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The lensing properties of subhaloes in massive elliptical galaxies in sterile neutrino cosmologies (2019)
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Despali, G., Lovell, M., Vegetti, S., Crain, R. A., & Oppenheimer, B. D. (2020). The lensing properties of subhaloes in massive elliptical galaxies in sterile neutrino cosmologies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 491(1), 1295-1310. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3068

We use high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations run with the EAGLE model of galaxy formation to study the differences between the properties of – and subsequently the lensing signal from – subhaloes of massive elliptical galaxies at redshift 0.2, i... Read More about The lensing properties of subhaloes in massive elliptical galaxies in sterile neutrino cosmologies.

MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) - I: Survey design and the environment of a near pristine gas cloud at z ≈ 3.5 (2019)
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Lofthouse, E. K., Fumagalli, M., Fossati, M., O’Meara, J. M., Murphy, M. T., Christensen, L., …Morris, S. L. (2020). MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) - I: Survey design and the environment of a near pristine gas cloud at z ≈ 3.5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 491(2), 2057-2074. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3066

We present the design, methods, and first results of the MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) survey, a large programme on the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) which targets 28 z > 3.2 quasa... Read More about MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) - I: Survey design and the environment of a near pristine gas cloud at z ≈ 3.5.

Towards constraining dark matter at the LHC: higher order QCD predictions for tt¯+ Z(Z → ν`ν¯`) (2019)
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Bevilacqua, G., Hartanto, H., Kraus, M., Weber, T., & Worek, M. (2019). Towards constraining dark matter at the LHC: higher order QCD predictions for tt¯+ Z(Z → ν`ν¯`). Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019(11), https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep11%282019%29001

Triggered by ongoing dark matter searches in the top quark sector at the Large Hadron Collider we report on the calculation of the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the Standard Model process pp → t t¯ + Z (Z → νℓ v¯¯¯ ℓ). This calculation is... Read More about Towards constraining dark matter at the LHC: higher order QCD predictions for tt¯+ Z(Z → ν`ν¯`).

Automated wind velocity profiling from adaptive optics telemetry (2019)
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Laidlaw, D. J., Osborn, J., Morris, T. J., Basden, A. G., Gendron, E., Rousset, G., …Wilson, R. W. (2020). Automated wind velocity profiling from adaptive optics telemetry. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 491(1), 1287-1294. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3062

Ground-based adaptive optics (AO) systems can use temporal control techniques to greatly improve image resolution. A measure of wind velocity as a function of altitude is needed to minimize the temporal errors associated with these systems. Spatio-te... Read More about Automated wind velocity profiling from adaptive optics telemetry.

Measurement of the Near Field Distribution of a Microwave Horn Using a Resonant Atomic Probe (2019)
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Bai, J., Fan, J., Hao, L., Spong, N. L., Jiao, Y., & Zhao, J. (2019). Measurement of the Near Field Distribution of a Microwave Horn Using a Resonant Atomic Probe. Applied Sciences, 9(22), Article 4895. https://doi.org/10.3390/app9224895

We measure the near field distribution of a microwave horn with a resonant atomic probe. The microwave field emitted by a standard microwave horn is investigated utilizing Rydberg electromagnetically inducted transparency (EIT), an all-optical Rydber... Read More about Measurement of the Near Field Distribution of a Microwave Horn Using a Resonant Atomic Probe.

Threshold interface magnetization required to induce magnetic proximity effect (2019)
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Inyang, O., Bouchenoire, L., Nicholson, B., Tokaç, M., Rowan-Robinson, R., Kinane, C., & Hindmarch, A. (2019). Threshold interface magnetization required to induce magnetic proximity effect. Physical Review B, 100(17), Article 174418. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.100.174418

Proximity-induced magnetization (PIM) has broad implications across interface-driven spintronics applications employing spin currents. We directly determine the scaling between PIM in Pt and the temperaturedependent interface magnetization in an adja... Read More about Threshold interface magnetization required to induce magnetic proximity effect.

Zeeman-tunable modulation transfer spectroscopy (2019)
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So, C., Spong, N. L., Möhl, C., Jiao, Y., Ilieva, T., & Adams, C. S. (2019). Zeeman-tunable modulation transfer spectroscopy. Optics Letters, 44(21), 5374-5377. https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.44.005374

Active frequency stabilization of a laser to an atomic or molecular resonance underpins many modern-day AMO physics experiments. With a flat background and high signal-to-noise ratio, modulation transfer spectroscopy (MTS) offers an accurate and stab... Read More about Zeeman-tunable modulation transfer spectroscopy.

The Hunt for Pulsating Ultraluminous X-ray Sources (2019)
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Song, X., Walton, D., Lansbury, G., Evans, P., Fabian, A., Earnshaw, H., & Roberts, T. (2020). The Hunt for Pulsating Ultraluminous X-ray Sources. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 491(1), 1260-1277. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3036

Motivated by the recent discoveries that six Ultraluminous X-ray Sources (ULXs) are powered by highly super-Eddington X-ray pulsars, we searched for additional pulsating ULX (PULX) candidates by identifying sources that exhibit long-term flux variabi... Read More about The Hunt for Pulsating Ultraluminous X-ray Sources.

