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Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Linking star formation histories and stellar mass growth (2013)
Journal Article
Bauer, A. E., Hopkins, A. M., Gunawardhana, M., Taylor, E. N., Baldry, I., Bamford, S. P., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Brough, S., Brown, M. J. I., Cluver, M. E., Colless, M., Conselice, C. J., Croom, S., Driver, S., Foster, C., Jones, D. H., Lara-Lopez, M. A., Liske, J., López-Sánchez, Á. R., Loveday, J., …Sharp, R. (2013). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Linking star formation histories and stellar mass growth. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 434(1), 209-221. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1011

WWe present evidence for stochastic star formation histories in low-mass (M * < 10 10 M ⊙ ) galaxies from observations within the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. For ̃73 000 galaxies between 0.05 < z < 0.32, we calculate star formation ra... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Linking star formation histories and stellar mass growth.

Silicon carbide grains of type C provide evidence for the production of the unstable isotope ³²Si in supernovae (2013)
Journal Article
Pignatari, M., Zinner, E., G. Bertolli, M., Trappitsch, R., Hoppe, P., Rauscher, T., Fryer, C., Herwig, F., Hirschi, R., Timmes, F., & Thielemann, F.-K. (2013). Silicon carbide grains of type C provide evidence for the production of the unstable isotope ³²Si in supernovae. Astrophysical journal. Letters, 771(1), Article L7. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/771/1/L7

Carbon-rich grains are observed to condense in the ejecta of recent core-collapse supernovae (SNe) within a year after the explosion. Silicon carbide grains of type X are C-rich grains with isotopic signatures of explosive SN nucleosynthesis have bee... Read More about Silicon carbide grains of type C provide evidence for the production of the unstable isotope ³²Si in supernovae.

Can we detect local helioseismic parameter shifts in coronal holes? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Howe, R., Haber, D. A., Bogart, R. S., Zharkov, S., Baker, D., Harra, L., & Driel-Gesztelyi, L. V. Can we detect local helioseismic parameter shifts in coronal holes?

Changes in helioseismic mode parameters in active regions and across the solar disk are well documented, but local magnetic activity and geometric effects may not account for all of the scatter seen in the results. We use results from theHelioseismic... Read More about Can we detect local helioseismic parameter shifts in coronal holes?.

The structure of the melamine–cyanuric acid co-crystal (2013)
Journal Article
Prior, T. J., Armstrong, J. A., Benoit, D. M., & Marshall, K. L. (2013). The structure of the melamine–cyanuric acid co-crystal. CrystEngComm RSC, 15(29), 5838-5843. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3ce40709h

The crystal structure of the melamine:cyanuric acid (CA.M) adduct has been redetermined and the previously reported cell is shown to be incorrect. The true unit cell has approximately twice the volume of the earlier cell. Crystal data forCA.M: monocl... Read More about The structure of the melamine–cyanuric acid co-crystal.

The influence of the nematic phase on the phase separation of blended organic semiconductors for photovoltaics (2013)
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Myers, S. A., Al Kalifah, M. S., Lei, C., O'Neill, M., Kitney, S. P., & Kelly, S. M. (2013). The influence of the nematic phase on the phase separation of blended organic semiconductors for photovoltaics. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 116, 262-269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2013.05.006

Differential scanning calorimetry in combination with atomic force microscopy is used to examine the phase separation of a blended nematic liquid crystalline electron-donor and crystalline perylene electron-acceptor mixture. Separate domains of donor... Read More about The influence of the nematic phase on the phase separation of blended organic semiconductors for photovoltaics.

Constraining sub-grid physics with high-redshift spatially-resolved metallicity distributions (2013)
Journal Article
Gibson, B. K., Pilkington, K., Brook, C. B., Stinson, G. S., & Bailin, J. (2013). Constraining sub-grid physics with high-redshift spatially-resolved metallicity distributions. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 554, A47. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321239

Aims. We examine the role of energy feedback in shaping the distribution of metals within cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of L*disc galaxies. While negative abundance gradients today provide a boundary condition for galaxy evolution models, i... Read More about Constraining sub-grid physics with high-redshift spatially-resolved metallicity distributions.

Ultrafast dynamical path for the switching of a ferrimagnet after femtosecond heating (2013)
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Atxitia, U., Ostler, T., Barker, J., Evans, R. F., Chantrell, R. W., & Chubykalo-Fesenko, O. (2013). Ultrafast dynamical path for the switching of a ferrimagnet after femtosecond heating. Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics, 87(22), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.87.224417

Ultrafast laser-induced magnetic switching in rare earth-transition metal ferrimagnetic alloys has recently been reported to occur by ultrafast heating alone. Using atomistic simulations and a ferrimagnetic Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch formalism, we demonst... Read More about Ultrafast dynamical path for the switching of a ferrimagnet after femtosecond heating.

