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The origin of fast molecular outflows in quasars: Molecule formation in AGN-driven galactic winds (2017)
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Richings, A. J., & Faucher-Giguère, C. A. (2018). The origin of fast molecular outflows in quasars: Molecule formation in AGN-driven galactic winds. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(3), 3673-3699. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3014

We explore the origin of fast molecular outflows that have been observed in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Previous numerical studies have shown that it is difficult to create such an outflow by accelerating existing molecular clouds in the host gala... Read More about The origin of fast molecular outflows in quasars: Molecule formation in AGN-driven galactic winds.

Triggering active galactic nuclei in galaxy clusters (2017)
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Marshall, M. A., Shabala, S. S., Krause, M. G. H., Pimbblet, K. A., Croton, D. J., & Owers, M. S. (2018). Triggering active galactic nuclei in galaxy clusters. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(3), 3615-3628. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2996

© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. We model the triggering of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in galaxy clusters using the semianalytic galaxy formation model SAGE. We prescribe trigge... Read More about Triggering active galactic nuclei in galaxy clusters.

The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Final data release and the metallicity of UV-luminous galaxies (2017)
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Drinkwater, M. J., Byrne, Z. J., Blake, C., Glazebrook, K., Brough, S., Colless, M., Couch, W., Croton, D. J., Croom, S. M., Davis, T. M., Forster, K., Gilbank, D., Hinton, S. R., Jelliffe, B., Jurek, R. J., Li, I.-H., Christopher Martin, D., Pimbblet, K., Poole, G. B., Pracy, M., …Yee, H. K. C. (2018). The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Final data release and the metallicity of UV-luminous galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(3), 4151-4168. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2963

© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey measured the redshifts of over 200 000 ultraviolet (UV)- selected (NUV < 22.8 mag) galaxies on the Anglo-Australi... Read More about The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Final data release and the metallicity of UV-luminous galaxies.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly: automatic morphological classification of galaxies using statistical learning (2017)
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Sreejith, S., Pereverzyev Jr, S., Kelvin, L. S., Marleau, F. R., Haltmeier, M., Ebner, J., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Driver, S. P., Graham, A. W., Holwerda, B. W., Hopkins, A. M., Liske, J., Loveday, J., Moffett, A. J., Pimbblet, K. A., Taylor, E. N., Wang, L., & Wright, A. H. (2018). Galaxy And Mass Assembly: automatic morphological classification of galaxies using statistical learning. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(4), 5232-5258. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2976

© 2018 The Author(s). We apply four statistical learning methods to a sample of 7941 galaxies (z < 0.06) from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey to test the feasibility of using automated algorithms to classify galaxies. Using 10 features measured... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly: automatic morphological classification of galaxies using statistical learning.

Flickering AGN can explain the strong circumgalactic OVI observed by COS-Halos (2017)
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Oppenheimer, B. D., Segers, M., Schaye, J., Richings, A. J., & Crain, R. A. (2018). Flickering AGN can explain the strong circumgalactic OVI observed by COS-Halos. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(4), 4740-4755. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2967

Proximity zone fossils (PZFs) are ionization signatures around recently active galactic nuclei (AGNs) where metal species in the circumgalactic medium remain overionized after the AGNs have shut offdue to their long recombination time scales. We expl... Read More about Flickering AGN can explain the strong circumgalactic OVI observed by COS-Halos.

Multiple mechanisms quench passive spiral galaxies (2017)
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Fraser-McKelvie, A., Brown, M. J. I., Pimbblet, K., Dolley, T., & Bonne, N. J. (2018). Multiple mechanisms quench passive spiral galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(2), 1909-1921. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2823

© 2017 The Author(s). We examine the properties of a sample of 35 nearby passive spiral galaxies in order to determine their dominant quenching mechanism(s). All five low-mass (M * < 1 × 10 10 M ⊙ ) passive spiral galaxies are located in the rich Vi... Read More about Multiple mechanisms quench passive spiral galaxies.

The Taipan Galaxy Survey: Scientific Goals and Observing Strategy (2017)
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Driver, S. P., Taylor, E. N., Lagos, C., White, M., Bilicki, M., Brown, M. J. I., Bryant, J., Croom, S., Jones, D. H., Koribalski, B., Lorente, N., Tinney, C. G., Tothill, N. F. H., Koribalski, B., Lima Da Cunha, E., Hopkins, A. M., Colless, M., Taylor, E. N. C., Blake, C., Howlett, C., …Watson, F. (2017). The Taipan Galaxy Survey: Scientific Goals and Observing Strategy. Publications / Astronomical Society of Australia, 34, Article ARTN e047. https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2017.41

