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Refined mass and geometric measurements of the high-mass PSR J0740+6620 (2021)
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Fonseca, E., Cromartie, H. T., Pennucci, T. T., Ray, P. S., Kirichenko, A. Y., Ransom, S. M., …Zhu, W. W. (2021). Refined mass and geometric measurements of the high-mass PSR J0740+6620. Astrophysical journal. Letters, 915(1), Article L12. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac03b8

We report results from continued timing observations of PSR J0740+6620, a high-mass, 2.8 ms radio pulsar in orbit with a likely ultracool white dwarf companion. Our data set consists of combined pulse arrival-time measurements made with the 100 m Gre... Read More about Refined mass and geometric measurements of the high-mass PSR J0740+6620.

The CHIME Pulsar Project: System Overview (2021)
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Amiri, M., Bandura, K. M., Boyle, P. J., Brar, C., Cliche, J. F., Crowter, K., …Wang, X. (2021). The CHIME Pulsar Project: System Overview. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 255(1), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/abfdcb

We present the design, implementation, and performance of the digital pulsar observing system constructed for the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME). Using accelerated computing, this system processes independent, digitally steere... Read More about The CHIME Pulsar Project: System Overview.

Unravelling the physics of multiphase AGN winds through emission line tracers (2021)
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Richings, A. J., Faucher-Giguère, C. A., & Stern, J. (2021). Unravelling the physics of multiphase AGN winds through emission line tracers. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 503(2), 1568-1585. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab556

Observations of emission lines in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) often find fast (∼1000 km s−1) outflows extending to kiloparsec scales, seen in ionized, neutral atomic and molecular gas. In this work we present radiative transfer calculations of emis... Read More about Unravelling the physics of multiphase AGN winds through emission line tracers.

Project ThaiPASS: international outreach blending astronomy and Python (2021)
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Keegans, J. D., Stancliffe, R. J., Bilton, L. E., Cashmore, C. R., Gibson, B. K., Kristensen, M. T., Lawson, T. V., Pignatari, M., Vaezzadeh, I., Côté, B., & Chongchitnan, S. (2021). Project ThaiPASS: international outreach blending astronomy and Python. Physics Education, 56(3), Article 035001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6552/abdae7

We present our outreach program, the Thailand–UK Python+Astronomy Summer School (ThaiPASS), a collaborative project comprising UK and Thai institutions and assess its impact and possible application to schools in the United Kingdom. Since its incepti... Read More about Project ThaiPASS: international outreach blending astronomy and Python.

Dispersion measure variability for 36 millisecond pulsars at 150 MHz with LOFAR (2020)
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Donner, J. Y., Verbiest, J. P., Tiburzi, C., Osłowski, S., Künsemöller, J., Bak Nielsen, A. S., …Vocks, C. (2020). Dispersion measure variability for 36 millisecond pulsars at 150 MHz with LOFAR. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 644, Article A153. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202039517

Context. Radio pulses from pulsars are affected by plasma dispersion, which results in a frequency-dependent propagation delay. Variations in the magnitude of this effect lead to an additional source of red noise in pulsar timing experiments, includi... Read More about Dispersion measure variability for 36 millisecond pulsars at 150 MHz with LOFAR.

PRIMAGE project: predictive in silico multiscale analytics to support childhood cancer personalised evaluation empowered by imaging biomarkers (2020)
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Martí-Bonmatí, L., Alberich-Bayarri, Á., Ladenstein, R., Blanquer, I., Segrelles, J. D., Cerdá-Alberich, L., …Neri, E. (2020). PRIMAGE project: predictive in silico multiscale analytics to support childhood cancer personalised evaluation empowered by imaging biomarkers. European Radiology Experimental, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s41747-020-00150-9

PRIMAGE is one of the largest and more ambitious research projects dealing with medical imaging, artificial intelligence and cancer treatment in children. It is a 4-year European Commission-financed project that has 16 European partners in the consor... Read More about PRIMAGE project: predictive in silico multiscale analytics to support childhood cancer personalised evaluation empowered by imaging biomarkers.

The changing circumgalactic medium over the last 10 Gyr-I. Physical and dynamical properties (2020)
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Huscher, E., Oppenheimer, B. D., Lonardi, A., Crain, R. A., Richings, A. J., & Schaye, J. (2021). The changing circumgalactic medium over the last 10 Gyr-I. Physical and dynamical properties. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 500(1), 1476-1490. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3203

We present an analysis of the physical and dynamical states of two sets of EAGLE zoom simulations of galaxy haloes, one at high redshift (z = 2-3) and the other at low redshift (z = 0), with masses of ≈10^12 M. Our focus is how the circumgalactic med... Read More about The changing circumgalactic medium over the last 10 Gyr-I. Physical and dynamical properties.

