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Broad absorption features in wind-dominated ultraluminous X-ray sources? (2013)
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Middleton, M., Walton, D., Roberts, T., & Heil, L. (2014). Broad absorption features in wind-dominated ultraluminous X-ray sources?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 438(1), L51-L55. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slt157

The luminosities of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) require an exotic solution with either supercritical accretion modes on to stellar-mass black holes or subcritical accretion on to intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) being invoked. Discriminat... Read More about Broad absorption features in wind-dominated ultraluminous X-ray sources?.

A Search for Fast Optical Transients in the Pan-STARRS1 Medium-Deep Survey: M-Dwarf Flares, Asteroids, Limits on Extragalactic Rates, and Implications for LSST (2013)
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Berger, E., Leibler, C., Chornock, R., Rest, A., Foley, R., Soderberg, A., …Tonry, J. (2013). A Search for Fast Optical Transients in the Pan-STARRS1 Medium-Deep Survey: M-Dwarf Flares, Asteroids, Limits on Extragalactic Rates, and Implications for LSST. Astrophysical Journal, 779(1), Article 18. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/779/1/18

We present a search for fast optical transients (τ ~ 0.5 hr-1 day) using repeated observations of the Pan-STARRS1 Medium-Deep Survey (PS1/MDS) fields. Our search takes advantage of the consecutive g P1 r P1 observations (16.5 minutes in each filter),... Read More about A Search for Fast Optical Transients in the Pan-STARRS1 Medium-Deep Survey: M-Dwarf Flares, Asteroids, Limits on Extragalactic Rates, and Implications for LSST.

Perseus I: a distant satellite dwarf galaxy of Andromeda (2013)
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Martin, N., Schlafly, E., Slater, C., Bernard, E., Rix, H., Bell, E., …Waters, C. (2013). Perseus I: a distant satellite dwarf galaxy of Andromeda. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 779(1), Article L10. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/779/1/l10

We present the discovery of a new dwarf galaxy, Perseus I/Andromeda XXXIII, found in the vicinity of Andromeda (M31) in stacked imaging data from the Pan-STARRS1 3π survey. Located 27fdg9 away from M31, Perseus I has a heliocentric distance of 785 ±... Read More about Perseus I: a distant satellite dwarf galaxy of Andromeda.

Weak Lensing galaxy cluster field reconstruction (2013)
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Jullo, E., Pire, S., Jauzac, M., & Kneib, J. (2014). Weak Lensing galaxy cluster field reconstruction. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 437(4), 3969-3979. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2207

In this paper, we compare three methods to reconstruct galaxy cluster density fields with weak lensing data. The first method called FLens integrates an inpainting concept to invert the shear field with possible gaps, and a multi-scale entropy denois... Read More about Weak Lensing galaxy cluster field reconstruction.

Discovery of carbon radio recombination lines in absorption towards Cygnus A (2013)
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Oonk, J., van Weeren, R., Salgado, F., Morabito, L., Tielens, A., Rottgering, H., Asgekar, A., White, G., Alexov, A., Anderson, J., Avruch, I., Batejat, F., Beck, R., Bell, M., van Bemmel, I., Bentum, M., Bernardi, G., Best, P., Bonafede, A., Breitling, F., …Zensus, A. (2013). Discovery of carbon radio recombination lines in absorption towards Cygnus A. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 437(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2158

Di-Higgs final states augMT2ed – Selecting hh events at the high luminosity LHC (2013)
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Barr, A. J., Dolan, M. J., Englert, C., & Spannowsky, M. (2014). Di-Higgs final states augMT2ed – Selecting hh events at the high luminosity LHC. Physics Letters B, 728, 308-313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2013.12.011

Higgs boson self-interactions can be investigated via di-Higgs (pp→hh+X) production at the LHC. With a small O(30) fb Standard Model production cross section, and a large View the MathML source background, this measurement has been considered challen... Read More about Di-Higgs final states augMT2ed – Selecting hh events at the high luminosity LHC.

How well do we know the polar hydrogen distribution on the Moon? (2013)
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Teodoro, L., Eke, V., Elphic, R., Feldman, W., & Lawrence, D. (2014). How well do we know the polar hydrogen distribution on the Moon?. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 119(3), 574-593. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013je004421

A detailed comparison is made of results from the Lunar Prospector Neutron Spectrometer (LPNS) and the Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector Collimated Sensors for Epithermal Neutrons (LEND CSETN). Using the autocorrelation function and power spectrum o... Read More about How well do we know the polar hydrogen distribution on the Moon?.

The story of Seyfert galaxy RE J2248-511: from intriguingly ultrasoft to unremarkably average (2013)
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Starling, R., Done, C., Jin, C., Romero-Colmenero, E., Potter, S., Wiersema, K., …Lobban, A. (2014). The story of Seyfert galaxy RE J2248-511: from intriguingly ultrasoft to unremarkably average. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 437(4), 3929-3938. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2201

RE J2248−511 is one of only 14 non-blazar active galactic nuclei (AGN) detected in the far-ultraviolet (FUV) by the ROSAT Wide Field Camera implying a large ultrasoft X-ray flux. This soft X-ray excess is strongly variable on year time-scales, a comm... Read More about The story of Seyfert galaxy RE J2248-511: from intriguingly ultrasoft to unremarkably average.

Playing quantum hide-and-seek with the muon: localizing muon stopping sites (2013)
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Möller, J., Bonfà, P., Ceresoli, D., Bernardini, F., Blundell, S., Lancaster, T., …Mohamed-Ibrahim, M. (2013). Playing quantum hide-and-seek with the muon: localizing muon stopping sites. Physica Scripta, 88(6), Article 068510. https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/88/06/068510

The most fundamental limitations of a muon-spin relaxation experiment can be the lack of knowledge of the implantation site of the muon and the uncertainty about the muon’s perturbation of its host. Here we review some of the work done on the ‘muon s... Read More about Playing quantum hide-and-seek with the muon: localizing muon stopping sites.

Another Dimension: investigations of molecular magnetism using muon-spin relaxation (2013)
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Lancaster, T., Blundell, S., & Pratt, F. (2013). Another Dimension: investigations of molecular magnetism using muon-spin relaxation. Physica Scripta, 88(6), Article 068506. https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/88/06/068506

We review examples of muon–spin relaxation measurements on molecule-based magnetic coordination polymers, classified by their magnetic dimensionality. These include the one-dimensional s = 1/2 spin chain Cu(pyz)(NO3)2 and the two-dimensional s = 1/2... Read More about Another Dimension: investigations of molecular magnetism using muon-spin relaxation.