All Outputs (433)

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey peculiar velocity catalogue (2022)
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Howlett, C., Said, K., Lucey, J. R., Colless, M., Qin, F., Lai, Y., …Davis, T. M. (2022). The Sloan Digital Sky Survey peculiar velocity catalogue. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 515(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac1681

We present a new catalogue of distances and peculiar velocities (PVs) of 34 059 early-type galaxies derived from fundamental plane (FP) measurements using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This 7016deg2 homogeneous sample comprises the l... Read More about The Sloan Digital Sky Survey peculiar velocity catalogue.

Linking stellar populations to H II regions across nearby galaxies (2022)
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Barnes, A., Chandar, R., Kreckel, K., Glover, S., Scheuermann, F., Belfiore, F., …Williams, T. (2022). Linking stellar populations to H II regions across nearby galaxies. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 662, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202243766

Context. Stellar feedback is one of the fundamental factors regulating the evolution of galaxies. However, we still do not have access to strong observational constraints on the relative importance of the different feedback mechanisms (e.g. radiation... Read More about Linking stellar populations to H II regions across nearby galaxies.

Vacuum Ultraviolet Fourier-transform Spectroscopy of 16O and 18O (2022)
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Lai, K., Manalili, D., Ubachs, W., Cooke, R., Pettini, M., de Oliveira, N., & Salumbides, E. (2022). Vacuum Ultraviolet Fourier-transform Spectroscopy of 16O and 18O. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 260(2), Article 37. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ac6350

A spectroscopic study of atomic oxygen (O I) is performed using the Fourier-transform vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) spectrometer at the Dichroïsme Et Spectroscopie par Interaction avec le Rayonnement Synchrotron beamline of the SOLEIL synchrotron. Transit... Read More about Vacuum Ultraviolet Fourier-transform Spectroscopy of 16O and 18O.

ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: ALMA-Herschel Joint Study of Lensed Dusty Star-forming Galaxies across z ≃ 0.5 – 6 (2022)
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Sun, F., Egami, E., Fujimoto, S., Rawle, T., Bauer, F. E., Kohno, K., …Zitrin, A. (2022). ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: ALMA-Herschel Joint Study of Lensed Dusty Star-forming Galaxies across z ≃ 0.5 – 6. Astrophysical Journal, 932(2), Article 77. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6e3f

We present an ALMA-Herschel joint analysis of sources detected by the ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey (ALCS) at 1.15 mm. Herschel/PACS and SPIRE data at 100–500 μm are deblended for 180 ALMA sources in 33 lensing cluster fields that are detected either s... Read More about ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: ALMA-Herschel Joint Study of Lensed Dusty Star-forming Galaxies across z ≃ 0.5 – 6.

Constraining the Charm-Yukawa coupling at the Large Hadron Collider (2022)
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Walker, J., & Krauss, F. (2022). Constraining the Charm-Yukawa coupling at the Large Hadron Collider. Physics Letters B, 832, Article 137255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137255

We present theoretical results for the sensitivity of charm Yukawa coupling measurements in future high-luminosity LHC runs in three channels: Vector Boson Fusion (VBF), W Higgs-strahlung and Z Higgs-strahlung production of a Higgs boson and its subs... Read More about Constraining the Charm-Yukawa coupling at the Large Hadron Collider.

Linking the brightest stellar streams with the accretion history of Milky Way like galaxies (2022)
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Vera-Casanova, A., Gómez, F. A., Monachesi, A., Gargiulo, I., Pallero, D., Grand, R. J., …Morales, G. (2022). Linking the brightest stellar streams with the accretion history of Milky Way like galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 514(4), 4898-4911. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac1636

According to the current galaxy-formation paradigm, mergers and interactions play an important role in shaping present-day galaxies. The remnants of this merger activity can be used to constrain galaxy-formation models. In this work, we use a sample... Read More about Linking the brightest stellar streams with the accretion history of Milky Way like galaxies.

Non-linear reconstruction of features in the primordial power spectrum from large-scale structure (2022)
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Li, Y., Zhu, H., & Li, B. (2022). Non-linear reconstruction of features in the primordial power spectrum from large-scale structure. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 514(3), 4363-4378. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac1544

Potential features in the primordial power spectrum have been searched for in galaxy surveys in recent years since these features can assist in understanding the nature of inflation. The null detection to date suggests that any such features should b... Read More about Non-linear reconstruction of features in the primordial power spectrum from large-scale structure.