Spin correlations in parton shower simulations (2019)
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Richardson, P., & Webster, S. (2019). Spin correlations in parton shower simulations. The European Physical Journal C, 80(2), Article 83. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7429-5

Spin correlations are an important, but often neglected, effect in modern Monte Carlo event generators. We show that they can be fully incorporated in HERWIG7 using the algorithm originally proposed by Collins and Knowles in all stages of the event g... Read More about Spin correlations in parton shower simulations.

Euclid preparation: V. Predicted yield of redshift 7 < z < 9 quasars from the wide survey (2019)
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Barnett, R., Warren, S., Mortlock, D., Cuby, J., Conselice, C., Hewett, P., …Zucca, E. (2019). Euclid preparation: V. Predicted yield of redshift 7 < z < 9 quasars from the wide survey. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 631, Article A85. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936427

We provide predictions of the yield of 7 < z < 9 quasars from the Euclid wide survey, updating the calculation presented in the Euclid Red Book in several ways. We account for revisions to the Euclid near-infrared filter wavelengths; we adopt steeper... Read More about Euclid preparation: V. Predicted yield of redshift 7 < z < 9 quasars from the wide survey.

Hydrostatic mass estimates of massive galaxy clusters: a study with varying hydrodynamics flavours and non-thermal pressure support (2019)
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Pearce, F. A., Kay, S. T., Barnes, D. J., Bower, R. G., & Schaller, M. (2020). Hydrostatic mass estimates of massive galaxy clusters: a study with varying hydrodynamics flavours and non-thermal pressure support. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 491(2), 1622-1642. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3003

We use a set of 45 simulated clusters with a wide mass range (8 × 1013 < M500 [M⊙] < 2 × 1015) to investigate the effect of varying hydrodynamics flavours on cluster mass estimates. The cluster zooms were simulated using the same cosmological models... Read More about Hydrostatic mass estimates of massive galaxy clusters: a study with varying hydrodynamics flavours and non-thermal pressure support.

Ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Auriga simulations (2019)
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Liao, S., Gao, L., Frenk, C. S., Grand, R. J., Guo, Q., Gómez, F. A., …Springel, V. (2019). Ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Auriga simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 490(4), 5182-5195. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2969

We investigate the formation of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) using the Auriga high-resolution cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way-sized galaxies. We identify a sample of 92 UDGs in the simulations that match a wide range of... Read More about Ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Auriga simulations.

The transverse momentum spectrum of weak gauge bosons at N³LL + NNLO (2019)
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Bizoń, W., Gehrmann-De Ridder, A., Gehrmann, T., Glover, N., Huss, A., Monni, P. F., …Walker, D. M. (2019). The transverse momentum spectrum of weak gauge bosons at N³LL + NNLO. The European Physical Journal C, 79(10), Article 868. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7324-0

We present accurate QCD predictions for the transverse momentum ( p⊥ ) spectrum of electroweak gauge bosons at the LHC for 13 TeV collisions, based on a consistent combination of a NNLO calculation at large p⊥ and N³ LL resummation in the small p⊥ li... Read More about The transverse momentum spectrum of weak gauge bosons at N³LL + NNLO.

OpenLoops 2 (2019)
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Buccioni, F., Lang, J., Lindert, J. M., Maierhöfer, P., Pozzorini, S., Zhang, H., & Zoller, M. F. (2019). OpenLoops 2. The European Physical Journal C, 79(10), Article 866. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7306-2

We present the new version of OpenLoops, an automated generator of tree and one-loop scattering amplitudes based on the open-loop recursion. One main novelty of OpenLoops 2 is the extension of the original algorithm from NLO QCD to the full Standard... Read More about OpenLoops 2.

Estimating the galaxy two-point correlation function using a split random catalog (2019)
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Keihänen, E., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lindholm, V., Viitanen, A., Suur-Uski, A., Allevato, V., …Sánchez, A. (2019). Estimating the galaxy two-point correlation function using a split random catalog. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 631, Article A73. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935828

The two-point correlation function of the galaxy distribution is a key cosmological observable that allows us to constrain the dynamical and geometrical state of our Universe. To measure the correlation function we need to know both the galaxy positi... Read More about Estimating the galaxy two-point correlation function using a split random catalog.

Hierarchical rose-petal surfaces delay the early-stage bacterial biofilm growth (2019)
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Cao, Y., Jana, S., Bowen, L., Tan, X., Liu, H., Rostami, N., …Chen, J. (2019). Hierarchical rose-petal surfaces delay the early-stage bacterial biofilm growth. Langmuir, 35(45), 14670-14680. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b02367

A variety of natural surfaces exhibit antibacterial properties; as a result significant efforts in the past decade have been dedicated towards fabrication of biomimetic surfaces that can help control biofilm growth. Examples of such surfaces include... Read More about Hierarchical rose-petal surfaces delay the early-stage bacterial biofilm growth.

Cosmological test of gravity using weak lensing voids (2019)
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Davies, C. T., Cautun, M., & Li, B. (2019). Cosmological test of gravity using weak lensing voids. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 490(4), 4907-4917. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2933

Modifications to general relativity often incorporate screening mechanisms in order to remain compatible with existing tests of gravity. The screening is less efficient in underdense regions, which suggests that cosmic voids can be a useful cosmologi... Read More about Cosmological test of gravity using weak lensing voids.