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Galactic archaeology and minimum spanning trees (2015)
Book Chapter
MacFarlane, B. A., Gibson, B. K., & Flynn, C. M. L. (2015). Galactic archaeology and minimum spanning trees. In I. Skillen, M. Balcells, & S. Trager (Eds.), Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: Big Questions, Large Surveys, and Wide Fields (79-83). Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Chemical tagging of stellar debris from disrupted open clusters and associations underpins the science cases for next-generation multi-object spectroscopic surveys. As part of the Galactic Archaeology project TraCD (Tracking Cluster Debris), a prelim... Read More about Galactic archaeology and minimum spanning trees.

s-process production in rotating massive stars at solar and low metallicities (2015)
Journal Article
Frischknecht, U., Hirschi, R., Pignatari, M., Maeder, A., Meynet, G., Chiappini, C., Thielemann, F.-K., Rauscher, T., Georgy, C., & Ekström, S. (2016). s-process production in rotating massive stars at solar and low metallicities. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456(2), 1803-1825. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2723

Rotation was shown to have a strong impact on the structure and light element nucleosynthesis in massive stars. In particular, models including rotation can reproduce the primary nitrogen observed in halo extremely metal poor (EMP) stars. Additional... Read More about s-process production in rotating massive stars at solar and low metallicities.

The z < 1.2 optical luminosity function from a sample of ∼410,000 galaxies in Boötes (2015)
Journal Article
Beare, R., Brown, M. J. I., Pimbblet, K., Bian, F., & Lin, Y.-T. (2015). The z < 1.2 optical luminosity function from a sample of ∼410,000 galaxies in Boötes. The Astrophysical journal, 815(2), https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/815/2/94

Using a sample of ~410,000 galaxies to a depth of IAB=24 over 8.26 deg2 in the Boötes field (~10 times larger than the z~1 luminosity function (LF) studies in the prior literature), we have accurately measured the evolving B-band LF of red galaxies a... Read More about The z < 1.2 optical luminosity function from a sample of ∼410,000 galaxies in Boötes.

Modern yields per stellar generation: the effect of the IMF (2015)
Journal Article
Vincenzo, F., Matteucci, F., Belfiore, F., & Maiolino, R. (2016). Modern yields per stellar generation: the effect of the IMF. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(4), 4183–4190. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2598

Gaseous and stellar metallicities in galaxies are nowadays routinely used to constrain the evolutionary processes in galaxies. This requires the knowledge of the average yield per stellar generation, $y_{\text{Z}}$, i.e. the quantity of metals that a... Read More about Modern yields per stellar generation: the effect of the IMF.

H ingestion into He-burning convection zones in super-AGB stellar models as a potential site for intermediate neutron-density nucleosynthesis (2015)
Journal Article
Jones, S., Ritter, C., Herwig, F., Fryer, C., Pignatari, M., Bertolli, M. G., & Paxton, B. (2016). H ingestion into He-burning convection zones in super-AGB stellar models as a potential site for intermediate neutron-density nucleosynthesis. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(4), 3848-3863. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2488

We investigate the evolution of super-AGB (SAGB) thermal pulse (TP) stars for a range of metallicities (Z) and explore the effect of convective boundary mixing (CBM). With decreasing metallicity and evolution along the TP phase, the He-shell flash an... Read More about H ingestion into He-burning convection zones in super-AGB stellar models as a potential site for intermediate neutron-density nucleosynthesis.

Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): Panchromatic data release (far-UV-far-IR) and the low-z energy budget (2015)
Journal Article
Driver, S. P., Wright, A. H., Andrews, S. K., Davies, L. J., Kafle, P. R., Lange, R., Moffett, A. J., Mannering, E., Robotham, A. S. G., Vinsen, K., Alpaslan, M., Andrae, E., Baldry, I. K., Bauer, A. E., Bamford, S. P., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Bourne, N., Brough, S., Brown, M. J. I., Cluver, M. E., …Williams, R. (2016). Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): Panchromatic data release (far-UV-far-IR) and the low-z energy budget. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(4), 3911-3942. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2505

We present the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) Panchromatic Data Release (PDR) constituting over 230 deg2 of imaging with photometry in 21 bands extending from the far-UV to the far-IR. These data complement our spectroscopic campaign of over 300k ga... Read More about Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): Panchromatic data release (far-UV-far-IR) and the low-z energy budget.

Jellyfish: The origin and distribution of extreme ram-pressure stripping events in massive galaxy clusters (2015)
Journal Article
McPartland, C., Ebeling, H., Roediger, E., & Blumenthal, K. (2016). Jellyfish: The origin and distribution of extreme ram-pressure stripping events in massive galaxy clusters. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(3), 2994-3008. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2508

We investigate the observational signatures and physical origin of ram-pressure stripping (RPS) in 63 massive galaxy clusters at z = 0.3–0.7, based on images obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. Using a training set of a dozen ‘jellyfish’ galaxi... Read More about Jellyfish: The origin and distribution of extreme ram-pressure stripping events in massive galaxy clusters.