Hot-mode accretion and the physics of thin-disc galaxy formation (2022)
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Hafen, Z., Stern, J., Bullock, J., Gurvich, A. B., Yu, S., Faucher-Giguère, C., …Hopkins, P. F. (2022). Hot-mode accretion and the physics of thin-disc galaxy formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 514(4), 5056-5073. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac1603

We use FIRE simulations to study disc formation in z ∼ 0, Milky Way-mass galaxies, and conclude that a key ingredient for the formation of thin stellar discs is the ability for accreting gas to develop an aligned angular momentum distribution via int... Read More about Hot-mode accretion and the physics of thin-disc galaxy formation.

Emission and Absorption Tuning in TADF B,N‐Doped Heptacenes: Toward Ideal‐Blue Hyperfluorescent OLEDs (2022)
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Stavrou, K., Madayanad Suresh, S., Hall, D., Danos, A., Kukhta, N. A., Slawin, A. M., …Zysman‐Colman, E. (2022). Emission and Absorption Tuning in TADF B,N‐Doped Heptacenes: Toward Ideal‐Blue Hyperfluorescent OLEDs. Advanced Optical Materials, 10(17), Article 2200688. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202200688

Developing high-efficiency purely organic blue organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) that meet the stringent industry standards is a major current research challenge. Hyperfluorescent device approaches achieve in large measure the desired high perfor... Read More about Emission and Absorption Tuning in TADF B,N‐Doped Heptacenes: Toward Ideal‐Blue Hyperfluorescent OLEDs.

Baryonic solutions and challenges for cosmological models of dwarf galaxies (2022)
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Sales, L. V., Wetzel, A., & Fattahi, A. (2022). Baryonic solutions and challenges for cosmological models of dwarf galaxies. Nature Astronomy, 6(8), 897-910. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-022-01689-w

Galaxies and their dark-matter haloes have posed several challenges to the dark energy plus cold dark matter (ΛCDM) cosmological model. These discrepancies between observations and theory intensify for the lowest-mass (‘dwarf’) galaxies. ΛCDM predict... Read More about Baryonic solutions and challenges for cosmological models of dwarf galaxies.

Circumnuclear Medium around the Central AGN in a Cool-core Cluster, Abell 1644-South (2022)
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Baek, J., Chung, A., Edge, A., Rose, T., Kim, J., & Jung, T. (2022). Circumnuclear Medium around the Central AGN in a Cool-core Cluster, Abell 1644-South. Astrophysical Journal, 932(1), Article 64. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6de6

We present the circumnuclear multiphase gas properties of the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) in the center of Abell 1644-South (A1644-S). A1644-S is the main cluster in a merging system, which is well known for X-ray hot gas sloshing in its core. The... Read More about Circumnuclear Medium around the Central AGN in a Cool-core Cluster, Abell 1644-South.

Primordial Helium-3 Redux: The Helium Isotope Ratio of the Orion Nebula* (2022)
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Cooke, R. J., Noterdaeme, P., Johnson, J. W., Pettini, M., Welsh, L., Peroux, C., …Weinberg, D. H. (2022). Primordial Helium-3 Redux: The Helium Isotope Ratio of the Orion Nebula*. Astrophysical Journal, 932(1), Article 60. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6503

We report the first direct measurement of the helium isotope ratio, 3He/4He, outside of the Local Interstellar Cloud, as part of science-verification observations with the upgraded CRyogenic InfraRed Echelle Spectrograph. Our determination of 3He/4He... Read More about Primordial Helium-3 Redux: The Helium Isotope Ratio of the Orion Nebula*.

FAST: Fourier domain adaptive optics simulation tool for bidirectional ground-space optical links through atmospheric turbulence (2022)
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Farley, O., Townson, M., & Osborn, J. (2022). FAST: Fourier domain adaptive optics simulation tool for bidirectional ground-space optical links through atmospheric turbulence. Optics Express, 30(13), 23050-23064. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.458659

Free space optical links between the ground and space may be severely degraded by atmospheric turbulence. Adaptive Optics, a technique allowing partial correction of this degradation, is beginning to see use in the field with the potential to achieve... Read More about FAST: Fourier domain adaptive optics simulation tool for bidirectional ground-space optical links through atmospheric turbulence.

Microlensing and the type Ia supernova iPTF16geu (2022)
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Diego, J., Bernstein, G., Chen, W., Goobar, A., Johansson, J., Kelly, P., …Nightingale, J. (2022). Microlensing and the type Ia supernova iPTF16geu. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 662, Article A34. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202143009

The observed magnifications and light curves of the quadruply imaged iPTF16geu supernova (SN) offers a unique opportunity to study a lens system with a variety of independent constraints. The four observed positions can be used to constrain the macro... Read More about Microlensing and the type Ia supernova iPTF16geu.

