All Outputs (750)

an overview of the MHONGOOSE survey: Observing nearby galaxies with MeerKAT (2018)
Journal Article
de Blok, W. J., Adams, E. A., Amram, P., Athanassoula, E., Bagetakos, I., Balkowski, C., Bershady, M. A., Beswick, R., Bigiel, F., Blyth, S. L., Bosma, A., Booth, R. S., Bouchard, A., Brinks, E., Carignan, C., Chemin, L., Combes, F., Conway, J., Elson, E. C., English, J., …Zijlstra, A. (2018). an overview of the MHONGOOSE survey: Observing nearby galaxies with MeerKAT. Proceedings of Science, 277, Article 7. https://doi.org/10.22323/1.277.0007

© Copyright owned by the author(s). MHONGOOSE is a deep survey of the neutral hydrogen distribution in a representative sample of 30 nearby disk and dwarf galaxies with H I masses from ∼ 106 to ∼ 1011 M, and luminosities from MR ∼ 12 to MR ∼ −22. The... Read More about an overview of the MHONGOOSE survey: Observing nearby galaxies with MeerKAT.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the effect of galaxy group environment on active galactic nuclei (2018)
Journal Article
Gordon, Y. A., Pimbblet, K. A., Owers, M. S., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Brough, S., Brown, M. J. I., Cluver, M. E., Croom, S. M., Holwerda, B. W., Loveday, J., Mahajan, S., & Wang, L. (2018). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the effect of galaxy group environment on active galactic nuclei. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(3), 4223-4234. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty115

© 2017 The Author(s). In galaxy clusters, efficiently accreting active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are preferentially located in the infall regions of the cluster projected phase-space, and are rarely found in the cluster core. This has been attributed to... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the effect of galaxy group environment on active galactic nuclei.

The furan microsolvation blind challenge for quantum chemical methods: First steps (2018)
Journal Article
Gottschalk, H. C., Poblotzki, A., Suhm, M. A., Al-Mogren, M. M., Antony, J., Auer, A. A., Baptista, L., Benoit, D. M., Bistoni, G., Bohle, F., Dahmani, R., Firaha, D., Grimme, S., Hansen, A., Harding, M. E., Hochlaf, M., Holzer, C., Jansen, G., Klopper, W., Kopp, W. A., …Mata, R. A. (2018). The furan microsolvation blind challenge for quantum chemical methods: First steps. The Journal of chemical physics, 148(1), Article 014301. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5009011

© 2018 Author(s). Herein we present the results of a blind challenge to quantum chemical methods in the calculation of dimerization preferences in the low temperature gas phase. The target of study was the first step of the microsolvation of furan, 2... Read More about The furan microsolvation blind challenge for quantum chemical methods: First steps.

Is the Milky Way still breathing? RAVE–Gaia streaming motions (2018)
Journal Article
Carrillo, I., Minchev, I., Kordopatis, G., Steinmetz, M., Binney, J., Anders, F., Bienaymé, O., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Famaey, B., Freeman, K. C., Gilmore, G., Gibson, B. K., Grebel, E. K., Helmi, A., Just, A., Kunder, A., McMillan, P., Monari, G., Munari, U., Navarro, J., …Zwitter, T. (2018). Is the Milky Way still breathing? RAVE–Gaia streaming motions. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(2), 2679-2696. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3342

We use data from the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) and the Tycho-Gaia astrometric solution (TGAS) catalogue to compute the velocity fields yielded by the radial (VR), azimuthal (Vϕ),and vertical (Vz) components of associated Galactocentric veloci... Read More about Is the Milky Way still breathing? RAVE–Gaia streaming motions.

