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Heavy Elements Nucleosynthesis on Accreting White Dwarfs Surface: Seeding the p-Process (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Battino, U., Travaglio, C., Pignatari, M., & Lederer-Woods, C. Heavy Elements Nucleosynthesis on Accreting White Dwarfs Surface: Seeding the p-Process. Presented at Nuclei in the Cosmos XV, Assergi, Italy

© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The production of the proton-rich isotopes beyond iron that we observe today in the solar system is still uncertain. Thermonuclear supernovae (SNe Ia) exploding within the single-degenerate scenario have been p... Read More about Heavy Elements Nucleosynthesis on Accreting White Dwarfs Surface: Seeding the p-Process.

Inhomogeneous Chemical Evolution of r-Process Elements in the Galactic Halo (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wehmeyer, B., Fröhlich, C., Pignatari, M., & Thielemann, F. K. Inhomogeneous Chemical Evolution of r-Process Elements in the Galactic Halo. Presented at Nuclei in the Cosmos XV, Assergi, Italy

© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The origin of the heaviest elements is still a matter of debate. For the rapid neutron capture process (“r-process”), multiple sites have been proposed, e.g., neutron star mergers and (sub-classes) of supernova... Read More about Inhomogeneous Chemical Evolution of r-Process Elements in the Galactic Halo.

H-He Shell Interactions and Nucleosynthesis in Massive Population III Stars (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Clarkson, O., Herwig, F., Andrassy, R., Woodward, P., Pignatari, M., & Mao, H. H-He Shell Interactions and Nucleosynthesis in Massive Population III Stars. Presented at Nuclei in the Cosmos XV, Assergi, Italy

© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. We report on our ongoing investigation into the nucleosynthetic and hydrodynamic nature of mixing at the interface between the H- and He-convection zones in massive Pop III stars. Studying recent a grid of 26 1... Read More about H-He Shell Interactions and Nucleosynthesis in Massive Population III Stars.

Star-Forming, Rotating Spheroidal Galaxies in the GAMA and SAMI Surveys (2019)
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Moffett, A. J., Phillipps, S., Robotham, A. S. G., Driver, S. P., Bremer, M. N., Cortese, L., Wong, O. I., Brough, S., Brown, M. J. I., Bryant, J. J., Conselice, C. J., Croom, S. M., George, K., Goldstein, G., Goodwin, M., Holwerda, B. W., Hopkins, A. M., Konstantopoulos, I. S., Lawrence, J. S., Lorente, N. P. F., …Van De Sande, J. (2019). Star-Forming, Rotating Spheroidal Galaxies in the GAMA and SAMI Surveys. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 489(2), 2830–2843. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2237

The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey has morphologically identified a class of ‘Little Blue Spheroid’ (LBS) galaxies whose relationship to other classes of galaxies we now examine in detail. Considering a sample of 868 LBSs, we find that such g... Read More about Star-Forming, Rotating Spheroidal Galaxies in the GAMA and SAMI Surveys.

The chromospheric response to the sunquake generated by the X9.3 flare of NOAA 12673 (2019)
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Quinn, S., Reid, A., Mathioudakis, M., Nelson, C., Prasad, S. K., & Zharkov, S. (2019). The chromospheric response to the sunquake generated by the X9.3 flare of NOAA 12673. The Astrophysical journal, 881(1), Article 82. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab2c9e

Active region NOAA 12673 was extremely volatile in 2017 September, producing many solar flares, including the largest of solar cycle 24, an X9.3 flare of 2017 September 06. It has been reported that this flare produced a number of sunquakes along the... Read More about The chromospheric response to the sunquake generated by the X9.3 flare of NOAA 12673.

ASKAP commissioning observations of the GAMA 23 field (2019)
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Leahy, D. A., Hopkins, A. M., Norris, R. P., Marvil, J., Collier, J. D., Taylor, E. N., Allison, J. R., Anderson, C., Bell, M., Bilicki, M., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Brough, S., Brown, M. J., Driver, S., Gurkan, G., Harvey-Smith, L., Heywood, I., Holwerda, B. W., Liske, J., Lopez-Sanchez, A. R., …Wang, L. (2019). ASKAP commissioning observations of the GAMA 23 field. Publications / Astronomical Society of Australia, 36, Article e024. https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2019.16

© Astronomical Society of Australia 2019. We have observed the G23 field of the Galaxy AndMass Assembly (GAMA) survey using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) in its commissioning phase to validate the performance of the telesco... Read More about ASKAP commissioning observations of the GAMA 23 field.