The impact of disturbed galaxy clusters on the kinematics of active galactic nuclei (2020)
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Bilton, L. E., Pimbblet, K. A., & Gordon, Y. A. (2020). The impact of disturbed galaxy clusters on the kinematics of active galactic nuclei. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 499(3), 3792-3805. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3154

© 2020 The Author(s) We produce a kinematic analysis of AGN-hosting cluster galaxies from a sample of 33 galaxy clusters selected using the X-ray Clusters Database (BAX) and populated with galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 8. Th... Read More about The impact of disturbed galaxy clusters on the kinematics of active galactic nuclei.

A precise mass measurement of PSR J2045 + 3633 (2020)
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McKee, J. W., Freire, P. C., Berezina, M., Champion, D. J., Cognard, I., Graikou, E., …Theureau, G. (2020). A precise mass measurement of PSR J2045 + 3633. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 499(3), 4082-4096. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2994

We present the results of a timing analysis undertaken with the goal of obtaining an improved mass measurement of the recycled pulsar J2045 + 3633. Using regular high-cadence observations with the Effelsberg, Nançay, and Lovell radio telescopes, toge... Read More about A precise mass measurement of PSR J2045 + 3633.

Measuring interstellar delays of PSR J0613-0200 over 7 yr, using the Large European Array for Pulsars (2020)
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Main, R. A., Sanidas, S. A., Antoniadis, J., Bassa, C., Chen, S., Cognard, I., …Zhu, W. W. (2020). Measuring interstellar delays of PSR J0613-0200 over 7 yr, using the Large European Array for Pulsars. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 499(1), 1468-1479. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2955

Using data from the Large European Array for Pulsars, and the Effelsberg telescope, we study the scintillation parameters of the millisecond pulsar PSR J0613-0200 over a 7 yr timespan. The 'secondary spectrum' - the 2D power spectrum of scintillation... Read More about Measuring interstellar delays of PSR J0613-0200 over 7 yr, using the Large European Array for Pulsars.

Impact of dams and climate change on suspended sediment flux to the Mekong delta (2020)
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Bussi, G., Darby, S. E., Whitehead, P. G., Jin, L., Dadson, S. J., Voepel, H. E., Vasilopoulos, G., Hackney, C. R., Hutton, C., Berchoux, T., Parsons, D. R., & Nicholas, A. (2021). Impact of dams and climate change on suspended sediment flux to the Mekong delta. The Science of the total environment, 755(1), Article 142468. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142468

The livelihoods of millions of people living in the world's deltas are deeply interconnected with the sediment dynamics of these deltas. In particular a sustainable supply of fluvial sediments from upstream is critical for ensuring the fertility of d... Read More about Impact of dams and climate change on suspended sediment flux to the Mekong delta.

Reproducing the CO-to-H2 conversion factor in cosmological simulations of Milky-Way-mass galaxies (2020)
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Keating, L. C., Richings, A. J., Murray, N., Faucher-Giguère, C. A., Hopkins, P. F., Wetzel, A., …Orr, M. E. (2020). Reproducing the CO-to-H2 conversion factor in cosmological simulations of Milky-Way-mass galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 499(1), 837-850. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2839

We present models of CO(1-0) emission from Milky-Way-mass galaxies at redshift zero in the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations. We calculate the molecular abundances by post-processing the simulations with an equilibrium chemistry solver while ac... Read More about Reproducing the CO-to-H2 conversion factor in cosmological simulations of Milky-Way-mass galaxies.

Pressure balance in the multiphase ISM of cosmologically simulated disc galaxies (2020)
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Gurvich, A. B., Faucher-Giguère, C. A., Richings, A. J., Hopkins, P. F., Grudić, M. Y., Hafen, Z., …Murray, N. (2020). Pressure balance in the multiphase ISM of cosmologically simulated disc galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 498(3), 3664-3683. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2578

Pressure balance plays a central role in models of the interstellar medium (ISM), but whether and how pressure balance is realized in a realistic multiphase ISM is not yet well understood. We address this question by using a set of FIRE-2 cosmologica... Read More about Pressure balance in the multiphase ISM of cosmologically simulated disc galaxies.

