Diane Thompson

About

Diane Thompson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona and serves as the Director of Marine Research at Biosphere 2. She received her PhD from the University of Arizona in 2013 and was awarded a two-year Advanced Study Program Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Her research bridges ecology, paleoecology, and paleoclimatology to investigate past climates and reef systems, aiming to enhance understanding of reef resilience under current and future climate change. Her work spans scales from local reef circulation to global climate variability, utilizing field, laboratory, observational, modeling, experimental, and theoretical approaches. She focuses on tropical-climate archives such as coral, speleothems, and marine and lake sediment records to study climate variability and the stability of coral-reef ecosystems through geological time, which informs predictions of reef resilience amid ongoing global climate change. At Biosphere 2, she leads an international team testing solutions for coral reef restoration and resilience in the face of climate change.

Research topics

• Astrophysics
• Physics
• Astronomy
• Optics

Selected publications

• Fermi Large Area Telescope Fourth Source Catalog

  The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2020 · 1332 citations

  Abstract We present the fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope catalog (4FGL) of γ -ray sources. Based on the first eight years of science data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission in the energy range from 50 MeV to 1 TeV, it is the deepest yet in this energy range. Relative to the 3FGL catalog, the 4FGL catalog has twice as much exposure as well as a number of analysis improvements, including an updated model for the Galactic diffuse γ -ray emission, and two sets of light curves (one-yea…

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• Incremental Fermi Large Area Telescope Fourth Source Catalog

  The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2022 · 533 citations

  Abstract We present an incremental version (4FGL-DR3, for Data Release 3) of the fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalog of γ -ray sources. Based on the first 12 years of science data in the energy range from 50 MeV to 1 TeV, it contains 6658 sources. The analysis improves on that used for the 4FGL catalog over eight years of data: more sources are fit with curved spectra, we introduce a more robust spectral parameterization for pulsars, and we extend the spectral points to 1 TeV. The sp…

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• The Fourth Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2020 · 350 citations

  Abstract The fourth catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Large Area Telescope (4LAC) between 2008 August 4 and 2016 August 2 contains objects located at high Galactic latitudes ( ). It includes 85% more sources than the previous 3LAC catalog based on 4 yr of data. AGNs represent at least 79% of the high-latitude sources in the fourth Fermi -Large Area Telescope Source Catalog (4FGL), which covers the energy range from 50 MeV to 1 TeV. In additi…

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• Periodic Gamma-Ray Modulation of the Blazar PG 1553+113 Confirmed by Fermi-LAT and Multiwavelength Observations

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2024-11-25 · 15 citations

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  Abstract A 2.1 yr periodic oscillation of the gamma-ray flux from the blazar PG 1553+113 has previously been tentatively identified in ∼7 yr of data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope. After 15 yr of Fermi sky-survey observations, doubling the total time range, we report >7 cycle gamma-ray modulation with an estimated significance of 4 σ against stochastic red noise. Independent determinations of oscillation period and phase in the earlier and the new data are in close agreement (chance prob…

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• Unveiling the Multidimensional Impact of Sex Trafficking: Insights from Survivors

  Trauma counseling and resilience. · 2025-03-24 · 2 citations

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  This transcendental phenomenological study delves into the lived experiences of 10 women who experienced sex trafficking. Through in-depth individual interviews, participants unveiled a narrative marked by coercion, manipulation, and multifaceted abuse. Despite variations in the duration and onset of their ordeals, participants uniformly expressed the profound and lasting impact of sex trafficking across numerous facets of their lives. Psychological distress, physical ailments, disrupted vocatio…

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Frequent coauthors

• I. A. Grenier

  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

  842 shared

• J. M. Casandjian

  Université Paris Cité

  637 shared

• P. F. Michelson

  620 shared

• L. Tibaldo

  Université de Toulouse

  610 shared

• E. Nuss

  Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier

  539 shared

• O. Reimer

  526 shared

• J. Ballet

  Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives

  522 shared

• F. Piron

  Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier

  512 shared

Awards & honors

• 2020 Outstanding Faculty Award, Department of Geosciences De…

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