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Spirals in Galaxies by Jerry A. Sellwood and Karen L. Masters by
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By Jerry A. Sellwood and Karen L. Masters. Sections4–6 distinguish wave dynamics, recurring patterns, quasi-steady models and the gas response. The review is a general scientific reference, not an answer set for this examination.
Coevolution (Or Not) of Supermassive Black Holes and Host Galaxies by John Kormendy and Luis C. Ho by
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By John Kormendy and Luis C. Ho. The review discusses dynamical mass evidence, nuclear accretion and the different correlations of black holes with classical bulges, pseudobulges and disks.
Star Formation in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies by Robert C. Kennicutt Jr. and Neal J. Evans II by
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By Robert C. Kennicutt Jr. and Neal J. Evans II. Sections3–6 describe rate diagnostics and the relation between gas, clouds and galactic star formation.
Self-Similar Collapse of Isothermal Spheres and Star Formation by Frank H. Shu by
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By Frank H. Shu. The Astrophysical Journal214,488–497. The classical expansion-wave collapse model has an initially isothermal outer envelope and a freely falling inner asymptote. The source paper is cited for the model; no numerical similarity eigenvalue is required for the examination scaling argument.
By Hagai Netzer. Section2.2 explains collisional excitation, critical density and high-density thermalized populations.
Physical Review Letters 71, 666–669. Equations (1)–(5) explicitly solve the two-coordinate-coupled-oscillator ground state, partial trace and effective thermal oscillator spectrum. The effective frequency need not equal either bare subsystem frequency.
Measurement of Subpicosecond Time Intervals between Two Photons by Interference by C. K. Hong and others by
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Primary-paper scan hosted by Caltech: painterlab.caltech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/iqd_measurement_subpicosecond_time_two_photons.pdf
Physical Review Letters 59, 2044–2046. The experiment combines down-converted photon pairs at a beam splitter, scans relative path delay and records coincidences after accounting for accidental background; the ideal balanced, indistinguishable limit suppresses the coincidence output.
Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Large-Scale Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies by Daniel Eisenstein and others by
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Astrophysical Journal 633, pp. 560–574. Primary SDSS luminous-red-galaxy correlation-function measurement and acoustic distance-scale analysis.
Limits on the Macho Content of the Galactic Halo from the EROS-2 Survey of the Magellanic Clouds by the EROS-2 Collaboration by
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Astronomy and Astrophysics 469, pp. 387–404. Primary bright-star survey analysis with mass-dependent halo-fraction constraints.
The XENON100 Dark Matter Experiment by the XENON100 Collaboration by
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Dark Matter Results from 225 Live Days of XENON100 Data by the XENON100 Collaboration by
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Physical Review Letters 109, 181301. Inspected arXiv version includes apparatus description, calibrations, blind selection and background-compatible result.
Dynamical Role of Light Neutral Leptons in Cosmology by Scott Tremaine and James Edward Gunn by
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Physical Review Letters 42, pp. 407–410. Collisionless phase-space argument for light-fermion halo constraints.
Search for squarks and gluinos with the ATLAS detector in final states with jets and missing transverse momentum using 8 TeV proton-proton collision data by the ATLAS Collaboration by
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A modification of the Newtonian dynamics as a possible alternative to the hidden mass hypothesis by Mordehai Milgrom by
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Relativistic gravitation theory for the MOND paradigm by Jacob Bekenstein by
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Earthquake Hazards Program Glossary by United States Geological Survey by
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An analysis of the variation of ocean floor bathymetry and heat flow with age by Barry Parsons and John G. Sclater by
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High-temperature deformation of dry diabase, with application to crustal deformation on Venus by S. J. Mackwell and others by
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Evidence for deep mantle circulation from global tomography by R. D. van der Hilst and others by
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