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The Taipan Galaxy Survey: Scientific Goals and Observing Strategy (2017)
Journal Article
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.

Uplift, Feedback, and Buoyancy: Radio Lobe Dynamics in NGC 4472 (2017)
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Gendron-Marsolais, M., Kraft, R. P., Bogdan, A., Hlavacek-Larrondo, J., Forman, W. R., Jones, C., Su, Y., Nulsen, P., Randall, S. W., & Roediger, E. (2017). Uplift, Feedback, and Buoyancy: Radio Lobe Dynamics in NGC 4472. The Astrophysical journal, 848(1), 26. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8a6f

© 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We present results from deep (380 ks) Chandra observations of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) outburst in the massive early-type galaxy NGC 4472. We detect cavities in the gas coincide... Read More about Uplift, Feedback, and Buoyancy: Radio Lobe Dynamics in NGC 4472.

Stripped elliptical galaxies as probes of ICM physics : III. Deep Chandra observation of NGC 4552 - Measuring the viscosity of the intracluster medium (2017)
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Kraft, R. P., Roediger, E., Machacek, M., Forman, W. R., Nulsen, P. E., Jones, C., Churazov, E., Randall, S., Su, Y., & Sheardown, A. (2017). Stripped elliptical galaxies as probes of ICM physics : III. Deep Chandra observation of NGC 4552 - Measuring the viscosity of the intracluster medium. The Astrophysical journal, 848(1), Article ARTN 27. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8a6e

We present results from a deep (200 ks) Chandra observation of the early-type galaxy NGC 4552 (M89) which is falling into the Virgo cluster. Previous shallower X-ray observations of this galaxy showed a remnant gas core, a tail to the South of the ga... Read More about Stripped elliptical galaxies as probes of ICM physics : III. Deep Chandra observation of NGC 4552 - Measuring the viscosity of the intracluster medium.

Ambiguous measurements, signaling, and violations of Leggett-Garg inequalities (2017)
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Emary, C. (2017). Ambiguous measurements, signaling, and violations of Leggett-Garg inequalities. Physical Review A, 96(4), Article 042102. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.96.042102

Ambiguous measurements do not reveal complete information about the system under test. Their quantum-mechanical counterparts are semiweak (or in the limit, weak) measurements and here we discuss their role in tests of the Leggett-Garg inequalities. W... Read More about Ambiguous measurements, signaling, and violations of Leggett-Garg inequalities.

Magnetic control of MOF crystal orientation and alignment (2017)
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Cheng, F., Marshall, E. S., Young, A. J., Robinson, P. J., Bouillard, J. S. G., Adawi, A. M., Vermeulen, N. A., Farha, O. K., Reithofer, M. R., & Chin, J. M. (2017). Magnetic control of MOF crystal orientation and alignment. Chemistry: a European journal, 23(62), 15578-15582. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201703812

Most metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) possess anisotropic properties, the full exploitation of which necessitates a general strategy for the controllable orientation of such MOF crystals. Current methods largely rely upon layer-by-layer MOF epitaxy or... Read More about Magnetic control of MOF crystal orientation and alignment.

Determining molecular orientation via single molecule SERS in a plasmonic nano-gap (2017)
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Marshall, A. R. L., Stokes, J., Viscomi, F. N., Proctor, J. E., Gierschner, J., Bouillard, J.-S. G., & Adawi, A. M. (2017). Determining molecular orientation via single molecule SERS in a plasmonic nano-gap. Nanoscale, 9(44), 17415-17421. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7NR05107G

In this work, plasmonic nano-gaps consisting of a silver nanoparticle coupled to an extended silver film have been fully optimized for single molecule Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) spectroscopy. The SERS signal was found to be strongly dep... Read More about Determining molecular orientation via single molecule SERS in a plasmonic nano-gap.

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.

Reply to comment on the paper “ on a role of quadruple component of magnetic field in defining solar activity in grand cycles” by Usoskin (2017) (2017)
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Zharkova, V., Popova, E., Shepherd, S., & Zharkov, S. (2018). Reply to comment on the paper “ on a role of quadruple component of magnetic field in defining solar activity in grand cycles” by Usoskin (2017). Journal of atmospheric and solar-terrestrial physics, 176, 72-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2017.09.019

In this communication we provide our answers to the comments by Usoskin (2017) on our recent paper (Popova et al, 2017a). We show that Principal Component Analysis (PCA) allows us to derive eigen vectors with eigen values assigned to variance of sola... Read More about Reply to comment on the paper “ on a role of quadruple component of magnetic field in defining solar activity in grand cycles” by Usoskin (2017).

