Black widows are extreme millisecond pulsar binaries where the pulsar wind ablates their low-mass companion stars. In the optical range, their light curves vary...
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PublicationA black widow population dissection through HiPERCAM multiband light-curve modelling
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PublicationA blind detection of a large, complex, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich structure
We present an interesting Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) detection in the first of the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) ‘blind’, degree-square fields to have been...
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PublicationA bright triple transient that vanished within 50 min
We report on three optically bright, ~16th mag, point sources within 10 arcsec of each other that vanished within 1 h, based on two consecutive exposures at...
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PublicationA case study of hurdle and generalized additive models in astronomy: the escape of ionizing radiation
The dark ages of the Universe end with the formation of the first generation of stars residing in primeval galaxies. These objects were the first to produce...
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PublicationA census of young stellar populations in the warm ULIRG PKS 1345+12
We present a detailed investigation of the young stellar populations (YSP) in the radio-loud ultraluminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG), PKS1345+12 (z = 0.12), based...
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PublicationA clean sightline to quiescence: multiwavelength observations of the high Galactic latitude black hole X-ray binary Swift J1357.2-0933
We present coordinated multiwavelength observations of the high Galactic latitude (b = +50°) black hole X-ray binary (BHXB) Swift J1357.2-0933 in quiescence...
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PublicationA close look at the dwarf AGN of NGC 4395: optical and near-IR integral field spectroscopy
Intermediate-mass black holes (103-105 M⊙) in the centre of dwarf galaxies are believed to be analogous to growing active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the early...
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PublicationA common explanation of the Hubble tension and anomalous cold spots in the CMB
The standard cosmological paradigm narrates a reassuring story of a universe currently dominated by an enigmatic dark energy component. Disquietingly, its...
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PublicationA compact jet at the infrared heart of the prototypical low-luminosity AGN in NGC 1052
The feeble radiative efficiency characteristic of Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei (LLAGNs) is ascribed to a sub-Eddington accretion rate, typically at log...