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The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS): dynamical properties, gas and dark matter fractions of typical z~1 star-forming galaxies (2016)
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Stott, J., Swinbank, A., Johnson, H., Tiley, A., Magdis, G., Bower, R., …Cirasuolo, M. (2016). The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS): dynamical properties, gas and dark matter fractions of typical z~1 star-forming galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 457(2), 1888-1904. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw129

The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS) is an ESO-guaranteed time survey of 795 typical star-forming galaxies in the redshift range z = 0.8–1.0 with the KMOS instrument on the Very Large Telescope. In this paper, we present resolved kinema... Read More about The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS): dynamical properties, gas and dark matter fractions of typical z~1 star-forming galaxies.

Towards a high-throughput real-time confocal microfluidic system for monitoring absorbance spectra in mixed-phase chemical reactions (2017)
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Lawton, P., & Girkin, J. (2017). Towards a high-throughput real-time confocal microfluidic system for monitoring absorbance spectra in mixed-phase chemical reactions. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 21(4), Article 69. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10404-017-1904-9

In this work, we present a compact, real-time absorbance spectroscopy instrument, designed with a particular focus on taking spectroscopic readings in a microfluidic channel environment and selectively analysing an active volume in this channel by ad... Read More about Towards a high-throughput real-time confocal microfluidic system for monitoring absorbance spectra in mixed-phase chemical reactions.

Overview of recent physics results from MAST (2016)
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Kirk, A., Adamek, J., Akers, R., Allan, S., Appel, L., Arese Lucini, F., …Team, T. E. M. (2016). Overview of recent physics results from MAST. Nuclear Fusion, 57(10), Article 102007. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aa65e0

New results from MAST are presented that focus on validating models in order to extrapolate to future devices. Measurements during start-up experiments have shown how the bulk ion temperature rise scales with the square of the reconnecting field. Dur... Read More about Overview of recent physics results from MAST.

Thermal, Structural, and Optical Analysis of a Balloon-Based Imaging System (2017)
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Borden, M., Lewis, D., Ochoa, H., Jones-Wilson, L., Susca, S., Porter, M., …Netterfield, B. (2017). Thermal, Structural, and Optical Analysis of a Balloon-Based Imaging System. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 129, Article 035001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/129/973/035001

The Subarcsecond Telescope And BaLloon Experiment, STABLE, is the fine stage of a guidance system for a high-altitude ballooning platform designed to demonstrate subarcsecond pointing stability over one minute using relatively dim guide stars in the... Read More about Thermal, Structural, and Optical Analysis of a Balloon-Based Imaging System.

Clusters of specialized detector cells provide sensitive and high fidelity receptor signaling in the intact endothelium (2016)
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Wilson, C., Saunter, C. D., Girkin, J. M., & McCarron, J. G. (2016). Clusters of specialized detector cells provide sensitive and high fidelity receptor signaling in the intact endothelium. FASEB Journal, 30(5), 2000-2013. https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.201500090

Agonist-mediated signaling by the endothelium controls virtually all vascular functions. Because of the large diversity of agonists, each with varying concentrations, background noise often obscures individual cellular signals. How the endothelium di... Read More about Clusters of specialized detector cells provide sensitive and high fidelity receptor signaling in the intact endothelium.

Photonic spatial reformatting of stellar light for diffraction-limited spectroscopy (2015)
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Harris, R., MacLachlan, D., Choudhury, D., Morris, T., Gendron, E., Basden, A., …Thomson, R. (2015). Photonic spatial reformatting of stellar light for diffraction-limited spectroscopy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 450(1), 428-434. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv410

The spectral resolution of a dispersive spectrograph is dependent on the width of the entrance slit. This means that astronomical spectrographs trade-off throughput with spectral resolving power. Recently, optical guided-wave transitions known as pho... Read More about Photonic spatial reformatting of stellar light for diffraction-limited spectroscopy.

Monte Carlo modelling of multiconjugate adaptive optics performance on the European Extremely Large Telescope (2015)
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Basden, A. (2015). Monte Carlo modelling of multiconjugate adaptive optics performance on the European Extremely Large Telescope. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453(3), 3036-3042. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1875

The performance of a wide-field adaptive optics system depends on input design parameters. Here we investigate the performance of a multiconjugate adaptive optics system design for the European Extremely Large Telescope, using an end-to-end Monte Car... Read More about Monte Carlo modelling of multiconjugate adaptive optics performance on the European Extremely Large Telescope.

