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Evidence for HI replenishment in massive galaxies through gas accretion from the cosmic web (2016)
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Kleiner, D., Pimbblet, K. A., Heath Jones, D., Koribalski, B. S., & Serra, P. (2017). Evidence for HI replenishment in massive galaxies through gas accretion from the cosmic web. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 466(4), 4692-4710. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw3328

We examine the H i -to-stellar mass ratio (H i fraction) for galaxies near filament backbones within the nearby Universe (d < 181 Mpc). This work uses the 6 degree Field Galaxy Survey (6dFGS) and the Discrete Persistent Structures Extractor (DisPerSE... Read More about Evidence for HI replenishment in massive galaxies through gas accretion from the cosmic web.

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): active galactic nuclei in pairs of galaxies (2016)
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Gordon, Y. A., Owers, M. S., Pimbblet, K. A., Croom, S. M., Alpaslan, M., Baldry, I. K., Brough, S., Brown, M. J., Cluver, M. E., Conselice, C. J., Davies, L. J., Holwerda, B. W., Hopkins, A. M., Gunawardhana, M. L., Loveday, J., Taylor, E. N., & Wang, L. (2017). Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): active galactic nuclei in pairs of galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465(3), 2671-2686. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2925

There exist conflicting observations on whether or not the environment of broad and narrow line AGN differ and this consequently questions the validity of the AGN unification model. The high spectroscopic completeness of the GAMA survey makes it idea... Read More about Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): active galactic nuclei in pairs of galaxies.

Amine catalysis for the organocatalytic diboration of challenging alkenes (2016)
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Farre, A., Soares, K., Briggs, R. A., Balanta, A., Benoit, D. M., & Bonet, A. (2016). Amine catalysis for the organocatalytic diboration of challenging alkenes. Chemistry: a European journal, 22(49), 17552-17556. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201603979

© 2016 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim The generation of in situ sp 2 –sp 3 diboron adducts has revolutionised the synthesis of organoboranes. Organocatalytic diboration reactions have represented a milestone in terms of unpredictable re... Read More about Amine catalysis for the organocatalytic diboration of challenging alkenes.

Measuring the 2D baryon acoustic oscillation signal of galaxies in WiggleZ: cosmological constraints (2016)
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Hinton, S. R., Kazin, E., Davis, T. M., Blake, C., Brough, S., Colless, M., Couch, W. J., Drinkwater, M. J., Glazebrook, K., Jurek, R. J., Parkinson, D., Pimbblet, K. A., Poole, G. B., Pracy, M., & Woods, D. (2017). Measuring the 2D baryon acoustic oscillation signal of galaxies in WiggleZ: cosmological constraints. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(4), 4807-4822. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2725

© 2016 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. We present results from the 2D anisotropic baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal present in the final data set from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Surve... Read More about Measuring the 2D baryon acoustic oscillation signal of galaxies in WiggleZ: cosmological constraints.

HI4PI: A full-sky Hi survey based on EBHIS and GASS (2016)
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Ben Bekhti, N., Flöer, L., Keller, R., Kerp, J., Lenz, D., Winkel, B., Bailin, J., Calabretta, M. R., Dedes, L., Ford, H. A., Gibson, B. K., Haud, U., Janowiecki, S., Kalberla, P. M. W., Lockman, F. J., McClure-Griffiths, N. M., Murphy, T., Nakanishi, H., Pisano, D. J., Staveley-Smith, L., & HI4PI Collaboration:. (2016). HI4PI: A full-sky Hi survey based on EBHIS and GASS. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 594, A116. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629178

© 2016 ESO. Context. Measurement of the Galactic neutral atomic hydrogen (H i) column density, NH i, and brightness temperatures, TB, is of high scientific value for a broad range of astrophysical disciplines. In the past two decades, one of the most... Read More about HI4PI: A full-sky Hi survey based on EBHIS and GASS.

Looking for imprints of the first stellar generations in metal-poor bulge field stars (2016)
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Chiappini, C., Freeman, K., Ness, M., Depagne, E., Cantelli, E., Hirschi, R., Frischknecht, U., Maeder, A., Pignatari, M., Barbuy, B., Cantelli, E. W. C., Chiappini, C., Depagne, É., Freeman, K., Frischknecht, U., Hirschi, R., Maeder, A., Meynet, G., Ness, M., & Siqueira-Mello, C. (2016). Looking for imprints of the first stellar generations in metal-poor bulge field stars. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 593, A79-1-A79-16. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628104

© 2016 ESO. Context. Efforts to look for signatures of the first stars have concentrated on metal-poor halo objects. However, the low end of the bulge metallicity distribution has been shown to host some of the oldest objects in the Milky Way and hen... Read More about Looking for imprints of the first stellar generations in metal-poor bulge field stars.

