Fall 2017: Building Livability
UTA researchers are creating a more sustainable, affordable North Texas for the future.
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UTA researchers are creating a more sustainable, affordable North Texas for the future.
From carbon dioxide conversion to landfill mining, researchers at UTA are seeking viable alternative energy options.
Found in everything from space shuttles to dental fillings, composite materials have thoroughly infiltrated modern society. But their potential is still greatly untapped, offering researchers ample opportunity for discovery.
Within the particle showers created at the Large Hadron Collider, answers to some of the universe’s mysteries are waiting.
Model systems like pigeons can help illuminate our own evolutionary and genomic history.
UT Arlington's tiny windmills are bringing renewable energy to a whole new scale.
The stability of our highways, pipelines, and even manholes is reaching a breaking point.
Scientists believe they have discovered a subatomic particle that is crucial to understanding the universe.
UT Arlington researchers unlock clues to the human body’s most mysterious and complex organ.
UT Arlington researchers probe the hidden world of microbes in search of renewable energy sources.
Wounded soldiers are benefiting from Robert Gatchel’s program that combines physical rehabilitation with treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.
Tiny sensors implanted in the body show promise in combating acid reflux disease, pain and other health problems.
Nanotechnology researchers pursue hybrid silicon chips with life-saving potential.
Biomedical engineers combat diseases with procedures that are painless to patients.
The search for another Earth could be closer than we think: A team of UTA astrophysicists has predicted that a planet similar to ours may be orbiting a star only 16 light years away.
Physics researcher Suman Satyal, undergraduate John Griffith, and Professor Zdzislaw Musielak have found that an Earth-mass planet with a dynamically stable configuration may reside in star system Gliese 832.
Gliese 832 is a red dwarf with a mass and radius about half of those of Earth's sun. Two planets orbit the star, including a super-Earth planet called Gliese 832c, which was discovered in 2014. This planet is about five times larger than Earth, potentially rocky, and residing about 0.16 AU—i.e., very close—to its host star.
Dr. Satyal estimates that "this hypothetical alien world would reside between the two known planets and would probably have a mass between 1 to 15 Earth's masses."
Physics Chair Alexander Weiss praises the team on its findings.
"The fact that Dr. Satyal was able to demonstrate that the planet could maintain a stable orbit in the habitable zone of a red dwarf for more than 1 billion years is extremely impressive and demonstrates the world-class capabilities of our department's astrophysics group."
To estimate the planet's location and orientation, Satyal's team used the numerical simulation method to integrate the orbits of the planetary system for up to 1 billion years and calculated the most probable stable orbits. The researchers also generated the synthetic radial velocity curves from the integrated data and used them to estimate the upper limit of the planetary mass. The findings were published in a recent issue of The Astrophysical Journal.