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What powers the most relativistic jets? – II. Flat-spectrum radio quasars (2017)
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Gardner, E., & Done, C. (2018). What powers the most relativistic jets? – II. Flat-spectrum radio quasars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(2), 2639-2654. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2516

Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQs) are the most powerful relativistic jets seen from supermassive black holes (BHs) accreting via a radiatively efficient thin disc. Their high energy emission is well modelled by highly relativistic electrons in the... Read More about What powers the most relativistic jets? – II. Flat-spectrum radio quasars.

Cresting the wave: proper motions of the Eastern Banded Structure (2017)
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Deason, A., Belokurov, V., & Koposo, V. S. (2018). Cresting the wave: proper motions of the Eastern Banded Structure. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(2), 2428-2433. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2528

We study the kinematic properties of the Eastern Banded Structure (EBS) and Hydra I overdensity using exquisite proper motions derived from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Gaia source catalogue. Main sequence turn-off stars in the vicinity of... Read More about Cresting the wave: proper motions of the Eastern Banded Structure.

Local magnetism and spin dynamics of the frustrated honeycomb rhodate Li2RhO3 (2017)
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Khuntia, P., Manni, S., Foronda, F., Lancaster, T., Blundell, S., Gegenwart, P., & Baenitz, M. (2017). Local magnetism and spin dynamics of the frustrated honeycomb rhodate Li2RhO3. Physical Review B, 96(9), Article 094432. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.96.094432

We reportmagnetization, heat capacity, 7Li nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and muon-spin rotation (μSR) measurements on the honeycomb 4d5 spin liquid candidate Li2RhO3. The magnetization in small magnetic fields provides evidence of the partial spi... Read More about Local magnetism and spin dynamics of the frustrated honeycomb rhodate Li2RhO3.

Four-wave mixing in a non-degenerate four-level diamond configuration in the hyperfine Paschen–Back regime (2017)
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Whiting, D. J., Mathew, R. S., Keaveney, J., Adams, C. S., & Hughes, I. G. (2018). Four-wave mixing in a non-degenerate four-level diamond configuration in the hyperfine Paschen–Back regime. Journal of Modern Optics, 65(2), 119-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500340.2017.1377308

We present an experimental study of seeded four-wave mixing (4WM) using a diamond excitation scheme (with states from the 5S1/2,5P1/2,5P3/25S1/2,5P1/2,5P3/2 and 5D3/25D3/2 terms) in a thermal vapour of 87Rb87Rb atoms. We investigate the 4WM spectra u... Read More about Four-wave mixing in a non-degenerate four-level diamond configuration in the hyperfine Paschen–Back regime.

Galaxy evolution in protoclusters (2017)
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Muldrew, S. I., Hatch, N. A., & Cooke, E. A. (2018). Galaxy evolution in protoclusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(2), 2335-2347. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2454

We investigate galaxy evolution in protoclusters using a semi-analytic model applied to the Millennium Simulation, scaled to a Planck cosmology. We show that the model reproduces the observed behaviour of the star formation history (SFH) both in prot... Read More about Galaxy evolution in protoclusters.

The vertical structure of gaseous galaxy discs in cold dark matter haloes (2017)
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Benítez-Llambay, A., Navarro, J. F., Frenk, C. S., & Ludlow, A. D. (2018). The vertical structure of gaseous galaxy discs in cold dark matter haloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(1), 1019-1037. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2420

We study the vertical structure of polytropic centrifugally supported gaseous discs embedded in cold dark matter (CDM) haloes. At fixed radius, R, the shape of the vertical density profile depends weakly on whether the disc is self-gravitating (SG) o... Read More about The vertical structure of gaseous galaxy discs in cold dark matter haloes.

Can a quantum state over time resemble a quantum state at a single time? (2017)
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Horsman, D., Heunen, C., Pusey, M. F., Barrett, J., & Spekkens, R. W. (2017). Can a quantum state over time resemble a quantum state at a single time?. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 473(2205), Article 20170395. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2017.0395

The standard formalism of quantum theory treats space and time in fundamentally different ways. In particular, a composite system at a given time is represented by a joint state, but the formalism does not prescribe a joint state for a composite of s... Read More about Can a quantum state over time resemble a quantum state at a single time?.

