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Tests of subgrid models for star formation using simulations of isolated disc galaxies (2024)
Journal Article
Nobels, F. S. J., Schaye, J., Schaller, M., Ploeckinger, S., Chaikin, E., & Richings, A. J. (2024). Tests of subgrid models for star formation using simulations of isolated disc galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532(3), 3299-3321. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1390

We use smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of isolated Milky Way-mass disc galaxies that include cold, interstellar gas to test subgrid prescriptions for star formation (SF). Our fiducial model combines a Schmidt law with a gravitational inst... Read More about Tests of subgrid models for star formation using simulations of isolated disc galaxies.

Predictions for CO emission and the CO-to-H2 conversion factor in galaxy simulations with non-equilibrium chemistry (2024)
Journal Article
Thompson, O. A., Richings, A. J., Gibson, B. K., Faucher-Giguère, C. A., Feldmann, R., & Hayward, C. C. (2024). Predictions for CO emission and the CO-to-H2 conversion factor in galaxy simulations with non-equilibrium chemistry. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532(2), 1948-1965. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1486

Our ability to trace the star-forming molecular gas is important to our understanding of the Universe. We can trace this gas using CO emission, converting the observed CO intensity into the H2 gas mass of the region using the CO-to-H2 conversion fact... Read More about Predictions for CO emission and the CO-to-H2 conversion factor in galaxy simulations with non-equilibrium chemistry.

Modeling nonstationary noise in pulsar timing array data analysis (2024)
Journal Article
Falxa, M., Antoniadis, J., Champion, D. J., Cognard, I., Desvignes, G., Guillemot, L., Hu, H., Janssen, G., Jawor, J., Karuppusamy, R., Keith, M., Kramer, M., Lackeos, K., Liu, K., McKee, J. W., Perrodin, D., Sanidas, S., Shaifullah, G., & Theureau, G. (2024). Modeling nonstationary noise in pulsar timing array data analysis. Physical Review D, 109(12), Article 123010. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.123010

Pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations recently reported evidence for the presence of a gravitational wave background (GWB) in their datasets. The main candidate that is expected to produce such a GWB is the population of supermassive black hole bi... Read More about Modeling nonstationary noise in pulsar timing array data analysis.

Do galaxy mergers prefer under-dense environments? (2024)
Journal Article
Sureshkumar, U., Durkalec, A., Pollo, A., Pearson, W., Farrow, D., Narayanan, A., Loveday, J., Taylor, E., & Suelves, L. (2024). Do galaxy mergers prefer under-dense environments?. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 686, Article A40. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202347705

Context. Galaxy mergers play a crucial role in galaxy evolution. However, the correlation between mergers and the local environment of galaxies is not fully understood.
Aims. We aim to address the question of whether galaxy mergers prefer denser or... Read More about Do galaxy mergers prefer under-dense environments?.

The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: IV. Implications for massive black holes, dark matter, and the early Universe (2024)
Journal Article
EPTA Collaboration and InPTA Collaboration, Antoniadis, J., Arumugam, P., Arumugam, S., Babak, S., Bagchi, M., …Valtolina, S. (2024). The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: IV. Implications for massive black holes, dark matter, and the early Universe. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 685, Article A94. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202347433

The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) and Indian Pulsar Timing Array (InPTA) collaborations have measured a low-frequency common signal in the combination of their second and first data releases, respectively, with the correlation properties of a g... Read More about The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: IV. Implications for massive black holes, dark matter, and the early Universe.

Comparing Recent Pulsar Timing Array Results on the Nanohertz Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background (2024)
Journal Article
Agazie, G., Antoniadis, J., Anumarlapudi, A., Archibald, A. M., Arumugam, P., Arumugam, S., …The International Pulsar Timing Array Collaboration. (2024). Comparing Recent Pulsar Timing Array Results on the Nanohertz Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background. The Astrophysical journal, 966(1), Article 105. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad36be

The Australian, Chinese, European, Indian, and North American pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations recently reported, at varying levels, evidence for the presence of a nanohertz gravitational-wave background (GWB). Given that each PTA made differ... Read More about Comparing Recent Pulsar Timing Array Results on the Nanohertz Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background.

Dense stellar clump formation driven by strong quasar winds in the FIRE cosmological hydrodynamic simulations (2024)
Journal Article
Mercedes-Feliz, J., Anglés-Alcázar, D., Oh, B. K., Hayward, C. C., Cochrane, R. K., Richings, A. J., …Hopkins, P. F. (2024). Dense stellar clump formation driven by strong quasar winds in the FIRE cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 530(3), 2795-2809. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1021

We investigate the formation of dense stellar clumps in a suite of high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations of a massive, star-forming galaxy at z ∼ 2 under the presence of strong quasar winds. Our simulations include multiphase ISM physics f... Read More about Dense stellar clump formation driven by strong quasar winds in the FIRE cosmological hydrodynamic simulations.

