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Galactic chemical evolution of radioactive isotopes (2019)
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Côté, B., Lugaro, M., Reifarth, R., Pignatari, M., Világos, B., Yagüe, A., & Gibson, B. K. (2019). Galactic chemical evolution of radioactive isotopes. The Astrophysical journal, 878(2), Article 156. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab21d1

The presence of short-lived (∼ Myr) radioactive isotopes in meteoritic inclusions at the time of their formation represents a unique opportunity to study the circumstances that led to the formation of the Solar System. To interpret these observations... Read More about Galactic chemical evolution of radioactive isotopes.

The Effect of Interstitial Nitrogen Addition on the Structural Properties of Supercells of NdFe<inf>12-x</inf>Ti<inf>x</inf> (2019)
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Skelland, C., Ostler, T., Westmoreland, S. C., Evans, R. F., Chantrell, R. W., Yano, M., …Hrkac, G. (2019). The Effect of Interstitial Nitrogen Addition on the Structural Properties of Supercells of NdFe12-xTix. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 55(10), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMAG.2019.2920214

We investigated the effect of nitrogenation on 3 × 3 × 2 supercell structures of NdFe12-x Tix from x = 0.028 to x = 1.56 (0.2Ti at. % to 12Ti at. %). We used the molecular dynamics and Boltzmann probabilities to permeate titanium into NdFe12-x Tix ac... Read More about The Effect of Interstitial Nitrogen Addition on the Structural Properties of Supercells of NdFe<inf>12-x</inf>Ti<inf>x</inf>.

The effect of minor and major mergers on the evolution of low excitation radio galaxies (2019)
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Gordon, Y. A., Pimbblet, K. A., Kaviraj, S., Owers, M. S., O'Dea, C. P., Walmsley, M., Baum, S. A., Crossett, J. P., Fraser-Mckelvie, A., Lintott, C. J., & Pierce, J. C. (2019). The effect of minor and major mergers on the evolution of low excitation radio galaxies. The Astrophysical journal, 878(2), Article 88. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab203f

We use deep, μ r lesssim 28 mag arcsec−2, r-band imaging from the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey to search for past, or ongoing, merger activity in a sample of 282 low-excitation radio galaxies (LERGs) at z < 0.07. Our principal aim is to assess t... Read More about The effect of minor and major mergers on the evolution of low excitation radio galaxies.

Extended X-ray study of M49: The frontier of the Virgo cluster (2019)
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Su, Y., Kraft, R. P., Nulsen, P. E. J., Jones, C., Maccarone, T. J., Mernier, F., Lovisari, L., Sheardown, A., Randall, S. W., Roediger, E., Fish, T. M., Forman, W. R., & Churazov, E. (2019). Extended X-ray study of M49: The frontier of the Virgo cluster. Astronomical Journal, 158(1), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab1d51

The M49 group, residing outside the virial radius of the Virgo cluster, is falling onto the cluster from the south. We report results from deep XMM-Newton mosaic observations of M49. Its hot gas temperature is 0.8 keV at the group center and rises to... Read More about Extended X-ray study of M49: The frontier of the Virgo cluster.

Short-and medium-term exposure to ocean acidification reduces olfactory sensitivity in gilthead seabream (2019)
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Velez, Z., Roggatz, C. C., Benoit, D. M., Hardege, J., & Hubbard, P. C. (2019). Short-and medium-term exposure to ocean acidification reduces olfactory sensitivity in gilthead seabream. Frontiers in Physiology, 10, Article 731. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2019.00731

The effects of ocean acidification on fish are only partially understood. Studies on olfaction are mostly limited to behavioural
alterations of coral reef fish; studies on temperate species and/or with economic importance are scarce. The current stu... Read More about Short-and medium-term exposure to ocean acidification reduces olfactory sensitivity in gilthead seabream.

