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An accreting white dwarf displaying fast transitional mode switching (2021)
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Scaringi, S., de Martino, D., Buckley, D., Groot, P., Knigge, C., Fratta, M., Iłkiewicz, K., Littlefield, C., & Papitto, A. (2022). An accreting white dwarf displaying fast transitional mode switching. Nature Astronomy, 6, 98-102. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01494-x

Accreting white dwarfs are often found in close binary systems with orbital periods ranging from tens of minutes to several hours. In most cases, the accretion process is relatively steady, with significant modulations only occurring on timescales of... Read More about An accreting white dwarf displaying fast transitional mode switching.

SUPER VI. A giant molecular halo around a z∼2 quasar (2021)
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Cicone, C., Mainieri, V., Circosta, C., Kakkad, D., Vietri, G., Perna, M., Bischetti, M., Carniani, S., Cresci, G., Harrison, C., Mannucci, F., Marconi, A., Piconcelli, E., Puglisi, A., Scholtz, J., Vignali, C., Zamorani, G., Zappacosta, L., & Arrigoni Battaia, F. (2021). SUPER VI. A giant molecular halo around a z∼2 quasar. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 654, Article L8. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202141611

We present the discovery of copious molecular gas in the halo of cid_346, a z = 2.2 quasar studied as part of the SINFONI survey for Unveiling the Physics and Effect of Radiative feedback (SUPER). New Atacama Compact Array (ACA) CO(3−2) observations... Read More about SUPER VI. A giant molecular halo around a z∼2 quasar.

SUPER V. ALMA continuum observations of z ∼ 2 AGN and the elusive evidence of outflows influencing star formation (2021)
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Lamperti, I., Harrison, C., Mainieri, V., Kakkad, D., Perna, M., Circosta, C., Scholtz, J., Carniani, S., Cicone, C., Alexander, D., Bischetti, M., Calistro Rivera, G., Chen, C.-C., Cresci, G., Feruglio, C., Fiore, F., Mannucci, F., Marconi, A., Martínez-Ramírez, L., Netzer, H., …Zappacosta, L. (2021). SUPER V. ALMA continuum observations of z ∼ 2 AGN and the elusive evidence of outflows influencing star formation. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 654, Article A90. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202141363

We study the impact of active galactic nuclei (AGN) ionised outflows on star formation in high-redshift AGN host galaxies, by combining near-infrared integral field spectroscopic (IFS) observations, mapping the Hα emission and [O III]λ5007 outflows,... Read More about SUPER V. ALMA continuum observations of z ∼ 2 AGN and the elusive evidence of outflows influencing star formation.

Recovery and analysis of rest-frame UV emission lines in 2052 galaxies observed with MUSE at 1.5 < z < 6.4 (2021)
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Schmidt, K., Kerutt, J., Wisotzki, L., Urrutia, T., Feltre, A., Maseda, M., Nanayakkara, T., Bacon, R., Boogaard, L., Conseil, S., Contini, T., Herenz, E., Kollatschny, W., Krumpe, M., Leclercq, F., Mahler, G., Matthee, J., Mauerhofer, V., Richard, J., & Schaye, J. (2021). Recovery and analysis of rest-frame UV emission lines in 2052 galaxies observed with MUSE at 1.5 < z < 6.4. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 654, Article A80. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202140876

Rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) emission lines probe electron densities, gas-phase abundances, metallicities, and ionization parameters of the emitting star-forming galaxies and their environments. The strongest main UV emission line, Lyα, has been instr... Read More about Recovery and analysis of rest-frame UV emission lines in 2052 galaxies observed with MUSE at 1.5 < z < 6.4.

LeMMINGs III. The e-MERLIN legacy survey of the Palomar sample: exploring the origin of nuclear radio emission in active and inactive galaxies through the [O iii] – radio connection (2021)
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Baldi, R., Williams, D., Beswick, R., McHardy, I., Dullo, B., Knapen, J., Zanisi, L., Argo, M., Aalto, S., Alberdi, A., Baan, W., Bendo, G., Fenech, D., Green, D., Klöckner, H.-R., Körding, E., Maccarone, T., Marcaide, J., Mutie, I., Panessa, F., …Ward, M. (2021). LeMMINGs III. The e-MERLIN legacy survey of the Palomar sample: exploring the origin of nuclear radio emission in active and inactive galaxies through the [O iii] – radio connection. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508(2), 2019-2038. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2613

What determines the nuclear radio emission in local galaxies? To address this question, we combine optical [O III] line emission, robust black hole (BH) mass estimates, and high-resolution e-MERLIN 1.5-GHz data, from the LeMMINGs survey, of a statist... Read More about LeMMINGs III. The e-MERLIN legacy survey of the Palomar sample: exploring the origin of nuclear radio emission in active and inactive galaxies through the [O iii] – radio connection.

