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Amine catalysis for the organocatalytic diboration of challenging alkenes (2016)
Journal Article
Farre, A., Soares, K., Briggs, R. A., Balanta, A., Benoit, D. M., & Bonet, A. (2016). Amine catalysis for the organocatalytic diboration of challenging alkenes. Chemistry: a European journal, 22(49), 17552-17556. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201603979

© 2016 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim The generation of in situ sp 2 –sp 3 diboron adducts has revolutionised the synthesis of organoboranes. Organocatalytic diboration reactions have represented a milestone in terms of unpredictable re... Read More about Amine catalysis for the organocatalytic diboration of challenging alkenes.

Measuring the 2D baryon acoustic oscillation signal of galaxies in WiggleZ: cosmological constraints (2016)
Journal Article
Hinton, S. R., Kazin, E., Davis, T. M., Blake, C., Brough, S., Colless, M., Couch, W. J., Drinkwater, M. J., Glazebrook, K., Jurek, R. J., Parkinson, D., Pimbblet, K. A., Poole, G. B., Pracy, M., & Woods, D. (2017). Measuring the 2D baryon acoustic oscillation signal of galaxies in WiggleZ: cosmological constraints. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(4), 4807-4822. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2725

© 2016 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. We present results from the 2D anisotropic baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal present in the final data set from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Surve... Read More about Measuring the 2D baryon acoustic oscillation signal of galaxies in WiggleZ: cosmological constraints.

A simple, low cost interferometric autocorrelator with no moving parts (2016)
Journal Article
Kelly, T. J., Davitt, S. J., & Costello, J. T. (2016). A simple, low cost interferometric autocorrelator with no moving parts. Measurement Science and Technology, 27(11), 117003. https://doi.org/10.1088/0957-0233/27/11/117003

The design and implementation of a low cost interferometric autocorrelator with no moving parts is discussed. It is found that the device is optically simple, uses low cost components and self aligns. The device is used to measure the interferometric... Read More about A simple, low cost interferometric autocorrelator with no moving parts.

Stellar yields and abundances: new directions from planetary nebulae (2016)
Journal Article
Lugaro, M., Karakas, A. I., Pignatari, M., & Doherty, C. L. (2016). Stellar yields and abundances: new directions from planetary nebulae. IAU symposium and colloquium proceedings series / International Astronomical Union. Symposium, 12(S323), 86-94. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1743921317001247

Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2017. Planetary nebulae retain the signature of the nucleosynthesis and mixing events that occurred during the previous AGB phase. Observational signatures complement observations of AGB and post-AGB stars... Read More about Stellar yields and abundances: new directions from planetary nebulae.

HI4PI: A full-sky Hi survey based on EBHIS and GASS (2016)
Journal Article
Ben Bekhti, N., Flöer, L., Keller, R., Kerp, J., Lenz, D., Winkel, B., Bailin, J., Calabretta, M. R., Dedes, L., Ford, H. A., Gibson, B. K., Haud, U., Janowiecki, S., Kalberla, P. M. W., Lockman, F. J., McClure-Griffiths, N. M., Murphy, T., Nakanishi, H., Pisano, D. J., Staveley-Smith, L., & HI4PI Collaboration:. (2016). HI4PI: A full-sky Hi survey based on EBHIS and GASS. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 594, A116. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629178

© 2016 ESO. Context. Measurement of the Galactic neutral atomic hydrogen (H i) column density, NH i, and brightness temperatures, TB, is of high scientific value for a broad range of astrophysical disciplines. In the past two decades, one of the most... Read More about HI4PI: A full-sky Hi survey based on EBHIS and GASS.

