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Joel R. Primack

Researcher at University of California, Santa Cruz

Publications -  492
Citations -  55170

Joel R. Primack is an academic researcher from University of California, Santa Cruz. The author has contributed to research in topics: Galaxy & Galaxy formation and evolution. The author has an hindex of 101, co-authored 483 publications receiving 50646 citations. Previous affiliations of Joel R. Primack include Stanford University & Harvard University.

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The star-forming main sequence and the contribution of dust-obscured star formation since $z\sim4$ from the FUV+IR luminosity functions

TL;DR: In this article, an analytical approach is proposed to study the evolution of the star-forming galaxy (SFG) main sequence (MS) and the fraction of dust-obscured SF up to 4.
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Accelerating dust temperature calculations with graphics-processing units

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an implementation of the calculation of dust grain equilibrium temperatures on GPUs in the Monte-Carlo radiation transfer code sunrise, using the CUDA API.
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Pelted by paint, downed by debris

TL;DR: In the Star Wars movies and in hundreds of other popular science fiction films, we see things blow up in space and the fragments quickly dissipate, leaving empty space behind as discussed by the authors. But in reality, space does not clear after an explosion near our planet.
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Detection of space reactors by their gamma‐ray and positron emissions

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate the gamma-ray flux from nuclear reactors on spacecraft, using the design parameters for the US SP-100 space reactor as an example, and show that the gamma flux from an SP100 could be detected at thousands of kilometers with COMPTEL, and demonstrate that COMPTel would typically detect a reactor in low earth orbit several times per day.