Submillimetre compactness as a critical dimension to understand the Main Sequence of star-forming galaxies (2021)
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Puglisi, A., Daddi, E., Valentino, F., Magdis, G., Liu, D., Kokorev, V., Circosta, C., Elbaz, D. E., Bournard, F., Gomez-Guijarro, C., Jin, S., Madden, S., Sargent, M. T., & Swinbank, M. (2021). Submillimetre compactness as a critical dimension to understand the Main Sequence of star-forming galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508(4), 5217-5238. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2914

We study the interstellar medium (ISM) properties as a function of the molecular gas size for 77 infrared-selected galaxies at z ∼ 1.3, having stellar masses 109.4 . M? . 1012.0 M and star formation rates 12 . SFRFIR . 1000 M yr−1 . Molecular gas siz... Read More about Submillimetre compactness as a critical dimension to understand the Main Sequence of star-forming galaxies.

Measurement of the free neutron lifetime using the neutron spectrometer on NASA's Lunar Prospector mission (2021)
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Wilson, J. T., Lawrence, D. J., Peplowski, P. N., Eke, V. R., & Kegerreis, J. A. (2021). Measurement of the free neutron lifetime using the neutron spectrometer on NASA's Lunar Prospector mission. Physical Review C, 104(4), Article 045501. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.104.045501

We use data from the Lunar Prospector Neutron Spectrometer to make the second space-based measurement of the free neutron lifetime finding τ n = 887 ± 14 stat + 7 − 3 syst s, which is within 1 σ of the accepted value. This measurement expands the ran... Read More about Measurement of the free neutron lifetime using the neutron spectrometer on NASA's Lunar Prospector mission.

The qT and ∆ϕ spectra in W and Z production at the LHC at N3LL′+N2LO (2021)
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Ju, W.-L., & Schönherr, M. (2021). The qT and ∆ϕ spectra in W and Z production at the LHC at N3LL′+N2LO. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021(10), https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep10%282021%29088

The production of weak gauge bosons, W± and Z, are at the core of the LHC precision measurement program. Their transverse momentum spectra as well as their pairwise ratios are key theoretical inputs to many high-precision analyses, ranging from the W... Read More about The qT and ∆ϕ spectra in W and Z production at the LHC at N3LL′+N2LO.

Proximity induced magnetism and the enhancement of damping in ferromagnetic/heavy metal systems (2021)
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Swindells, C., Głowiński, H., Choi, Y., Haskel, D., Michałowski, P., Hase, T., Kuświk, P., & Atkinson, D. (2021). Proximity induced magnetism and the enhancement of damping in ferromagnetic/heavy metal systems. Applied Physics Letters, 119(15), Article 152401. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0064336

The relationship between proximity induced magnetism (PIM) at the heavy metal/ferromagnet interface and spin-transport across such interfaces has generated significant debate. To investigate the link between the two, element specific X-ray magnetic c... Read More about Proximity induced magnetism and the enhancement of damping in ferromagnetic/heavy metal systems.

Star Formation Histories of Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies: Environmental Differences between Magellanic and Non-Magellanic Satellites?* (2021)
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Sacchi, E., Richstein, H., Kallivayalil, N., van der Marel, R., Libralato, M., Zivick, P., Besla, G., Brown, T. M., Choi, Y., Deason, A., Fritz, T., Geha, M., Guhathakurta, P., Jeon, M., Kirby, E., Majewski, S. R., Patel, E., Simon, J. D., Tony Sohn, S., Tollerud, E., & Wetzel, A. (2021). Star Formation Histories of Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies: Environmental Differences between Magellanic and Non-Magellanic Satellites?*. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 920(1), Article L19. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac2aa3

We present the color–magnitude diagrams and star formation histories (SFHs) of seven ultra-faint dwarf galaxies: Horologium 1, Hydra 2, Phoenix 2, Reticulum 2, Sagittarius 2, Triangulum 2, and Tucana 2, derived from highprecision Hubble Space Telesco... Read More about Star Formation Histories of Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies: Environmental Differences between Magellanic and Non-Magellanic Satellites?*.