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Chemical Cartography with APOGEE: Mapping Disk Populations with a Two-Process Model and Residual Abundances (2022)
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Weinberg, D. H., Holtzman, J. A., Johnson, J. A., Hayes, C., Hasselquist, S., Shetrone, M., …Zasowski, G. (2022). Chemical Cartography with APOGEE: Mapping Disk Populations with a Two-Process Model and Residual Abundances. The Astrophysical journal. Supplement series, 260(2), Article 32. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ac6028

We apply a novel statistical analysis to measurements of 16 elemental abundances in 34,410 Milky Way disk stars from the final data release (DR17) of APOGEE-2. Building on recent work, we fit median abundance ratio trends [X/Mg] vs. [Mg/H] with a 2-p... Read More about Chemical Cartography with APOGEE: Mapping Disk Populations with a Two-Process Model and Residual Abundances.

KiDS-1000: cosmic shear with enhanced redshift calibration (2022)
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Van Den Busch, J. L., Wright, A. H., Hildebrandt, H., Bilicki, M., Asgari, M., Joudaki, S., …Tröster, T. (in press). KiDS-1000: cosmic shear with enhanced redshift calibration. Astronomy and Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202142083

We present a cosmic shear analysis with an improved redshift calibration for the fourth data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000) using self-organising maps (SOMs). Compared to the previous analysis of the KiDS-1000 data, we expand the redsh... Read More about KiDS-1000: cosmic shear with enhanced redshift calibration.

Residual Abundances in GALAH DR3: Implications for Nucleosynthesis and Identification of Unique Stellar Populations (2022)
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Griffith, E. J., Weinberg, D. H., Buder, S., Johnson, J. A., Johnson, J. W., & Vincenzo, F. (2022). Residual Abundances in GALAH DR3: Implications for Nucleosynthesis and Identification of Unique Stellar Populations. The Astrophysical journal, 931(1), Article 23. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac5826

We investigate the [X/Mg] abundances of 16 elements for 82,910 Galactic disk stars from GALAH+ DR3. We fit the median trends of low-Ia and high-Ia populations with a two-process model, which describes stellar abundances in terms of a prompt core-coll... Read More about Residual Abundances in GALAH DR3: Implications for Nucleosynthesis and Identification of Unique Stellar Populations.

Pure-mode correlation functions for cosmic shear and application to KiDS-1000 (2022)
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Schneider, P., Asgari, M., Jozani, Y. N., Dvornik, A., Giblin, B., Harnois-Déraps, J., …Wright, A. H. (in press). Pure-mode correlation functions for cosmic shear and application to KiDS-1000. Astronomy and Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202142479

One probe for systematic effects in gravitational lensing surveys is the presence of so-called B modes in the cosmic shear two-point correlation functions, ξ ± (ϑ), since lensing is expected to produce only E-mode shear. Furthermore, there exist ambi... Read More about Pure-mode correlation functions for cosmic shear and application to KiDS-1000.

Using adsorption kinetics to assemble vertically aligned nanorods at liquid interfaces for metamaterial applications (2022)
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Morgan, S. O., Muravitskaya, A., Lowe, C., Adawi, A. M., Bouillard, J. G., Horozov, T. S., …Buzza, D. M. (2022). Using adsorption kinetics to assemble vertically aligned nanorods at liquid interfaces for metamaterial applications. Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP, 24, 11000-11013. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1cp05484h

Vertically aligned monolayers of metallic nanorods have a wide range of applications as metamaterials or in surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy. However the fabrication of such structures using current top-down methods or through assembly on solid su... Read More about Using adsorption kinetics to assemble vertically aligned nanorods at liquid interfaces for metamaterial applications.

Experimental evidence for the molecular molybdenum fluorides MoF to MoF6: a matrix isolation and DFT investigation (2022)
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Sakr, A., Snelling, H. V., & Young, N. A. (2022). Experimental evidence for the molecular molybdenum fluorides MoF to MoF6: a matrix isolation and DFT investigation. New journal of chemistry = Nouveau journal de chimie, 46(20), 9666-9684. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1nj06062g

All of the molecular molybdenum fluorides, MoF to MoF6, have been synthesised from the reaction of thermally evaporated molybdenum atoms with fluorine molecules and atoms, trapped in argon matrices, and characterised by matrix isolation IR spectrosco... Read More about Experimental evidence for the molecular molybdenum fluorides MoF to MoF6: a matrix isolation and DFT investigation.