Feedback from massive stars and gas expulsion from proto-globular clusters (2015)
Journal Article
Calura, F., Few, C. G., Romano, D., & D'Ercole, A. (2015). Feedback from massive stars and gas expulsion from proto-globular clusters. Astrophysical journal. Letters, 814(1), Article ARTN L14. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/814/1/L14

© 2015. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Globular clusters (GCs) are considerably more complex structures than previously thought, harboring at least two stellar generations that present clearly distinct chemical abundances. Sc... Read More about Feedback from massive stars and gas expulsion from proto-globular clusters.

On the generation of hydrodynamic shocks by mixed beams and occurrence of sunquakes in flares (2015)
Journal Article
Zharkov, S., & Zharkova, V. (2015). On the generation of hydrodynamic shocks by mixed beams and occurrence of sunquakes in flares. Solar Physics, 290(11), 3163-3188. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-015-0813-x

Observations of solar flares with sunquakes by space- and ground-based instruments reveal essentially different dynamics of seismic events in different flares. Some sunquakes are found to be closely associated with the locations of hard X-ray (HXR) a... Read More about On the generation of hydrodynamic shocks by mixed beams and occurrence of sunquakes in flares.

A statistical correlation of sunquakes based on their seismic and white-light emission (2015)
Journal Article
Buitrago-Casas, J. C., Martínez Oliveros, J. C., Lindsey, C., Calvo-Mozo, B., Krucker, S., Glesener, L., & Zharkov, S. (2015). A statistical correlation of sunquakes based on their seismic and white-light emission. Solar Physics, 290(11), 3151-3162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-015-0786-9

Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the transient seismic emission, i.e. “sunquakes,” from some solar flares. Some theories associate high-energy electrons and/or white-light emission with sunquakes. High-energy charged particles and the... Read More about A statistical correlation of sunquakes based on their seismic and white-light emission.

Optimal electron, phonon, and magnetic characteristics for low energy thermally induced magnetization switching (2015)
Journal Article
Atxitia, U., Ostler, T. A., Chantrell, R. W., & Chubykalo-Fesenko, O. (2015). Optimal electron, phonon, and magnetic characteristics for low energy thermally induced magnetization switching. Applied physics letters, 107(19), Article 192402. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935416

Using large-scale computer simulations, we thoroughly study the minimum energy required to thermally induced magnetization switching (TIMS) after the application of a femtosecond heat pulse in transition metal-rare earth ferrimagnetic alloys. We find... Read More about Optimal electron, phonon, and magnetic characteristics for low energy thermally induced magnetization switching.

Localized surface plasmon effects in ZnO sandwiched gold nanoparticles under fs pumping (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bongu, S. R., Bisht, P. B., Namboodri, R. C., Ali, S. A., Kelly, T. J., Costello, J. T., Patra, A., & Kasiviswanathan, S. (2015, October). Localized surface plasmon effects in ZnO sandwiched gold nanoparticles under fs pumping. Presented at 2015 IEEE Photonics Conference, IPC 2015

Nonlinear optical properties of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) embedded ZnO thin films have been studied at 400 nm. While the AuNPs thin film shows the effect of saturable absorption, AuNPs embedded ZnO film exhibits the RSA behaviour.

Deep Chandra observation and numerical studies of the nearest cluster cold front in the sky (2015)
Journal Article
Werner, N., ZuHone, J. A., Zhuravleva, I., Ichinohe, Y., Simionescu, A., Allen, S. W., Markevitch, M., Fabian, A. C., Keshet, U., Roediger, E., Ruszkowski, M., & Sanders, J. S. (2016). Deep Chandra observation and numerical studies of the nearest cluster cold front in the sky. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(1), 846-858. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2358

We present the results of a very deep (500 ks) Chandra observation, along with tailored numerical simulations, of the nearest, best resolved cluster cold front in the sky, which lies 90 kpc (19 arcmin) to the north-west of M 87. The northern part of... Read More about Deep Chandra observation and numerical studies of the nearest cluster cold front in the sky.

Vibrational signature of a single water molecule adsorbed on Pt(111): toward a reliable anharmonic description (2015)
Journal Article
Benoit, D. M. (2015). Vibrational signature of a single water molecule adsorbed on Pt(111): toward a reliable anharmonic description. The journal of physical chemistry. A, 119(47), 11583-11590. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.5b08543

In this study, we present a thorough benchmarking of our direct anharmonic vibrational variation-perturbation approach for adsorbed molecules on surfaces. We then use our method to describe the vibrational structure of a water molecule adsorbed on a... Read More about Vibrational signature of a single water molecule adsorbed on Pt(111): toward a reliable anharmonic description.

