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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 2 cited

Pressure-induced structural transformation of clathrate Ge via an ultrafast recrystallization of an amorphous intermediate

Marián Ryník, Stefano Leoni, Roman Martoňák

We study the pressure-induced structural transformation of Ge clathrate by ab initio molecular dynamics and metadynamics. The system under pressure first undergoes amorphiz…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 50 cited

Production of Ammonia Makes Venusian Clouds Habitable and Explains Observed Cloud-Level Chemical Anomalies

William Bains, Janusz J. Petkowski, Paul B. Rimmer +1

The atmosphere of Venus remains mysterious, with many outstanding chemical connundra. These include: the unexpected presence of ~10 ppm O2 in the cloud layers; an unknown compositi…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 49 cited

Fragmentation induced starvation in Population III star formation: a resolution study

Lewis R. Prole, Paul C. Clark, Ralf S. Klessen +1

The Population III initial mass function (IMF) is currently unknown, but recent studies agree that fragmentation of primordial gas gives a broader IMF than the initially suggested…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 4 cited

Joint machine learning analysis of muon spectroscopy data from different materials

T. Tula, G. Möller, J. Quintanilla +6

Machine learning (ML) methods have proved to be a very successful tool in physical sciences, especially when applied to experimental data analysis. Artificial intelligence is parti…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 95 cited

ALMA-IMF I -- Investigating the origin of stellar masses: Introduction to the Large Program and first results

F. Motte, S. Bontemps, T. Csengeri +61

The ALMA-IMF Large Program imaged a total noncontiguous area of 53pc2, covering 15 extreme, nearby protoclusters of the Milky Way. They were selected to span relevant early protocl…

quant-ph2021★ 101 cited

Normalization, orthogonality and completeness of quasinormal modes of open systems: the case of electromagnetism

C. Sauvan, T. Wu, R. Zarouf +2

The scattering of electromagnetic waves by resonant systems is determined by the excitation of quasinormal modes (QNMs), i.e., the eigenmodes of the system. This Review addresses t…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 4 cited

The Spatial Evolution of Young Massive Clusters III. Effect of the Gaia Filter on 2D Spatial Distribution Studies

Anne S. M. Buckner, Zeinab Khorrami, Marta González +3

[Context.] Gaia is limited in the optical down to G~21 mag so it is essential to understand the biases introduced by a magnitude-limited sample on spatial distribution studies. [Ai…

astro-ph.GA2021

Galactic Star Formation with NIKA2 (GASTON): Evidence of mass accretion onto dense clumps

A. J. Rigby, R. Adam, P. Ade +49

High-mass stars () play a crucial role in the evolution of galaxies, and so it is imperative that we understand how they are formed. We have used the New…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 16 cited

The JCMT BISTRO Survey: Evidence for Pinched Magnetic Fields in Quiescent Filaments of NGC 1333

Yasuo Doi, Kohji Tomisaka, Tetsuo Hasegawa +33

We investigate the internal 3D magnetic structure of dense interstellar filaments within NGC 1333 using polarization data at from the -fields In STar-forming R…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 26 cited

Methanol Mapping in Cold Cores: Testing Model Predictions

Anna Punanova, Anton Vasyunin, Paola Caselli +5

Chemical models predict that in cold cores gas-phase methanol is expected to be abundant at the outer edge of the CO depletion zone, where CO is actively adsorbed. CO adsorption co…

quant-ph2021

Perturbation-Adapted Perturbation Theory

Peter J. Knowles

A new general approach is introduced for definining an optimum zero-order Hamiltonian for Rayleigh-Schrödinger perturbation theory. Instead of taking the operator directly from a m…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 33 cited

A High-Resolution Investigation of the Multi-Phase ISM in a Galaxy during the First Two Billion Years

S. Dye, S. A. Eales, H. L. Gomez +20

We have carried out the first spatially-resolved investigation of the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) at high redshift, using the z=4.24 strongly-lensed sub-millimetre galaxy…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 19 cited

Single-lens mass measurement in the high-magnification microlensing event Gaia19bld located in the Galactic disc

K. A. Rybicki, Ł. Wyrzykowski, E. Bachelet +66

We present the photometric analysis of Gaia19bld, a high-magnification () microlensing event located in the southern Galactic plane, which exhibited finite source and m…

astro-ph.IM2021

Next Generation Observatories -- Report from the Dawn VI Workshop; October 5-7 2021

D. H. Shoemaker, Stefan Ballmer, Matteo Barsuglia +33

The workshop Dawn VI: Next Generation Observatories took place online over three days, 5-7 October, 2021. More than 200 physicists and astronomers attended to contribute to, and le…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 21 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Measurement and Analysis of 1D Beams for DR4

Marius Lungu, Emilie R. Storer, Matthew Hasselfield +28

We describe the measurement and treatment of the telescope beams for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope's fourth data release, DR4. Observations of Uranus are used to measure the cent…

gr-qc2021★ 116 cited

General-relativistic precession in a black-hole binary

Mark Hannam, Charlie Hoy, Jonathan E. Thompson +24

The general-relativistic phenomenon of spin-induced orbital precession has not yet been observed in strong-field gravity. Gravitational-wave observations of binary black holes (BBH…

gr-qc2021★ 74 cited

Narrowband searches for continuous and long-duration transient gravitational waves from known pulsars in the LIGO-Virgo third observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1658

Isolated neutron stars that are asymmetric with respect to their spin axis are possible sources of detectable continuous gravitational waves. This paper presents a fully-coherent s…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 35 cited

Evolution of massive stellar triples and implications for compact object binary formation

Jakob Stegmann, Fabio Antonini, Maxwell Moe

Most back hole and neutron star progenitors are found in triples or higher multiplicity systems. Here, we present a new triple stellar evolution code, , which simultaneo…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 39 cited

ALMA-IMF II -- investigating the origin of stellar masses: Continuum Images and Data Processing

A. Ginsburg, T. Csengeri, R. Galván-Madrid +49

We present the first data release of the ALMA-IMF Large Program, which covers the 12m-array continuum calibration and imaging. The ALMA-IMF Large Program is a survey of fifteen den…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 12 cited

Euclid: Covariance of weak lensing pseudo- estimates. Calculation, comparison to simulations, and dependence on survey geometry

R. E. Upham, M. L. Brown, L. Whittaker +102

An accurate covariance matrix is essential for obtaining reliable cosmological results when using a Gaussian likelihood. In this paper we study the covariance of pseudo- es…

gr-qc2021★ 133 cited

Tests of General Relativity with GWTC-3

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1682

The ever-increasing number of detections of gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binaries by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors allows us to perform ever-more sensiti…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 18 cited

On the density regime probed by HCN emission

Gerwyn H. Jones, Paul C. Clark, Simon C. O. Glover +1

HCN J10 emission is commonly used as a dense gas tracer, thought to mainly arise from gas with densities . This has made it a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 57 cited

Long Spin Coherence Times of Nitrogen Vacancy Centres in Milled Nanodiamonds

B. D. Wood, G. A. Stimpson, J. E. March +8

Nanodiamonds containing negatively charged nitrogen vacancy centres () have applications as localized sensors in biological material and have been proposed as a pl…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 1 cited

In-flight gain monitoring of SPIDER's transition-edge sensor arrays

J. P. Filippini, A. E. Gambrel, A. S. Rahlin +67

Experiments deploying large arrays of transition-edge sensors (TESs) often require a robust method to monitor gain variations with minimal loss of observing time. We propose a sens…