The young star cluster population of M51 with LEGUS – I. A comprehensive study of cluster formation and evolution (2017)
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Messa, M., Adamo, A., Östlin, G., Calzetti, D., Grasha, K., Grebel, E., …Weber, M. (2018). The young star cluster population of M51 with LEGUS – I. A comprehensive study of cluster formation and evolution. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(1), 996-1018. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2403

Recently acquired WFC3 UV (F275W and F336W) imaging mosaics under the Legacy Extragalactic UV Survey (LEGUS), combined with archival ACS data of M51, are used to study the young star cluster (YSC) population of this interacting system. Our newly extr... Read More about The young star cluster population of M51 with LEGUS – I. A comprehensive study of cluster formation and evolution.

Origins of carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars (2017)
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Sharma, M., Theuns, T., Frenk, C. S., & Cooke, R. J. (2018). Origins of carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(1), 984-995. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2392

We investigate the nature of carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars in Milky Way (MW) analogues selected from the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. The stellar evolution model in EAGLE includes the physics of enrichment by asymptotic gia... Read More about Origins of carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars.

Thermal winds in stellar mass black hole and neutron star binary systems (2017)
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Done, C., Tomaru, R., & Takahashi, T. (2018). Thermal winds in stellar mass black hole and neutron star binary systems. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(1), 838-848. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2400

Black hole binaries show equatorial disc winds at high luminosities, which apparently disappear during the spectral transition to the low/hard state. This is also where the radio jet appears, motivating speculation that both wind and jet are driven b... Read More about Thermal winds in stellar mass black hole and neutron star binary systems.

Unique probe of dark matter in the core of M87 with the Event Horizon Telescope (2017)
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Lacroix, T., Karami, M., Broderick, A. E., Silk, J., & Boehm, C. (2017). Unique probe of dark matter in the core of M87 with the Event Horizon Telescope. Physical Review D, 96(6), Article 063008. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.96.063008

We demonstrate the unprecedented capabilities of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) to image the innermost dark matter profile in the vicinity of the supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 radio galaxy. We present the first model of the sync... Read More about Unique probe of dark matter in the core of M87 with the Event Horizon Telescope.

Higgs boson plus dijets: higher order corrections (2017)
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Andersen, J. R., Hapola, T., Maier, A., & Smillie, J. M. (2017). Higgs boson plus dijets: higher order corrections. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(9), Article 065. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep09%282017%29065

The gluon fusion component of Higgs-boson production in association with dijets is of particular interest because it both (a) allows for a study of the CP-structure of the Higgs-boson couplings to gluons, and (b) provides a background to the otherwis... Read More about Higgs boson plus dijets: higher order corrections.

Modelling the energy dependence of black hole binary flows (2017)
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Mahmoud, R. D., & Done, C. (2018). Modelling the energy dependence of black hole binary flows. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(2), 2084-2097. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2359

We build a full spectral-timing model for the low/hard state of black hole binaries assuming that the spectrum of the X-ray hot flow can be produced by two Comptonization zones. Slow fluctuations generated at the largest radii/softest spectral region... Read More about Modelling the energy dependence of black hole binary flows.

Lasing by driven atoms-cavity system in collective strong coupling regime (2017)
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Sawant, R., & Rangwala, S. (2017). Lasing by driven atoms-cavity system in collective strong coupling regime. Scientific Reports, 7(1), Article 11432. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-11799-5

The interaction of laser cooled atoms with resonant light is determined by the natural linewidth of the excited state. An optical cavity is another optically resonant system where the loss from the cavity determines the resonant optical response of t... Read More about Lasing by driven atoms-cavity system in collective strong coupling regime.

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: understanding observations of large-scale outflows at low redshift with EAGLE simulations (2017)
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Tescari, E., Cortese, L., Power, C., Wyithe, J., Ho, I., Crain, R., …Tonini, C. (2018). The SAMI Galaxy Survey: understanding observations of large-scale outflows at low redshift with EAGLE simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(1), 380-397. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2315

This work presents a study of galactic outflows driven by stellar feedback. We extract main-sequence disc galaxies with stellar mass 109 ≤ M⋆/ M⊙ ≤ 5.7 × 1010 at redshift z = 0 from the highest resolution cosmological simulation of the Evolution and... Read More about The SAMI Galaxy Survey: understanding observations of large-scale outflows at low redshift with EAGLE simulations.

