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The fifteenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: first release of MaNGA derived quantities, data visualization tools and stellar library (2019)
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Aguado, D., Ahumada, R., Almeida, A., Anderson, S. F., Andrews, B. H., Anguiano, B., …Zou, H. (2019). The fifteenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: first release of MaNGA derived quantities, data visualization tools and stellar library. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 240(2), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aaf651

Twenty years have passed since first light for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Here, we release data taken by the fourth phase of SDSS (SDSS-IV) across its first three years of operation (2014 July–2017 July). This is the third data release for... Read More about The fifteenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: first release of MaNGA derived quantities, data visualization tools and stellar library.

TheThreeHundred Project: ram pressure and gas content of haloes and subhaloes in the phase-space plane (2019)
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Arthur, J., Pearce, F. R., Gray, M. E., Knebe, A., Cui, W., Elahi, P. J., …Stevens, A. R. H. (2019). TheThreeHundred Project: ram pressure and gas content of haloes and subhaloes in the phase-space plane. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(3), 3968-3983. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz212

We use THETHREEHUNDRED project, a suite of 324 resimulated massive galaxy clusters embedded in a broad range of environments, to investigate (i) how the gas content of the surrounding haloes correlates with the phase-space position at z z = 0 and (i... Read More about TheThreeHundred Project: ram pressure and gas content of haloes and subhaloes in the phase-space plane.

PLCK G165.7+67.0: Analysis of a Massive Lensing Cluster in a Hubble Space Telescope Census of Submillimeter Giant Arcs Selected Using Planck/Herschel (2019)
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Frye, B. L., Pascale, M., Qin, Y., Zitrin, A., Diego, J., Walth, G., …Windhorst, R. A. (2019). PLCK G165.7+67.0: Analysis of a Massive Lensing Cluster in a Hubble Space Telescope Census of Submillimeter Giant Arcs Selected Using Planck/Herschel. Astrophysical Journal, 871(1), Article 51. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaeff7

© 2019. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.. We present Hubble Space Telescope WFC3-IR imaging in the fields of six apparently bright dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) at z = 2-4 identified by their rest-frame far-infrared colo... Read More about PLCK G165.7+67.0: Analysis of a Massive Lensing Cluster in a Hubble Space Telescope Census of Submillimeter Giant Arcs Selected Using Planck/Herschel.

Ion exchange and binding in selenium remediation materials using DNP-enhanced solid-state NMR spectroscopy (2019)
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Mais, M., Torroba, J., Barrow, N. S., Paul, S., & Titman, J. J. (2019). Ion exchange and binding in selenium remediation materials using DNP-enhanced solid-state NMR spectroscopy. Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, 98, 19-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssnmr.2019.01.004

Selenate-loaded selenium water remediation materials based on polymer fibres have been investigated by dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) enhanced solid-state NMR. For carbon-13 a significant reduction in experiment time is obtained with DNP even whe... Read More about Ion exchange and binding in selenium remediation materials using DNP-enhanced solid-state NMR spectroscopy.

Interactions between a water molecule and C 60 in the endohedral fullerene H2O@C60 (2019)
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Rashed, E., & Dunn, J. L. (2019). Interactions between a water molecule and C 60 in the endohedral fullerene H2O@C60. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 21(6), 3347-3359. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8CP04390F

A water molecule encapsulated inside a C 60 fullerene cage behaves almost like an asymmetric top rotor, as would be expected of an isolated water molecule. However, inelastic neutron scattering (INS) experiments show evidence of interactions between... Read More about Interactions between a water molecule and C 60 in the endohedral fullerene H2O@C60.

Slow growth of out-of-time-order correlators and entanglement entropy in integrable disordered systems (2019)
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McGinley, M., Nunnenkamp, A., & Knolle, J. (2019). Slow growth of out-of-time-order correlators and entanglement entropy in integrable disordered systems. Physical Review Letters, 122(2), Article 020603. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.020603

We investigate how information spreads in three paradigmatic one-dimensional models with spatial disorder. The models we consider are unitarily related to a system of free fermions and, thus, are manifestly integrable. We demonstrate that out-of-time... Read More about Slow growth of out-of-time-order correlators and entanglement entropy in integrable disordered systems.