A pulsar-based time-scale from the International Pulsar Timing Array (2019)
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Hobbs, G., Guo, L., Caballero, R. N., Coles, W., Lee, K. J., Manchester, R. N., …Zhu, X. J. (2020). A pulsar-based time-scale from the International Pulsar Timing Array. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 491(4), 5951-5965. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3071

We have constructed a new time-scale, TT(IPTA16), based on observations of radio pulsars presented in the first data release from the International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA). We used two analysis techniques with independent estimates of the noise mo... Read More about A pulsar-based time-scale from the International Pulsar Timing Array.

The rotational profiles of cluster galaxies (2019)
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Bilton, L. E., Hunt, M., Pimbblet, K. A., & Roediger, E. (2019). The rotational profiles of cluster galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 490(4), 5017-5032. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2927

© 2019 The Author(s) We compile two samples of cluster galaxies with complimentary hydrodynamic and N-body analysis using FLASH code to ascertain how their differing populations drive their rotational profiles and to better understand their dynamical... Read More about The rotational profiles of cluster galaxies.

The International Pulsar Timing Array: second data release (2019)
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Perera, B. B., DeCesar, M. E., Demorest, P. B., Kerr, M., Lentati, L., Nice, D. J., …Zhu, X. J. (2019). The International Pulsar Timing Array: second data release. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 490(4), 4666-4687. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2857

In this paper, we describe the International Pulsar Timing Array second data release, which includes recent pulsar timing data obtained by three regional consortia: the European Pulsar Timing Array, the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravit... Read More about The International Pulsar Timing Array: second data release.

Lexicon-based bot-aware public emotion mining and sentiment analysis of the Nigerian 2019 presidential election on Twitter (2019)
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Fagbola, T. M., & Thakur, S. C. (2019). Lexicon-based bot-aware public emotion mining and sentiment analysis of the Nigerian 2019 presidential election on Twitter. International journal of advanced computer science and applications : IJACSA, 10(10), 329-336. https://doi.org/10.14569/ijacsa.2019.0101047

Online social networks have been widely engaged as rich potential platforms to predict election outcomes' in several countries of the world. The vast amount of readily-available data on such platforms, coupled with the emerging power of natural langu... Read More about Lexicon-based bot-aware public emotion mining and sentiment analysis of the Nigerian 2019 presidential election on Twitter.

News article classification using Kolmogorov complexity distance measure and artificial neural network (2019)
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Fagbola, T. M., Thakur, C. S., & Olugbara, O. (2019). News article classification using Kolmogorov complexity distance measure and artificial neural network. International Journal of Technology, 10(4), 710-720. https://doi.org/10.14716/ijtech.v10i4.2339

News article classification is a recently growing area of interest in text classification because of its associated multiple matching categories. However, the weak reliability indices and ambiguities associated with state-of-the-art classifiers often... Read More about News article classification using Kolmogorov complexity distance measure and artificial neural network.

Water quality modelling of the Mekong River basin: climate change and socioeconomics drive flow and nutrient flux changes to the Mekong Delta (2019)
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Whitehead, P. G., Jin, L., Bussi, G., Voepel, H. E., Darby, S. E., Vasilopoulos, G., Manley, R., Rodda, H., Hutton, C., Hackney, C., Tri, V. P. D., & Hung, N. N. (2019). Water quality modelling of the Mekong River basin: climate change and socioeconomics drive flow and nutrient flux changes to the Mekong Delta. The Science of the total environment, 673, 218-229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.03.315

The Mekong delta is recognised as one of the world's most vulnerable mega-deltas, being subject to a range of environmental pressures including sea level rise, increasing population, and changes in flows and nutrients from its upland catchment. With... Read More about Water quality modelling of the Mekong River basin: climate change and socioeconomics drive flow and nutrient flux changes to the Mekong Delta.

Can VEGFC Form Turing Patterns in the Zebrafish Embryo? (2019)
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Wertheim, K. Y., & Roose, T. (2019). Can VEGFC Form Turing Patterns in the Zebrafish Embryo?. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 81(4), 1201-1237. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-018-00560-2

This paper is concerned with a late stage of lymphangiogenesis in the trunk of the zebrafish embryo. At 48 hours post-fertilisation (HPF), a pool of parachordal lymphangioblasts (PLs) lies in the horizontal myoseptum. Between 48 and 168 HPF, the PLs... Read More about Can VEGFC Form Turing Patterns in the Zebrafish Embryo?.