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A new stellar chemo-kinematic relation reveals the merger history of the milky way disk (2014)
Journal Article
Minchev, I., Chiappini, C., Martig, M., Steinmetz, M., De Jong, R. S., Boeche, C., Scannapieco, C., Zwitter, T., Wyse, R. F. G., Binney, J. J., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Bienaymé, O., Famaey, B., Freeman, K. C., Gibson, B. K., Grebel, E. K., Gilmore, G., Helmi, A., Kordopatis, G., Lee, Y. S., …Williams, M. (2014). A new stellar chemo-kinematic relation reveals the merger history of the milky way disk. Astrophysical journal. Letters, 781(1), L20. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/781/1/l20

The velocity dispersions of stars near the Sun are known to increase with stellar age, but age can be difficult to determine, so a proxy like the abundance of α elements (e.g., Mg) with respect to iron, [α/Fe], is used. Here we report an unexpected b... Read More about A new stellar chemo-kinematic relation reveals the merger history of the milky way disk.

Observationally-motivated analysis of simulated galaxies (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gibson, B. K., MacFarlane, B. A., & Miranda, M. S. Observationally-motivated analysis of simulated galaxies. Presented at Proceedings of Science

© Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence. The spatial and temporal relationships between stellar age, kinematics, and chemistry are a fundamental tool for uncovering the p... Read More about Observationally-motivated analysis of simulated galaxies.

Cloud angular momentum and effective viscosity in global SPH simulations with feedback (2014)
Journal Article
Williamson, D. J., Thacker, R. J., Wurster, J., & Gibson, B. K. (2014). Cloud angular momentum and effective viscosity in global SPH simulations with feedback. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 442(4), 3674-3685. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1121

We examine simulations of isolated galaxies to analyse the effects of localized feedback on the formation and evolution of molecular clouds. Feedback contributes to turbulence and the destruction of clouds, leading to a population of clouds that is y... Read More about Cloud angular momentum and effective viscosity in global SPH simulations with feedback.

Impact of the uncertainty in α-captures on 22Ne on the weak s-process in massive stars (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nishimura, N., Hirschi, R., Pignatari, M., Herwig, F., Beard, M., Imbriani, G., Görres, J., Deboer, R. J., & Wiescher, M. Impact of the uncertainty in α-captures on 22Ne on the weak s-process in massive stars. Presented at ORIGIN OF MATTER AND EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES 2013: Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Origin of Matter and Evolution of Galaxies (OMEG12), Tsukuba, Japan

Massive stars at solar metallicity contribute to the production of heavy elements with atomic masses between A = 60 and A = 90 via the so-called weak s-process (which takes place during core He and shell C burning phases). Furthermore, recent studies... Read More about Impact of the uncertainty in α-captures on 22Ne on the weak s-process in massive stars.

The VMC ESO Public Survey (2013)
Journal Article
Cioni, M.-R. L., Anders, P., Bagheri, G., Bekki, K., Clementini, G., Emerson, J., Evans, C. J., For, B.-Q., De Grijs, R., Gibson, B. K., Girardi, L., Groenewegen, M. A. T., Guandalini, R., Gullieuszik, M., Ivanov, V. D., Kamath, D., Marconi, M., Marquette, J.-B., Miszalski, B., Moore, B., …Zaggia, S. (2013). The VMC ESO Public Survey. The Messenger, 23-25

The VISTA near-infrared YJKs survey of the Magellanic Clouds system (VMC) has entered its core phase: about 50% of the observations across the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC, SMC), the Magellanic Bridge and Stream have already been secured an... Read More about The VMC ESO Public Survey.

Some noteworthy alternating trilinear forms (2013)
Journal Article
Draisma, J., & Shaw, R. (2014). Some noteworthy alternating trilinear forms. Journal of Geometry, 105(1), 167-176. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00022-013-0202-2

Given an alternating trilinear form T ∈ Alt(×3Vn) on Vn =V(n,F) let LT denote the set of T-singular lines in PG(n-1)=PVn, consisting that is of those lines 〈a,b〉 of PG(n-1) such that T(a, b, x) = 0 for all x ∈ Vn. Amongst the immense profusion of d... Read More about Some noteworthy alternating trilinear forms.

Leggett-Garg inequalities (2013)
Journal Article
Emary, C., Lambert, N., & Nori, F. (2014). Leggett-Garg inequalities. Reports on progress in physics, 77(1), Article 016001. https://doi.org/10.1088/0034-4885/77/1/016001

In contrast to the spatial Bell’s inequalities which probe entanglement between spatially-separated systems, the Leggett-Garg inequalities test the correlations of a single system measured at different times. Violation of a genuine Leggett-Garg test... Read More about Leggett-Garg inequalities.

Numerical simulations of bubble-induced star formation in dwarf irregular galaxies with a novel stellar feedback scheme (2013)
Journal Article
Kawata, D., Gibson, B. K., Barnes, D. J., Grand, R. J., & Rahimi, A. (2014). Numerical simulations of bubble-induced star formation in dwarf irregular galaxies with a novel stellar feedback scheme. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 438(2), 1208-1222. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2267

To study the star formation and feedback mechanism, we simulate the evolution of an isolated dwarf irregular galaxy (dIrr) in a fixed dark matter halo, similar in size to Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte, using a new stellar feedback scheme. We use the new vers... Read More about Numerical simulations of bubble-induced star formation in dwarf irregular galaxies with a novel stellar feedback scheme.

Phase mixing due to the Galactic potential: steps in the position and velocity distributions of popped star clusters (2013)
Journal Article
Candlish, G. N., Smith, R., Fellhauer, M., Gibson, B. K., Kroupa, P., & Assmann, P. (2014). Phase mixing due to the Galactic potential: steps in the position and velocity distributions of popped star clusters. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 437(4), 3702-3717. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2166

As star clusters are expected to form with low star formation efficiencies, the gas in the cluster is expelled quickly and early in their development: the star cluster ‘pops’. This leads to an unbound stellar system, evolving in the Galactic potentia... Read More about Phase mixing due to the Galactic potential: steps in the position and velocity distributions of popped star clusters.

A fragment method for systematic improvement of anharmonic adsorbate vibrational frequencies: Acetylene on Cu(001) (2013)
Journal Article
Chulkov, S. K., & Benoit, D. M. (2013). A fragment method for systematic improvement of anharmonic adsorbate vibrational frequencies: Acetylene on Cu(001). The Journal of chemical physics, 139(21), Article 214704. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4829461

We suggest a novel method for systematic improvement of anharmonic adsorbate frequencies based on a fragment approach. The calculations are carried out by considering the adsorbed molecule separately and computing an energy correction using high-leve... Read More about A fragment method for systematic improvement of anharmonic adsorbate vibrational frequencies: Acetylene on Cu(001).