Atomic "bomb testing": The Elitzur-Vaidman experiment violates the Leggett-Garg inequality (2018)
Book Chapter
Robens, C., Alt, W., Emary, C., Meschede, D., & Alberti, A. (2018). Atomic "bomb testing": The Elitzur-Vaidman experiment violates the Leggett-Garg inequality. In Exploring the World with the Laser: Dedicated to Theodor Hänsch on his 75th Birthday (141-157). Exploring the World with the Laser: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64346-5_10

Elitzur and Vaidman have proposed a measurement scheme that, based on the quantum superposition principle, allows one to detect the presence of an object—in a dramatic scenario, a bomb—without interacting with it. It was pointed out by Ghirardi that... Read More about Atomic "bomb testing": The Elitzur-Vaidman experiment violates the Leggett-Garg inequality.

Determination of alpha spectroscopic factors for unbound 17O states (2017)
Journal Article
De Séréville, N., Meyer, A., Hammache, F., Laird, A. M., & Pignatari, M. (2017). Determination of alpha spectroscopic factors for unbound 17O states. EPJ Web of Conferences, 165, 01022. https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201716501022

© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2017. It has been recently suggested that hydrogen ingestion into the helium shell of massive stars could lead to high 13 C and 15 N excesses when the blast of a core collapse supernova (ccSN) passes through... Read More about Determination of alpha spectroscopic factors for unbound 17O states.

Solution-processable, niobium-doped titanium oxide nanorods for application in low-voltage, large-area electronic devices (2017)
Journal Article
Alharthi, F. A., Cheng, F., Verrelli, E., Kemp, N. T., Lee, A. F., Isaacs, M. A., O’Neill, M., & Kelly, S. M. (2017). Solution-processable, niobium-doped titanium oxide nanorods for application in low-voltage, large-area electronic devices. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 6(5), 1038-1047. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7tc04197g

We report for the first time the one-step synthesis of solution-processable, highly crystalline, niobiumdoped titanium dioxide (Nb-TiO2) nanorods in the anatase phase by the hydrolytic condensation of Ti(OiPr)4 and niobium(V) ethoxide using oleic aci... Read More about Solution-processable, niobium-doped titanium oxide nanorods for application in low-voltage, large-area electronic devices.

23-electron octahedral molybdenum cluster complex [{Mo 6 I 8 }Cl 6 ] – (2017)
Journal Article
Syrokvashin, M. M., Vorotnikova, N. A., Vorotnikov, Y. A., Novozhilov, I. N., Syrokvashin, M. М., Nadolinny, V. A., Kuratieva, N. V., Benoit, D. M., Mironov, Y. V., Walton, R. I., Clarkson, G. J., Kitamura, N., Sutherland, A. J., Shestopalov, M. A., & Efremova, O. A. (2018). 23-electron octahedral molybdenum cluster complex [{Mo 6 I 8 }Cl 6 ] –. Inorganic chemistry, 57(2), https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02760

Photoactive transition metal compounds that are prone to reversible redox reactions are important for myriad applications, including catalysis, optoelectronics and sensing. This article describes chemical and electro-chemical methods to prepare clust... Read More about 23-electron octahedral molybdenum cluster complex [{Mo 6 I 8 }Cl 6 ] –.

Gas sloshing regulates and records the evolution of the Fornax Cluster (2017)
Journal Article
Su, Y., Nulsen, P. E., Kraft, R. P., Roediger, E., Zuhone, J. A., Jones, C., Forman, W. R., Sheardown, A., Irwin, J. A., & Randall, S. W. (2017). Gas sloshing regulates and records the evolution of the Fornax Cluster. The Astrophysical journal, 851(1), 69. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa989e

We present results of a joint Chandra and XMM-Newton analysis of the Fornax Cluster, the nearest galaxy cluster in the southern sky. Signatures of merger-induced gas sloshing can be seen in the X-ray image. We identify four sloshing cold fronts in th... Read More about Gas sloshing regulates and records the evolution of the Fornax Cluster.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): blue spheroids within 87 Mpc (2017)
Journal Article
Mahajan, S., Drinkwater, M. J., Driver, S., Hopkins, A. M., Graham, A. W., Brough, S., Brown, M. J. I., Holwerda, B. W., Owers, M. S., & Pimbblet, K. A. (2018). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): blue spheroids within 87 Mpc. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(1), 788-799. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3202

© 2017 The Author(s). In this paper, we test if nearby blue spheroid (BSph) galaxies may become the progenitors of star-forming spiral galaxies or passively evolving elliptical galaxies. Our sample comprises 428 galaxies of various morphologies in th... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): blue spheroids within 87 Mpc.