Looking for imprints of the first stellar generations in metal-poor bulge field stars (2016)
Journal Article
Chiappini, C., Freeman, K., Ness, M., Depagne, E., Cantelli, E., Hirschi, R., Frischknecht, U., Maeder, A., Pignatari, M., Barbuy, B., Cantelli, E. W. C., Chiappini, C., Depagne, É., Freeman, K., Frischknecht, U., Hirschi, R., Maeder, A., Meynet, G., Ness, M., & Siqueira-Mello, C. (2016). Looking for imprints of the first stellar generations in metal-poor bulge field stars. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 593, A79-1-A79-16. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628104

© 2016 ESO. Context. Efforts to look for signatures of the first stars have concentrated on metal-poor halo objects. However, the low end of the bulge metallicity distribution has been shown to host some of the oldest objects in the Milky Way and hen... Read More about Looking for imprints of the first stellar generations in metal-poor bulge field stars.

The Large Area Radio Galaxy Evolution Spectroscopic Survey (LARGESS): survey design, data catalogue and GAMA/WiggleZ spectroscopy (2016)
Journal Article
Ching, J. H., Sadler, E. M., Croom, S. M., Johnston, H. M., Pracy, M. B., Couch, W. J., Hopkins, A. M., Jurek, R. J., & Pimbblet, K. A. (2017). The Large Area Radio Galaxy Evolution Spectroscopic Survey (LARGESS): survey design, data catalogue and GAMA/WiggleZ spectroscopy. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(2), 1306-1332. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2396

© 2016 The Authors. We present the Large Area Radio Galaxy Evolution Spectroscopic Survey (LARGESS), a spectroscopic catalogue of radio sources designed to include the full range of radio AGN populations out to redshift z ~ 0.8. The catalogue covers... Read More about The Large Area Radio Galaxy Evolution Spectroscopic Survey (LARGESS): survey design, data catalogue and GAMA/WiggleZ spectroscopy.

Impacts of a flaring star-forming disc and stellar radial mixing on the vertical metallicity gradient (2016)
Journal Article
Kawata, D., Grand, R. J. J., Gibson, B. K., Casagrande, L., Hunt, J. A. S., & Brook, C. B. (2017). Impacts of a flaring star-forming disc and stellar radial mixing on the vertical metallicity gradient. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(1), 702-712. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2363

Using idealized N-body simulations of a Milky Way-sized disc galaxy, we qualitatively study how the metallicity distributions of the thin disc star particles are modified by the formation of the bar and spiral arm structures. The thin disc in our num... Read More about Impacts of a flaring star-forming disc and stellar radial mixing on the vertical metallicity gradient.

Near-ultraviolet signatures of environment-driven galaxy quenching in Sloan Digital Sky Survey groups (2016)
Journal Article
Crossett, J. P., Pimbblet, K. A., Jones, D. H., Brown, M. J., & Stott, J. P. (2017). Near-ultraviolet signatures of environment-driven galaxy quenching in Sloan Digital Sky Survey groups. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(1), 480-490. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2228

© 2016 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. We have investigated the effect of group environment on residual star formation in galaxies, using Galaxy Evolution Explorer near-ultraviolet (NUV)... Read More about Near-ultraviolet signatures of environment-driven galaxy quenching in Sloan Digital Sky Survey groups.

Large dopant dependence of the current limiting properties of intrinsic conducting polymer surge protection devices (2016)
Journal Article
Jabarullah, N. H., Verrelli, E., Gee, A., Mauldin, C., Navarro, L. A., Golden, J. H., & Kemp, N. T. (in press). Large dopant dependence of the current limiting properties of intrinsic conducting polymer surge protection devices. RSC advances, 6(89), 85710-85717. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6ra18549e

New two terminal surge protection devices based on intrinsic conducting polymers are demonstrated to be strongly affected by the dopant molecule type. Thermogravimetric analysis combined with current–voltage studies show a causal link between the dop... Read More about Large dopant dependence of the current limiting properties of intrinsic conducting polymer surge protection devices.

