188, Kurtis A. Williams, E. Jeffery, and B. For

The Effect of Environment on Shear in Strong Gravitational Lenses, Kenneth C. Wong, C. R. Keeton, Kurtis A. Williams, and I. G. Momcheva

Submissions from 2009

A New Detailed Examination of White Dwarfs in NGC 3532 and NGC 2287, P. D. Dobbie, R. Napiwotzki, M. R. Burleigh, and Kurtis A. Williams

Time Series Observations of the Mysterious Carbon Atmosphere White Dwarfs, Kurtis A. Williams

Probing the Lower Mass Limit for Supernova Progenitors and the High-Mass End of the Initial-Final Mass Relation from White Dwarfs in the Open Cluster M35 (NGC 2168), Kurtis A. Williams, Michael Bolte, and Detlev Koester