Estimating stochastic noise using in-situ measurements from a linear wavefront slope sensor (2016)
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Bharmal, N., & Reeves, A. (2016). Estimating stochastic noise using in-situ measurements from a linear wavefront slope sensor. Optics Letters, 41(2), 428-431. https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.41.000428

It is shown how the solenoidal component of noise from the measurements of a wavefront slope sensor can be utilized to estimate the total noise: specifically, the ensemble noise variance. It is well known that solenoidal noise is orthogonal to the re... Read More about Estimating stochastic noise using in-situ measurements from a linear wavefront slope sensor.

Micro-endoscope for in vivo widefield high spatial resolution fluorescent imaging. (2012)
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Saunter, C., Semprini, S., Buckley, C., Mullins, J., & Girkin, J. (2012). Micro-endoscope for in vivo widefield high spatial resolution fluorescent imaging. Biomedical Optics Express, 3(6), 1274-1278. https://doi.org/10.1364/boe.3.001274

In this paper we report the design, testing and use of a scannerless probe specifically for minimally invasive imaging of deep tissue in vivo with an epi-fluorescence modality. The probe images a 500 μm diameter field of view through a 710 μm outer d... Read More about Micro-endoscope for in vivo widefield high spatial resolution fluorescent imaging..

The KMOS AGN Survey at High redshift (KASHz): the prevalence and drivers of ionized outflows in the host galaxies of X-ray AGN (2015)
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Harrison, C., Alexander, D., Mullaney, J., Stott, J., Swinbank, A., Arumugam, V., …Sharples, R. (2016). The KMOS AGN Survey at High redshift (KASHz): the prevalence and drivers of ionized outflows in the host galaxies of X-ray AGN. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456(2), 1195-1220. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2727

We present the first results from the KMOS (K-band Multi-Object Spectrograph) AGN (active galactic nuclei) Survey at High redshift (KASHz), a VLT/KMOS integral-field spectroscopic (IFS) survey of z ≳ 0.6 AGN. We present galaxy-integrated spectra of 8... Read More about The KMOS AGN Survey at High redshift (KASHz): the prevalence and drivers of ionized outflows in the host galaxies of X-ray AGN.

The Angular Momentum Distribution and Baryon Content of Star-forming Galaxies at z ~ 1-3 (2016)
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Burkert, A., Förster Schreiber, N., Genzel, R., Lang, P., Tacconi, L., Wisnioski, E., …Wuyts, E. (2016). The Angular Momentum Distribution and Baryon Content of Star-forming Galaxies at z ~ 1-3. Astrophysical Journal, 826(2), Article 214. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/826/2/214

We analyze the angular momenta of massive star-forming galaxies (SFGs) at the peak of the cosmic star formation epoch (z ~ 0.8–2.6). Our sample of ~360 log(M */M ⊙) ~ 9.3–11.8 SFGs is mainly based on the KMOS3D and SINS/zC-SINF surveys of Hα kinemati... Read More about The Angular Momentum Distribution and Baryon Content of Star-forming Galaxies at z ~ 1-3.

Inferring divertor plasma properties from hydrogen Balmer and Paschen series spectroscopy in JET-ILW (2015)
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Lomanowski, B., Meigs, A., Sharples, R., Stamp, M., Guillemaut, C., & Contributors, J. (2015). Inferring divertor plasma properties from hydrogen Balmer and Paschen series spectroscopy in JET-ILW. Nuclear Fusion, 55(12), Article 123028. https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/55/12/123028

A parametrised spectral line profile model is formulated to investigate the diagnostic scope for recovering plasma parameters from hydrogenic Balmer and Paschen series spectroscopy in the context of JET-ILW divertor plasmas. The separate treatment of... Read More about Inferring divertor plasma properties from hydrogen Balmer and Paschen series spectroscopy in JET-ILW.