The properties, origin and evolution of stellar clusters in galaxy simulations and observations (2016)
Journal Article
Dobbs, C. L., Adamo, A., Few, C. G., Calzetti, D., Dale, D. A., Elmegreen, B. G., Evans, A. S., Gouliermis, D. A., Grasha, K., Grebel, E. K., Johnson, K. E., Kim, H., Lee, J. C., Messa, M., Ryon, J. E., Smith, L. J., Thilker, D., Ubeda, L., & Whitmore, B. (2017). The properties, origin and evolution of stellar clusters in galaxy simulations and observations. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(3), 3580-3596. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2200

We investigate the properties and evolution of star particles in two simulations of isolated spiral galaxies, and two galaxies from cosmological simulations. Unlike previous numerical work, where typically each star particle represents one ‘cluster’,... Read More about The properties, origin and evolution of stellar clusters in galaxy simulations and observations.

Octahedral molybdenum cluster complexes with aromatic sulfonate ligands (2016)
Journal Article
Efremova, O. A., Vorotnikov, Y. A., Brylev, K. A., Vorotnikova, N. A., Novozhilov, I. N., Kuratieva, N. V., Edeleva, M. V., Benoit, D. M., Kitamura, N., Mironov, Y. V., Shestopalov, M. A., & Sutherland, A. J. (2016). Octahedral molybdenum cluster complexes with aromatic sulfonate ligands. Dalton Transactions : an international journal of inorganic chemistry, 45(39), 15427-15435. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6dt02863b

This article describes the synthesis, structures and systematic study of the spectroscopic and redox properties of a series of octahedral molybdenum metal cluster complexes with aromatic sulfonate ligands (ⁿBu₄N)₂[{Mo₆X₈}(OTs)₆] and (ⁿBu₄N)₂[{Mo₆X₈}(... Read More about Octahedral molybdenum cluster complexes with aromatic sulfonate ligands.

A search for an optical counterpart to the gravitational-wave event GW151226 (2016)
Journal Article
Smartt, S. J., Chambers, K. C., Smith, K. W., Huber, M. E., Young, D. R., Chen, T.-W., Inserra, C., Wright, D. E., Coughlin, M., Denneau, L., Flewelling, H., Heinze, A., Jerkstrand, A., Magnier, E. A., Maguire, K., Mueller, B., Rest, A., Sherstyuk, A., Stalder, B., Schultz, A. S. B., …Willman, M. (2016). A search for an optical counterpart to the gravitational-wave event GW151226. Astrophysical journal. Letters, 827(2), L40. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/827/2/l40

� 2016. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.. We present a search for an electromagnetic counterpart of the gravitational-wave source GW151226. Using the Pan-STARRS1 telescope we mapped out 290 square degrees in the optical iP1fi... Read More about A search for an optical counterpart to the gravitational-wave event GW151226.

NuGrid stellar data set. 1. Stellar yields from H to Bi for stars with metallicities Z=0.02 and Z=0.01 (2016)
Journal Article
Pignatari, M., Herwig, F., Hirschi, R., Bennett, M., Rockefeller, G., Fryer, C., X. Timmes, F., Ritter, C., Heger, A., Jones, S., Battino, U., Dotter, A., Trappitsch, R., Diehl, S., Frischknecht, U., Hungerford, A., Magkotsios, G., Travaglio, C., & Young, P. (2016). NuGrid stellar data set. 1. Stellar yields from H to Bi for stars with metallicities Z=0.02 and Z=0.01. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 225(2), Article ARTN 24. https://doi.org/10.3847/0067-0049/225/2/24

We provide a set of stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis calculations that applies established physics assumptions simultaneously to low- and intermediate-mass and massive star models. Our goal is to provide an internally consistent and comprehensiv... Read More about NuGrid stellar data set. 1. Stellar yields from H to Bi for stars with metallicities Z=0.02 and Z=0.01.

Integrated plasmonic circuitry on a vertical-cavity surface-emitting semiconductor laser platform (2016)
Journal Article
McPolin, C. P., Bouillard, J.-S., Vilain, S., Krasavin, A. V., Dickson, W., O'Connor, D., Wurtz, G. A., Justice, J., Corbett, B., & Zayats, A. V. (2016). Integrated plasmonic circuitry on a vertical-cavity surface-emitting semiconductor laser platform. Nature communications, 7, 12409. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12409

Integrated plasmonic sources and detectors are imperative in the practical development of plasmonic circuitry for bio- and chemical sensing, nanoscale optical information processing, as well as transducers for high-density optical data storage. Here... Read More about Integrated plasmonic circuitry on a vertical-cavity surface-emitting semiconductor laser platform.

