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A merger shock in Abell 1367 (2019)
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Ge, C., Sun, M., Liu, R., Rudnick, L., Sarazin, C., Forman, W., …Gavazzi, G. (2019). A merger shock in Abell 1367. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 486(1), L36-L40. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slz049

Multiwavelength observations show that Abell 1367 (A1367) is a dynamically young cluster, with at least two subclusters merging along the SE–NW direction. With the wide-field XMM–Newton mosaic of A1367, we discover a previously unknown merger shock a... Read More about A merger shock in Abell 1367.

CO, H2O, H2O+ line and dust emission in a z = 3.63 strongly lensed starburst merger at sub-kiloparsec scales (2019)
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Yang, C., Gavazzi, R., Beelen, A., Cox, P., Omont, A., Lehnert, M., …van der Werf, P. (2019). CO, H2O, H2O+ line and dust emission in a z = 3.63 strongly lensed starburst merger at sub-kiloparsec scales. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 624, Article A138. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833876

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), we report high angular-resolution observations of the redshift z  = 3.63 galaxy H-ATLAS J083051.0+013224 (G09v1.97), one of the most luminous strongly lensed galaxies discovered by the He... Read More about CO, H2O, H2O+ line and dust emission in a z = 3.63 strongly lensed starburst merger at sub-kiloparsec scales.

Local magnetism, magnetic order and spin freezing in the "nonmetallic metal" FeCrAs (2019)
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Huddart, B., Birch, M. T., Pratt, F., Blundell, S., Porter, D. G., Clark, S. J., …Lancaster, T. (2019). Local magnetism, magnetic order and spin freezing in the "nonmetallic metal" FeCrAs. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 31(28), Article 285803. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648x/ab151f

We present the results of x-ray scattering and muon-spin relaxation (SR) measurements on the iron-pnictide compound FeCrAs. Polarized non-resonant magnetic x-ray scattering results reveal the 120° periodicity expected from the suggested three-fold sy... Read More about Local magnetism, magnetic order and spin freezing in the "nonmetallic metal" FeCrAs.

Coupling Molecular Dynamics and Deep Learning to Mine Protein Conformational Space (2019)
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Degiacomi, M. T. (2019). Coupling Molecular Dynamics and Deep Learning to Mine Protein Conformational Space. Structure, 27(6), 1034-1040.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2019.03.018

Flexibility is often a key determinant of protein func- tion. To elucidate the link between their molecular structure and role in an organism, computational techniques such as molecular dynamics can be leveraged to characterize their conformational s... Read More about Coupling Molecular Dynamics and Deep Learning to Mine Protein Conformational Space.

The Type II-plateau Supernova 2017eaw in NGC 6946 and Its Red Supergiant Progenitor (2019)
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Van Dyk, S. D., Zheng, W., Maund, J. R., Brink, T. G., Srinivasan, S., Andrews, J. E., …Kumar, S. (2019). The Type II-plateau Supernova 2017eaw in NGC 6946 and Its Red Supergiant Progenitor. Astrophysical Journal, 875(2), Article 136. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab1136

We present extensive optical photometric and spectroscopic observations, from 4 to 482 days after explosion, of the Type II-plateau (II-P) supernova (SN) 2017eaw in NGC 6946. SN 2017eaw is a normal SN II-P intermediate in properties between, for exam... Read More about The Type II-plateau Supernova 2017eaw in NGC 6946 and Its Red Supergiant Progenitor.

CLOUDY view of the warm corona (2019)
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Panda, S., Czerny, B., Done, C., & Kubota, A. (2019). CLOUDY view of the warm corona. Astrophysical Journal, 875(2), Article 133. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab11cb

Bright active galaxies show a range of properties, but many of these properties are correlated, which has led to the concept of the quasar main sequence. We test whether our current understanding of the quasar structure allows the pattern observed in... Read More about CLOUDY view of the warm corona.

Fe i Lines in 0.91–1.33 μm Spectra of Red Giants for Measuring the Microturbulence and Metallicities (2019)
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Kondo, S., Fukue, K., Matsunaga, N., Ikeda, Y., Taniguchi, D., Kobayashi, N., …Tsujimoto, T. (2019). Fe i Lines in 0.91–1.33 μm Spectra of Red Giants for Measuring the Microturbulence and Metallicities. Astrophysical Journal, 875(2), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab0ec4

For a detailed analysis of stellar chemical abundances, high-resolution spectra in the optical have mainly been used, while the development of near-infrared (NIR) spectrograph has opened new wavelength windows. Red giants have a large number of resol... Read More about Fe i Lines in 0.91–1.33 μm Spectra of Red Giants for Measuring the Microturbulence and Metallicities.

