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Disk-Jet quenching of the Galactic Black Hole Swift J1753.5-0127

(2016)

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AP Rushton, AW Shaw, RP Fender, D Altamirano, P Gandhi, P Uttley, PA Charles, M Kolehmainen, GE Anderson, C Rumsey, DJ Titterington
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HIRAX: A probe of dark energy and radio transients

Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics 9906 (2016) 99065x-99065x-11

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LB Newburgh, K Bandura, MA Bucher, T-C Chang, HC Chiang, JF Cliche, R Davé, M Dobbs, C Clarkson, KM Ganga, T Gogo, A Gumba, N Gupta, M Hilton, B Johnstone, A Karastergiou, M Kunz, D Lokhorst, R Maartens, S Macpherson, M Mdlalose, K Moodley, L Ngwenya, JM Parra, J Peterson, O Recnik, B Saliwanchik, MG Santos, JL Sievers, O Smirnov, P Stronkhorst, R Taylor, K Vanderlinde, G Van Vuuren, A Weltman, A Witzemann
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Engineering and science highlights of the KAT-7 radio telescope

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 460:2 (2016) 1664-1679

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AR Foley, T Alberts, RP Armstrong, A Barta, EF Bauermeister, H Bester, S Blose, RS Booth, DH Botha, SJ Buchner, C Carignan, T Cheetham, K Cloete, G Coreejes, RC Crida, SD Cross, F Curtolo, A Dikgale, MS de Villiers, LJ du Toit, SWP Esterhuyse, B Fanaroff, RP Fender, M Fijalkowski, D Fourie, B Frank, D George, P Gibbs, S Goedhart, J Grobbelaar, SC Gumede, P Herselman, KM Hess, N Hoek, J Horrell, JL Jonas, JDB Jordaan, R Julie, F Kapp, P Kotzé, T Kusel, A Langman, R Lehmensiek, D Liebenberg, IJV Liebenberg, A Loots, RT Lord, DM Lucero, J Ludick, P Macfarlane, M Madlavana, L Magnus, C Magozore, JA Malan, JR Manley, L Marais, N Marais, SJ Marais, M Maree, A Martens, O Mokone, V Moss, S Mthembu, W New, GD Nicholson, PC van Niekerk, N Oozeer, SS Passmoor, A Peens-Hough, AB Pińska, P Prozesky, S Rajan, S Ratcliffe, R Renil, LL Richter, D Rosekrans, A Rust, AC Schröder, LC Schwardt, S Seranyane, M Serylak, DS Shepherd, R Siebrits, L Sofeya, R Spann, R Springbok, PS Swart, Venkatasubramani L Thondikulam, IP Theron, A Tiplady, O Toruvanda, S Tshongweni, L van den Heever, C van der Merwe, R van Rooyen, S Wakhaba, AL Walker, M Welz, L Williams, M Wolleben, PA Woudt, NJ Young, JTL Zwart
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Relative likelihood for life as a function of cosmic time

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Institute of Physics 2016 (2016) 040

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Abraham Loeb, Rafael Alves Batista, David JA Sloan

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Is life most likely to emerge at the present cosmic time near a star like the Sun? We address this question by calculating the relative formation probability per unit time of habitable Earth-like planets within a fixed comoving volume of the Universe, dP (t)/dt, starting from the first stars and continuing to the distant cosmic future. We conservatively restrict our attention to the context of “life as we know it” and the standard cosmological model, ΛCDM. We find that unless habitability around low mass stars is suppressed, life is most likely to exist near ∼ 0.1M ⊙ stars ten trillion years from now. Spectroscopic searches for biosignatures in the atmospheres of transiting Earth-mass planets around low mass stars will determine whether present-day life is indeed premature or typical from a cosmic perspective.
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MeerLICHT and BlackGEM: custom-built telescopes to detect faint optical transients

Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics 9906 (2016) 990664-990664-9

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Steven Bloemen, Paul Groot, Patrick Woudt, Marc Klein Wolt, Vanessa McBride, Gijs Nelemans, Elmar Körding, Margaretha L Pretorius, Ronald Roelfsema, Felix Bettonvil, Harry Balster, Roy Bakker, Peter Dolron, Arjen van Elteren, Eddy Elswijk, Arno Engels, Rob Fender, Marc Fokker, Menno de Haan, Klaas Hagoort, Jasper de Hoog, Rik ter Horst, Giel van der Kevie, Stanisław Kozłowski, Jan Kragt, Grzegorz Lech, Rudolf Le Poole, Dirk Lesman, Johan Morren, Ramon Navarro, Willem-Jelle Paalberends, Kerry Paterson, Rafal Pawłaszek, Wim Pessemier, Gert Raskin, Harrie Rutten, Bart Scheers, Menno Schuil, Piotr W Sybilski
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