Percolation threshold enables optical resistive‐memory switching and light‐tuneable synaptic learning in segregated nanocomposites (2019)
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Jaafar, A. H., O'Neill, M., Kelly, S. M., Verrelli, E., & Kemp, N. T. (2019). Percolation threshold enables optical resistive‐memory switching and light‐tuneable synaptic learning in segregated nanocomposites. Advanced Electronic Materials, 5(7), Article 1900197. https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.201900197

An optical memristor where the electrical resistance memory depends on the history of both the current flowing through the device and the irradiance of incident light onto it is demonstrated. It is based on a nanocomposite consisting of functionalize... Read More about Percolation threshold enables optical resistive‐memory switching and light‐tuneable synaptic learning in segregated nanocomposites.

Using failed supernovae to constrain the Galactic r-process element production (2019)
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Wehmeyer, B., Wehmeyer, B., Fröhlich, C., Fröhlich, C., Côté, B., Côté, B., Pignatari, M., Pignatari, M., Thielemann, F.-K., & Thielemann, F. K. (2019). Using failed supernovae to constrain the Galactic r-process element production. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 487(2), 1745-1753. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1310

Rapid neutron capture process (r-process) elements have been detected in a large fraction of metal-poor halo stars, with abundances relative to iron (Fe) that vary by over two orders of magnitude. This scatter is reduced to less than a factor of 3 in... Read More about Using failed supernovae to constrain the Galactic r-process element production.

Correction to: Capillary Interaction and Self-Assembly of Tilted Magnetic Ellipsoidal Particles at Liquid Interfaces ((2018) 3:11 (14962?14972) DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b01818) (2019)
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Newton, B. J., Mohammed, R., Davies, G. B., Botto, L., & Buzza, D. M. A. (2019). Correction to: Capillary Interaction and Self-Assembly of Tilted Magnetic Ellipsoidal Particles at Liquid Interfaces ((2018) 3:11 (14962?14972) DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b01818). ACS Omega, 4(5), 8580. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.9b01239

© 2019 American Chemical Society. We would like to correct the following minor errors in the paper: Figure 3 legend: Blue data points should be ss sims, red data points should be tt sims, blue line should be ss elliptical, and red line should be tt e... Read More about Correction to: Capillary Interaction and Self-Assembly of Tilted Magnetic Ellipsoidal Particles at Liquid Interfaces ((2018) 3:11 (14962?14972) DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b01818).

The Fall of a Giant. Chemical evolution of Enceladus, alias the Gaia Sausage (2019)
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Vincenzo, F., Spitoni, E., Calura, F., Matteucci, F., Silva Aguirre, V., Miglio, A., & Cescutti, G. (2019). The Fall of a Giant. Chemical evolution of Enceladus, alias the Gaia Sausage. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 487(1), L47–L52. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slz070

We present the first chemical evolution model for Enceladus, alias the Gaia Sausage, to investigate the star formation history of one of the most massive satellites accreted by the Milky Way during a major merger event. Our best chemical evolution mo... Read More about The Fall of a Giant. Chemical evolution of Enceladus, alias the Gaia Sausage.

From ‘bathtub’ galaxy evolution models to metallicity gradients (2019)
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Belfiore, F., Vincenzo, F., Maiolino, R., & Matteucci, F. (2019). From ‘bathtub’ galaxy evolution models to metallicity gradients. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 487(1), 456-474. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1165

We model gas-phase metallicity radial profiles of galaxies in the local Universe by building on the ‘bathtub’ chemical evolution formalism – where a galaxy’s gas content is determined by the interplay between inflow, star formation, and outflows. In... Read More about From ‘bathtub’ galaxy evolution models to metallicity gradients.

The vibrational signatures of polyaromatic hydrocarbons on an ice surface (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Clark, V. H., & Benoit, D. M. The vibrational signatures of polyaromatic hydrocarbons on an ice surface. Presented at Symposium S350: Laboratory Astrophysics: From Observations to Interpretation, Cambridge, UK

© International Astronomical Union 2020. We use quantum chemical techniques to model the vibrational spectra of small aromatic molecules on a proton-ordered hexagonal crystalline water ice (XIh) model. We achieve a good agreement with experimental da... Read More about The vibrational signatures of polyaromatic hydrocarbons on an ice surface.