GAMA/G10-COSMOS/3D-HST: the 0 < z < 5 cosmic star formation history, stellar-mass, and dust-mass densities (2017)
Journal Article
Driver, S. P., Andrews, S. K., Davies, L. J., Robotham, A. S., Wright, A. H., Bremer, M. N., Conselice, C. J., Eales, S. A., Hopkins, A. M., Kafle, P. R., Kelvin, L. S., Maddox, S. J., Sansom, A. E., Wilkins, S. M., Driver, S. P., Andrews, S. K., Da Cunha, E., Davies, L. J., Lagos, C., Robotham, A. S. G., …Wilkins, S. M. (2018). GAMA/G10-COSMOS/3D-HST: the 0 < z < 5 cosmic star formation history, stellar-mass, and dust-mass densities. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(3), 2891-2935. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2728

We use the energy-balance code MAGPHYS to determine stellar and dust masses, and dust corrected star formation rates for over 200 000 GAMA galaxies, 170 000 G10-COSMOS galaxies, and 200 000 3D-HST galaxies. Our values agree well with previously repor... Read More about GAMA/G10-COSMOS/3D-HST: the 0 < z < 5 cosmic star formation history, stellar-mass, and dust-mass densities.

The Foundation Supernova Survey: Motivation, design, implementation, and first data release (2017)
Journal Article
Foley, R. J., Scolnic, D., Rest, A., Jha, S. W., Pan, Y.-C., Riess, A. G., Challis, P., Chambers, K. C., Coulter, D. A., Dettman, K. G., Foley, M. M., Fox, O. D., Huber, M. E., Jones, D. O., Kilpatrick, C. D., Kirshner, R. P., Schultz, A. S. B., Siebert, M. R., Flewelling, H. A., Gibson, B., …Willman, M. (2018). The Foundation Supernova Survey: Motivation, design, implementation, and first data release. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(1), 193-219. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3136

© 2017 The Author(s). The Foundation Supernova Survey aims to provide a large, high-fidelity, homogeneous, and precisely calibrated low-redshift Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) sample for cosmology. The calibration of the current low-redshift SN sample is... Read More about The Foundation Supernova Survey: Motivation, design, implementation, and first data release.

Enhanced violations of Leggett-Garg inequalities in an experimental three-level system (2017)
Journal Article
Wang, K., Emary, C., Zhan, X., Bian, Z., Li, J., & Xue, P. (2017). Enhanced violations of Leggett-Garg inequalities in an experimental three-level system. Optics express, 25(25), 31462-31470. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.25.031462

Leggett-Garg inequalities are tests of macroscopic realism that can be violated by quantum mechanics. In this letter, we realise photonic Leggett-Garg tests on a three-level system and implement measurements that admit three distinct measurement outc... Read More about Enhanced violations of Leggett-Garg inequalities in an experimental three-level system.

The role of stellar radial motions in shaping galaxy surface brightness profiles (2017)
Journal Article
Ruiz-Lara, T., Few, C. G., Florido, E., Gibson, B. K., Pérez, I., & Sánchez-Blázquez, P. (2017). The role of stellar radial motions in shaping galaxy surface brightness profiles. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 608, A126. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731485

Aims. The physics driving features such as breaks observed in galaxy surface brightness (SB) profiles remains contentious. Here, we assess the importance of stellar radial motions in shaping their characteristics. Methods. We use the simulated Milky... Read More about The role of stellar radial motions in shaping galaxy surface brightness profiles.