Impacts of a flaring star-forming disc and stellar radial mixing on the vertical metallicity gradient (2016)
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Kawata, D., Grand, R. J. J., Gibson, B. K., Casagrande, L., Hunt, J. A. S., & Brook, C. B. (2017). Impacts of a flaring star-forming disc and stellar radial mixing on the vertical metallicity gradient. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(1), 702-712. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2363

Using idealized N-body simulations of a Milky Way-sized disc galaxy, we qualitatively study how the metallicity distributions of the thin disc star particles are modified by the formation of the bar and spiral arm structures. The thin disc in our num... Read More about Impacts of a flaring star-forming disc and stellar radial mixing on the vertical metallicity gradient.

Near-ultraviolet signatures of environment-driven galaxy quenching in Sloan Digital Sky Survey groups (2016)
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Crossett, J. P., Pimbblet, K. A., Jones, D. H., Brown, M. J., & Stott, J. P. (2017). Near-ultraviolet signatures of environment-driven galaxy quenching in Sloan Digital Sky Survey groups. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(1), 480-490. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2228

© 2016 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. We have investigated the effect of group environment on residual star formation in galaxies, using Galaxy Evolution Explorer near-ultraviolet (NUV)... Read More about Near-ultraviolet signatures of environment-driven galaxy quenching in Sloan Digital Sky Survey groups.

The properties, origin and evolution of stellar clusters in galaxy simulations and observations (2016)
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Dobbs, C. L., Adamo, A., Few, C. G., Calzetti, D., Dale, D. A., Elmegreen, B. G., Evans, A. S., Gouliermis, D. A., Grasha, K., Grebel, E. K., Johnson, K. E., Kim, H., Lee, J. C., Messa, M., Ryon, J. E., Smith, L. J., Thilker, D., Ubeda, L., & Whitmore, B. (2017). The properties, origin and evolution of stellar clusters in galaxy simulations and observations. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(3), 3580-3596. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2200

We investigate the properties and evolution of star particles in two simulations of isolated spiral galaxies, and two galaxies from cosmological simulations. Unlike previous numerical work, where typically each star particle represents one ‘cluster’,... Read More about The properties, origin and evolution of stellar clusters in galaxy simulations and observations.

Octahedral molybdenum cluster complexes with aromatic sulfonate ligands (2016)
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Efremova, O. A., Vorotnikov, Y. A., Brylev, K. A., Vorotnikova, N. A., Novozhilov, I. N., Kuratieva, N. V., Edeleva, M. V., Benoit, D. M., Kitamura, N., Mironov, Y. V., Shestopalov, M. A., & Sutherland, A. J. (2016). Octahedral molybdenum cluster complexes with aromatic sulfonate ligands. Dalton Transactions : an international journal of inorganic chemistry, 45(39), 15427-15435. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6dt02863b

This article describes the synthesis, structures and systematic study of the spectroscopic and redox properties of a series of octahedral molybdenum metal cluster complexes with aromatic sulfonate ligands (ⁿBu₄N)₂[{Mo₆X₈}(OTs)₆] and (ⁿBu₄N)₂[{Mo₆X₈}(... Read More about Octahedral molybdenum cluster complexes with aromatic sulfonate ligands.

Inflation model building with an accurate measure of e-folding (2016)
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Chongchitnan, S. (2016). Inflation model building with an accurate measure of e-folding. Physical Review D, 94(4), Article 043526. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.043526

It has become standard practice to take the logarithmic growth of the scale factor as a measure of the amount of inflation, despite the well-known fact that this is only an approximation for the true amount of inflation required to solve the horizon... Read More about Inflation model building with an accurate measure of e-folding.

NuGrid stellar data set. 1. Stellar yields from H to Bi for stars with metallicities Z=0.02 and Z=0.01 (2016)
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Pignatari, M., Herwig, F., Hirschi, R., Bennett, M., Rockefeller, G., Fryer, C., X. Timmes, F., Ritter, C., Heger, A., Jones, S., Battino, U., Dotter, A., Trappitsch, R., Diehl, S., Frischknecht, U., Hungerford, A., Magkotsios, G., Travaglio, C., & Young, P. (2016). NuGrid stellar data set. 1. Stellar yields from H to Bi for stars with metallicities Z=0.02 and Z=0.01. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 225(2), Article ARTN 24. https://doi.org/10.3847/0067-0049/225/2/24

We provide a set of stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis calculations that applies established physics assumptions simultaneously to low- and intermediate-mass and massive star models. Our goal is to provide an internally consistent and comprehensiv... Read More about NuGrid stellar data set. 1. Stellar yields from H to Bi for stars with metallicities Z=0.02 and Z=0.01.

Re-evaluation of the ¹⁶O(n, γ)¹⁷O cross section at astrophysical energies and its role as a neutron poison in the s-process (2016)
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Mohr, P., Heinz, C., Pignatari, M., Dillmann, I., Mengoni, A., & Käppeler, F. (2016). Re-evaluation of the ¹⁶O(n, γ)¹⁷O cross section at astrophysical energies and its role as a neutron poison in the s-process. The Astrophysical journal, 827(1), Article ARTN 29. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/827/1/29

The doubly magic nucleus ¹⁶O has a small neutron-capture cross section of just a few tens of microbarns in the astrophysical energy region. Despite this, ¹⁶O plays an important role as a neutron poison in the astrophysical slow neutron capture (s) pr... Read More about Re-evaluation of the ¹⁶O(n, γ)¹⁷O cross section at astrophysical energies and its role as a neutron poison in the s-process.

