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Updated constraints on velocity and momentum-dependent asymmetric dark matter (2016)
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Vincent, A. C., Scott, P., & Serenelli, A. (2016). Updated constraints on velocity and momentum-dependent asymmetric dark matter. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2016(11), Article 007. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/11/007

We present updated constraints on dark matter models with momentum-dependent or velocity-dependent interactions with nuclei, based on direct detection and solar physics. We improve our previous treatment of energy transport in the solar interior by d... Read More about Updated constraints on velocity and momentum-dependent asymmetric dark matter.

Criteria for extensional necking instability in complex fluids and soft solids. Part II: Imposed tensile stress and force protocols (2016)
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Hoyle, D. M., & Fielding, S. M. (2016). Criteria for extensional necking instability in complex fluids and soft solids. Part II: Imposed tensile stress and force protocols. Journal of Rheology, 60(6), 1377-1397. https://doi.org/10.1122/1.4965037

We study the necking of a filament of complex fluid or soft solid subject to uniaxial tensile stretching, separately under conditions of constant imposed tensile stress and constant imposed tensile force, by means of linear stability analysis and non... Read More about Criteria for extensional necking instability in complex fluids and soft solids. Part II: Imposed tensile stress and force protocols.

Criteria for extensional necking instability in complex fluids and soft solids. Part I: Imposed Hencky strain rate protocol (2016)
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Hoyle, D. M., & Fielding, S. M. (2016). Criteria for extensional necking instability in complex fluids and soft solids. Part I: Imposed Hencky strain rate protocol. Journal of Rheology, 60(6), 1347-1375. https://doi.org/10.1122/1.4965036

We study theoretically the necking dynamics of a filament of complex fluid or soft solid in uniaxial tensile stretching at constant imposed Hencky strain rate ϵ̇ ϵ̇, by means of linear stability analysis and nonlinear (slender filament) simulations.... Read More about Criteria for extensional necking instability in complex fluids and soft solids. Part I: Imposed Hencky strain rate protocol.

First NuSTAR observations of the BL Lac-type blazar PKS 2155-304: constraints on the jet content and distribution of radiating particles (2016)
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Madejski, G., Nalewajko, K., Madsen, K., Chiang, J., Baloković, M., Paneque, D., …Zoglauer, A. (2016). First NuSTAR observations of the BL Lac-type blazar PKS 2155-304: constraints on the jet content and distribution of radiating particles. Astrophysical Journal, 831(2), Article 142. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/831/2/142

We report the first hard X-ray observations with NuSTAR of the BL Lac-type blazar PKS 2155-304, augmented with soft X-ray data from XMM-Newton and γ-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope, obtained in 2013 April when the source was in a very lo... Read More about First NuSTAR observations of the BL Lac-type blazar PKS 2155-304: constraints on the jet content and distribution of radiating particles.

PS1-14bj: A Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernova With a Long Rise and Slow Decay (2016)
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Lunnan, R., Chornock, R., Berger, E., Milisavljevic, D., Jones, D., Rest, A., …Waters, C. (2016). PS1-14bj: A Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernova With a Long Rise and Slow Decay. Astrophysical Journal, 831(2), Article 144. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/831/2/144

We present photometry and spectroscopy of PS1-14bj, a hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova (SLSN) at redshift z = 0.5215 discovered in the last months of the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey. PS1-14bj stands out because of its extremely slow evolution... Read More about PS1-14bj: A Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernova With a Long Rise and Slow Decay.

Identifying true satellites of the Magellanic Clouds (2016)
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Sales, L., Navarro, J., Kallivayalil, N., & Frenk, C. (2017). Identifying true satellites of the Magellanic Clouds. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465(2), 1879-188. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2816

The hierarchical nature of ΛCDM suggests that the Magellanic Clouds must have been surrounded by a number of satellites before their infall into the Milky Way halo. Many of those satellites should still be in close proximity to the Clouds, but some c... Read More about Identifying true satellites of the Magellanic Clouds.

LHC Signatures Of Scalar Dark Energy (2016)
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Brax, P., Burrage, C., Englert, C., & Spannowsky, M. (2016). LHC Signatures Of Scalar Dark Energy. Physical Review D, 94(8), Article 084054. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.94.084054

Scalar dark energy fields that couple to the standard model can give rise to observable signatures at the LHC. In this work, we show that t¯t þ missing energy and monojet searches are suitable probes in the limit where the dark energy scalar is stabl... Read More about LHC Signatures Of Scalar Dark Energy.

QCD radiative corrections for h→bb¯ in the standard model dimension-6 effective field theory (2016)
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Gauld, R., Pecjak, B., & Scott, D. (2016). QCD radiative corrections for h→bb¯ in the standard model dimension-6 effective field theory. Physical Review D, 94(7), Article 074045. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.94.074045

We calculate the O(αs) QCD corrections to the inclusive h→bb¯ decay rate in the dimension-6 standard model effective field theory (SMEFT). The QCD corrections multiplying the dimension-6 Wilson coefficients which alter the hbb¯-vertex at tree-level a... Read More about QCD radiative corrections for h→bb¯ in the standard model dimension-6 effective field theory.