Cosmology Intertwined: A Review of the Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Associated with the Cosmological Tensions and Anomalies (2022)
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Abdalla, E., Abellán, G. F., Aboubrahim, A., Agnello, A., Akarsu, Ö., Akrami, Y., …Zumalacárregui, M. (2022). Cosmology Intertwined: A Review of the Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Associated with the Cosmological Tensions and Anomalies. Journal of High Energy Astrophysics, 34, 49-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jheap.2022.04.002

The standard Λ Cold Dark Matter (ΛCDM) cosmological model provides a good description of a wide range of astrophysical and cosmological data. However, there are a few big open questions that make the standard model look like an approximation to a mor... Read More about Cosmology Intertwined: A Review of the Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Associated with the Cosmological Tensions and Anomalies.

Timescales and contribution of heating and helicity effect in helicity-dependent all- optical switching (2022)
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Li, G., Zheng, X., Wang, J., Lu, X., Wu, J., Cai, J., …Xu, Y. (in press). Timescales and contribution of heating and helicity effect in helicity-dependent all- optical switching. Rare Metals,

The manipulation of the magnetic direction by using the ultrafast laser pulse is attractive for its great advantages in terms of speed and energy efficiency for information storage applications. However, the heating and helicity effects induced by ci... Read More about Timescales and contribution of heating and helicity effect in helicity-dependent all- optical switching.

Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): Self-Organizing Map application on nearby galaxies (2022)
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Holwerda, B. W., Smith, D., Porter, L., Henry, C., Porter-Temple, R., Cook, K., …Grootes, M. W. (2022). Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): Self-Organizing Map application on nearby galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 513(2), 1972-1984. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac889

Galaxy populations show bimodality in a variety of properties: stellar mass, colour, specific star-formation rate, size, and Sérsic index. These parameters are our feature space. We use an existing sample of 7556 galaxies from the Galaxy and Mass Ass... Read More about Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): Self-Organizing Map application on nearby galaxies.

The dark matter halo masses of elliptical galaxies as a function of observationally robust quantities (2022)
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Sonnenfeld, A., Tortora, C., Hoekstra, H., Asgari, M., Bilicki, M., Heymans, C., …Wright, A. H. (in press). The dark matter halo masses of elliptical galaxies as a function of observationally robust quantities. Astronomy and Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202142511

Context. The assembly history of the stellar component of a massive elliptical galaxy is closely related to that of its dark matter halo. Measuring how the properties of galaxies correlate with their halo mass can therefore help to understand their e... Read More about The dark matter halo masses of elliptical galaxies as a function of observationally robust quantities.

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): The Weak Environmental Dependence of Quasar Activity at 0.1< z <0.35 (2022)
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Wethers, C. F., Acharya, N., De Propris, R., Kotilainen, J., Baldry, I. K., Brough, S., …Wright, A. H. (2022). Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): The Weak Environmental Dependence of Quasar Activity at 0.1< z

Understanding the connection between nuclear activity and galaxy environment remains critical in constraining models of galaxy evolution. By exploiting extensive catalogued data from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey, we identify a represent... Read More about Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): The Weak Environmental Dependence of Quasar Activity at 0.1< z <0.35.

Resilience of sloshing cold fronts against subsequent minor mergers (2022)
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Vaezzadeh, I., Roediger, E., Cashmore, C., Hunt, M., Zuhone, J., Forman, W., …Churazov, E. (2022). Resilience of sloshing cold fronts against subsequent minor mergers. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 514(1), 518-534. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac784

Minor mergers are common in galaxy clusters. They have the potential to create sloshing cold fronts (SCFs) in the intracluster medium of the cluster. However, the resilience of SCFs to subsequent minor mergers is unknown. Here we investigate the exte... Read More about Resilience of sloshing cold fronts against subsequent minor mergers.

The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar and APOGEE-2 Data (2022)
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Abdurro'uf, Accetta, K., Aerts, C., Silva Aguirre, V., Ahumada, R., Ajgaonkar, N., …Zhu, K. (2022). The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar and APOGEE-2 Data. The Astrophysical journal. Supplement series, 259(2), Article 35. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ac4414

This paper documents the seventeenth data release (DR17) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys; the fifth and final release from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). DR17 contains the complete release of the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (M... Read More about The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar and APOGEE-2 Data.

Comparison between Core-collapse Supernova Nucleosynthesis and Meteoric Stardust Grains: Investigating Magnesium, Aluminium, and Chromium (2022)
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Den Hartogh, J., Petö, M. K., Lawson, T., Sieverding, A., Brinkman, H., Pignatari, M., & Lugaro, M. (2022). Comparison between Core-collapse Supernova Nucleosynthesis and Meteoric Stardust Grains: Investigating Magnesium, Aluminium, and Chromium. The Astrophysical journal, 927(2), Article 220. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac4965

Isotope variations of nucleosynthetic origin among solar system solid samples are well documented, yet the origin of these variations is still uncertain. The observed variability of 54Cr among materials formed in different regions of the protoplaneta... Read More about Comparison between Core-collapse Supernova Nucleosynthesis and Meteoric Stardust Grains: Investigating Magnesium, Aluminium, and Chromium.