The Fornax3D project: intrinsic correlations between orbital properties and the stellar initial mass function (2022)
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Poci, A., McDermid, R., Lyubenova, M., Martín-Navarro, I., van de Ven, G., Coccato, L., …Zhu, L. (2022). The Fornax3D project: intrinsic correlations between orbital properties and the stellar initial mass function. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 514(3), 3660-3669. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac1514

Variations of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) in external galaxies have been inferred from a variety of independent probes. Yet the physical conditions causing these variations remain largely unknown. In this work, we explore new spatially re... Read More about The Fornax3D project: intrinsic correlations between orbital properties and the stellar initial mass function.

A general framework to test gravity using galaxy clusters VI: Realistic galaxy formation simulations to study clusters in modified gravity (2022)
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Mitchell, M. A., Arnold, C., & Li, B. (2022). A general framework to test gravity using galaxy clusters VI: Realistic galaxy formation simulations to study clusters in modified gravity. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 514(3), 3349-3365. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac1528

We present a retuning of the IllustrisTNG baryonic physics model which can be used to run large-box realistic cosmological simulations with a lower resolution. This new model employs a lowered gas density threshold for star formation and reduced ener... Read More about A general framework to test gravity using galaxy clusters VI: Realistic galaxy formation simulations to study clusters in modified gravity.

The In Situ Origins of Dwarf Stellar Outskirts in FIRE-2 (2022)
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Kado-Fong, E., Sanderson, R. E., Greene, J. E., Cunningham, E. C., Wheeler, C., Chan, T., …Starkenburg, T. (2022). The In Situ Origins of Dwarf Stellar Outskirts in FIRE-2. Astrophysical Journal, 931(2), Article 152. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6c88

Extended, old, and round stellar halos appear to be ubiquitous around high-mass dwarf galaxies (108.5 < M⋆/M⊙ < 109.6) in the observed universe. However, it is unlikely that these dwarfs have undergone a sufficient number of minor mergers to form ste... Read More about The In Situ Origins of Dwarf Stellar Outskirts in FIRE-2.

Better magneto-optical filters with cascaded vapor cells (2022)
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Logue, F. D., Briscoe, J. D., Pizzey, D., Wrathmall, S. A., & Hughes, I. G. (2022). Better magneto-optical filters with cascaded vapor cells. Optics Letters, 47(12), 2975-2978. https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.459291

Single-cell magneto-optical Faraday filters find great utility and are realized with either ‘wing’ or ‘line center’ spectral profiles. We show that cascading a second cell with independent axial (Faraday) or transverse (Voigt) magnetic field leads to... Read More about Better magneto-optical filters with cascaded vapor cells.

Modulated Fluorescence in LB Films Based on DADQs—A Potential Sensing Surface? (2022)
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Szablewski, M., Thompson, R. L., & Pålsson, L. (2022). Modulated Fluorescence in LB Films Based on DADQs—A Potential Sensing Surface?. Molecules, 27(12), Article 3893. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27123893

Novel fluorescent Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films have been constructed from three different amphiphilic dicynaoquinodimethanes (DADQs). The DADQs varied in functional group structure, which had an impact on the LB film structure and the fluorescence pr... Read More about Modulated Fluorescence in LB Films Based on DADQs—A Potential Sensing Surface?.

Fe3-xInSnxO6 (x = 0, 0.25, 0.5): A family of corundum derivatives with Sn-induced polarization and above room temperature antiferromagnetic ordering (2022)
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Frank, C. E., McCabe, E. E., Orlandi, F., Manuel, P., Tan, X., Deng, Z., …Greenblatt, M. (2022). Fe3-xInSnxO6 (x = 0, 0.25, 0.5): A family of corundum derivatives with Sn-induced polarization and above room temperature antiferromagnetic ordering. Chemistry of Materials, 34(11), 5020-5029. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c00312

Three new double corundum derived compounds, Fe3-xInSnxO6, (x = 0. 0.25, 0.5) were synthesized at high pressure and temperature (6 GPa, 1400-1450 C) All the compounds order antiferromagnetically well above room temperature, TN = 608 K, 532K, and 432... Read More about Fe3-xInSnxO6 (x = 0, 0.25, 0.5): A family of corundum derivatives with Sn-induced polarization and above room temperature antiferromagnetic ordering.