Under threat: the International AIDS Society–Lancet Commission on Health and Human Rights (2024)
Journal Article
Beyrer, C., Kamarulzaman, A., Isbell, M., Amon, J., Baral, S., Bassett, M. T., Cepeda, J., Deacon, H., Dean, L., Fan, L., Giacaman, R., Gomes, C., Gruskin, S., Goyal, R., Mon, S. H. H., Jabbour, S., Kazatchkine, M., Kasoka, K., Lyons, C., Maleche, A., …Rubenstein, L. (2024). Under threat: the International AIDS Society–Lancet Commission on Health and Human Rights. Lancet, 403(10434), 1374-1418. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2824%2900302-7

2023 marked the 75th anniversary of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Universal Declaration articulates an inspiring vision of a world that is just, equitable, tolerant, and strategically focused on actions to address the most vulne... Read More about Under threat: the International AIDS Society–Lancet Commission on Health and Human Rights.

Tailored risk assessment and forecasting in intermittent claudication (2024)
Journal Article
Ravindhran, B., Prosser, J., Lim, A., Lathan, R., Mishra, B., Hitchman, L., Smith, G. E., Carradice, D., Thakker, D., Chetter, I. C., & Pymer, S. (2024). Tailored risk assessment and forecasting in intermittent claudication. BJS Open, 8(1), Article zrad166. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsopen/zrad166

Background: Guidelines recommend cardiovascular risk reduction and supervised exercise therapy as the first line of treatment in intermittent claudication, but implementation challenges and poor patient compliance lead to significant variation in man... Read More about Tailored risk assessment and forecasting in intermittent claudication.

The interplay between dust and radiation (2024)
Book Chapter
Richings, A. (2024). The interplay between dust and radiation. In S. Bovino, & T. Grassi (Eds.), Astrochemical Modeling: Practical Aspects of Microphysics in Numerical Simulations (157-188). Amsterdam: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-32-391746-9.00015-8

The attenuation of radiation due to dust depends on the composition and optical properties of the dust grains. This is fundamental to determine the impact of radiation on chemical evolution. In this chapter, we discuss how we can compute grain proper... Read More about The interplay between dust and radiation.

Pulsar scintillation through thick and thin: bow shocks, bubbles, and the broader interstellar medium (2023)
Journal Article
Ocker, S. K., Cordes, J. M., Chatterjee, S., Stinebring, D. R., Dolch, T., Giannakopoulos, C., …Reardon, D. J. (2024). Pulsar scintillation through thick and thin: bow shocks, bubbles, and the broader interstellar medium. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(3), 7568-7587. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3683

Observations of pulsar scintillation are among the few astrophysical probes of very small-scale ( au) phenomena in the interstellar medium (ISM). In particular, characterization of scintillation arcs, including their curvature and intensity distribut... Read More about Pulsar scintillation through thick and thin: bow shocks, bubbles, and the broader interstellar medium.

The black widow pulsar J1641+8049 in the optical, radio, and X-rays (2023)
Journal Article
Kirichenko, A. Y., Zharikov, S. V., Karpova, A. V., Fonseca, E., Zyuzin, D. A., Shibanov, Y. A., …Swiggum, J. K. (2024). The black widow pulsar J1641+8049 in the optical, radio, and X-rays. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(3), 4563-4572. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3391

PSR J1641+8049 is a 2 ms black widow pulsar with the 2.2 h orbital period detected in the radio and γ -rays. We performed new phase-resolved multiband photometry of PSR J1641+8049 using the OSIRIS instrument at the Gran Telescopio Canarias. The obtai... Read More about The black widow pulsar J1641+8049 in the optical, radio, and X-rays.

UCTH Breast Cancer Dataset (2023)
Data
Eteng, I., Bisong, E., Fagbola, T., Ibrahim, M., Udosen, J., & Akpotuzor, S. (2023). UCTH Breast Cancer Dataset. [Data]. https://doi.org/10.17632/63fpbc9cm4.2

Research Hypothesis:
This study hypothesizes that there are significant associations between the diagnostic characteristics of patients, including age, menopause status, tumor size, presence of invasive nodes, affected breast, metastasis status, br... Read More about UCTH Breast Cancer Dataset.

