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The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Final data release and the metallicity of UV-luminous galaxies (2017)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Coalescence of cluster beam generated sub-2 nm bare Au nanoparticles and analysis of Au film growth parameters (2017)
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Verrelli, E., Michelakaki, I., Boukos, N., Kyriakou, G., & Tsoukalas, D. (2017). Coalescence of cluster beam generated sub-2 nm bare Au nanoparticles and analysis of Au film growth parameters. Annalen der Physik, 530(2), 1700256. https://doi.org/10.1002/andp.201700256

© 2017 by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim In this work is presented the growth model for Au films grown on a carbon substrate at room temperature by using as building blocks Au nanoparticles (NPs) with 1.4 nm mean size generated via remo... Read More about Coalescence of cluster beam generated sub-2 nm bare Au nanoparticles and analysis of Au film growth parameters.

Crossover between liquid-like and gas-like behaviour in CH₄ at 400 K (2017)
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Smith, D., Hakeem, M. A., Parisiades, P., Maynard-Casely, H. E., Foster, D., Eden, D., Bull, D. J., Marshall, A. R., Adawi, A. M., Howie, R., Sapelkin, A., Brazhkin, V. V., & Proctor, J. E. (2017). Crossover between liquid-like and gas-like behaviour in CH₄ at 400 K. Physical Review E, 96(5), Article 052113. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.96.052113

We report experimental evidence for a crossover between a liquid-like state and a gas-like state in fluid methane (CH₄). This crossover is observed in all of our experiments, up to 397 K temperature; 2.1 times the critical temperature of methane. The... Read More about Crossover between liquid-like and gas-like behaviour in CH₄ at 400 K.

Multiple mechanisms quench passive spiral galaxies (2017)
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Fraser-McKelvie, A., Brown, M. J. I., Pimbblet, K., Dolley, T., & Bonne, N. J. (2018). Multiple mechanisms quench passive spiral galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(2), 1909-1921. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2823

© 2017 The Author(s). We examine the properties of a sample of 35 nearby passive spiral galaxies in order to determine their dominant quenching mechanism(s). All five low-mass (M * < 1 × 10 10 M ⊙ ) passive spiral galaxies are located in the rich Vi... Read More about Multiple mechanisms quench passive spiral galaxies.

The 2013 February 17 sunquake in the context of the active region's magnetic field configuration (2017)
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Green, L. M., Valori, G., Zuccarello, F. P., Zharkov, S., Matthews, S. A., & Guglielmino, S. L. (2017). The 2013 February 17 sunquake in the context of the active region's magnetic field configuration. The Astrophysical journal, 849(1), Article 40. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8db6

© 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Sunquakes are created by the hydrodynamic response of the lower atmosphere to a sudden deposition of energy and momentum. In this study, we investigate a sunquake that occurred in NOAA a... Read More about The 2013 February 17 sunquake in the context of the active region's magnetic field configuration.

The Taipan Galaxy Survey: Scientific Goals and Observing Strategy (2017)
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Driver, S. P., Taylor, E. N., Lagos, C., White, M., Bilicki, M., Brown, M. J. I., Bryant, J., Croom, S., Jones, D. H., Koribalski, B., Lorente, N., Tinney, C. G., Tothill, N. F. H., Koribalski, B., Lima Da Cunha, E., Hopkins, A. M., Colless, M., Taylor, E. N. C., Blake, C., Howlett, C., …Watson, F. (2017). The Taipan Galaxy Survey: Scientific Goals and Observing Strategy. Publications / Astronomical Society of Australia, 34, Article ARTN e047. https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2017.41

© Astronomical Society of Australia 2017; published by Cambridge University Press. The Taipan galaxy survey (hereafter simply 'Taipan') is a multi-object spectroscopic survey starting in 2017 that will cover 2π steradians over the southern sky (δ ≲ 1... Read More about The Taipan Galaxy Survey: Scientific Goals and Observing Strategy.

Reversible optical switching memristors with tunable STDP synaptic plasticity: a route to hierarchical control in artificial intelligent systems (2017)
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Jaafar, A. H., Gray, R. J., Verrelli, E., O'Neill, M., Kelly, S. M., & Kemp, N. T. (2017). Reversible optical switching memristors with tunable STDP synaptic plasticity: a route to hierarchical control in artificial intelligent systems. Nanoscale, 9(43), 17091-17098. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7nr06138b

© 2017 The Royal Society of Chemistry. Optical control of memristors opens the route to new applications in optoelectronic switching and neuromorphic computing. Motivated by the need for reversible and latched optical switching we report on the devel... Read More about Reversible optical switching memristors with tunable STDP synaptic plasticity: a route to hierarchical control in artificial intelligent systems.