The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: constraining galaxy bias and cosmic growth with three-point correlation functions (2013)
Journal Article
Marín, F. A., Blake, C., Poole, G. B., McBride, C. K., Brough, S., Colless, M., Contreras, C., Couch, W., Croton, D. J., Croom, S., Davis, T., Drinkwater, M. J., Forster, K., Gilbank, D., Gladders, M., Glazebrook, K., Jelliffe, B., Jurek, R. J., Li, I.-H., Madore, B., …Yee, H. K. C. (2013). The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: constraining galaxy bias and cosmic growth with three-point correlation functions. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 432(4), 2654-2668. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt520

Higher order statistics are a useful and complementary tool for measuring the clustering of galaxies, containing information on the non-Gaussian evolution and morphology of large-scale structure in the Universe. In this work we present measurements o... Read More about The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: constraining galaxy bias and cosmic growth with three-point correlation functions.

On the internal pollution mechanisms in the globular cluster NGC 6121(M4): Heavy-element abundances and AGB models (2013)
Journal Article
D’Orazi, V., Campbell, S. W., Lugaro, M., Lattanzio, J. C., Pignatari, M., & Carretta, E. (2013). On the internal pollution mechanisms in the globular cluster NGC 6121(M4): Heavy-element abundances and AGB models. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 433(1), 366-381. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt728

Globular clusters display significant variations in their light-element content, pointing to the existence of a second stellar generation formed from the ejecta of an earlier generation. The nature of these internal polluters is still a matter of deb... Read More about On the internal pollution mechanisms in the globular cluster NGC 6121(M4): Heavy-element abundances and AGB models.

Measurement of the reaction 17O(α,n)20Ne and its impact on the s process in massive stars (2013)
Journal Article
Best, A., Beard, M., Görres, J., Couder, M., Deboer, R., Falahat, S., Güray, R. T., Kontos, A., Kratz, K.-L., Leblanc, P. J., Li, Q., O'Brien, S., Özkan, N., Pignatari, M., Sonnabend, K., Talwar, R., Tan, W., Uberseder, E., & Wiescher, M. (2013). Measurement of the reaction 17O(α,n)20Ne and its impact on the s process in massive stars. Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics, 87(4), Article 045805. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.87.045805

Background: The ratio between the rates of the reactions 17O ( α , n ) 20Ne and 17O ( α , γ ) 21Ne determines whether 16O is an efficient neutron poison for the s process in massive stars, or if most of the neutrons captured by 16O(n,γ) are recycled... Read More about Measurement of the reaction 17O(α,n)20Ne and its impact on the s process in massive stars.

Abundances of neutron-capture elements in stars of the Galactic disk substructures (2013)
Journal Article
Mishenina, T. V., Pignatari, M., Korotin, S. A., Soubiran, C., Charbonnel, C., Thielemann, F.-K., Gorbaneva, T. I., & Basak, N. Y. (2013). Abundances of neutron-capture elements in stars of the Galactic disk substructures. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 552, A128. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201220687

Aims. The aim of this work is to present and discuss the observations of the iron peak (Fe, Ni) and neutron-capture element (Y, Zr, Ba, La, Ce, Nd, Sm, and Eu) abundances for 276 FGK dwarfs, located in the Galactic disk with metallicity-1 < [Fe/H]... Read More about Abundances of neutron-capture elements in stars of the Galactic disk substructures.

Geometric properties of acoustic waves generated by a point source in the solar-like interior: Effects of acoustic cutoff frequency (2013)
Journal Article
Zharkov, S. (2013). Geometric properties of acoustic waves generated by a point source in the solar-like interior: Effects of acoustic cutoff frequency. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 431(4), 3414-3428. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt420

Acoustic waves generated by a point source in stratified plasma are considered in this paper. An analytical parametric solution for a monochromatic source is derived for the plane-parallel polytrope model of the solar interior. The solution is used t... Read More about Geometric properties of acoustic waves generated by a point source in the solar-like interior: Effects of acoustic cutoff frequency.

Analysis of rich inelastic electron tunneling spectra: Case study of terthiophene on Au(111) (2013)
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Koslowski, B., Maurer, N., Stocker, M., Chulkov, S. K., Benoit, D. M., & Ziemann, P. (2013). Analysis of rich inelastic electron tunneling spectra: Case study of terthiophene on Au(111). Review of scientific instruments, 84(4), 043907. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4803008

Even moderately small molecules like 2,2′:5′,2″- terthiophene exhibit quite rich vibrational spectra. Detection and assignment of vibronic transitions of such a single adsorbed molecule in inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy (IETS) using scanni... Read More about Analysis of rich inelastic electron tunneling spectra: Case study of terthiophene on Au(111).

