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Statistics of a single sky: constrained random fields and the imprint of Bardeen potentials on galaxy clustering

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 504:4 (2021) 5612-5620

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Vincent Desjacques, Yonadav Barry Ginat, Robert Reischke
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The SAMI Galaxy Survey: stellar population and structural trends across the Fundamental Plane

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 504:4 (2021) 5098-5130

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Francesco D’Eugenio, Matthew Colless, Nicholas Scott, Arjen van der Wel, Roger L Davies, Jesse van de Sande, Sarah M Sweet, Sree Oh, Brent Groves, Rob Sharp, Matt S Owers, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Scott M Croom, Sarah Brough, Julia J Bryant, Michael Goodwin, Jon S Lawrence, Nuria PF Lorente, Samuel N Richards
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The Equivalence Principle and The Cosmological Constant Problem

ArXiv 2105.0775 (2021)
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EDGE: two routes to dark matter core formation in ultra-faint dwarfs

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 504:3 (2021) 3509-3522

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Matthew DA Orkney, Justin I Read, Martin P Rey, Imran Nasim, Andrew Pontzen, Oscar Agertz, Stacy Y Kim, Maxime Delorme, Walter Dehnen

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ABSTRACT In the standard Lambda cold dark matter paradigm, pure dark matter simulations predict dwarf galaxies should inhabit dark matter haloes with a centrally diverging density ‘cusp’. This is in conflict with observations that typically favour a constant density ‘core’. We investigate this ‘cusp-core problem’ in ‘ultra-faint’ dwarf galaxies simulated as part of the ‘Engineering Dwarfs at Galaxy formation’s Edge’ project. We find, similarly to previous work, that gravitational potential fluctuations within the central region of the simulated dwarfs kinematically heat the dark matter particles, lowering the dwarfs’ central dark matter density. However, these fluctuations are not exclusively caused by gas inflow/outflow, but also by impulsive heating from minor mergers. We use the genetic modification approach on one of our dwarf’s initial conditions to show how a delayed assembly history leads to more late minor mergers and, correspondingly, more dark matter heating. This provides a mechanism by which even ultra-faint dwarfs ($M_* \lt 10^5\, \text{M}_{\odot }$), in which star formation was fully quenched at high redshift, can have their central dark matter density lowered over time. In contrast, we find that late major mergers can regenerate a central dark matter cusp, if the merging galaxy had sufficiently little star formation. The combination of these effects leads us to predict significant stochasticity in the central dark matter density slopes of the smallest dwarfs, driven by their unique star formation and mass assembly histories.
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The first Hubble diagram and cosmological constraints using superluminous supernovae

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 504:2 (2021) 2535-2549

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C Inserra, M Sullivan, CR Angus, E Macaulay, RC Nichol, M Smith, C Frohmaier, CP Gutiérrez, M Vicenzi, A Möller, D Brout, PJ Brown, TM Davis, CB D’Andrea, L Galbany, R Kessler, AG Kim, Y-C Pan, M Pursiainen, D Scolnic, BP Thomas, P Wiseman, TMC Abbott, J Annis, S Avila, E Bertin, D Brooks, DL Burke, A Carnero Rosell, M Carrasco Kind, J Carretero, FJ Castander, R Cawthon, S Desai, HT Diehl, TF Eifler, DA Finley, B Flaugher, P Fosalba, J Frieman, J Garcia-Bellido, E Gaztanaga, DW Gerdes, T Giannantonio, D Gruen, RA Gruendl, J Gschwend, G Gutierrez, DL Hollowood, K Honscheid, DJ James, E Krause, K Kuehn, N Kuropatkin, TS Li, C Lidman, M Lima, MAG Maia, JL Marshall, P Martini, F Menanteau, R Miquel, AA Plazas Malagón, AK Romer, A Roodman, M Sako, E Sanchez, V Scarpine, M Schubnell, S Serrano, I Sevilla-Noarbe, M Soares-Santos, F Sobreira, E Suchyta, MEC Swanson, G Tarle, D Thomas, DL Tucker, V Vikram, AR Walker, Y Zhang, J Asorey, J Calcino, D Carollo, K Glazebrook, SR Hinton, JK Hoormann, GF Lewis, R Sharp, E Swann, BE Tucker
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