Pressure-dependent regulation of Ca2+ signalling in the vascular endothelium (2015)
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Wilson, C., Saunter, C. D., Girkin, J. M., & McCarron, J. G. (2015). Pressure-dependent regulation of Ca2+ signalling in the vascular endothelium. The Journal of Physiology, 593(24), 5231-5253. https://doi.org/10.1113/jp271157

The endothelium is an interconnected network upon which haemodynamic mechanical forces act to control vascular tone and remodelling in disease. Ca2+ signalling is central to the endothelium's mechanotransduction and networked activity. However, chall... Read More about Pressure-dependent regulation of Ca2+ signalling in the vascular endothelium.

Error sources in SLODAR turbulence profile fitting (2015)
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Butterley, T., Osborn, J., & Wilson, R. (2015). Error sources in SLODAR turbulence profile fitting. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 595(1), Article 012006. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/595/1/012006

This paper discusses some of the main error sources that affect use of the Slope Detection and Ranging (SLODAR) technique to recover atmospheric turbulence profiles from Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor data. The most significant factor we address her... Read More about Error sources in SLODAR turbulence profile fitting.

Scintillation Noise in Exoplanet Transit Photometry (2015)
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Föhring, D., Wilson, R., Osborn, J., & Dhillon, V. (2015). Scintillation Noise in Exoplanet Transit Photometry. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 595(1), Article 012010. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/595/1/012010

Transit photometry is a powerful technique for studying exoplanets. Transit observations from the ground of targets of magnitude V= 10 or brighter, however, are limited by scintillation noise due to Earth's atmosphere. Through turbulence profiling us... Read More about Scintillation Noise in Exoplanet Transit Photometry.

ULTRACAM z′-band detection of the secondary eclipse of WASP-12b (2013)
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Föhring, D., Dhillon, V., Madhusudhan, N., Marsh, T., Copperwheat, C., Littlefair, S., & Wilson, R. (2013). ULTRACAM z′-band detection of the secondary eclipse of WASP-12b. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 435(3), 2268-2273. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1443

We present z′-band secondary eclipse photometry of the highly irradiated hot Jupiter WASP-12b using ULTRACAM on the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope. We measure a decrease in flux of δ = 0.130 ± 0.013 per cent during the passage of the planet behind... Read More about ULTRACAM z′-band detection of the secondary eclipse of WASP-12b.

A dimensionless ordered pull-through model of the mammalian lens epithelium evidences scaling across species and explains the age-dependent changes in cell density in the human lens (2015)
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Wu, J., Wu, W., Tholozan, F., Saunter, C., Girkin, J., & Quinlan, R. (2015). A dimensionless ordered pull-through model of the mammalian lens epithelium evidences scaling across species and explains the age-dependent changes in cell density in the human lens. Journal of the Royal Society. Interface, 12(108), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2015.0391

We present a mathematical (ordered pull-through; OPT) model of the cell-density profile for the mammalian lens epithelium together with new experimental data. The model is based upon dimensionless parameters, an important criterion for inter-species... Read More about A dimensionless ordered pull-through model of the mammalian lens epithelium evidences scaling across species and explains the age-dependent changes in cell density in the human lens.

An FPGA-Based Bolometer for the MAST-U Super-X Divertor (2016)
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Lovell, J., Naylor, G., Field, A., Drewelow, P., & Sharples, R. (2016). An FPGA-Based Bolometer for the MAST-U Super-X Divertor. Review of Scientific Instruments, 87(11), Article 11E721. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4961556

A new resistive bolometer system has been developed for MAST-Upgrade. It will measure radiated power in the new Super-X divertor, with millisecond time resolution, along 16 vertical and 16 horizontal lines of sight. The system uses a Xilinx Zynq-7000... Read More about An FPGA-Based Bolometer for the MAST-U Super-X Divertor.

MUSE searches for galaxies near very metal-poor gas clouds at z~3: new constraints for cold accretion models (2016)
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Fumagalli, M., Cantalupo, S., Dekel, A., Morris, S., O'Meara, J., Prochaska, J., & Theuns, T. (2016). MUSE searches for galaxies near very metal-poor gas clouds at z~3: new constraints for cold accretion models. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 462(2), 1978-1988. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1782

We report on the search for galaxies in the proximity of two very metal-poor gas clouds at z ∼ 3 towards the quasar Q0956+122. With a 5-hour Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) integration in a ∼500 × 500 kpc2 region centred at the quasar positi... Read More about MUSE searches for galaxies near very metal-poor gas clouds at z~3: new constraints for cold accretion models.