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On the fragmentation boundary in magnetised self-gravitating discs
Duncan Forgan, Daniel J. Price, Ian Bonnell
We investigate the role of magnetic fields in the fragmentation of self-gravitating discs using 3D global ideal magnetohydrodynamic simulations performed with the "phantom" smoothe…
Grand challenges in protoplanetary disc modelling
Thomas J. Haworth, John D. Ilee, Duncan H. Forgan +18
The Protoplanetary Discussions conference --- held in Edinburgh, UK, from 7th --11th March 2016 --- included several open sessions led by participants. This paper reports on the di…
The Galactic Club, or Galactic Cliques? Exploring the limits of interstellar hegemony and the Zoo Hypothesis
Duncan H Forgan
The Zoo solution to Fermi's Paradox proposes that extraterrestrial intelligences (ETIs) have agreed to not contact the Earth. The strength of this solution depends on the ability f…
Milankovitch Cycles of Terrestrial Planets in Binary Star Systems
Duncan H Forgan
The habitability of planets in binary star systems depends not only on the radiation environment created by the two stars, but also on the perturbations to planetary orbits and rot…
G11.92-0.61 MM1: A Keplerian disc around a massive young proto-O star
J. D. Ilee, C. J. Cyganowski, P. Nazari +4
The formation process of massive stars is not well understood, and advancement in our understanding benefits from high resolution observations and modelling of the gas and dust sur…
#FoundThem - 21st Century Pre-Search and Post-Detection SETI Protocols for Social and Digital Media
Duncan Forgan, Alexander Scholz
The transmission of news stories in global culture has changed fundamentally in the last three decades. The general public are alerted to breaking stories on increasingly rapid tim…