Persistent near-infrared photoconductivity of ZnO nanoparticles based on plasmonic hot charge carriers (2022)
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Ibrahem, M. A., Verrelli, E., Cheng, F., Adawi, A. M., Bouillard, J. S. G., & O'Neill, M. (2022). Persistent near-infrared photoconductivity of ZnO nanoparticles based on plasmonic hot charge carriers. Journal of applied physics, 131(10), Article 103103. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0079006

We report on the coupling of ZnO nanoparticles with plasmonic gold nanoislands in a solution-processed photodetector, which results in a clear enhancement in the optical absorption and the electrical responsivity of ZnO nanoparticles, to cover the vi... Read More about Persistent near-infrared photoconductivity of ZnO nanoparticles based on plasmonic hot charge carriers.

The KLEVER survey: Nitrogen abundances at z ∼2 and probing the existence of a fundamental nitrogen relation (2022)
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Hayden-Pawson, C., Curti, M., Maiolino, R., Cirasuolo, M., Belfiore, F., Cappellari, M., …Vincenzo, F. (in press). The KLEVER survey: Nitrogen abundances at z ∼2 and probing the existence of a fundamental nitrogen relation. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Article stac584. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac584

We present a comparison of the nitrogen-to-oxygen ratio (N/O) in 37 high-redshift galaxies at z ∼2 taken from the KMOS Lensed Emission Lines and VElocity Review (KLEVER) Survey with a comparison sample of local galaxies, taken from the Sloan Digital... Read More about The KLEVER survey: Nitrogen abundances at z ∼2 and probing the existence of a fundamental nitrogen relation.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Data Release 4 and the z < 0.1 total and z < 0.08 morphological galaxy stellar mass functions (2022)
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Driver, S. P., Bellstedt, S., Robotham, A. S. G., Baldry, I. K., Davies, L. J., Liske, J., …Wilkins, S. M. (2022). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Data Release 4 and the z < 0.1 total and z < 0.08 morphological galaxy stellar mass functions. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 513(1), 439-467. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac472

In Galaxy And Mass Assembly Data Release 4 (GAMA DR4), we make available our full spectroscopic redshift sample. This includes 248 682 galaxy spectra, and, in combination with earlier surveys, results in 330 542 redshifts across five sky regions cove... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Data Release 4 and the z < 0.1 total and z < 0.08 morphological galaxy stellar mass functions.

The Detection of a Massive Chain of Dark H i Clouds in the GAMA G23 Field (2022)
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Józsa, G. I., Jarrett, T. H., Cluver, M. E., Wong, O. I., Havenga, O., Yao, H. F., …Kuijken, K. (2022). The Detection of a Massive Chain of Dark H i Clouds in the GAMA G23 Field. The Astrophysical journal, 926(2), Article 167. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac402b

We report on the detection of a large, extended H i cloud complex in the Galaxy and Mass Survey G23 field, located at a redshift of z ∼0.03, observed as part of the MeerKAT Habitat of Galaxies Survey campaign (a pilot survey to explore the mosaicing... Read More about The Detection of a Massive Chain of Dark H i Clouds in the GAMA G23 Field.

Förster Resonance Energy Transfer Rate and Efficiency in Plasmonic Nanopatch Antennas (2022)
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Hamza, A. O., Bouillard, J. S. G., & Adawi, A. M. (in press). Förster Resonance Energy Transfer Rate and Efficiency in Plasmonic Nanopatch Antennas. Chemphotochem, https://doi.org/10.1002/cptc.202100285

Successful control of Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) through the engineering of the local density of optical states (LDOS) will allow us to develop novel strategies to fully exploit this phenomenon in key enabling technologies. Here we pres... Read More about Förster Resonance Energy Transfer Rate and Efficiency in Plasmonic Nanopatch Antennas.

The RADIOSTAR Project (2022)
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Lugaro, M., Côté, B., Pignatari, M., Yagüe López, A., Brinkman, H., Cseh, B., …Világos, B. (2022). The RADIOSTAR Project. Universe, 8(2), Article 130. https://doi.org/10.3390/universe8020130

Radioactive nuclei are the key to understanding the circumstances of the birth of our Sun because meteoritic analysis has proven that many of them were present at that time. Their origin, however, has been so far elusive. The ERC-CoG-2016 RADIOSTAR p... Read More about The RADIOSTAR Project.