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Major substructure in the M31 outer halo: distances and metallicities along the giant stellar stream by Conn, A. R., McMonigal, B., Bate, N. F., Lewis, G. F., Ibata, R. A., Martin, N. F., McConnachie, A. W., Ferguson, A. M. N., Irwin, M. J., Elahi, P. J., Venn, K. A., Mackey, A. D.

“…We present a renewed look at M31's giant stellar stream along with the nearby structures streams C and D, exploiting a new algorithm capable of fitting to the…”
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Sailing under the Magellanic Clouds: a DECam view of the Carina dwarf by McMonigal, B., Bate, N. F., Lewis, G. F., Irwin, M. J., Battaglia, G., Ibata, R. A., Martin, N. F., McConnachie, A. W., Guglielmo, M., Conn, A. R.

“…We present deep optical photometry from the DECam imager on the 4 m Blanco telescope of over 12 deg2 around the Carina dwarf spheroidal, with complete coverage…”
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The accretion disc in the quasar SDSS J0924+0219 by Floyd, David J. E., Bate, N. F., Webster, R. L.

“…We present single-epoch multiwavelength optical–near-infrared observations of the ‘anomalous’ lensed quasar SDSS J0924+0219, made using the Magellan 6.5-m…”
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A microlensing study of the accretion disc in the quasar MG 0414+0534 by Bate, N. F., Floyd, D. J. E., Webster, R. L., Wyithe, J. S. B.

“…Observations of gravitational microlensing in multiply imaged quasars currently provide the only direct probe of quasar emission region structure on…”
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Differential microlensing measurements of quasar broad-line kinematics in Q2237+0305 by O'Dowd, M., Bate, N. F., Webster, R. L., Wayth, R., Labrie, K.

“…The detailed workings of the central engines of powerful quasars remain a mystery. This is primarily due to the fact that, at their cosmological distances, the…”
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Gravitational microlensing of a reverberating quasar broad-line region - I. Method and qualitative results by Garsden, H., Bate, N. F., Lewis, G. F.

“…The kinematics and morphology of the broad emission-line region (BELR) of quasars are the subject of significant debate. The two leading methods for…”
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Probing planetary mass dark matter in galaxies: gravitational nanolensing of multiply imaged quasars by Garsden, H., Bate, N. F., Lewis, G. F.

“…Gravitational microlensing of planetary-mass objects (or 'nanolensing', as it has been termed) can be used to probe the distribution of mass in a galaxy that…”
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A Microlensing Measurement of Dark Matter Fractions in Three Lensing Galaxies by Bate, N. F, Floyd, D. J. E, Webster, R. L, Wyithe, J. S. B

“…Direct measurements of dark matter distributions in galaxies are currently only possible through the use of gravitational lensing observations. Combinations of…”
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Smooth matter and source size in microlensing simulations of gravitationally lensed quasars by Bate, N. F., Webster, R. L., Wyithe, J. S. B.

“…Several gravitationally lensed quasars are observed with anomalous magnifications in pairs of images that straddle a critical curve. Simple theoretical…”
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The outer halo globular cluster system of M31 – III. Relationship to the stellar halo by Mackey, A D, Ferguson, A M N, Huxor, A P, Veljanoski, J, Lewis, G F, McConnachie, A W, Martin, N F, Ibata, R A, Irwin, M J, Côté, P, Collins, M L M, Tanvir, N R, Bate, N F

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HST imaging of four gravitationally lensed quasars by Bate, N F, Vernardos, G, O’Dowd, M J, Neri-Larios, D M, Webster, R L, Floyd, D J E, Barone-Nugent, R L, Labrie, K, King, A L, Yong, S-Y

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Solo dwarfs I: survey introduction and first results for the Sagittarius dwarf irregular galaxy by Higgs, C. R., McConnachie, A. W., Irwin, M., Bate, N. F., Lewis, G. F., Walker, M. G., Côté, P., Venn, K., Battaglia, G.

“…We introduce the Solitary Local dwarfs survey (Solo), a wide-field photometric study targeting every isolated dwarf galaxy within 3 Mpc of the Milky Way. Solo…”
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The shell game: a panoramic view of Fornax by Bate, N. F., McMonigal, B., Lewis, G. F., Irwin, M. J., Gonzalez-Solares, E., Shanks, T., Metcalfe, N.

“…We present a panoramic study of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy, using data obtained as part of the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) ATLAS Survey. The data…”
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The intrinsic far-UV spectrum of the high-redshift quasar B1422+231 by O'Dowd, M., Bate, N. F., Webster, R. L., Labrie, K., King, A. L., Yong, S-.Y.

“…AbstractWe present new spectroscopy of the z = 3.62 gravitationally lensed quasar B1422+117 from the Gemini North GMOS integral field spectrograph. We observe…”
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A GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT-ENABLED, HIGH-RESOLUTION COSMOLOGICAL MICROLENSING PARAMETER SURVEY by Bate, N. F., Fluke, C. J.

“…In the era of synoptic surveys, the number of known gravitationally lensed quasars is set to increase by over an order of magnitude. These new discoveries will…”
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Major substructure in the M31 outer halo: the South-West Cloud by Bate, N. F., Conn, A. R., McMonigal, B., Lewis, G. F., Martin, N. F., McConnachie, A. W., Veljanoski, J., Mackey, A. D., Ferguson, A. M. N., Ibata, R. A., Irwin, M. J., Fardal, M., Huxor, A. P., Babul, A.

“…We undertake the first detailed analysis of the stellar population and spatial properties of a diffuse substructure in the outer halo of M31. The South-West…”
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Major substructure in the M31 Outer Halo: the East Cloud by McMonigal, B., Bate, N. F., Conn, A. R., Mackey, A. D., Lewis, G. F., Irwin, M. J., Martin, N. F., McConnachie, A. W., Ferguson, A. M. N., Ibata, R. A., Huxor, A. P.

“…We present the first detailed analysis of the East Cloud, a highly disrupted diffuse stellar substructure in the outer halo of M31. The core of the…”
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Accretion in action: phase space coherence of stellar debris and globular clusters in Andromeda's South-West Cloud by Mackey, A. D., Lewis, G. F., Collins, M. L. M., Bate, N. F., Ibata, R. A., Martin, N. F., Chapman, S., Conn, A., Elahi, P., Ferguson, A. M. N., Huxor, A., Irwin, M., McConnachie, A., McMonigal, B., Peñarrubia, J., Veljanoski, J.

“…A central tenet of the current cosmological paradigm is that galaxies grow over time through the accretion of smaller systems. Here, we present new kinematic…”
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Computational advances in gravitational microlensing: A comparison of CPU, GPU, and parallel, large data codes by Bate, N.F., Fluke, C.J., Barsdell, B.R., Garsden, H., Lewis, G.F.

“…To assess how future progress in gravitational microlensing computation at high optical depth will rely on both hardware and software solutions, we compare a…”
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Tracing the stellar component of low surface brightness Milky Way Dwarf Galaxies to their outskirts I: Sextans by Cicuendez, L, Battaglia, G, Irwin, M, Bermejo-Climent, J. R, McMonigal, B, Bate, N. F, Lewis, G. F, Conn, A. R, de Boer, T. J. L, Gallart, C, Guglielmo, M, Ibata, R, McConnachie, A, Tolstoy, E, Fernando, N

“…A&A 609, A53 (2018) We present results from deep and very spatially extended CTIO/DECam $g$ and $r$ photometry (reaching out to $\sim$ 2 mag below the oldest…”
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