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Revealing the Stellar Mass and Dust Distributions of Submillimeter Galaxies at Redshift 2 (2019)
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Lang, P., Schinnerer, E., Smail, I., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Swinbank, A., Liu, D., Leslie, S., Almaini, O., An, F. X., Bertoldi, F., Blain, A., Chapman, S., Chen, C.-C., Conselice, C., Cooke, E., Coppin, K., Dunlop, J., Farrah, D., Fudamoto, Y., Geach, J., …Werf, P. V. D. (2019). Revealing the Stellar Mass and Dust Distributions of Submillimeter Galaxies at Redshift 2. Astrophysical Journal, 879(1), Article 54. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab1f77

We combine high-resolution ALMA and HST/CANDELS observations of 20 submillimeter galaxies (SMGs), predominantly from the AS2UDS survey at z sime 2, with bright rest-frame optical counterparts (${K}_{{\rm{s}}}\lesssim 22.9$) to investigate the resolve... Read More about Revealing the Stellar Mass and Dust Distributions of Submillimeter Galaxies at Redshift 2.

Fundamental differences in the radio properties of red and blue quasars: evolution strongly favoured over orientation (2019)
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Klindt, L., Alexander, D., Rosario, D., Lusso, E., & Fotopoulou, S. (2019). Fundamental differences in the radio properties of red and blue quasars: evolution strongly favoured over orientation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 488(3), 3109-3128. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1771

A minority of the optically selected quasar population are red at optical wavelengths due to the presence of dust along the line of sight. A key focus of many red quasar studies is to understand their relationship with the overall quasar population:... Read More about Fundamental differences in the radio properties of red and blue quasars: evolution strongly favoured over orientation.

Thirsty galaxies thriving on gas streams (2019)
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Fumagalli, M. (2019). Thirsty galaxies thriving on gas streams. Nature Astronomy, 3, 796-797. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0812-1

Young galaxies are most effective at converting gas into stars. Intense accretion of fuel is required to keep galaxies growing, but these gas streams have largely eluded observations. New instruments at optical telescopes are now uncovering clues of... Read More about Thirsty galaxies thriving on gas streams.

Paths to quiescence: gaseous feeding, morphology and star-formation histories of galaxies from the HST+MUSE Ultra Deep Field (2019)
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Fossati, M., Arrigoni Battaia, F., Bielby, R., D'Odorico, V., Dayal, P., Estrada-Carpenter, V., Fumagalli, M., Lofthouse, E., Lusso, E., Morris, S. L., Papovich, C., Peroux, C., Pirzkal, N., Prichard, L., Rafelski, M., Revalski, M., & Theuns, T. (2019). Paths to quiescence: gaseous feeding, morphology and star-formation histories of galaxies from the HST+MUSE Ultra Deep Field

Fornax 3D project: a two-dimensional view of the stellar initial mass function in the massive lenticular galaxy FCC 167 (2019)
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Martín-Navarro, I., Lyubenova, M., van de Ven, G., Falcón-Barroso, J., Coccato, L., Corsini, E., Gadotti, D., Iodice, E., La Barbera, F., McDermid, R., Pinna, F., Sarzi, M., Viaene, S., de Zeeuw, P., & Zhu, L. (2019). Fornax 3D project: a two-dimensional view of the stellar initial mass function in the massive lenticular galaxy FCC 167. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 626, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935360

HYTREES: combining matrix elements and parton shower for hypothesis testing (2019)
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Prestel, S., & Spannowsky, M. (2019). HYTREES: combining matrix elements and parton shower for hypothesis testing. The European Physical Journal C, 79(7), Article 546. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7030-y

We present a new way of performing hypothesis tests on scattering data, by means of a perturbatively calculable classifier. This classifier exploits the “history tree” of how the measured data point might have evolved out of any simpler (reconstructe... Read More about HYTREES: combining matrix elements and parton shower for hypothesis testing.

The Pisces Plume and the Magellanic wake (2019)
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Belokurov, V., Deason, A. J., Erkal, D., Koposov, S. E., Carballo-Bello, J. A., Smith, M. C., Jethwa, P., & Navarrete, C. (2019). The Pisces Plume and the Magellanic wake. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 488(1), L47-L52. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slz101

Using RR Lyrae stars in the Gaia Data Release 2 and Pan-STARRS1 we study the properties of the Pisces overdensity, a diffuse substructure in the outer halo of the Milky Way. We show that along the line of sight, Pisces appears as a broad and long plu... Read More about The Pisces Plume and the Magellanic wake.