Dual wavelength (ultraviolet and green) photodetectors using solution processed zinc oxide nanoparticles (2017)
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O'Neill, M., Ibrahem, M. A., Verrelli, E., Lai, K. T., Kyriakou, G., Lee, A. F., Isaacs, M. A., Cheng, F., & O’Neill, M. (2017). Dual wavelength (ultraviolet and green) photodetectors using solution processed zinc oxide nanoparticles. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9(42), 36971-36979. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b08092

Narrow-band photoconductivity with a spectral width of 0.16 eV is obtained from solution-processed colloidal ZnO nanocrystals beneath the band-edge at 2.25 eV. A new model involving electron transfer from deep defects to discrete shallow donors is in... Read More about Dual wavelength (ultraviolet and green) photodetectors using solution processed zinc oxide nanoparticles.

Metallicity gradient of the thick disc progenitor at high redshift (2017)
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Kawata, D., Prieto, C. A., Brook, C. B., Casagrande, L., Ciucă, I., Gibson, B. K., Grand, R. J. J., Hayden, M. R., & Hunt, J. A. S. (2018). Metallicity gradient of the thick disc progenitor at high redshift. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(1), 867-878. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2464

© 2017 The Authors. We have developed a novel Markov Chain Monte Carlo chemical 'painting' technique to explore possible radial and vertical metallicity gradients for the thick disc progenitor. In our analysis, we match an N-body simulation to the da... Read More about Metallicity gradient of the thick disc progenitor at high redshift.

The infall of the Virgo elliptical galaxy M60 toward M87 and the gaseous structures produced by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities (2017)
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Wood, R. A., Jones, C., Machacek, M. E., Forman, W. R., Bogdan, A., Andrade-Santos, F., Kraft, R. P., Paggi, A., & Roediger, E. (2017). The infall of the Virgo elliptical galaxy M60 toward M87 and the gaseous structures produced by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. The Astrophysical journal, 847(1), Article ARTN 79. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8723

We present Chandra observations of hot gas structures, characteristic of gas stripping during infall, in the Virgo cluster elliptical galaxy M60 (NGC4649) located 1 Mpc east of M87. 0.5−2 keV Chandra X-ray images show a sharp leading edge in the surf... Read More about The infall of the Virgo elliptical galaxy M60 toward M87 and the gaseous structures produced by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: matching chemodynamical simulations to observations of the Milky Way (2017)
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Thompson, B. B., Few, C. G., Bergemann, M., Gibson, B. K., MacFarlane, B. A., Serenelli, A., Gilmore, G., Randich, S., Vallenari, A., Alfaro, E. J., Bensby, T., Francois, P., Korn, A. J., Bayo, A., Carraro, G., Casey, A. R., Costado, M. T., Donati, P., Franciosini, E., Frasca, A., …Zaggia, S. (2018). The Gaia-ESO Survey: matching chemodynamical simulations to observations of the Milky Way. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(1), 185-197. https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STX2316

The typical methodology for comparing simulated galaxies with observational surveys is usually to apply a spatial selection to the simulation to mimic the region of interest covered by a comparable observational survey sample. In this work, we compar... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: matching chemodynamical simulations to observations of the Milky Way.

The C12(α,γ)O16 reaction and its implications for stellar helium burning (2017)
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reaction and its implications for stellar helium burning. Reviews of Modern Physics, 89(3), Article ARTN 035007. https://doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.89.035007

The creation of carbon and oxygen in our Universe is one of the forefront questions in nuclear astrophysics. The determination of the abundance of these elements is key to our understanding of both the formation of life on Earth and to the life cycle... Read More about The C12(α,γ)O16 reaction and its implications for stellar helium burning.