The i-process yields of rapidly accreting white dwarfs from multicycle He-shell flash stellar evolution models with mixing parametrizations from 3D hydrodynamics simulations (2019)
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Denissenkov, P. A., Herwig, F., Woodward, P., Andrassy, R., Pignatari, M., & Jones, S. (2019). The i-process yields of rapidly accreting white dwarfs from multicycle He-shell flash stellar evolution models with mixing parametrizations from 3D hydrodynamics simulations. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 488(3), 4258-4270. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1921

© 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society We have modelled the multicycle evolution of rapidly accreting CO white dwarfs (RAWDs) with stable H burning intermittent with strong He-shell flash... Read More about The i-process yields of rapidly accreting white dwarfs from multicycle He-shell flash stellar evolution models with mixing parametrizations from 3D hydrodynamics simulations.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Constraining Gas Motions in the Intra-Cluster Medium (2019)
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Simionescu, A., ZuHone, J., Zhuravleva, I., Churazov, E., Gaspari, M., Nagai, D., Werner, N., Roediger, E., Canning, R., Eckert, D., Gu, L., & Paerels, F. (2019). Constraining Gas Motions in the Intra-Cluster Medium. Space Science Reviews, 215(2), Article 24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-019-0590-1

The detailed velocity structure of the diffuse X-ray emitting intra-cluster medium (ICM) remains one of the last missing key ingredients in understanding the microphysical properties of these hot baryons and constraining our models of the growth and... Read More about Constraining Gas Motions in the Intra-Cluster Medium.

Enrichment of the Galactic disc with neutron capture elements: Sr (2019)
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Mishenina, T., Pignatari, M., Gorbaneva, T., Bisterzo, S., Travaglio, C., Thielemann, F. K., & Soubiran, C. (2019). Enrichment of the Galactic disc with neutron capture elements: Sr. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(3), 3846-3864. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz178

The enrichment history of heavy neutron-capture elements in the Milky Way disc provides fundamental information about the chemical evolution of our Galaxy and about the stellar sources that made those elements. In this work we give new observational... Read More about Enrichment of the Galactic disc with neutron capture elements: Sr.

Nucleosynthetic yields from neutron stars accreting in binary common envelopes (2019)
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Keegans, J. D., Fryer, C. L., Jones, S. W., Côté, B., Belczynski, K., Herwig, F., Pignatari, M., Laird, A. M., & Diget, C. A. (2019). Nucleosynthetic yields from neutron stars accreting in binary common envelopes. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485(1), 620-639. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz368

© 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. Massive-star binaries can undergo a phase where one of the two stars expands during its advanced evolutionary stage as a giant and envelops its com... Read More about Nucleosynthetic yields from neutron stars accreting in binary common envelopes.

Enrichment of the Galactic disc with neutron-capture elements: Mo and Ru (2019)
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Mishenina, T., Pignatari, M., Gorbaneva, T., Travaglio, C., Côté, B., Thielemann, F.-K., & Soubiran, C. (2019). Enrichment of the Galactic disc with neutron-capture elements: Mo and Ru. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 489(2), 1697-1708. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2202

© 2019 The Author(s). We present new observational data for the heavy elements molybdenum (Mo, Z = 42) and ruthenium (Ru, Z = 44) in F-, G-, and K-stars belonging to different substructures of the Milky Way. The range of metallicity covered is -1.0 <... Read More about Enrichment of the Galactic disc with neutron-capture elements: Mo and Ru.

Remnants and ejecta of thermonuclear electron-capture supernovae: Constraining oxygen-neon deflagrations in high-density white dwarfs (2018)
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Jones, S., Röpke, F. K., Fryer, C., Ruiter, A. J., Seitenzahl, I. R., Nittler, L. R., Ohlmann, S. T., Reifarth, R., Pignatari, M., & Belczynski, K. (2019). Remnants and ejecta of thermonuclear electron-capture supernovae: Constraining oxygen-neon deflagrations in high-density white dwarfs. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 622, Article A74. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834381

The explosion mechanism of electron-capture supernovae (ECSNe) remains equivocal: it is not completely clear whether these events are implosions in which neutron stars are formed, or incomplete thermonuclear explosions that leave behind bound ONeFe w... Read More about Remnants and ejecta of thermonuclear electron-capture supernovae: Constraining oxygen-neon deflagrations in high-density white dwarfs.