Re-evaluation of the ¹⁶O(n, γ)¹⁷O cross section at astrophysical energies and its role as a neutron poison in the s-process (2016)
Journal Article
Mohr, P., Heinz, C., Pignatari, M., Dillmann, I., Mengoni, A., & Käppeler, F. (2016). Re-evaluation of the ¹⁶O(n, γ)¹⁷O cross section at astrophysical energies and its role as a neutron poison in the s-process. The Astrophysical journal, 827(1), Article ARTN 29. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/827/1/29

The doubly magic nucleus ¹⁶O has a small neutron-capture cross section of just a few tens of microbarns in the astrophysical energy region. Despite this, ¹⁶O plays an important role as a neutron poison in the astrophysical slow neutron capture (s) pr... Read More about Re-evaluation of the ¹⁶O(n, γ)¹⁷O cross section at astrophysical energies and its role as a neutron poison in the s-process.

A textbook example of ram-pressure stripping in the Hydra A/A780 cluster (2016)
Journal Article
Roediger, E., De Grandi, S., Eckert, D., Gaspari, M., Gastaldello, F., Ghizzardi, S., Girardi, M., Molendi, S., Nonino, M., & Rossetti, M. (2016). A textbook example of ram-pressure stripping in the Hydra A/A780 cluster. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 592, A154. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526641

In the current epoch, one of the main mechanisms driving the growth of galaxy clusters is the continuous accretion of group-scale halos. In this process, the ram pressure applied by the hot intracluster medium on the gas content of the infalling grou... Read More about A textbook example of ram-pressure stripping in the Hydra A/A780 cluster.

Geometrical structures of chemically decomposed thick and thin disk populations (2016)
Book Chapter
Kawata, D., Brook, C., Rahimi, A., & Gibson, B. (2017). Geometrical structures of chemically decomposed thick and thin disk populations.

We summarize the thick and thin disk formation commonly seen in cosmological N-body simulations. As suggested in Brook et al. (2004), a hierarchical clustering scenario causes multiple minor gas-rich mergers, and leads to the formation of a kinematic... Read More about Geometrical structures of chemically decomposed thick and thin disk populations.

Pan-STARRS and PESSTO search for an optical counterpart to the LIGO gravitational-wave source GW150914 (2016)
Journal Article
Smartt, S. J., Chambers, K. C., Smith, K. W., Huber, M. E., Young, D. R., Cappellaro, E., Wright, D. E., Coughlin, M., Schultz, A. S. B., Denneau, L., Flewelling, H., Heinze, A., Magnier, E. A., Primak, N., Rest, A., Sherstyuk, A., Stalder, B., Stubbs, C. W., Tonry, J., Waters, C., …Goggia, T. (2016). Pan-STARRS and PESSTO search for an optical counterpart to the LIGO gravitational-wave source GW150914. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 462(4), 4094-4116. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1893

We searched for an optical counterpart to the first gravitational wave source discovered by LIGO (GW150914), using a combination of the Pan-STARRS1 wide-field telescope and the PESSTO spectroscopic follow-up programme. As the final LIGO sky maps chan... Read More about Pan-STARRS and PESSTO search for an optical counterpart to the LIGO gravitational-wave source GW150914.

21 year timing of the black-widow pulsar J2051-0827 (2016)
Journal Article
Shaifullah, G., Verbiest, J. P., Freire, P. C., Tauris, T. M., Wex, N., Oslowski, S., …Tiburzi, C. (2016). 21 year timing of the black-widow pulsar J2051-0827. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 462(1), 1029-1038. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1737

Timing results for the black-widow pulsar J2051-0827 are presented, using a 21 year data set from four European Pulsar Timing Array telescopes and the Parkes radio telescope. This data set, which is the longest published to date for a black-widow sys... Read More about 21 year timing of the black-widow pulsar J2051-0827.