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Submissions from 2018

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Polar Alignment of a Protoplanetary Disc around an Eccentric Binary - II. Effect of Binary and Disc Parameters, Rebecca G. Martin and Stephen H. Lubow

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Circumbinary Discs around Merging Stellar-mass Black Holes, Rebecca G. Martin, Chris Nixon, Fu-Guo Xie, and Andrew King

Bright Merger-nova Emission Powered By Magnetic Wind From A Newborn Black Hole, S B. Ma, W H. Lei, H Gao, W Xie, W Chen, B Zhang, and D X. Wang

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Rossby Vortices in Thin Magnetized Accretion Discs, L. Matilsky, Sergei Dyda, R. V. E. Lovelace, and P. S. Lii

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The Origin of the Prompt Emission for Short GRB 170817A: Photosphere Emission or Synchrotron Emission?, Yan-Zhi Meng, Jin-Jun Geng, Bin-Bin Zhang, Jun-Jie Wei, Di Xiao, Liang-Duan Liu, He Gao, Xue-Feng Wu, En-Wei Liang, Yong-Feng Huang, Zi-Gao Dai, and Bing Zhang

Effect Of Pressure On Crystal Structure And Superconductivity Of Nbsexte2−x (x = 2, 1.5), V Mkrtchyan, R Kumar, M White, H Yanxon, and A Cornelius

The Planet Formation Imager, John D. Monnier, Stefan Kraus, Michael J. Ireland, Fabien Baron, Amelia Bayo, Jean-Philippe Berger, Michelle Creech-Eakman, Ruobing Dong, Gaspard Duchêne, Catherine Espaillat, Chris Haniff, Sebastian Hönig, Andrea Isella, Attila Juhasz, Lucas Labadie, Sylvestre Lacour, Stephanie Leifer, Antoine Merand, Ernest Michael, Stefano Minardi, Christoph Mordasini, David Mozurkewich, Johan Olofsson, Claudia Paladini, Romain Petrov, Jörg-Uwe Pott, Stephen Ridgway, Stephen Rinehart, Keivan Stassun, Jean Surdej, and Theo ten Brummelaar

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Warping a Protoplanetary Disc with a Planet on an Inclined Orbit, Rebecca Nealon, Giovanni Dipierro, Richard Alexander, Rebecca G. Martin, and Chris Nixon

Zirconium Tetrachloride Revisited, Rosendo Borjas Nevarez, Samundeeswari Mariappan Balasekaran, Eunja Kim, Philippe Weck, and Frederic Poineau

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Parametric Study of the Rossby Wave Instability in a Two-dimensional Barotropic Disk. II. Nonlinear Calculations, Tomohiro Ono, Takayuki Muto, Kengo Tomida, and Zhaohuan Zhu

Are There Multiple Populations Of Fast Radio Bursts?, D Palaniswamy, Y Li, and B Zhang

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Enhanced Superconducting Transition Temperature in Electroplated Rhenium, D. P. Pappas, D. E. David, R. E. Lake, M. Bal, R. B. Goldfarb, D. A. Hite, E. Kim, H.-S. Ku, C. R. H. McRae, L. D. Pappas, A. Roshko, J. G. Wen, B. L. T. Plourde, I. Arslan, and X. Wu

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The Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP). X. Multiple Rings, a Misaligned Inner Disk, and a Bright Arc in the Disk around the T Tauri star HD 143006, Laura M. Pérez, Myriam Benisty, Sean M. Andrews, Andrea Isella, Cornelis P. Dellemond, Jane Huang, Nicolás T. Kurtovic, Viviana V. Guzmán, Zhaohuan Zhu, Tilman Birnstiel, Shangjia Zhang, John M. Carpenter, David J. Wilner, Luca Ricci, Xue-Ning Bai, Erik Weaver, and Karin I. Öberg

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A Long-Lived Neutron Star Merger Remnant in GW170817: Constraints and Clues from X-ray Observations, L Piro, E Troja, Bing Zhang, G Ryan, H van Eerten, R Ricci, M H. Wieringa, A Tiengo, N R. Butler, S B. Cenko, O D. Fox, H G. Khandrika, G Novara, A Rossi, and T Sakamoto

In-Situ Measurement of Forrest Soil Gases using Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry, Tim Porter and T. R. Dillingham