In-Operando X-ray diffraction imaging of thermal strains in fully packaged silicon devices (2019)
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Tanner, B., Vijayaraghavan, R., Roarty, B., Danilewsky, A., & McNally, P. (2019). In-Operando X-ray diffraction imaging of thermal strains in fully packaged silicon devices. Microelectronics Reliability, 99, 232-238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2019.06.006

The application of X-ray Diffraction Imaging to measure in operando thermal strains at individually powered components within fully packaged LM3046 silicon devices is described. It is shown that as the local strains increase with power dissipated, ab... Read More about In-Operando X-ray diffraction imaging of thermal strains in fully packaged silicon devices.

An Evolving and Mass-dependent σsSFR–M ⋆ Relation for Galaxies (2019)
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Katsianis, A., Zheng, X., Gonzalez, V., Blanc, G., P. Lagos, C. D., Davies, L. J., Camps, P., Trčka, A., Baes, M., Schaye, J., Trayford, J. W., Theuns, T., & Stalevski, M. (2019). An Evolving and Mass-dependent σsSFR–M ⋆ Relation for Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 879(1), Article 11. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab1f8d

The scatter (σsSFR) of the specific star formation rates of galaxies is a measure of the diversity in their star formation histories (SFHs) at a given mass. In this paper, we employ the Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments (EAGLE... Read More about An Evolving and Mass-dependent σsSFR–M ⋆ Relation for Galaxies.

Two sub-millimetre bright protoclusters bounding the epoch of peak star-formation activity (2019)
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Lacaille, K. M., Chapman, S. C., Smail, I., Steidel, C., Blain, A., Geach, J., Golob, A., Gurwell, M., Ivison, R., Reddy, N., & Sawicki, M. (2019). Two sub-millimetre bright protoclusters bounding the epoch of peak star-formation activity. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 488(2), 1790-1812. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1742

We present James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array 2 (SCUBA-2) 850 & 450 μm observations (σ850 ∼ 0.5 mJy, σ450 ∼ 5 mJy) of the HS1549+19 and HS1700+64 survey fields containing two of the largest known galaxy over-densi... Read More about Two sub-millimetre bright protoclusters bounding the epoch of peak star-formation activity.

Exclusive vector meson production in heavy ion collisions (2019)
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Khoze, V., Martin, A., & Ryskin, M. (2019). Exclusive vector meson production in heavy ion collisions. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 46(8), Article 085002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/ab2009

We discuss the salient features of exclusive vector meson production in heavy ion collisions at LHC energies. Special attention is paid to the space-time picture of the process. We account for both coherent and incoherent contributions. The explicit... Read More about Exclusive vector meson production in heavy ion collisions.

Euclid preparation : III. Galaxy cluster detection in the wide photometric survey, performance and algorithm selection (2019)
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Adam, R., Vannier, M., Maurogordato, S., Biviano, A., Adami, C., Ascaso, B., Bellagamba, F., Benoist, C., Cappi, A., Díaz-Sánchez, A., Durret, F., Farrens, S., Gonzalez, A., Iovino, A., Licitra, R., Maturi, M., Mei, S., Merson, A., Munari, E., Pelló, R., …Zamorani, G. (2019). Euclid preparation : III. Galaxy cluster detection in the wide photometric survey, performance and algorithm selection. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 627, Article A23. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935088

Galaxy cluster counts in bins of mass and redshift have been shown to be a competitive probe to test cosmological models. This method requires an efficient blind detection of clusters from surveys with a well-known selection function and robust mass... Read More about Euclid preparation : III. Galaxy cluster detection in the wide photometric survey, performance and algorithm selection.

Evolution of galactic planes of satellites in the eagle simulation (2019)
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Shao, S., Cautun, M., & Frenk, C. S. (2019). Evolution of galactic planes of satellites in the eagle simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 488(1), 1166-1179. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1741

We study the formation of planes of dwarf galaxies around Milky Way (MW)-mass haloes in the EAGLE galaxy formation simulation. We focus on satellite systems similar to the one in the MW: spatially thin or with a large fraction of members orbiting in... Read More about Evolution of galactic planes of satellites in the eagle simulation.