Finite quark-mass effects in Higgs boson production with dijets at large energies (2019)
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Andersen, J. R., Cockburn, J. D., Heil, M., Maier, A., & Smillie, J. M. (2019). Finite quark-mass effects in Higgs boson production with dijets at large energies. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019(4), Article 127. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep04%282019%29127

The production of a Higgs boson in association with at least two jets receives contributions both from the fusion of weak vector bosons (VBF) and from QCD processes, especially gluon fusion (GF). The former process is important for measuring the coup... Read More about Finite quark-mass effects in Higgs boson production with dijets at large energies.

Coseismic ultramylonites: An investigation of nanoscale viscous flow and fault weakening during seismic slip (2019)
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Pozzi, G., De Paola, N., Holdsworth, R. E., Bowen, L., Nielsen, S. B., & Dempsey, E. D. (2019). Coseismic ultramylonites: An investigation of nanoscale viscous flow and fault weakening during seismic slip. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 516, 164-175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.03.042

Faults weaken during the propagation of earthquakes due to the onset of thermally-activated mechanisms, which vary depending on the rock type. Recent experimental work suggests that carbonate-hosted faults are lubricated by viscous flow in nano-granu... Read More about Coseismic ultramylonites: An investigation of nanoscale viscous flow and fault weakening during seismic slip.

Simulating the Dark Matter Decay Signal from the Perseus Galaxy Cluster (2019)
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Lovell, M. R., Iakubovskyi, D., Barnes, D., Bose, S., Frenk, C. S., Theuns, T., & Hellwing, W. A. (2019). Simulating the Dark Matter Decay Signal from the Perseus Galaxy Cluster. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 875(2), Article L24. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab13ac

the C-EAGLE simulations of galaxy clusters to predict the flux, width, and shape of a dark matter decay line, paying particular attention to the unexplained 3.55keV line detected in the spectra of some galaxies and clusters, and the upcoming XRISM X... Read More about Simulating the Dark Matter Decay Signal from the Perseus Galaxy Cluster.

Scattering of spoof surface plasmon polaritons in defect-rich THz waveguides (2019)
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Klein, A. K., Basden, A., Hammler, J., Tyas, L., Cooke, M., Balocco, C., …Gallant, A. (2019). Scattering of spoof surface plasmon polaritons in defect-rich THz waveguides. Scientific Reports, 9(1), Article 6288. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42412-6

We report on the first observation of ‘Spoof’ Surface Plasmon Polariton (SPP) scattering from surface defects on metal-coated 3D printed, corrugated THz waveguiding surfaces. Surface defects, a result of the printing process, are shown to assist the... Read More about Scattering of spoof surface plasmon polaritons in defect-rich THz waveguides.

ARBTools: A Tricubic Spline Interpolator for Three-Dimensional Scalar or Vector Fields (2019)
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Walker, P., Krohn, U., & Carty, D. (2019). ARBTools: A Tricubic Spline Interpolator for Three-Dimensional Scalar or Vector Fields. Journal of Open Research Software, 7(1), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.258

ARBTools is a Python library containing a Lekien-Marsden type tricubic spline method for interpolating three-dimensional scalar or vector fields presented as a set of discrete data points on a regular cuboid grid. ARBTools was developed for simulatio... Read More about ARBTools: A Tricubic Spline Interpolator for Three-Dimensional Scalar or Vector Fields.

Intramolecular Dimerization Quenching of Delayed Emission in Asymmetric D-D’-A TADF Emitters (2019)
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Woon, K. L., Yi, C., Pan, K., Etherington, M. K., Wu, C., Wong, K., & Monkman, A. P. (2019). Intramolecular Dimerization Quenching of Delayed Emission in Asymmetric D-D’-A TADF Emitters. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123(19), 12400-12410. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b01900

Understanding the excited-state dynamics and conformational relaxation in thermallyactivated delayed fluorescence (TADF) molecules, including conformations that potentially support intramolecular through-space charge transfer, can open new avenues fo... Read More about Intramolecular Dimerization Quenching of Delayed Emission in Asymmetric D-D’-A TADF Emitters.