Hard X-ray Induced Synthesis of OF2, Michael G. Pravica, Yonggang Wang, Melanie White, Yuming Xiao, and Paul Chow

Hard X-ray Synthesis of OF2, Michael G. Pravica, Yonggang Wang, Melanie White, Yuming Xiao, and Paul Chow

Survivability of Moon Systems Around Ejected Gas Giants, Ian Rabago and Jason H. Steffen

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Survivability of Moon Systems Around Ejected Gas Giants, Ian Rabago and Jason H. Steffen

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Long-lived Remnants from Binary Neutron Star Mergers, David Radice, Albino Perego, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, and Bing Zhang

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Survival of Non-coplanar, Closely Packed Planetary Systems after a Close Encounter, David R. Rice, Frederic A. Rasio, and Jason H. Steffen

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What is Measured by Hyper-Rayleigh Scattering From a Liquid?, Micheal B. Rodriquez and David P. Shelton

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Understanding the Death of Massive Stars Using an Astrophysical Transients Observatory, Peter W. Roming, Eddie Baron, Amanda J. Bayless, Volker Bromm, Peter J. Brown, Michael W. Davis, Anastasia Fialkov, Brian Fleming, Kevin France, Chris L. Fryer, Thomas K. Greathouse, Jed J. Hancock, D. Andrew Howell, Andrew J. Levan, Abraham Loeb, Raffaella Margutti, Mark L. McConnell, Paul T. O'Brien, Julian P. Osborne, Daniel A. Perley, Eric M. Schlegel, Rhaana L. C. Starling, Nial R. Tanvir, Mark Tapley, Patrick A. Young, and Bing Zhang

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A Bayesian Framework for Exoplanet Direct Detection and Non-detection, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Dimitri Mawet, Ian Czekala, Bruce Macintosh, Robert J. De Rosa, Garreth Ruane, Michael Bottom, Laurent Pueyo, Jason J. Wang, Lea Hirsch, Zhaohuan Zhu, and Eric L. Nielsen

On the Non-detection of Glashow Resonance in IceCube, Sarira Sahu and Bing Zhang

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Streaming Instability of Multiple Particle Species in Protoplanetary Disks, Noemi Schaffer, Chao-Chin Yang, and Anders Johansen

Response to “Comment on ‘Water-water correlations in electrolyte solutions probed by hyper-Rayleigh scattering’” [J. Chem. Phys. 149, 167101 (2018)], David P. Shelton

Third Harmonic Scattering in Liquids, David P. Shelton

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Revisiting Polymorphism of Molecular Crystals from the Melt, Alexander Shtukenberg, Qiang Zhu, and Bart Kahr

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White Dwarf Pollution by Asteroids from Secular Resonances, Jeremy L. Smallwood, Rebecca G. Martin, Mario Livio, and Stephen H. Lubow

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Postaragonite Phases of CaCO3 at Lower Mantle Pressures, Dean Smith, Keith V. Lawler, Miguel Martinez-Canales, Austin W. Daykin, G. Alexander Smith, Christian Childs, Jesse S. Smith, Chris J. Pickard, and Ashkan Salamat

Simple Imaging for the Diamond Anvil Cell: Applications to Hard-to-reach Places, Dean Smith, David P. Shelton, Paul B. Ellison, and Ashkan Salamat

A CO2 Laser Heating System for in Situ High Pressure-Temperature Experiments at HPCAT, Dean Smith, Jesse S. Smith, Christian Childs, Eric Rod, Rostislav Hrubiak, Guoyin Shen, and Ashkan Salamat

THESEUS: A Key Space Mission Concept for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics, G. Stratta, R. Ciolfi, L. Amati, E. Bozzo, G. Ghirlanda, E. Maiorano, L. Nicastro, A. Rossi, S. Vinciguerra, F. Frontera, D. Götz, C. Guidorzi, P. O’Brien, J. P. Osborne, N. Tanvir, M. Branchesi, E. Brocato, M. G. Dainotti, M. De Pasquale, A. Grado, J. Greiner, F. Longo, U. Maio, D. Mereghetti, R. Mignani, S. Piranomonte, L. Rezzolla, R. Salvaterra, R. Starling, R. Willingale, and M. Böer