Probing the molecular orientation of a single conjugated polymer via nano-gap SERS (2019)
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Marshall, A. R. L., Roberts, M., Gierschner, J., Bouillard, J. S. G., & Adawi, A. M. (2019). Probing the molecular orientation of a single conjugated polymer via nano-gap SERS. ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 1(5), 1175-1180. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.9b00180

Determining the molecular orientation at the single molecule level is of key importance for a wide range of applications ranging from molecular electronic devices to biomedical applications. In this work surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) was u... Read More about Probing the molecular orientation of a single conjugated polymer via nano-gap SERS.

Neutron star mergers might not be the only source of r-process elements in the Milky Way (2019)
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Côté, B., Eichler, M., Arcones, A., Hansen, C. J., Simonetti, P., Frebel, A., Fryer, C. L., Pignatari, M., Reichert, M., Belczynski, K., & Matteucci, F. (2019). Neutron star mergers might not be the only source of r-process elements in the Milky Way. The Astrophysical journal, 875(2), 106. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab10db

Probing the origin of r-process elements in the universe represents a multidisciplinary challenge. We review the observational evidence that probes the properties of r-process sites, and address them using galactic chemical evolution simulations, bin... Read More about Neutron star mergers might not be the only source of r-process elements in the Milky Way.

Spin-current-mediated rapid magnon localisation and coalescence after ultrafast optical pumping of ferrimagnetic alloys (2019)
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Iacocca, E., Liu, T. M., Reid, A. H., Fu, Z., Ruta, S., Granitzka, P. W., Jal, E., Bonetti, S., Gray, A. X., Graves, C. E., Kukreja, R., Chen, Z., Higley, D. J., Chase, T., Le Guyader, L., Hirsch, K., Ohldag, H., Schlotter, W. F., Dakovski, G. L., Coslovich, G., …Dürr, H. A. (2019). Spin-current-mediated rapid magnon localisation and coalescence after ultrafast optical pumping of ferrimagnetic alloys. Nature communications, 10(1), Article 1756. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09577-0

Sub-picosecond magnetisation manipulation via femtosecond optical pumping has attracted wide attention ever since its original discovery in 1996. However, the spatial evolution of the magnetisation is not yet well understood, in part due to the diffi... Read More about Spin-current-mediated rapid magnon localisation and coalescence after ultrafast optical pumping of ferrimagnetic alloys.

H2, HD, and D2 in the small cage of structure II clathrate hydrate: vibrational frequency shifts from fully coupled quantum six-dimensional calculations of the vibration-translation-rotation eigenstates (2019)
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Lauvergnat, D., Felker, P., Scribano, Y., Benoit, D. M., & Bačić, Z. (2019). H2, HD, and D2 in the small cage of structure II clathrate hydrate: vibrational frequency shifts from fully coupled quantum six-dimensional calculations of the vibration-translation-rotation eigenstates. The Journal of chemical physics, 150(15), Article 154303. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5090573

We report the first fully coupled quantum six-dimensional (6D) bound-state calculations of the vibration-translation-rotation eigenstates of a flexible H2, HD, and D2 molecule confined inside the small cage of the structure II clathrate hydrate embed... Read More about H2, HD, and D2 in the small cage of structure II clathrate hydrate: vibrational frequency shifts from fully coupled quantum six-dimensional calculations of the vibration-translation-rotation eigenstates.