Revealing a Highly Dynamic Cluster Core in Abell 1664 with Chandra (2019)
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Calzadilla, M. S., Russell, H. R., McDonald, M. A., Fabian, A. C., Baum, S. A., Combes, F., …Vantyghem, A. N. (2019). Revealing a Highly Dynamic Cluster Core in Abell 1664 with Chandra. Astrophysical Journal, 875(1), Article 65. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab09f6

We present new, deep (245 ks) Chandra observations of the galaxy cluster Abell 1664 (z = 0.1283). These images reveal rich structure, including elongation and accompanying compressions of the X-ray isophotes in the NE–SW direction, suggesting that th... Read More about Revealing a Highly Dynamic Cluster Core in Abell 1664 with Chandra.

Thermodynamics of charged, rotating, and accelerating black holes (2019)
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Anabalón, A., Gray, F., Gregory, R., Kubizňák, D., & Mann, R. B. (2019). Thermodynamics of charged, rotating, and accelerating black holes. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019(4), Article 96. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep04%282019%29096

We show how to obtain a consistent thermodynamic description of accelerating asymptotically AdS black holes, extending our previous results by including charge and rotation. We find that the key ingredient of consistent thermodynamics is to ensure th... Read More about Thermodynamics of charged, rotating, and accelerating black holes.

An Accreting Supermassive Black Hole Irradiating Molecular Gas in NGC 2110 (2019)
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Rosario, D. J., Togi, A., Burtscher, L., Davies, R. I., Shimizu, T. T., & Lutz, D. (2019). An Accreting Supermassive Black Hole Irradiating Molecular Gas in NGC 2110. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 875(2), Article L8. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab1262

The impact of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) on star formation has implications for our understanding of the relationships between supermassive black holes and their galaxies, as well as for the growth of galaxies over the history of the universe. We... Read More about An Accreting Supermassive Black Hole Irradiating Molecular Gas in NGC 2110.

HALO7D I. The Line-of-sight Velocities of Distant Main-sequence Stars in the Milky Way Halo (2019)
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Cunningham, E. C., Deason, A. J., Rockosi, C. M., Guhathakurta, P., Jennings, Z. G., Kirby, E. N., …Barro, G. (2019). HALO7D I. The Line-of-sight Velocities of Distant Main-sequence Stars in the Milky Way Halo. Astrophysical Journal, 876(2), Article 124. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab16cb

The Halo Assembly in Lambda-CDM: Observations in 7 Dimensions (HALO7D) data set consists of Keck II/DEIMOS spectroscopy and Hubble Space Telescope–measured proper motions of Milky Way halo main-sequence turnoff stars in the CANDELS fields. In this pa... Read More about HALO7D I. The Line-of-sight Velocities of Distant Main-sequence Stars in the Milky Way Halo.

Torus model properties of an ultra-hard X-ray selected sample of Seyfert galaxies (2019)
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García-Bernete, I., Ramos Almeida, C., Alonso-Herrero, A., Ward, M., Acosta-Pulido, J., Pereira-Santaella, M., …Fuller, L. (2019). Torus model properties of an ultra-hard X-ray selected sample of Seyfert galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486(4), 4917-4935. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1003

We characterize for the first time the torus properties of an ultra-hard X-ray (14–195 keV) volume-limited (DL < 40 Mpc) sample of 24 Seyfert (Sy) galaxies (BCS40 sample). The sample was selected from the Swift/BAT nine-month catalogue.We use high an... Read More about Torus model properties of an ultra-hard X-ray selected sample of Seyfert galaxies.

PEPITO: atmospheric Profiling from short-Exposure focal Plane Images in seeing-limiTed mOde (2019)
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Beltramo-Martin, O., Bharmal, N. A., & Correia, C. (2019). PEPITO: atmospheric Profiling from short-Exposure focal Plane Images in seeing-limiTed mOde. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486(2), 2032-2041. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz979

Atmospheric profiling is a requirement for controlling wide-field Adaptive Optics (AO) instruments, analyzing the AO performance with respect to the observing conditions and predicting the Point Spread Function (PSF) spatial variations. We present PE... Read More about PEPITO: atmospheric Profiling from short-Exposure focal Plane Images in seeing-limiTed mOde.