Heartbeat of the Sun from principal component analysis and prediction of solar activity on a millenium timescale (2015)
Journal Article
Zharkova, V. V., Shepherd, S. J., Popova, E., & Zharkov, S. I. (2015). Heartbeat of the Sun from principal component analysis and prediction of solar activity on a millenium timescale. Scientific reports, 5(1), Article ARTN 15689. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep15689

We derive two principal components (PCs) of temporal magnetic field variations over the solar cycles 21–24 from full disk magnetograms covering about 39% of data variance, with σ = 0.67. These PCs are attributed to two main magnetic waves travelling... Read More about Heartbeat of the Sun from principal component analysis and prediction of solar activity on a millenium timescale.

Frontier fields clusters: Chandra and JVLA view of the pre-merging cluster MACS J0416.1-2403 (2015)
Journal Article
Ogrean, G. A., Weeren, R. J., Jones, C., Clarke, T. E., Sayers, J., Mroczkowski, T., Nulsen, P. E. J., Forman, W., Murray, S. S., Pandey-Pommier, M., Randall, S., Churazov, E., Bonafede, A., Kraft, R., David, L., Andrade-Santos, F., Merten, J., Zitrin, A., Umetsu, K., Goulding, A., …Vikhlinin, A. (2015). Frontier fields clusters: Chandra and JVLA view of the pre-merging cluster MACS J0416.1-2403. The Astrophysical journal, 812(2), 153. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/812/2/153

Merging galaxy clusters leave long-lasting signatures on the baryonic and non-baryonic cluster constituents, including shock fronts, cold fronts, X-ray substructure, radio halos, and offsets between the dark matter (DM) and the gas components. Using... Read More about Frontier fields clusters: Chandra and JVLA view of the pre-merging cluster MACS J0416.1-2403.

Gold nanoparticles assembled with dithiocarbamate-anchored molecular wires (2015)
Journal Article
Reeler, N. E., Lerstrup, K. A., Somerville, W., Speder, J., Petersen, S. V., Laursen, B. W., Arenz, M., Qiu, X., Vosch, T., & Nørgaard, K. (2015). Gold nanoparticles assembled with dithiocarbamate-anchored molecular wires. Scientific reports, 5(1), Article 15273. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep15273

A protocol for the bottom-up self-assembly of nanogaps is developed through molecular linking of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). Two €-conjugated oligo(phenylene ethynylene) molecules (OPE) with dithiocarbamate anchoring groups are used as ligands for th... Read More about Gold nanoparticles assembled with dithiocarbamate-anchored molecular wires.

Boundary effects in finite size plasmonic crystals: Focusing and routing of plasmonic beams for optical communications (2015)
Journal Article
Benetou, M. I., Bouillard, J.-S., Segovia, P., Dickson, W., Thomsen, B. C., Bayvel, P., & Zayats, A. V. (2015). Boundary effects in finite size plasmonic crystals: Focusing and routing of plasmonic beams for optical communications. Nanotechnology, 26(44), Article ARTN 444001. https://doi.org/10.1088/0957-4484/26/44/444001

Plasmonic crystals, which consist of periodic arrangements of surface features at a metal-dielectric interface, allow the manipulation of optical information in the form of surface plasmon polaritons. Here we investigate the excitation and propagatio... Read More about Boundary effects in finite size plasmonic crystals: Focusing and routing of plasmonic beams for optical communications.

The sensitivity of harassment to orbit: Mass loss from early-type dwarfs in galaxy clusters (2015)
Journal Article
Smith, R., Sánchez-Janssen, R., Beasley, M. A., Candlish, G. N., Gibson, B. K., Puzia, T. H., Janz, J., Knebe, A., Aguerri, J. A., Lisker, T., Hensler, G., Fellhauer, M., Ferrarese, L., & Yi, S. K. (2015). The sensitivity of harassment to orbit: Mass loss from early-type dwarfs in galaxy clusters. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454(3), 2502-2516. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2082

We conduct a comprehensive numerical study of the orbital dependence of harassment on early-type dwarfs consisting of 168 different orbits within a realistic, Virgo-like cluster, varying in eccentricity and pericentre distance. We find harassment is... Read More about The sensitivity of harassment to orbit: Mass loss from early-type dwarfs in galaxy clusters.

Mn abundances in the stars of the Galactic disc with metallicities -1.0 < [Fe/H] < 0.3 (2015)
Journal Article
Mishenina, T., Gorbaneva, T. I., Pignatari, M., Thielemann, F.-K., & Korotin, S. (2015). Mn abundances in the stars of the Galactic disc with metallicities -1.0 < [Fe/H] < 0.3. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454(2), 1585-1594. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2038

In this work we present and discuss the observations of the Mn abundances for 247 FGK dwarfs, located in the Galactic disc with metallicity -1 < [Fe/H]< +0.3. The observed stars belong to the substructures of the Galaxy thick and thin discs, and to t... Read More about Mn abundances in the stars of the Galactic disc with metallicities -1.0 < [Fe/H] < 0.3.