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A disc wind model for blueshifts in quasar broad emission lines

ArXiv 2309.14434 (2023)

Authors:

James H Matthews, Jago Strong-Wright, Christian Knigge, Paul Hewett, Matthew J Temple, Knox S Long, Amy L Rankine, Matthew Stepney, Manda Banerji, Gordon T Richards
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Commensal Transient Searches in Eight Short Gamma Ray Burst Fields

(2023)

Authors:

SI Chastain, AJ van der Horst, A Rowlinson, L Rhodes, A Andersson, R Diretse, RP Fender, PA Woudt
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AT 2022aedm and a New Class of Luminous, Fast-cooling Transients in Elliptical Galaxies

The Astrophysical Journal Letters American Astronomical Society 954:1 (2023) l28

Authors:

M Nicholl, S Srivastav, MD Fulton, S Gomez, ME Huber, SR Oates, P Ramsden, L Rhodes, SJ Smartt, KW Smith, A Aamer, JP Anderson, FE Bauer, E Berger, T de Boer, KC Chambers, P Charalampopoulos, T-W Chen, RP Fender, M Fraser, H Gao, DA Green, L Galbany, BP Gompertz, M Gromadzki, CP Gutiérrez, DA Howell, C Inserra, PG Jonker, M Kopsacheili, TB Lowe, EA Magnier, C McCully, SL McGee, T Moore, TE Müller-Bravo, M Newsome, E Padilla Gonzalez, C Pellegrino, T Pessi, M Pursiainen, A Rest, EJ Ridley, BJ Shappee, X Sheng, GP Smith, G Terreran, MA Tucker, J Vinkó, RJ Wainscoat, P Wiseman, DR Young
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FRB 20121102A: images of the bursts and the varying radio counterpart

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 525:3 (2023) 3626-3632

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L Rhodes, M Caleb, BW Stappers, A Andersson, MC Bezuidenhout, LN Driessen, I Heywood
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Pulsar polarization: a partial-coherence model

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 525:1 (2023) 840-853

Authors:

Lucy S Oswald, Aris Karastergiou, Simon Johnston

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The population of radio pulsars is observed to demonstrate certain polarization properties not explained by the conventional picture of pulsar polarization, namely frequency evolution of polarization, deviations of the linear polarization angle from a curve of geometric origins, and the presence of features in the circular polarization. We present the partial-coherence model as a way to explain the co-occurrence of these features and to provide an origin for circular polarization in radio pulsar profiles. We describe the mathematics of the model and demonstrate how it can explain these observed features, both on a population level and for the idiosyncrasies of individual pulsars. The partial coherence model can account for complex polarization behaviour, enabling improved access to information about pulsar geometries. We discuss the scientific implications of this for our understanding of pulsar radio emission and propagation.
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