© Astronomical Society of Australia 2017; published by Cambridge University Press. The Taipan galaxy survey (hereafter simply 'Taipan') is a multi-object spectroscopic survey starting in 2017 that will cover 2π steradians over the southern sky (δ ≲ 1... Read More about The Taipan Galaxy Survey: Scientific Goals and Observing Strategy.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) : The mechanisms for quiescent galaxy formation at z<1 (2017)
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Wild, V., Bremer, M., Brough, S., Driver, S. P., Hopkins, A. M., Owers, M. S., Phillipps, S., Sansom, A. E., Wang, L., Pimbblet, K., Alpaslan, M., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Bourne, N., Bremer, M. N., Brough, S., Colless, M., Driver, S., Holwerda, B. W., Hopkins, A., Owers, M., …Wild, V. (2018). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) : The mechanisms for quiescent galaxy formation at z

© 2016 The Authors. One key problem in astrophysics is understanding how and why galaxies switch off their star formation, building the quiescent population that we observe in the local Universe. From the Galaxy And Mass Assembly and VIsible MultiObj... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) : The mechanisms for quiescent galaxy formation at z<1.

The evolutionary sequence of post-starburst galaxies (2017)
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Wilkinson, C. L., Pimbblet, K. A., & Stott, J. P. (2017). The evolutionary sequence of post-starburst galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 472(2), 1447-1457. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2034

© 2017 The Authors. There are multiple ways in which to select post-starburst galaxies in the literature. In this work, we present a study into how two well-used selection techniques have consequences on observable post-starburst galaxy parameters, s... Read More about The evolutionary sequence of post-starburst galaxies.

Metals in the circumgalactic medium are out of ionization equilibrium due to fluctuating active galactic nuclei (2017)
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Segers, M. C., Oppenheimer, B. D., Schaye, J., & Richings, A. J. (2017). Metals in the circumgalactic medium are out of ionization equilibrium due to fluctuating active galactic nuclei. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471(1), 1026-1044. https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STX1633

We study the effect of a fluctuating active galactic nucleus (AGN) on the abundance of circumgalactic OVI in galaxies selected from the Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments simulations. We follow the time-variable OVI abundance i... Read More about Metals in the circumgalactic medium are out of ionization equilibrium due to fluctuating active galactic nuclei.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly: search for a population of high-entropy galaxy groups (2017)
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Pearson, R. J., Ponman, T. J., Norberg, P., Robotham, A. S., Babul, A., Bower, R. G., McCarthy, I. G., Brough, S., Driver, S. P., & Pimbblet, K. (2017). Galaxy And Mass Assembly: search for a population of high-entropy galaxy groups. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 469(3), 3489-3504. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1081

Observations with the ChandraX-ray Observatory are used to examine the hot gas properties within a sample of 10 galaxy groups selected from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey's optical Friends-of-Friends group catalogue. Our groups have been screene... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly: search for a population of high-entropy galaxy groups.

The beamformer and correlator for the Large European Array for Pulsars (2017)
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Smits, R., Bassa, C. G., Janssen, G. H., Karuppusamy, R., Kramer, M., Lee, K. J., Liu, K., McKee, J., Perrodin, D., Purver, M., Sanidas, S., Stappers, B. W., & Zhu, W. W. (2017). The beamformer and correlator for the Large European Array for Pulsars. Astronomy and Computing, 19, 66-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2017.02.002

The Large European Array for Pulsars combines Europe's largest radio telescopes to form a tied-array telescope that provides high signal-to-noise observations of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) with the objective to increase the sensitivity of detecting l... Read More about The beamformer and correlator for the Large European Array for Pulsars.

A Mathematical Model of Lymphangiogenesis in a Zebrafish Embryo (2017)
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Wertheim, K. Y., & Roose, T. (2017). A Mathematical Model of Lymphangiogenesis in a Zebrafish Embryo. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 79(4), 693-737. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-017-0248-7

The lymphatic system of a vertebrate is important in health and diseases. We propose a novel mathematical model to elucidate the lymphangiogenic processes in zebrafish embryos. Specifically, we are interested in the period when lymphatic endothelial... Read More about A Mathematical Model of Lymphangiogenesis in a Zebrafish Embryo.

A study of central galaxy rotation with stellar mass and environment (2017)
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Lara-Lopez, M. A., Lopez-Sanchez, A. R., Oliva-Altamirano, P., Brough, S., Tran, K.-V., Jimmy, Miller, C., Bremer, M. N., Phillipps, S., Sharp, R., Colless, M., Lara-López, M. A., López-Sánchez, Á. R., Pimbblet, K., Kafle, P. R., & Couch, W. J. (2017). A study of central galaxy rotation with stellar mass and environment. The Astronomical journal, 153(2), 89. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/153/2/89

© 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We present a pilot analysis of the influence of galaxy stellar mass and cluster environment on the probability of slow rotation in 22 central galaxies at mean redshift z = 0.07. This inc... Read More about A study of central galaxy rotation with stellar mass and environment.