Probing the Structural and Electronic Properties of Zirconium Doped Boron Clusters: Zr Distorted B 12 Ligand Framework, Weiguo Sun, Xinxin Xia, Cheng Lu, Xiaoyu Kuang, and Andreas Hermann

Atomically Thin NiB6 Monolayer: A Robust Dirac Material, Xiao Tang, Weiguo Sun, Cheng Lu, Liangzhi Kou, and Changfeng Chen

ROY Revisited, Again: The Eighth Solved Structure, Melissa Tan, Alexander G. Shtukenberg, Shengcai Zhu, Wengian Xu, Eric Dooryhee, Shane M. Nichols, Michael D. Ward, Bart Kahr, and Qiang Zhu

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Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler. VIII. A Fully Automated Catalog with Measured Completeness and Reliability Based on Data Release 25, Susan E. Thompson, Jeffrey L. Coughlin, Kelssey Hoffman, Fergal Mullally, Jessie L. Christiansen, Christopher J. Burke, Steve Bryson, Natalie Batalha, Michael R. Haas, Joseph Catanzarite, Jason F. Rowe, Geert Barentsen, Douglas A. Caldwell, Bruce D. Clarke, Jon M. Jenkins, Jie Li, David W. Latham, Jack J. Lissauer, Savita Mathur, Robert L. Morris, Shawn E. Seader, Jeffrey C. Smith, Todd C. Klaus, Joseph D. Twicken, Jeffrey E. Van Cleve, Bill Wohler, Rachel Akeson, David R. Ciardi, William D. Cochran, Christopher E. Henze, and Steve B. Howell

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Toward an Understanding of GRB Prompt Emission Mechanism. II. Patterns of Peak Energy Evolution and Their Connection to Spectral Lags, Z. Lucas Uhm, Bing Zhang, and Judith Racusin

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Topological Nodal Line Semimetal in an Orthorhombic Graphene Network Structure, Jian-Tao Wang, Changfeng Chen, and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe

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New Carbon Allotropes In Sp + Sp(3) Bonding Networks Consisting Of C-8 Cubes, Jian-Tao Wang, Changfeng Chen, Hiroshi Mizuseki, and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe

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Pressure-Induced Structural and Electronic Transitions, Metallization, and Enhanced Visible-Light Responsiveness in Layered Rhenium Disulphide, Pei Wang, Yonggang Wang, Jingyu Qu, Qiang Zhu, Wenge Yang, Jinlong Zhu, Liping Wang, Weiwei Zhang, Duanwei He, and Yusheng Zhao

Vanadium Diboride (vb2) Synthesized At High Pressure: Elastic, Mechanical, Electronic, And Magnetic Properties And Thermal Stability, P Wang, R Kumar, E M. Sankaran, X Qi, X Zhang, D Popov, A L. Cornelius, B Li, Y Zhao, and L Wang

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Gamma-Ray Burst Jet Breaks Revisited, Xiang-Gao Wang, Bing Zhang, En-Wei Liang, Rui-Jing Liang, Da-bin Lin, Jing Li, and Long Li

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Magnetothermal Disc Winds in X-ray Binaries: Poloidal Magnetic Fields Suppress Thermal Winds, Tim Waters and Daniel Proga

Assessing Exchange-correlation Functionals For Elasticity And Thermodynamics Of Α-zrw2o8: A Density Functional Perturbation Theory Study, P F. Weck, E Kim, J A. Greathouse, M E. Gordon, and C R. Bryan

Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy of α-ZrW2O8: A Comprehensive Density Functional Perturbation Theory and Experimental Study, Philippe F. Weck, Margaret E. Gordon, Jeffrey A. Greathouse, Charles R. Bryan, Stephen P. Meserole, Mark A. Rodriguez, Clay Payne, and Eunja Kim

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First-Principles Structural, Mechanical, and Thermodynamic Calculations of the Negative Thermal Expansion Compound Zr2(WO4)(PO4)2, Philippe F. Weck, Eunja Kim, Margaret E. Gordon, Jeffrey A. Greathouse, Remi Dingreville, and Charles R. Bryan

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High Redshift Gamma-Ray Bursts as a Probe of the Early Universe and First Stars, JunJie Wei, XueFeng Wang, Zhu Liu, Zi-Gao Dai, and Bing Zhang