Rapid disc settling and the transition from bursty to steady star formation in Milky Way-mass galaxies (2022)
Journal Article
Gurvich, A. B., Stern, J., Faucher-Giguère, C. A., Hopkins, P. F., Wetzel, A., Moreno, J., …Hafen, Z. (2023). Rapid disc settling and the transition from bursty to steady star formation in Milky Way-mass galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 519(2), 2598-2614. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3712

Recent observations and simulations indicate substantial evolution in the properties of galaxies with time, wherein rotationally supported and steady thin discs (like those frequently observed in the local Universe) emerge from galaxies that are clum... Read More about Rapid disc settling and the transition from bursty to steady star formation in Milky Way-mass galaxies.

Smart Face Masks for Covid-19 Pandemic Management: A Concise Review of Emerging Architectures, Challenges and Future Research Directions (2022)
Journal Article
Fagbola, T. M., Fagbola, F. I., Aroba, O. J., Doshi, R., Hiran, K. K., & Thakur, S. C. (2023). Smart Face Masks for Covid-19 Pandemic Management: A Concise Review of Emerging Architectures, Challenges and Future Research Directions. IEEE sensors journal, 23(2), 877-888. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2022.3225067

Smart sensing technology has been playing tremendous roles in digital healthcare management over time with great impacts. Lately, smart sensing has awoken the world by the advent of Smart Face Masks (SFM) in the global fight against the deadly Corona... Read More about Smart Face Masks for Covid-19 Pandemic Management: A Concise Review of Emerging Architectures, Challenges and Future Research Directions.

In silico identification of chemical compounds in Spondias mombin targeting aldose reductase and glycogen synthase kinase 3β to abate diabetes mellitus (2022)
Journal Article
Ajiboye, B. O., Fagbola, T. M., Folorunso, I. M., Salami, A. W., Aletile, O. N., Akomolede, B. A., …Oyinloye, B. E. (2023). In silico identification of chemical compounds in Spondias mombin targeting aldose reductase and glycogen synthase kinase 3β to abate diabetes mellitus. Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, 36, Article 101126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imu.2022.101126

Aldose reductase and glycogen synthase kinase 3β (GSK3β) represent two of the ideal drug targets in diabetes due to their role in the pathogenesis of diabetes. Studies have shown that plant compounds provide therapeutics in diabetes management. This... Read More about In silico identification of chemical compounds in Spondias mombin targeting aldose reductase and glycogen synthase kinase 3β to abate diabetes mellitus.

Robust parameter estimation from pulsar timing data (2022)
Journal Article
Samajdar, A., Shaifullah, G. M., Sesana, A., Antoniadis, J., Burgay, M., Chen, S., …Van Der Wateren, E. (2022). Robust parameter estimation from pulsar timing data. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 517(1), 1460-1468. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2810

Recently, global pulsar timing arrays have released results from searching for a nano-Hertz gravitational wave background signal. Although there has not been any definite evidence of the presence of such a signal in residuals of pulsar timing data ye... Read More about Robust parameter estimation from pulsar timing data.

Historic Spatial Patterns of Storm-Driven Compound Events in UK Estuaries (2022)
Journal Article
Lyddon, C., Robins, P., Lewis, M., Barkwith, A., Vasilopoulos, G., Haigh, I., & Coulthard, T. (in press). Historic Spatial Patterns of Storm-Driven Compound Events in UK Estuaries. Estuaries and coasts : journal of the Estuarine Research Federation, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-022-01115-4

Compound estuarine flooding is driven by extreme sea-levels and river discharge occurring concurrently, or in close succession, and threatens low-lying coastal regions worldwide. We hypothesise that these drivers of flooding rarely occur independentl... Read More about Historic Spatial Patterns of Storm-Driven Compound Events in UK Estuaries.

The effects of local stellar radiation and dust depletion on non-equilibrium interstellar chemistry (2022)
Journal Article
Richings, A. J., Faucher-Giguère, C. A., Gurvich, A. B., Schaye, J., & Hayward, C. C. (2022). The effects of local stellar radiation and dust depletion on non-equilibrium interstellar chemistry. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 517(2), 1557-1583. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2338

Interstellar chemistry is important for galaxy formation, as it determines the rate at which gas can cool, and enables us to make predictions for observable spectroscopic lines from ions and molecules. We explore two central aspects of modelling the... Read More about The effects of local stellar radiation and dust depletion on non-equilibrium interstellar chemistry.

Long-term scintillation studies of EPTA pulsars I. Observations and basic results (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, Y., Verbiest, J. P., Main, R. A., Wu, Z., Ambalappat, K. M., Champion, D. J., …Theureau, G. (2022). Long-term scintillation studies of EPTA pulsars I. Observations and basic results. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 664, Article A116. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202142552

Context. Interstellar scintillation analysis of pulsars allows us to probe the small-scale distribution and inhomogeneities of the ionized interstellar medium. From the frequency scale of scintillation, one can estimate the geometric time delays from... Read More about Long-term scintillation studies of EPTA pulsars I. Observations and basic results.