Timing of 29 Pulsars Discovered in the PALFA Survey (2017)
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Lyne, A. G., Stappers, B. W., Bogdanov, S., Ferdman, R. D., Freire, P. C., Kaspi, V. M., Knispel, B., Lynch, R., Allen, B., Brazier, A., Camilo, F., Cardoso, F., Chatterjee, S., Cordes, J. M., Crawford, F., Deneva, J. S., Hessels, J. W., Jenet, F. A., Lazarus, P., Leeuwen, J. V., …Machenschalk, B. (2017). Timing of 29 Pulsars Discovered in the PALFA Survey. The Astrophysical journal, 834(2), Article 137. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/834/2/137

We report on the discovery and timing observations of 29 distant long-period pulsars found in the ongoing Arecibo L-band Feed Array pulsar survey. Following discovery with the Arecibo Telescope, confirmation and timing observations of these pulsars o... Read More about Timing of 29 Pulsars Discovered in the PALFA Survey.

Evidence for HI replenishment in massive galaxies through gas accretion from the cosmic web (2016)
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Kleiner, D., Pimbblet, K. A., Heath Jones, D., Koribalski, B. S., & Serra, P. (2017). Evidence for HI replenishment in massive galaxies through gas accretion from the cosmic web. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 466(4), 4692-4710. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw3328

We examine the H i -to-stellar mass ratio (H i fraction) for galaxies near filament backbones within the nearby Universe (d < 181 Mpc). This work uses the 6 degree Field Galaxy Survey (6dFGS) and the Discrete Persistent Structures Extractor (DisPerSE... Read More about Evidence for HI replenishment in massive galaxies through gas accretion from the cosmic web.

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): active galactic nuclei in pairs of galaxies (2016)
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Gordon, Y. A., Owers, M. S., Pimbblet, K. A., Croom, S. M., Alpaslan, M., Baldry, I. K., Brough, S., Brown, M. J., Cluver, M. E., Conselice, C. J., Davies, L. J., Holwerda, B. W., Hopkins, A. M., Gunawardhana, M. L., Loveday, J., Taylor, E. N., & Wang, L. (2017). Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): active galactic nuclei in pairs of galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465(3), 2671-2686. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2925

There exist conflicting observations on whether or not the environment of broad and narrow line AGN differ and this consequently questions the validity of the AGN unification model. The high spectroscopic completeness of the GAMA survey makes it idea... Read More about Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): active galactic nuclei in pairs of galaxies.

Measuring the 2D baryon acoustic oscillation signal of galaxies in WiggleZ: cosmological constraints (2016)
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Hinton, S. R., Kazin, E., Davis, T. M., Blake, C., Brough, S., Colless, M., Couch, W. J., Drinkwater, M. J., Glazebrook, K., Jurek, R. J., Parkinson, D., Pimbblet, K. A., Poole, G. B., Pracy, M., & Woods, D. (2017). Measuring the 2D baryon acoustic oscillation signal of galaxies in WiggleZ: cosmological constraints. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(4), 4807-4822. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2725

© 2016 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. We present results from the 2D anisotropic baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal present in the final data set from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Surve... Read More about Measuring the 2D baryon acoustic oscillation signal of galaxies in WiggleZ: cosmological constraints.

The Large Area Radio Galaxy Evolution Spectroscopic Survey (LARGESS): survey design, data catalogue and GAMA/WiggleZ spectroscopy (2016)
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Ching, J. H., Sadler, E. M., Croom, S. M., Johnston, H. M., Pracy, M. B., Couch, W. J., Hopkins, A. M., Jurek, R. J., & Pimbblet, K. A. (2017). The Large Area Radio Galaxy Evolution Spectroscopic Survey (LARGESS): survey design, data catalogue and GAMA/WiggleZ spectroscopy. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(2), 1306-1332. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2396

© 2016 The Authors. We present the Large Area Radio Galaxy Evolution Spectroscopic Survey (LARGESS), a spectroscopic catalogue of radio sources designed to include the full range of radio AGN populations out to redshift z ~ 0.8. The catalogue covers... Read More about The Large Area Radio Galaxy Evolution Spectroscopic Survey (LARGESS): survey design, data catalogue and GAMA/WiggleZ spectroscopy.

Near-ultraviolet signatures of environment-driven galaxy quenching in Sloan Digital Sky Survey groups (2016)
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Crossett, J. P., Pimbblet, K. A., Jones, D. H., Brown, M. J., & Stott, J. P. (2017). Near-ultraviolet signatures of environment-driven galaxy quenching in Sloan Digital Sky Survey groups. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(1), 480-490. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2228

© 2016 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. We have investigated the effect of group environment on residual star formation in galaxies, using Galaxy Evolution Explorer near-ultraviolet (NUV)... Read More about Near-ultraviolet signatures of environment-driven galaxy quenching in Sloan Digital Sky Survey groups.