Development of novel apoferritin formulations for antitumour benzothiazoles (2019)
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Breen, A. F., Wells, G., Turyanska, L., & Bradshaw, T. D. (2019). Development of novel apoferritin formulations for antitumour benzothiazoles. Cancer Reports, 2(4), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1002/cnr2.1155

Background The benzothiazole structure is important in medicinal chemistry, and 5‐fluoro‐2‐(3,4‐dimethoxyphenyl) benzothiazole (GW 610) is of particular interest as it shows outstanding anticancer activity in sensitive breast and colorectal carcinom... Read More about Development of novel apoferritin formulations for antitumour benzothiazoles.

Quasi-normal modes and fermionic vacuum decay around a Kerr black hole (2019)
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Coutant, A., & Millington, P. (2019). Quasi-normal modes and fermionic vacuum decay around a Kerr black hole. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 36(3), Article 035005. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aaf679

We analyze the instability of the non-rotating fermion vacuum in Kerr spacetimes. We describe how the co-rotating Fermi sea is formed as a result of a spontaneous vacuum decay. Most significantly, and drawing upon intuition gained from analogous elec... Read More about Quasi-normal modes and fermionic vacuum decay around a Kerr black hole.

Entropy and its Application to Urban Systems (2019)
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Purvis, B., Mao, Y., & Robinson, D. (2019). Entropy and its Application to Urban Systems. Entropy, 21(1), Article 56. https://doi.org/10.3390/e21010056

Since its conception over 150 years ago, entropy has enlightened and confused scholars and students alike, from its origins in physics and beyond. More recently, it has been considered within the urban context in a rather eclectic range of applicatio... Read More about Entropy and its Application to Urban Systems.

Synthetic lattices, flat bands and localization in Rydberg quantum simulators (2019)
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Ostmann, M., Marcuzzi, M., Minář, J., & Lesanovsky, I. (2019). Synthetic lattices, flat bands and localization in Rydberg quantum simulators. Quantum Science and Technology, 4(2), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/aaf29d

© 2019 IOP Publishing Ltd. The most recent manifestation of cold Rydberg atom quantum simulators that employs tailored optical tweezer arrays enables the study of many-body dynamics under so-called facilitation conditions. We show how the facilitatio... Read More about Synthetic lattices, flat bands and localization in Rydberg quantum simulators.

OMEGA – OSIRIS mapping of emission-line galaxies in A901/2 – V. The rich population of jellyfish galaxies in the multi-cluster system Abell 901/2 (2019)
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Roman-Oliveira, F. V., Chies-Santos, A. L., Rodríguez Del Pino, B., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Gray, M. E., & Bamford, S. P. (2019). OMEGA – OSIRIS mapping of emission-line galaxies in A901/2 – V. The rich population of jellyfish galaxies in the multi-cluster system Abell 901/2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(1), 892–905. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz007

We present the results of a systematic search and characterisation of galaxies with morphological signatures of ram-pressure stripping, known as jellyfish galaxies, in the multi-cluster system A901/2, at z ∼ 0.165, as part of the OMEGA survey. By vis... Read More about OMEGA – OSIRIS mapping of emission-line galaxies in A901/2 – V. The rich population of jellyfish galaxies in the multi-cluster system Abell 901/2.

Star-forming, rotating spheroidal galaxies in the GAMA and SAMI surveys (2019)
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Moffett, A. J., Phillipps, S., Robotham, A. S., Driver, S. P., Bremer, M. N., Cortese, L., …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.

Tunnel spectroscopy of localised electronic states in hexagonal boron nitride (2018)
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Patanè, A., Mishchenko, A., Greenaway, M., Vdovin, E., Ghazaryan, D., Misra, A., …Eaves, L. (2018). Tunnel spectroscopy of localised electronic states in hexagonal boron nitride. Communications Physics, 1(1), Article 94. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-018-0097-1

Hexagonal boron nitride is a large band gap layered crystal, frequently incorporated in van der Waals heterostructures as an insulating or tunnel barrier. Localised states with energies within its band gap can emit visible light, relevant to applicat... Read More about Tunnel spectroscopy of localised electronic states in hexagonal boron nitride.

The Three Hundred Project: the evolution of galaxy cluster density profiles (2018)
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Mostoghiu, R., Knebe, A., Cui, W., Pearce, F. R., Yepes, G., Power, C., …Arth, A. (2018). The Three Hundred Project: the evolution of galaxy cluster density profiles. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 483(3), 3390-3403. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty3306

Recent numerical studies of the dark matter density profiles of massive galaxy clusters (Mhalo > 1015 M) show that their median radial mass density profile remains unchanged up to z > 1, displaying a highly self-similar evolution. We verify this by u... Read More about The Three Hundred Project: the evolution of galaxy cluster density profiles.