The R-Process Alliance: Discovery of a Low-α, r-process-enhanced Metal-poor Star in the Galactic Halo (2019)
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Wyse, R. F., Sakari, C. M., Roederer, I. U., Placco, V. M., Beers, T. C., Ezzeddine, R., Frebel, A., Hansen, T., Sneden, C., Cowan, J. J., Wallerstein, G., Farrell, E. M., Venn, K. A., Matijevič, G., Wyse, R. F. G., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Chiappini, C., Freeman, K. C., Gibson, B. K., Grebel, E. K., …Watson, F. (2019). The R-Process Alliance: Discovery of a Low-α, r-process-enhanced Metal-poor Star in the Galactic Halo. The Astrophysical journal, 874(2), Article 148. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab0c02

A new moderately r-process-enhanced metal-poor star, RAVE J093730.5−062655, has been identified in the Milky Way halo as part of an ongoing survey by the R-Process Alliance. The temperature and surface gravity indicate that J0937−0626 is likely a hor... Read More about The R-Process Alliance: Discovery of a Low-α, r-process-enhanced Metal-poor Star in the Galactic Halo.

A new class of x-ray tails of early-type galaxies and subclusters in galaxy clusters: Slingshot tails versus ram pressure stripped tails (2019)
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Sheardown, A., Fish, T. M., Roediger, E., Hunt, M., Zuhone, J., Su, Y., Kraft, R. P., Nulsen, P., Churazov, E., Forman, W., Jones, C., Lyskova, N., Eckert, D., & De Grandi, S. (2019). A new class of x-ray tails of early-type galaxies and subclusters in galaxy clusters: Slingshot tails versus ram pressure stripped tails. The Astrophysical journal, 874(2), 112. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab0c06

© 2019. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.. We show that there is a new class of gas tails - slingshot tails - that form as a subhalo (i.e., a subcluster or early-type cluster galaxy) moves away from the cluster center toward the... Read More about A new class of x-ray tails of early-type galaxies and subclusters in galaxy clusters: Slingshot tails versus ram pressure stripped tails.

Synthesis of super bright indium phosphide colloidal quantum dots through thermal diffusion (2019)
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Clarke, M. T., Viscomi, F. N., Chamberlain, T. W., Hondow, N., Adawi, A. M., Sturge, J., Erwin, S. C., Bouillard, J. S. G., Tamang, S., & Stasiuk, G. J. (2019). Synthesis of super bright indium phosphide colloidal quantum dots through thermal diffusion. Communications Chemistry, 2(1), Article 36. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-019-0138-z

© 2019, The Author(s). Indium phosphide based quantum dots have emerged in recent years as alternatives to traditional heavy metal (cadmium, lead) based materials suitable for biomedical application due to their non-toxic nature. The major barrier to... Read More about Synthesis of super bright indium phosphide colloidal quantum dots through thermal diffusion.

Evolution of the stellar mass function and infrared luminosity function of galaxies since z = 1.2 (2019)
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Beare, R., Brown, M. J., Pimbblet, K., & Taylor, E. N. (2019). Evolution of the stellar mass function and infrared luminosity function of galaxies since z = 1.2. The Astrophysical journal, 873(1), Article 78. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab041a

© 2019. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We measured evolution of the K-band luminosity function and stellar mass function (SMF) for red and blue galaxies at z < 1.2 using a sample of 353 594 I < 24 galaxies in 8.26 square degr... Read More about Evolution of the stellar mass function and infrared luminosity function of galaxies since z = 1.2.

Close-up view of an ongoing merger between the NGC 4839 group and the Coma cluster - a post-merger scenario (2019)
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Lyskova, N., Churazov, E., Zhang, C., Forman, W., Jones, C., Dolag, K., Roediger, E., & Sheardown, A. (2019). Close-up view of an ongoing merger between the NGC 4839 group and the Coma cluster - a post-merger scenario. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485(2), 2922-2934. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz597

We study a merger of the NGC 4839 group with the Coma cluster using X-ray observations from the XMM–Newton and Chandra telescopes. X-ray data show two prominent features: (i) a long (∼600 kpc in projection) and bent tail of cool gas trailing (towards... Read More about Close-up view of an ongoing merger between the NGC 4839 group and the Coma cluster - a post-merger scenario.