Stripped elliptical galaxies as probes of ICM physics : III. Deep Chandra observation of NGC 4552 - Measuring the viscosity of the intracluster medium (2017)
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Kraft, R. P., Roediger, E., Machacek, M., Forman, W. R., Nulsen, P. E., Jones, C., Churazov, E., Randall, S., Su, Y., & Sheardown, A. (2017). Stripped elliptical galaxies as probes of ICM physics : III. Deep Chandra observation of NGC 4552 - Measuring the viscosity of the intracluster medium. The Astrophysical journal, 848(1), Article ARTN 27. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8a6e

We present results from a deep (200 ks) Chandra observation of the early-type galaxy NGC 4552 (M89) which is falling into the Virgo cluster. Previous shallower X-ray observations of this galaxy showed a remnant gas core, a tail to the South of the ga... Read More about Stripped elliptical galaxies as probes of ICM physics : III. Deep Chandra observation of NGC 4552 - Measuring the viscosity of the intracluster medium.

Uplift, Feedback, and Buoyancy: Radio Lobe Dynamics in NGC 4472 (2017)
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Gendron-Marsolais, M., Kraft, R. P., Bogdan, A., Hlavacek-Larrondo, J., Forman, W. R., Jones, C., Su, Y., Nulsen, P., Randall, S. W., & Roediger, E. (2017). Uplift, Feedback, and Buoyancy: Radio Lobe Dynamics in NGC 4472. The Astrophysical journal, 848(1), 26. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8a6f

© 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We present results from deep (380 ks) Chandra observations of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) outburst in the massive early-type galaxy NGC 4472. We detect cavities in the gas coincide... Read More about Uplift, Feedback, and Buoyancy: Radio Lobe Dynamics in NGC 4472.

Determining molecular orientation via single molecule SERS in a plasmonic nano-gap (2017)
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Marshall, A. R. L., Stokes, J., Viscomi, F. N., Proctor, J. E., Gierschner, J., Bouillard, J.-S. G., & Adawi, A. M. (2017). Determining molecular orientation via single molecule SERS in a plasmonic nano-gap. Nanoscale, 9(44), 17415-17421. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7NR05107G

In this work, plasmonic nano-gaps consisting of a silver nanoparticle coupled to an extended silver film have been fully optimized for single molecule Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) spectroscopy. The SERS signal was found to be strongly dep... Read More about Determining molecular orientation via single molecule SERS in a plasmonic nano-gap.

Magnetic control of MOF crystal orientation and alignment (2017)
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Cheng, F., Marshall, E. S., Young, A. J., Robinson, P. J., Bouillard, J. S. G., Adawi, A. M., Vermeulen, N. A., Farha, O. K., Reithofer, M. R., & Chin, J. M. (2017). Magnetic control of MOF crystal orientation and alignment. Chemistry: a European journal, 23(62), 15578-15582. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201703812

Most metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) possess anisotropic properties, the full exploitation of which necessitates a general strategy for the controllable orientation of such MOF crystals. Current methods largely rely upon layer-by-layer MOF epitaxy or... Read More about Magnetic control of MOF crystal orientation and alignment.

Ambiguous measurements, signaling, and violations of Leggett-Garg inequalities (2017)
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Emary, C. (2017). Ambiguous measurements, signaling, and violations of Leggett-Garg inequalities. Physical Review A, 96(4), Article 042102. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.96.042102

Ambiguous measurements do not reveal complete information about the system under test. Their quantum-mechanical counterparts are semiweak (or in the limit, weak) measurements and here we discuss their role in tests of the Leggett-Garg inequalities. W... Read More about Ambiguous measurements, signaling, and violations of Leggett-Garg inequalities.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) : The mechanisms for quiescent galaxy formation at z<1 (2017)
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Wild, V., Bremer, M., Brough, S., Driver, S. P., Hopkins, A. M., Owers, M. S., Phillipps, S., Sansom, A. E., Wang, L., Pimbblet, K., Alpaslan, M., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Bourne, N., Bremer, M. N., Brough, S., Colless, M., Driver, S., Holwerda, B. W., Hopkins, A., Owers, M., …Wild, V. (2018). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) : The mechanisms for quiescent galaxy formation at z

© 2016 The Authors. One key problem in astrophysics is understanding how and why galaxies switch off their star formation, building the quiescent population that we observe in the local Universe. From the Galaxy And Mass Assembly and VIsible MultiObj... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) : The mechanisms for quiescent galaxy formation at z<1.