Galactic chemical evolution (2017)
Book Chapter
Mollá, M., Cavichia, O., Costa, R. D. D. D., Gibson, B. K., & Díaz, Á. I. (in press). Galactic chemical evolution. In Highlights of Spanish astrophysics IX. Sociedad Española de Astronomía

We analyze the evolution of oxygen abundance radial gradients resulting from our chemical evolution models calculated with different prescriptions for the star formation rate (SFR) and for the gas infall rate, in order to assess their respective role... Read More about Galactic chemical evolution.

Deep Chandra observations of the stripped galaxy group falling into Abell 2142 (2017)
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Eckert, D., Gaspari, M., Owers, M. S., Molendi, S., Gastaldello, F., Paltani, S., Ettori, S., Venturi, T., Rossetti, M., Rudnick, L., Roediger, E., Roediger, E., Eckert, D., Ettori, S., Gaspari, M., Gastaldello, F., Molendi, S., Owers, M., Paltani, S., Rossetti, M., …Venturi, T. (2017). Deep Chandra observations of the stripped galaxy group falling into Abell 2142. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 605(September), A25. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201730555

In the local Universe, the growth of massive galaxy clusters mainly operates through the continuous accretion of group-scale systems. The infalling group in Abell 2142 is the poster child of such an accreting group, and as such, it is an ideal target... Read More about Deep Chandra observations of the stripped galaxy group falling into Abell 2142.

Precise measurement of the thermal and stellar Fe 54 (n,γ) Fe 55 cross sections via accelerator mass spectrometry (2017)
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Wallner, A., Buczak, K., Belgya, T., Bichler, M., Coquard, L., Dillmann, I., Golser, R., Käppeler, F., Karakas, A., Kutschera, W., Lederer, C., Mengoni, A., Priller, A., Reifarth, R., Steier, P., Szentmiklosi, L., Kaeppeler, F., & Pignatari, M. (2017). Precise measurement of the thermal and stellar Fe 54 (n,γ) Fe 55 cross sections via accelerator mass spectrometry. Physical Review C, 96(2), Article ARTN 025808. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.96.025808

© 2017 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the a... Read More about Precise measurement of the thermal and stellar Fe 54 (n,γ) Fe 55 cross sections via accelerator mass spectrometry.

Theoretical study of the CO2 adsorption by Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks (ZIFs) (2017)
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Izzaouihda, S., Abou El Makarim, H., Benoit, D. M., & Komiha, N. (2017). Theoretical study of the CO2 adsorption by Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks (ZIFs). Journal of physical chemistry. C, 121(37), 20259-20265. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b04977

Density functional theory with Grimme's empirical correction, DFT-D3, has been used to examine the adsorption of a carbon dioxide molecule by different sets of zeolitic imidazolate framework materials (ZIF-1 to -4, -6 to -10, and -zni). We have calcu... Read More about Theoretical study of the CO2 adsorption by Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks (ZIFs).

Student difficulties regarding symbolic and graphical representations of vector fields (2017)
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Bollen, L., van Kampen, P., Baily, C., Kelly, M., & De Cock, M. (2017). Student difficulties regarding symbolic and graphical representations of vector fields. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 13(2), Article 020109. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.13.020109

The ability to switch between various representations is an invaluable problem-solving skill in physics. In addition, research has shown that using multiple representations can greatly enhance a person’s understanding of mathematical and physical con... Read More about Student difficulties regarding symbolic and graphical representations of vector fields.

Climbing the cosmic ladder with stellar twins in RAVE with Gaia (2017)
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Jofré, P., Traven, G., Hawkins, K., Gilmore, G., Sanders, J. L., Mädler, T., Steinmetz, M., Kunder, A., Kordopatis, G., McMillan, P., Bienaymé, O., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Gibson, B. K., Grebel, E. K., Munari, U., Navarro, J., Parker, Q., Reid, W., Seabroke, G., & Zwitter, T. (2017). Climbing the cosmic ladder with stellar twins in RAVE with Gaia. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 472(3), 2517-2533. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1877

© 2017 The Author. We apply the twin method to determine parallaxes to 232 545 stars of the RAVE survey using the parallaxes of Gaia DR1 as a reference. To search for twins in this large data set, we apply the t-student stochastic neighbour embedding... Read More about Climbing the cosmic ladder with stellar twins in RAVE with Gaia.

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.