Short-term changes observed in multi-parametric liver MRI following therapy with direct acting antivirals in chronic hepatitis C virus patients (2018)
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Bradley, C., Scott, R., Cox, E., Palaniyappan, N., Thompson, B., Ryder, D., …Francis, S. (2019). Short-term changes observed in multi-parametric liver MRI following therapy with direct acting antivirals in chronic hepatitis C virus patients. European Radiology, 29(6), 3100–3107. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-018-5788-1

Methods: We applied multiparametric MRI to assess changes in liver composition, perfusion and blood flow in 17 patients before DAA therapy and after treatment completion (within 12 weeks of last DAA tablet swallowed). Results: We observed changes in... Read More about Short-term changes observed in multi-parametric liver MRI following therapy with direct acting antivirals in chronic hepatitis C virus patients.

Photo-quantum Hall effect and light-induced charge transfer at the interface of graphene/InSe heterostructures (2018)
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Bhuiyan, M. A., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Mazumder, D., Greener, J. D., Makarovsky, O., Mellor, C. J., …Patanè, A. (2019). Photo-quantum Hall effect and light-induced charge transfer at the interface of graphene/InSe heterostructures. Advanced Functional Materials, 29(3), Article 1805491. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201805491

The transfer of electronic charge across the interface of two van der Waals crystals can underpin the operation of a new class of functional devices. Amongst van der Waals semiconductors, an exciting and rapidly growing development involves the “post... Read More about Photo-quantum Hall effect and light-induced charge transfer at the interface of graphene/InSe heterostructures.

Fast Raman spectral mapping of highly fluorescing samples by time-gated spectral multiplexed detection (2018)
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Corden, C. J., Shipp, D. W., Matousek, P., & Notingher, I. (2018). Fast Raman spectral mapping of highly fluorescing samples by time-gated spectral multiplexed detection. Optics Letters, 43(23), 5733-5736. https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.43.005733

We present a time-gated Raman micro-spectroscopy technique suitable for fast Raman mapping of samples eliciting large laser-induced fluorescence backgrounds. To achieve the required time resolution for effective fluorescence rejection, a picosecond p... Read More about Fast Raman spectral mapping of highly fluorescing samples by time-gated spectral multiplexed detection.

Design and optical characterisation of an efficient light trapping structure for dye-sensitized solar cell integrated windows (2018)
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Knott, A., Liu, X., Makarovskiy, O., O'Shea, J., Tuck, C., & Wu, Y. (2019). Design and optical characterisation of an efficient light trapping structure for dye-sensitized solar cell integrated windows. Building Simulation, 12(1), 41-49. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-018-0485-1

Windows integrated with semi-transparent photovoltaics (PVs) such as Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs) show good potential in improving building performance, in term of providing daylight, reducing unnecessary solar heat gain and also generating ele... Read More about Design and optical characterisation of an efficient light trapping structure for dye-sensitized solar cell integrated windows.

The environments of luminous radio-WISE selected infrared galaxies (2018)
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Penney, J. I., Blain, A. W., Wylezalek, D., Hatch, N. A., Lonsdale, C., Kimball, A., …Wu, J. (2019). The environments of luminous radio-WISE selected infrared galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 483(1), 514-528. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty3128

We have observed the environments of a population of 33 heavily dust obscured, ultraluminous, high-redshift galaxies, selected using Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and NRAO 1.4 GHz VLA Sky Survey atz > 1.3 with the infrared array camera o... Read More about The environments of luminous radio-WISE selected infrared galaxies.

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Accurate number densities and environments of massive ultra-compact galaxies at 0.02 < z < 0.3 (2018)
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Buitrago, F., Ferreras, I., Kelvin, L. S., Baldry, I. K., Davies, L., Angthopo, J., …Graham, A. W. (2018). Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Accurate number densities and environments of massive ultra-compact galaxies at 0.02 < z < 0.3. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 619, Article A137. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833785

Context. Massive ultra-compact galaxies (MUGs) are common at z = 2−3, but very rare in the nearby Universe. Simulations predict that the few surviving MUGs should reside in galaxy clusters, whose large relative velocities prevent them from merging, t... Read More about Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Accurate number densities and environments of massive ultra-compact galaxies at 0.02 < z < 0.3.