Production of carbon-rich presolar grains from massive stars (2013)
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Pignatari, M., Wiescher, M., Timmes, F., De Boer, R. J., Thielemann, F. K., Fryer, C., Heger, A., Herwig, F., & Hirschi, R. (2013). Production of carbon-rich presolar grains from massive stars. Astrophysical journal. Letters, 767(2), Article L22. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/767/2/L22

About a year after core-collapse supernova, dust starts to condense in the ejecta. In meteorites, a fraction of C-rich presolar grains (e.g., silicon carbide (SiC) grains of Type-X and low density graphites) are identified as relics of these events,... Read More about Production of carbon-rich presolar grains from massive stars.

Photothermal colloid antibodies for shape-selective recognition and killing of microorganisms (2013)
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Borovička, J., Metheringham, W. J., Madden, L. A., Walton, C. D., Stoyanov, S. D., & Paunov, V. N. (2013). Photothermal colloid antibodies for shape-selective recognition and killing of microorganisms. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 135(14), 5282-5285. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja400781f

We have developed a class of selective antimicrobial agents based on the recognition of the shape and size of the bacterial cells. These agents are anisotropic colloid particles fabricated as negative replicas of the target cells which involve templa... Read More about Photothermal colloid antibodies for shape-selective recognition and killing of microorganisms.

Self-assembly of two-dimensional colloidal clusters by tuning the hydrophobicity, composition, and packing geometry (2013)
Journal Article
Law, A. D., Auriol, M., Smith, D., Horozov, T. S., & Buzza, D. M. A. (2013). Self-assembly of two-dimensional colloidal clusters by tuning the hydrophobicity, composition, and packing geometry. Physical review letters, 110(13), 0 - 0. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.110.138301

We study the structure of binary monolayers of large (3 m diameter) very hydrophobic (A) and large (3 m diameter) hydrophilic (B) or small (1 m diameter) hydrophilic (C) silica particles at an octanewater interface. By tuning the composition and pack... Read More about Self-assembly of two-dimensional colloidal clusters by tuning the hydrophobicity, composition, and packing geometry.

The stellar masses of ~40 000 uv selected galaxies from the wigglez survey at 0.3 < z < 1.0: Analogues of Lyman Break galaxies? (2013)
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Banerji, M., Glazebrook, K., Blake, C., Brough, S., Colless, M., Contreras, C., Couch, W., Croton, D. J., Croom, S., Davis, T. M., Drinkwater, M. J., Forster, K., Gilbank, D., Gladders, M., Jelliffe, B., Jurek, R. J., Li, I.-H., Madore, B., Martin, D. C., Pimbblet, K., …Yee, H. K. C. (2013). The stellar masses of ~40 000 uv selected galaxies from the wigglez survey at 0.3 < z < 1.0: Analogues of Lyman Break galaxies?. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 431(3), 2209-2229. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt320

We characterize the stellar masses and star formation rates in a sample of ̃40 000 spectroscopically confirmed UV-luminous galaxies at 0.3 < z < 1.0 selected from within theWiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. In particular, we match this UV bright population... Read More about The stellar masses of ~40 000 uv selected galaxies from the wigglez survey at 0.3 < z < 1.0: Analogues of Lyman Break galaxies?.

Investigation of the gate oxide leakage current of low temperature formed hafnium oxide films (2013)
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Verrelli, E., & Tsoukalas, D. (2013). Investigation of the gate oxide leakage current of low temperature formed hafnium oxide films. Journal of applied physics, 113(11), Article 114103. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4795278

In this work, low temperature physically deposited hafnium oxide films are investigated in terms of their electrical properties through measurements and analysis of leakage currents in order to understand the defects behavior in this dielectric mater... Read More about Investigation of the gate oxide leakage current of low temperature formed hafnium oxide films.

Using visualization for visualization : an ecological interface design approach to inputting data (2013)
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Wright, H., Mathers, C., & Walton, J. P. R. B. (2013). Using visualization for visualization : an ecological interface design approach to inputting data. Computers and Graphics, 37(3), 202-213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2013.01.013

Visualization is experiencing growing use by a diverse community, with continuing improvements in the availability and usability of systems. In spite of these developments the problem of how first to get the data in has received scant attention: the... Read More about Using visualization for visualization : an ecological interface design approach to inputting data.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): spectroscopic analysis (2013)
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Hopkins, A. M., Driver, S. P., Brough, S., Owers, M. S., Bauer, A. E., Gunawardhana, M. L. P., Cluver, M. E., Colless, M., Foster, C., Lara-López, M. A., Roseboom, I., Sharp, R., Steele, O., Thomas, D., Baldry, I. K., Brown, M. J. I., Liske, J., Norberg, P., Robotham, A. S. G., Bamford, S., …Wilkins, S. (2013). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): spectroscopic analysis. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 430(3), 2047-2066. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt030

The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey is a multiwavelength photometric and spectroscopic survey, using the AAOmega spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope to obtain spectra for up to ~300 000 galaxies over 280 deg2, to a limiting magnitud... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): spectroscopic analysis.