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TTV-determined Masses for Warm Jupiters and Their Close Planetary Companions, Dong-Hong Wu, Songhu Wang, Ji-Lin Zhou, Jason H. Steffen, and Gregory Laughlin

Extreme Static Compression of Carbon to Terapascal Pressures, Hao Wu, Xudong Luo, Libin Wen, Hong Sun, and Changfeng Chen

On The Synchrotron Spectrum Of Grb Prompt Emission, S Xu, Y P. Yang, and B Zhang

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Diffusion and Concentration of Solids in the Dead Zone of a Protoplanetary Disk, Chao-Chin Yang, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, and Anders Johansen

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Bunching Coherent Curvature Radiation in Three-dimensional Magnetic Field Geometry: Application to Pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts, Yuan-Pei Yang and Bing Zhang

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Synchrotron Radiation from Electrons with a Pitch-angle Distribution, Yuan-Pei Yang and Bing Zhang

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Fermi Large Area Telescope Detection of Gamma-Ray Emission from the Direction of Supernova iPTF14hls, Qiang Yuan, Neng-Hui Liao, Yu-Liang Xin, Ye Li, Yi-Zhong Fan, Bing Zhang, Hong-Bo Hu, and Xiao-Jun Bi

Transition From Fireball To Poynting-flux-dominated Outflow In The Three-episode Grb 160625b, B B. Zhang, B Zhang, A J. Castro-Tirado, Z G. Dai, P HT Tam, X Y. Wang, Y D. Hu, S Karpov, A Pozanenko, F W. Zhang, E Mazæva, P Minæv, A Volnova, S Oates, H Gao, X F. Wu, L Shao, Q W. Tang, G Beskin, A Biryukov, S Bondar, E Ivanov, E Katkova, N Orekhova, A Perkov, V Sasyuk, and L Mankiewicz

A Peculiar Low-luminosity Short Gamma-ray Burst From A Double Neutron Star Merger Progenitor, B B. Zhang, B Zhang, H Sun, W H. Lei, H Gao, Y Li, L Shao, Y Zhao, Y D. Hu, H J. Lü, X F. Wu, X L. Fan, G Wang, A J. Castro-Tirado, S Zhang, B Y. Yu, Y Y. Cao, and E W. Liang

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Fast Radio Burst Energetics and Detectability from High Redshifts, Bing Zhang

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FRB 121102: A Repeatedly Combed Neutron Star by a Nearby Low-luminosity Accreting Supermassive Black Hole, Bing Zhang

Relativistic Astronomy, B Zhang and K Li

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Rare Helium-Bearing Compound FeO2He Stabilized at Deep-Earth Conditions, Jurong Zhang, Jian Lv, Hefei Li, Xiaolei Feng, Cheng Lu, Simon A. T. Redferm, Hanyu Liu, Changfeng Chen, and Yanming Ma

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The Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP). VII. The Planet–Disk Interactions Interpretation, Shangjia Zhang, Zhaohuan Zhu, Jane Huang, Viviana V. Guzmán, Sean M. Andrews, Tilman Birnstiel, Cornelis P. Dullemond, John M. Carpenter, Andrea Isella, Laura M. Pérez, Myriam Benisty, David J. Wilner, Clément Baruteau, Xue-Ning Bai, and Luca Ricci

Predicting Phase Behavior Of Grain Boundaries With Evolutionary Search And Machine Learning, Q Zhu, A Samanta, B Li, R E. Rudd, and T Frolov

Structure-Controlled Oxygen Concentration in Fe2O3 and FeO2, Sheng-cai Zhu, Jin Liu, Qingyang Hu, Wendy L. Mao, Yue Meng, Dongzhou Zhang, Ho-kwang Mao, and Qiang Zhu

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First-principles Investigation of Sc-III/IV under High Pressure, Sheng-Cai Zhu, Xiao-Zhi Yan, Scott Fredericks, Yan-Ling Li, and Qiang Zhu

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Water Confined in Nanocapillaries: Two-Dimensional Bilayer Squarelike Ice and Associated Solid–Liquid–Solid Transition, Weiduo Zhu, Yinbo Zhu, Lu Wang, Qiang Zhu, Wen-Hui Zhao, Chongqin Zhu, Jaeil Bai, Jinlong Yang, Lan-Feng Yuan, HengAn Wu, and Xiao Cheng Zeng