Faint Submillimeter Galaxies Identified through Their Optical/Near-infrared Colors. I. Spatial Clustering and Halo Masses (2016)
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Chen, C., Smail, I., Swinbank, A., Simpson, J., Almaini, O., Conselice, C., …Wilkinson, A. (2016). Faint Submillimeter Galaxies Identified through Their Optical/Near-infrared Colors. I. Spatial Clustering and Halo Masses. Astrophysical Journal, 831(1), Article 91. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/831/1/91

The properties of submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) that are fainter than the confusion limit of blank-field single-dish surveys (S850≲ 2 mJy) are poorly constrained. Using a newly developed color selection technique, Optical-Infrared Triple Color (OIRTC... Read More about Faint Submillimeter Galaxies Identified through Their Optical/Near-infrared Colors. I. Spatial Clustering and Halo Masses.

Controlling the rotational and hyperfine state of ultracold Rb87Cs133 molecules (2016)
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Gregory, P. D., Aldegunde, J., Hutson, J. M., & Cornish, S. L. (2016). Controlling the rotational and hyperfine state of ultracold Rb87Cs133 molecules. Physical Review Letters, 94(4), Article 041403(R). https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.94.041403

We demonstrate coherent control of the rotational and hyperfine state of ultracold, chemically stable Rb87Cs133 molecules with external microwave fields. We create a sample of ∼2000 molecules in the lowest hyperfine level of the rovibronic ground sta... Read More about Controlling the rotational and hyperfine state of ultracold Rb87Cs133 molecules.

Multi-Higgs-boson production in gluon fusion at 100 TeV (2016)
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Degrande, C., Khoze, V. V., & Mattelaer, O. (2016). Multi-Higgs-boson production in gluon fusion at 100 TeV. Physical Review D, 94(8), Article 085031. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.94.085031

We carry out a detailed study of multi-Higgs production processes in the gluon fusion channel in the high-energy regime relevant to future circular hadron colliders and in the high-Higgs-multiplicity limit (≥20). Our results are based on the computat... Read More about Multi-Higgs-boson production in gluon fusion at 100 TeV.

SPITZER IRAC observations of IR excess in Holmberg IX X-1: A circumbinary disk or a variable jet? (2016)
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Dudik, R., Berghea, C., Roberts, T., Grise, F., Singh, A., Pagano, R., & Winter, L. (2016). SPITZER IRAC observations of IR excess in Holmberg IX X-1: A circumbinary disk or a variable jet?. Astrophysical Journal, 831(1), Article 88. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/831/1/88

We present Spitzer Infrared Array Camera photometric observations of the ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX, X-1) in Holmberg IX. We construct a spectral energy distribution (SED) for Holmberg IX X-1 based on published optical, UV, and X-ray data combin... Read More about SPITZER IRAC observations of IR excess in Holmberg IX X-1: A circumbinary disk or a variable jet?.

The geometry of the infrared and X-ray obscurer in a dusty hyperluminous quasar (2016)
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Farrah, D., Baloković, M., Stern, D., Harris, K., Kunimoto, M., Walton, D. J., …Zhang, W. (2016). The geometry of the infrared and X-ray obscurer in a dusty hyperluminous quasar. Astrophysical Journal, 831(1), Article 76. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/831/1/76

We study the geometry of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) obscurer in IRAS 09104+4109, an IR-luminous, radio-intermediate FR-I source at z = 0.442, using infrared data from Spitzer and Herschel, X-ray data from NuSTAR, Swift, Suzaku, and Chandra, an... Read More about The geometry of the infrared and X-ray obscurer in a dusty hyperluminous quasar.

Flares, wind and nebulae: the 2015 December mini-outburst of V404 Cygni (2016)
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Muñoz-Darias, T., Casares, J., Mata Sánchez, D., Fender, R., Armas Padilla, M., Mooley, K., …Wilson, R. (2017). Flares, wind and nebulae: the 2015 December mini-outburst of V404 Cygni. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 465(1), L124-L128. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slw222

After more than 26 years in quiescence, the black hole transient V404 Cyg went into a luminous outburst in 2015 June, and additional activity was detected in late December of the same year. Here, we present an optical spectroscopic follow-up of the D... Read More about Flares, wind and nebulae: the 2015 December mini-outburst of V404 Cygni.

Gamma-ray Novae: Rare or Nearby? (2016)
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Morris, P., Cotter, G., Brown, A., & Chadwick, P. (2017). Gamma-ray Novae: Rare or Nearby?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465(1), 1218-1226. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2776

Classical novae were revealed as a surprise source of γ-rays in Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) observations. During the first 8 yr since the LAT was launched, 6 novae in total have been detected to >5σ in γ-rays, in contrast to the 69 discovered op... Read More about Gamma-ray Novae: Rare or Nearby?.

When does an old nova become a dwarf nova? Kinematics and age of the nova shell of the dwarf nova AT Cancri (2016)
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Shara, M. M., Drissen, L., Martin, T., Alarie, A., & Stephenson, F. R. (2017). When does an old nova become a dwarf nova? Kinematics and age of the nova shell of the dwarf nova AT Cancri. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465(1), 739-745. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2753

The Z Cam-type dwarf nova AT Cancri (AT Cnc) displays a classical nova (CN) shell, demonstrating that mass transfer in cataclysmic binaries decreases substantially after a CN eruption. The hibernation scenario of cataclysmic binaries predicts such a... Read More about When does an old nova become a dwarf nova? Kinematics and age of the nova shell of the dwarf nova AT Cancri.