A textbook example of ram-pressure stripping in the Hydra A/A780 cluster (2016)
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Roediger, E., De Grandi, S., Eckert, D., Gaspari, M., Gastaldello, F., Ghizzardi, S., Girardi, M., Molendi, S., Nonino, M., & Rossetti, M. (2016). A textbook example of ram-pressure stripping in the Hydra A/A780 cluster. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 592, A154. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526641

In the current epoch, one of the main mechanisms driving the growth of galaxy clusters is the continuous accretion of group-scale halos. In this process, the ram pressure applied by the hot intracluster medium on the gas content of the infalling grou... Read More about A textbook example of ram-pressure stripping in the Hydra A/A780 cluster.

The role of gas infall in the evolution of disc galaxies (2016)
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Mollá, M., Díaz, Á. I., Gibson, B. K., Cavichia, O., & López-Sánchez, Á. R. (2016). The role of gas infall in the evolution of disc galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 462(2), 1329-1340. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1723

Spiral galaxies are thought to acquire their gas through a protracted infall phase resulting in the inside-out growth of their associated discs. For field spirals, this infall occurs in the lower density environments of the cosmic web. The overall in... Read More about The role of gas infall in the evolution of disc galaxies.

Application of a theory and simulation-based convective boundary mixing model for AGB star evolution and nucleosynthesis (2016)
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Battino, U., Pignatari, M., Ritter, C., Herwig, F., Denisenkov, P., Den Hartogh, J. W., Trappitsch, R., Hirschi, R., Freytag, B., Thielemann, F., & Paxton, B. (2016). Application of a theory and simulation-based convective boundary mixing model for AGB star evolution and nucleosynthesis. The Astrophysical journal, 827(1), 30. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/827/1/30

The s-process nucleosynthesis in Asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars depends on the modeling of convective boundaries. We present models and s-process simulations that adopt a treatment of convective boundaries based on the results of hydrodynamic si... Read More about Application of a theory and simulation-based convective boundary mixing model for AGB star evolution and nucleosynthesis.

Chemical separation of disc components using RAVE (2016)
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Wojno, J., Kordopatis, G., Steinmetz, M., McMillan, P., Matijevič, G., Binney, J., Wyse, R. F. G., Boeche, C., Just, A., Grebel, E. K., Siebert, A., Bienaymé, O., Gibson, B. K., Zwitter, T., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Navarro, J. F., Parker, Q. A., Reid, W., Seabroke, G., & Watson, F. (2016). Chemical separation of disc components using RAVE. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 461(4), 4246-4255. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1633

© 2016 The Authors. We present evidence from the RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) survey of chemically separated, kinematically distinct disc components in the solar neighbourhood.We apply probabilistic chemical selection criteria to separate our sa... Read More about Chemical separation of disc components using RAVE.

Ocean acidification affects marine chemical communication by changing structure and function of peptide signalling molecules (2016)
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Roggatz, C. C., Lorch, M., Hardege, J. D., & Benoit, D. M. (2016). Ocean acidification affects marine chemical communication by changing structure and function of peptide signalling molecules. Global change biology, 22(12), 3914-3926. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13354

Ocean acidification is a global challenge that faces marine organisms in the near future with a predicted rapid drop in pH of up to 0.4 units by the end of this century. Effects of the change in ocean carbon chemistry and pH on the development, growt... Read More about Ocean acidification affects marine chemical communication by changing structure and function of peptide signalling molecules.

A photometrically and spectroscopically confirmed population of passive spiral galaxies (2016)
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Fraser-McKelvie, A., Brown, M. J. I., Pimbblet, K. A., Dolley, T., Crossett, J. P., & Bonne, N. J. (2016). A photometrically and spectroscopically confirmed population of passive spiral galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters, 462(1), L11-L15. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slw117

We have identified a population of passive spiral galaxies from photometry and integral field spectroscopy. We selected z < 0.035 spiral galaxies that have WISE colours consistent with little mid-infrared emission from warm dust. Matched aperture pho... Read More about A photometrically and spectroscopically confirmed population of passive spiral galaxies.

Uncertainties in Galactic Chemical Evolution Models (2016)
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Côté, B., Ritter, C., O’Shea, B. W., Herwig, F., Pignatari, M., Jones, S., & Fryer, C. L. (2016). Uncertainties in Galactic Chemical Evolution Models. The Astrophysical journal, 824(2), Article ARTN 82. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/824/2/82

We use a simple one-zone galactic chemical evolution model to quantify the uncertainties generated by the input parameters in numerical predictions for a galaxy with properties similar to those of the Milky Way. We compiled several studies from the l... Read More about Uncertainties in Galactic Chemical Evolution Models.