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Inclined Massive Planets in a Protoplanetary Disc: Gap Opening, Disc Breaking, and Observational Signatures, Zhaohuan Zhu

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On the Radio Detectability of Circumplanetary Discs, Zhaohuan Zhu, Sean M. Andrews, and Andrea Isella

Global Evolution of an Accretion Disk with a Net Vertical Field: Coronal Accretion, Flux Transport, and Disk Winds, Zhaohuan Zhu and James M. Stone

A First Introduction to Quantum Computing and Information, Bernard Zygelman

First Introduction to Quantum Computing and Information, Bernard Zygelman

Submissions from 2017

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On the Formation of Multiple Concentric Rings and Gaps in Protoplanetary Disks, Jaehan Bae, Zhaohuan Zhu, and Lee Hartmann

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High-Pressure Melting Behavior of Tin Up to 105 Gpa, R. Briggs, D. Daisenberger, O. T. Lord, Ashkan Salamat, E. Bailey, M. J. Walter, and P. F. McMillan

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3D-Printed Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite Soft Crawling Robot, James D. Carrico, Kwang J. Kim, and Kam K. Leang

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A Dynamic Model for Exploring Water-Resource Management Scenarios in an Inland Arid Area: Shanshan County, Northwestern China, Chao Chen, Sajjad Ahmad, Ajay Kalra, and Zhi-xia Xu

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A Conceptualized Groundwater Flow Model Development for Integration with Surface Hydrology Model, Chao Chen, Ajay Kalra, and Sajjad Ahmad

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The Impacts of Different Types of Cuisines and Restaurants on Gratuities, Chih Chien Chen and YangSu Chen

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The E3 Ubiquitin Ligase SCFFBXL14 Complex Stimulates Neuronal Differentiation by Targeting the Notch Signaling Factor HES1 for Proteolysis, Fangfang Chen, Chunxiao Zhang, Haonan Wu, Yue Ma, Xiaomin Luo, Xinqi Gong, Fan Jiang, Yaoting Gui, Hui Zhang, and Fei Lu

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Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Microstructure Evolution and Heat Dissipation of Nanoscale Friction, Kai Chen, Liangbi Wang, Yi-tung Chen, and Qiuwang Wang

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Molecular dynamics simulation of interfaces and microstructure evolution during high-speed sliding, Kai Chen, Liangbi Wang, Yitung Chen, and Qiuwang Wang

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Populating H2 and CO in Galaxy Simulation with Dust Evolution, Li-Hsin Chen, Hiroyuki Hirashita, Kuan-Chou Hou, Shohei Aoyama, Ikkoh Shimizu, and Kentaro Nagamine

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The ALMA Early Science View of FUor/EXor Objects - V. Continuum Disc Masses and Sizes, Lucas Cieza, Dary Ruiz-Rodriguez, Sebastian Perez, Simon Casassus, Jonathan P. Williams, Alice Zurlo, David A. Principe, Antonio Hales, Jose L. Prieto, John J. Tobin, Zhaohuan Zhu, and Sebastian Marino

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Magnetized Reverse Shock: Density-fluctuation-induced Field Distortion, Polarization Degree Reduction, and Application to GRBs, Wei Deng, Bing Zhang, Hui Li, and James M. Stone

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Challenging the Forward Shock Model with the 80 Ms Follow Up Of the X-Ray Afterglow of Gamma-Ray Burst 130427A, Massimiliano De Pasquale, Matthew Page, David Alexander Kann, Samantha R. Oates, Steve Schulze, Bing Zhang, Zach Cano, Bruce Gendre, Daniele Malesani, Andrea Rossi, Neil Gehrels, Eleonora Troja, Luigi Piro, Michel Boer, and Giulia Stratta

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The Sizes and Depletions of the Dust and Gas Cavities in the Transitional Disk J160421.7-213028, Ruobing Dong, Nienke van der Marel, Jun Hashimoto, Eugene Chiang, Eiji Akiyama, Hauyu Baobab Liu, Takayuki Muto, Gilian R. Knapp, Takashi Tsukagoshi, Joanna Brown, Simon Bruderer, Shin Koyamatsu, Tomoyuki Kudo, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Evan Rich, Mayama Satoshi, Michihiro Takami, John Wisniewski, Yi Yang, Zhaohuan Zhu, and Mothide Tamura