Reconstructing solar magnetic fields from historical observations : IV. Testing the reconstruction method (2019)
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Virtanen, I., Virtanen, I., Pevtsov, A., Bertello, L., Yeates, A., & Mursula, K. (2019). Reconstructing solar magnetic fields from historical observations : IV. Testing the reconstruction method. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 627(A11), Article A11. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935606

Abstract Aims. The evolution of the photospheric magnetic field has only been regularly observed since the 1970s. The absence of earlier observations severely limits our ability to understand the long-term evolution of solar magnetic fields, especial... Read More about Reconstructing solar magnetic fields from historical observations : IV. Testing the reconstruction method.

Identifying the Factors That Lead to PLQY Enhancement in Diluted TADF Exciplexes Based on Carbazole Donors (2019)
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Colella, M., Danos, A., & Monkman, A. P. (2019). Identifying the Factors That Lead to PLQY Enhancement in Diluted TADF Exciplexes Based on Carbazole Donors. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123(28), 17318-17324. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b03538

Here we compare the effects of solid-state dilution on the photophysical and electrical performance of three TADF exciplexes based on carbazole containing donors with a high-performance acceptor PO-T2T. We observe intrinsically different photophysica... Read More about Identifying the Factors That Lead to PLQY Enhancement in Diluted TADF Exciplexes Based on Carbazole Donors.

On the correlation between the local dark matter and stellar velocities (2019)
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Bozorgnia, N., Fattahi, A., Cerdeño, D. G., Frenk, C. S., Gómez, F. A., Grand, R. J., Marinacci, F., & Pakmor, R. (2019). On the correlation between the local dark matter and stellar velocities. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2019(06), Article 045. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2019/06/045

The dark matter velocity distribution in the Solar neighbourhood is an important astrophysical input which enters in the predicted event rate of dark matter direct detection experiments. It has been recently suggested that the local dark matter veloc... Read More about On the correlation between the local dark matter and stellar velocities.

The nature of sub-millimeter and highly star-forming galaxies in the eagle simulation (2019)
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McAlpine, S., Smail, I., Bower, R. G., Swinbank, A., Trayford, J. W., Theuns, T., Baes, M., Camps, P., Crain, R. A., & Schaye, J. (2019). The nature of sub-millimeter and highly star-forming galaxies in the eagle simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 488(2), 2440-2454. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1692

We exploit eagle, a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation, to reproduce the selection of the observed sub-millimeter (submm) galaxy population by selecting the model galaxies at z ≥ 1 with mock submm fluxes S850µm ≥ 1 mJy. We find a reasonable agree... Read More about The nature of sub-millimeter and highly star-forming galaxies in the eagle simulation.

Vector boson production in association with a jet at forward rapidities (2019)
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Gehrmann–De Ridder, A., Gehrmann, T., Glover, E., Huss, A., & Walker, D. (2019). Vector boson production in association with a jet at forward rapidities. The European Physical Journal C, 79(6), Article 526. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7010-2

Final states with a vector boson and a hadronic jet allow one to infer the Born-level kinematics of the underlying hard scattering process, thereby probing the partonic structure of the colliding protons. At forward rapidities, the parton collisions... Read More about Vector boson production in association with a jet at forward rapidities.

Identifying optical turbulence profiles for realistic tomographic error in adaptive optics (2019)
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Farley, O., Osborn, J., Morris, T., Fusco, T., Neichel, B., Correia, C., & Wilson, R. (2019). Identifying optical turbulence profiles for realistic tomographic error in adaptive optics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 488(1), 213-221. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1669

For extremely large telescopes, adaptive optics will be required to correct the Earth’s turbulent atmosphere. The performance of tomographic adaptive optics is strongly dependent on the vertical distribution (profile) of this turbulence. An important... Read More about Identifying optical turbulence profiles for realistic tomographic error in adaptive optics.

The effects of dynamical substructure on Milky Way mass estimates from the high-velocity tail of the local stellar halo (2019)
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Grand, R. J., Deason, A. J., White, S. D., Simpson, C. M., Gómez, F. A., Marinacci, F., & Pakmor, R. (2019). The effects of dynamical substructure on Milky Way mass estimates from the high-velocity tail of the local stellar halo. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 487(1), L72-L76. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slz092

We investigate the impact of dynamical streams and substructure on estimates of the local escape speed and total mass of Milky-Way-mass galaxies from modelling the high-velocity tail of local halo stars. We use a suite of high-resolution magnetohydro... Read More about The effects of dynamical substructure on Milky Way mass estimates from the high-velocity tail of the local stellar halo.