Reply to comment on the paper “ on a role of quadruple component of magnetic field in defining solar activity in grand cycles” by Usoskin (2017) (2017)
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Zharkova, V., Popova, E., Shepherd, S., & Zharkov, S. (2018). Reply to comment on the paper “ on a role of quadruple component of magnetic field in defining solar activity in grand cycles” by Usoskin (2017). Journal of atmospheric and solar-terrestrial physics, 176, 72-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2017.09.019

In this communication we provide our answers to the comments by Usoskin (2017) on our recent paper (Popova et al, 2017a). We show that Principal Component Analysis (PCA) allows us to derive eigen vectors with eigen values assigned to variance of sola... Read More about Reply to comment on the paper “ on a role of quadruple component of magnetic field in defining solar activity in grand cycles” by Usoskin (2017).

Dual wavelength (ultraviolet and green) photodetectors using solution processed zinc oxide nanoparticles (2017)
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O'Neill, M., Ibrahem, M. A., Verrelli, E., Lai, K. T., Kyriakou, G., Lee, A. F., Isaacs, M. A., Cheng, F., & O’Neill, M. (2017). Dual wavelength (ultraviolet and green) photodetectors using solution processed zinc oxide nanoparticles. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9(42), 36971-36979. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b08092

Narrow-band photoconductivity with a spectral width of 0.16 eV is obtained from solution-processed colloidal ZnO nanocrystals beneath the band-edge at 2.25 eV. A new model involving electron transfer from deep defects to discrete shallow donors is in... Read More about Dual wavelength (ultraviolet and green) photodetectors using solution processed zinc oxide nanoparticles.

Metallicity gradient of the thick disc progenitor at high redshift (2017)
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Kawata, D., Prieto, C. A., Brook, C. B., Casagrande, L., Ciucă, I., Gibson, B. K., Grand, R. J. J., Hayden, M. R., & Hunt, J. A. S. (2018). Metallicity gradient of the thick disc progenitor at high redshift. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(1), 867-878. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2464

© 2017 The Authors. We have developed a novel Markov Chain Monte Carlo chemical 'painting' technique to explore possible radial and vertical metallicity gradients for the thick disc progenitor. In our analysis, we match an N-body simulation to the da... Read More about Metallicity gradient of the thick disc progenitor at high redshift.

The infall of the Virgo elliptical galaxy M60 toward M87 and the gaseous structures produced by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities (2017)
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Wood, R. A., Jones, C., Machacek, M. E., Forman, W. R., Bogdan, A., Andrade-Santos, F., Kraft, R. P., Paggi, A., & Roediger, E. (2017). The infall of the Virgo elliptical galaxy M60 toward M87 and the gaseous structures produced by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. The Astrophysical journal, 847(1), Article ARTN 79. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8723

We present Chandra observations of hot gas structures, characteristic of gas stripping during infall, in the Virgo cluster elliptical galaxy M60 (NGC4649) located 1 Mpc east of M87. 0.5−2 keV Chandra X-ray images show a sharp leading edge in the surf... Read More about The infall of the Virgo elliptical galaxy M60 toward M87 and the gaseous structures produced by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: matching chemodynamical simulations to observations of the Milky Way (2017)
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Thompson, B. B., Few, C. G., Bergemann, M., Gibson, B. K., MacFarlane, B. A., Serenelli, A., Gilmore, G., Randich, S., Vallenari, A., Alfaro, E. J., Bensby, T., Francois, P., Korn, A. J., Bayo, A., Carraro, G., Casey, A. R., Costado, M. T., Donati, P., Franciosini, E., Frasca, A., …Zaggia, S. (2018). The Gaia-ESO Survey: matching chemodynamical simulations to observations of the Milky Way. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(1), 185-197. https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STX2316

The typical methodology for comparing simulated galaxies with observational surveys is usually to apply a spatial selection to the simulation to mimic the region of interest covered by a comparable observational survey sample. In this work, we compar... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: matching chemodynamical simulations to observations of the Milky Way.