The formation of hot gaseous haloes around galaxies (2017)
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Correa, C., Schaye, J., Wyithe, J., Duffy, A., Theuns, T., Crain, R., & Bower, R. (2018). The formation of hot gaseous haloes around galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(1), 538-559. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2332

We use a suite of hydrodynamical cosmological simulations from the Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments (EAGLE) project to investigate the formation of hot hydrostatic haloes and their dependence on feedback mechanisms. We find t... Read More about The formation of hot gaseous haloes around galaxies.

A Multi-band Study of the Remarkable Jet in Quasar 4C+19.44 (2017)
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Harris, D. E., Lee, N. P., Schwartz, D. A., Siemiginowska, A., Massaro, F., Birkinshaw, M., Worrall, D. M., Cheung, C. C., Gelbord, J. M., Jorstad, S. G., Marscher, A. P., Landt, H., Marshall, H., Perlman, E. S., Stawarz, L., Uchiyama, Y., & Urry, C. M. (2017). A Multi-band Study of the Remarkable Jet in Quasar 4C+19.44. Astrophysical Journal, 846(2), Article 119. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa845c

We present arcsecond-resolution data in the radio, IR, optical, and X-ray for 4C+19.44 (=PKS 1354+195), the longest and straightest quasar jet with deep X-ray observations. We report results from radio images with half to one arcsecond angular resolu... Read More about A Multi-band Study of the Remarkable Jet in Quasar 4C+19.44.

The KMOS Cluster Survey (KCS). I. The Fundamental Plane and the Formation Ages of Cluster Galaxies at Redshift 1.4 < Z < 1.6 (2017)
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Beifiori, A., Mendel, J. T., Chan, J. C., Saglia, R. P., Bender, R., Cappellari, M., …Wegner, M. (2017). The KMOS Cluster Survey (KCS). I. The Fundamental Plane and the Formation Ages of Cluster Galaxies at Redshift 1.4 < Z < 1.6. Astrophysical Journal, 846(2), Article 120. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8368

We present the analysis of the fundamental plane (FP) for a sample of 19 massive red-sequence galaxies (${M}_{\star }\gt 4\times {10}^{10}$ ${M}_{\odot }$) in three known overdensities at $1.39\lt z\lt 1.61$ from the K-band Multi-object Spectrograph... Read More about The KMOS Cluster Survey (KCS). I. The Fundamental Plane and the Formation Ages of Cluster Galaxies at Redshift 1.4 < Z < 1.6.

CANDELS: Elevated Black Hole Growth in the Progenitors of Compact Quiescent Galaxies at z ∼ 2 (2017)
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Kocevski, D. D., Barro, G., Faber, S., Dekel, A., Somerville, R. S., Young, J. A., Williams, C. C., McIntosh, D. H., Georgakakis, A., Hasinger, G., Nandra, K., Civano, F., Alexander, D. M., Almaini, O., Conselice, C. J., Donley, J. L., Ferguson, H. C., Giavalisco, M., Grogin, N. A., Hathi, N., …Yan, H. (2017). CANDELS: Elevated Black Hole Growth in the Progenitors of Compact Quiescent Galaxies at z ∼ 2. Astrophysical Journal, 846(2), Article 112. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8566

Close entrainment of massive molecular gas flows by radio bubbles in the central galaxy of Abell 1795 (2017)
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Russell, H., McNamara, B., Fabian, A., Nulsen, P., Combes, F., Edge, A., …Vantyghem, A. (2017). Close entrainment of massive molecular gas flows by radio bubbles in the central galaxy of Abell 1795. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 472(4), 4024-4037. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2255

We present new ALMA observations tracing the morphology and velocity structure of the molecular gas in the central galaxy of the cluster Abell 1795. The molecular gas lies in two filaments that extend 5–7 kpc to the N and S from the nucleus and proje... Read More about Close entrainment of massive molecular gas flows by radio bubbles in the central galaxy of Abell 1795.