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We introduce a differential equation for star formation in galaxies that incorporates negative feedback with a delay. When the feedback is instantaneous, solutions approach a self-limiting equilibrium state. When there is a delay, even... more
Results. For signals near the detection threshold, our low-latency algorithms often localized simulated GW burst signals to tens of square degrees, while neutron star/neutron star inspirals and neutron star/black hole inspirals were... more
The world-wide problem of increasing light pollution is assessed through the development of global maps of the distribution of zenith sky brightness with a resolution of approximately 1 km. These maps are produced using satellite imagery... more
We model the abundance gradients in the disk of the Milky Way for several chemical elements (O, Mg, Si, S, Ca, Sc, Ti, Co, V, Fe, Ni, Zn, Cu, Mn, Cr, Ba, La and Eu), and compare our results with the most recent and homogeneous... more
Rising from the Big Bend is what might be the best big idea in the whole state of Texas. Yep, it’s that big! Bigger than the rocket launches of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. Bigger than the football coliseums for the Cowboys, Longhorns, and... more
From ancient times all over the world people observed the shape and position the Milky Way in the course of the night, of the year and maybe of longer periods. They often used the gleaming stream to orientate themselves in space and time.... more
This paper compares the Milky Way in Aratus (Ph. 469–79) and Manilius (1.684–804), focusing on the role of the sublime in both texts. In Aratus, to gaze at the Milky Way is a sublime experience that constitutes an image for reading the... more
In this paper it is shown how three ancient earthworks in Ohio incorporate alignments to the Milky Way in their design. These earthworks are: Serpent Mound, the Great Hopewell Road at Newark, and Mound City. It is suggested that the Milky... more
This began as a Supplementary Table to Harrod (2022), Portable Art Sculptures from the Anzick Clovis Cache, Wilsall, Montana. I did it to provide a Siberian/East Asian and North American comparative mythology context to identify Anzick... more
A study of Andean cosmology and astronomy focusing on the Incas and with an account of the origins and evolution of the ceque system of the Inca capital Cuzco.
This paper will conduct a detail analyze on Freemasonry's symbolism codified to The Great Seal of the United States obverse and reverse sides, The Apotheosis of George Washington, The Centennial Great Seal of 1882, The Capitol Building... more
What I wish to show in this presentation is how certain Hopewell sites may have been connected to each other through religion and mythology. The relevance of this to Chaco and the discussion at hand is not in the listing of specific... more
Cahokia was a major Native American city on the east side of the Mississippi River, across from the modern-day city of St. Louis, Missouri. Cahokia flourished from c.1050 AD to c.1250. In this paper archaeoastronomic and ethnohistoric... more
The Angel Mounds site was a large, fortified Mississippian village located in southwestern Indiana. The site flourished from circa AD 1100 to AD 1450 and represents one of the largest recorded Mississippian settlements in the Ohio River... more
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Kolterman Mound site, a premier petroform and archeoastronomy site overlooking the vast Horicon Marsh, is located 20 miles (32 km) south and east of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (USA). Viewing of the long anticipated 2006 lunar maximum moonset... more
Uno studio iconomastico sulla galassia attraverso l'opera di Adam Elsheimer 'La fuga in Egitto'
Situated in the heart of the Vilcabamba cordillera in Peru, some 150 km northwest of Cuzco, the ancient Inca state capital, Choqek’iraw or Choquequirao (“the golden cradle” in Quechua), is one of the most beautiful achievements of Inca... more
“Gravitons kill Aliens” Adrian Ferent “I am the first who explained the lack of extraterrestrial civilizations” Adrian Ferent “Gravitons emitted by Black Holes kill Aliens” Adrian Ferent I calculated: the graviton’s energy emitted by... more
We consider the Universe deep inside the cell of uniformity. At these scales, the Universe is filled with inhomogeneously distributed discrete structures (galaxies, groups and clusters of galaxies), which perturb the background Friedmann... more
Choqek’iraw, in the heart of theVilcabamba cordillera, in Peru, some 150 km from the former Inca State capital Cuzco, is one of the very few Pre-Hispanic sites displaying large wall mosaics, and the only known one from Inca times. This... more
In the archaeological record of Malayo-Polynesian Philippines, the absence of monumental structures in the basic architectural forms of either the tower or earth/mountain, and the presence of boat-shaped burial markers laid out low to the... more
The Milky Way areal studies
Review and new analysis of the Getty Hexameters, with updated drawings, restored text (translation), and new readings based on the author's forthcoming monograph.
We derive structural parameters for ~2000 globular clusters in the giant Virgo elliptical M87 using extremely deep Hubble Space Telescope images in F606W (V) and F814W (I) taken with the ACS/WFC. The cluster scale sizes (half-light radii... more
We used a combination of public RR Lyrae star catalogs and a Bayesian methodology to derive robust structural parameters of the inner Halo (<25 kpc) and Thick Disc of the Milky Way. RR Lyrae stars are an unequivocal tracer of old... more