The effects of the initial mass function on the chemical evolution of elliptical galaxies (2017)
Journal Article
De Masi, C., Matteucci, F., & Vincenzo, F. (2018). The effects of the initial mass function on the chemical evolution of elliptical galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(4), 5259-5271. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3044

We describe the use of our chemical evolution model to reproduce the abundance patterns observed in a catalogue of elliptical galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4. The model assumes ellipticals form by fast gas accretion, and suf... Read More about The effects of the initial mass function on the chemical evolution of elliptical galaxies.

Pop III i-process nucleosynthesis and the elemental abundances of SMSS J0313-6708 and the most iron-poor stars (2017)
Journal Article
Clarkson, O., Herwig, F., & Pignatari, M. (2018). Pop III i-process nucleosynthesis and the elemental abundances of SMSS J0313-6708 and the most iron-poor stars. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters, 474(1), L37-L41. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slx190

© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. We have investigated a highly energetic H-ingestion event during shell He burning leading to H-burning luminosities of log (L H /L ⊙ ) ~ 13 in a 4... Read More about Pop III i-process nucleosynthesis and the elemental abundances of SMSS J0313-6708 and the most iron-poor stars.

Triggering active galactic nuclei in galaxy clusters (2017)
Journal Article
Marshall, M. A., Shabala, S. S., Krause, M. G. H., Pimbblet, K. A., Croton, D. J., & Owers, M. S. (2018). Triggering active galactic nuclei in galaxy clusters. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(3), 3615-3628. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2996

© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. We model the triggering of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in galaxy clusters using the semianalytic galaxy formation model SAGE. We prescribe trigge... Read More about Triggering active galactic nuclei in galaxy clusters.

The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Final data release and the metallicity of UV-luminous galaxies (2017)
Journal Article
Drinkwater, M. J., Byrne, Z. J., Blake, C., Glazebrook, K., Brough, S., Colless, M., Couch, W., Croton, D. J., Croom, S. M., Davis, T. M., Forster, K., Gilbank, D., Hinton, S. R., Jelliffe, B., Jurek, R. J., Li, I.-H., Christopher Martin, D., Pimbblet, K., Poole, G. B., Pracy, M., …Yee, H. K. C. (2018). The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Final data release and the metallicity of UV-luminous galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(3), 4151-4168. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2963

© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey measured the redshifts of over 200 000 ultraviolet (UV)- selected (NUV < 22.8 mag) galaxies on the Anglo-Australi... Read More about The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Final data release and the metallicity of UV-luminous galaxies.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly: automatic morphological classification of galaxies using statistical learning (2017)
Journal Article
Sreejith, S., Pereverzyev Jr, S., Kelvin, L. S., Marleau, F. R., Haltmeier, M., Ebner, J., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Driver, S. P., Graham, A. W., Holwerda, B. W., Hopkins, A. M., Liske, J., Loveday, J., Moffett, A. J., Pimbblet, K. A., Taylor, E. N., Wang, L., & Wright, A. H. (2018). Galaxy And Mass Assembly: automatic morphological classification of galaxies using statistical learning. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(4), 5232-5258. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2976

© 2018 The Author(s). We apply four statistical learning methods to a sample of 7941 galaxies (z < 0.06) from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey to test the feasibility of using automated algorithms to classify galaxies. Using 10 features measured... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly: automatic morphological classification of galaxies using statistical learning.

Anisotropic Self-Assembly from Isotropic Colloidal Building Blocks (2017)
Journal Article
Rey, M., Law, A. D., Buzza, D. M. A., & Vogel, N. (2017). Anisotropic Self-Assembly from Isotropic Colloidal Building Blocks. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139(48), 17464-17473. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b08503

© 2017 American Chemical Society. Spherical colloidal particles generally self-assemble into hexagonal lattices in two dimensions. However, more complex, non-hexagonal phases have been predicted theoretically for isotropic particles with a soft repul... Read More about Anisotropic Self-Assembly from Isotropic Colloidal Building Blocks.