A stable compound of helium and sodium at high pressure, Xiao Dong, Artem R. Oganov, Alexander F. Goncharov, Elissaios Stavrou, Sergey Lobanov, Gabriele Saleh, Guang-Rui Qian, Qiang Zhu, Carlo Gatti, Volker L. Deringer, Richard Dronskowski, Xiang-Feng Zhu, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Zuzana Konopkova, Ivan A. Popov, Alexander I. Boldyrev, and Hiu-Tian Wang

Novel magnesium borides and their superconductivity, M Mahdi Davari Esfahani, Qiang Zhu, Huafeng Dong, Artem R. Oganov, Shengnan Wang, Maksim S. Rakitin, and Xiang-Feng Zhou

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Theoretical Description of GRB 160625B with Wind-to-ISM Transition and Implications for a Magnetized Outflow, N. Fraija, P. Veres, B. B. Zhang, R. B. Duran, R. L. Becerra, Bing Zhang, W. H. Lee, A. M. Watson, C. Ordaz Salazar, and A. Galvan Gamez

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Fragmentation of Kozai-Lidov Disks, Wen Fu, Stephen H. Lubow, and Rebecca G. Martin

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A More Stringent Constraint on the Mass Ratio of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817, He Gao, Zhoujian Cao, Shunke Ai, and Bing Zhang

Magnetic-distortion-induced Ellipticity and Gravitational Wave Radiation of Neutron Stars: Millisecond Magnetars in Short GRBs, Galactic Pulsars, and Magnetars, He Gao, Zhoujian Cao, and Bing Zhang

A Further Study of the tBurst of GRBs: Rest-frame Properties, External Plateau Contributions, and Multiple Parameter Analysis, He Gao, An-Bing Ren, Wei-Hua Lei, Bin-Bin Zhang, Hou-Jun Lu, and Ye Li

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Implications from the Upper Limit of Radio Afterglow Emission of FRB 131104/Swift J0644.5-5111, He Gao and Bing Zhang

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Searching For Magnetar-Powered Merger-Novae from Short GRBS, He Gao, Bing Zhang, Hou-Jun Lu, and Ye Li

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Direct Probe of the Inner Accretion Flow around the Supermassive Black Hole in NGC2617, M. Giustini, E. Costantini, B. De Marco, J. Svoboda, S. E. Motta, Daniel Proga, R. Saxton, C. Ferrigno, A. L. Longinotti, G. Miniutti, D. Grupe, S. Mathur, B. J. Shappee, J. L. Prieto, and K. Stanek

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Measurement of the Energy and High-Pressure Dependence of X-ray-Induced Decomposition of Crystalline Strontium Oxalate, David Goldberger, Egor Evlyukihin, Petrike Cifligu, Yonggang Wang, and Michael Pravica

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High-Pressure Structural, Elastic, and Thermodynamic Properties of Zircon-Type Hopo4 and Tmpo4, O. Gomis, B. Lavina, P. Rodriguez Hernandez, A. Munoz, R. Errandonea, D. Errandonea, and M. Bettinelli

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Applications of Elliptic Curve Cryptography: A Light Introduction to Elliptic Curves and a Survey of Their Applications, R. Harkanson and Yoohwan Kim

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How Do Stars Gain Their Mass? A JCMT/SCUBA-2 Transient Survey of Protostars in Nearby Star-forming Regions, Gregory J. Herczeg, Doug Johnstone, Steve Mairs, Jennifer Hatchell, Jeong-Eun Lee, Geoffrey C. Bower, Huei-Ru Vivien Chen, Yuri Aikawa, Hyunju Yoo, Sung-Ju Kang, Miju Kang, Wen-Ping Chen, Jonathan P. Williams, Jaehan Bae, Michael M. Dunham, Eduard I. Vorobyov, Zhaohuan Zhu, Ramprasad Rao, Helen Kirk, Satoko Takahashi, Oscar Morata, Kevin Lacaille, James Lane, Andy Pon, Aleks Scholz, Manash R. Samal, Graham S. Bell, Sarah Graves, E'lisa M. Lee, Harriet Parsons, and Yuxin He