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Monthly Notices Volume 487 • Number 1 • 21 July 2019 • Pages 1–1487 Monthly Notices Volume 487 · Number 1 · 21 July 2019 Monthly Notices ISSN 0035-8711 (print) ISSN 1365-2966 (online) volume 487 • number 1 • 21 july 2019 1 Monthly Notices letters: Contents List of issue 487/1 2 M. Mapelli, N. Giacobbo, F. Santoliquido and M. C. Artale: The properties of merging black holes and neutron stars across cosmic time 14 J. S. Kuszlewicz et al.: KOI-3890: a high-mass-ratio asteroseismic red giant+M-dwarf eclipsing binary undergoing heartbeat tidal interactions 24 A. Gupta and H. E. Schlichting: Sculpting the valley in the radius distribution of small exoplanets as a by-product of planet formation: the core-powered mass-loss mechanism 34 R. Brasser, A. C. Barr and V. Dobos: The tidal parameters of TRAPPIST-1b and c 48 C.-H. Chuang et al.: UNIT project: Universe N-body simulations for the Investigation of Theoretical models from galaxy surveys 60 R. I. Hynes et al.: Optical and X-ray correlations during the 2015 outburst of the black hole V404 Cyg 79 H. Poetrodjojo, J. J. D’Agostino, B. Groves, L. Kewley, I-T. Ho, J. Rich, B. F. Madore and M. Seibert: The effects of diffuse ionized gas and spatial resolution on metallicity gradients: TYPHOON two-dimensional spectrophotometry of M83 97 S. Hisano, N. Yonemaru, H. Kumamoto and K. Takahashi: Detailed study of detection method for ultralow frequency gravitational waves with pulsar spin-down rate statistics volume 104 J. Merten, C. Giocoli, M. Baldi, M. Meneghetti, A. Peel, F. Lalande, J.-L. Starck and V. Pettorino: On the dissection of degenerate cosmologies with machine learning 123 G. Galanti, F. Tavecchio, M. Roncadelli and C. Evoli: Blazar VHE spectral alterations induced by photon–ALP oscillations 133 T. G. Wilson, J. Farihi, B. T. Gänsicke and A. Swan: The unbiased frequency of planetary signatures around single and binary white dwarfs Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/mnras/issue/487/1 by guest on 24 September 2021 using Spitzer and Hubble 487 147 I. Claydon, M. Gieles, A. L. Varri, D. C. Heggie and A. Zocchi: Spherical models of star clusters with potential escapers ¸s 161 M. G. Blackford, A. Erdem, D. Sürgit, B. Özkarde , E. Budding, R. Butland and O. Demircan: Absolute parameters of young stars: HX Velorum • 168 E. Peretti, P. Blasi, F. Aharonian and G. Morlino: Cosmic ray transport and radiative processes in nuclei of starburst galaxies number 1 181 D. Kynoch, H. Landt, M. J. Ward, C. Done, C. Boisson, M. Balokovic´, E. Angelakis and I. Myserlis: The relativistic jet of the γ -ray emitting narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy PKS J1222+0413 198 A. J. Griffin, C. G. Lacey, V. Gonzalez-Perez, C. del P. Lagos, C. M. Baugh and N. Fanidakis: The evolution of SMBH spin and AGN luminosities for z < 6 within a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation 228 M. Buehlmann and O. Hahn: Large-scale velocity dispersion and the cosmic web 246 J. K. Zink and B. M. S. Hansen: Accounting for multiplicity in calculating eta Earth 253 Z. Ding, H.-J. Seo, E. Huff, S. Saito and D. Clowe: Detecting baryon acoustic oscillations in dark matter from kinematic weak lensing surveys • 21 july 2019 21 july 268 J. S. Jenkins et al.: Proxima Centauri b is not a transiting exoplanet 275 A. Georgakakis, J. Comparat, A. Merloni, L. Ciesla, J. Aird and A. Finoguenov: Exploring the halo occupation of AGN using dark-matter cosmological simulations 296 J. A. Pérez-Hernández and L. Benet: On the dynamics of Comet 1P/Halley: Lyapunov and power spectra 304 A. David-Uraz et al.: Magnetic OB[A] Stars with TESS: probing their Evolutionary and Rotational properties (MOBSTER) – I. First-light observations of known magnetic B and A stars 318 G. S. Karademir, R.-S. Remus, A. Burkert, K. Dolag, T. L. Hoffmann, B. P. Moster, U. P. Steinwandel and J. Zhang: The outer stellar halos of • galaxies: how radial merger mass deposition, shells, and streams depend on infall-orbit configurations 333 M. Hirschmann, S. Charlot, A. Feltre, T. Naab, R. S. Somerville and E. Choi: Synthetic nebular emission from massive galaxies – II. pages 1–1487 Ultraviolet-line diagnostics of dominant ionizing sources 354 J. Kummer, M. Brüggen, K. Dolag, F. Kahlhoefer and K. Schmidt-Hoberg: Simulations of core formation for frequent dark matter self-interactions 364 H. Li, M. Vogelsberger, F. Marinacci and O. Y. Gnedin: Disruption of giant molecular clouds and formation of bound star clusters under the influence of momentum stellar feedback 381 A. M. Swinbank et al.: The energetics of starburst-driven outflows at z ~ 1 from KMOS 394 C. Tiburzi et al.: On the usefulness of existing solar wind models for pulsar timing corrections 409 H. Shirakata, T. Kawaguchi, T. Oogi, T. Okamoto and M. Nagashima: Slowing down of cosmic growth of supermassive black holes: theoretical prediction of the Eddington ratio distribution 420 L. Sidoli, K. A. Postnov, A. Belfiore, M. Marelli, D. Salvetti, R. Salvaterra, A. De Luca and P. Esposito: Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients uncovered by the EXTraS project: flares reveal the development of magnetospheric instability in accreting neutron stars 435 I. Ferreras, A. M. Hopkins, C. Lagos, A. E. Sansom, N. Scott, S. Croom and S. Brough: Assembly bias evidence in close galaxy pairs 444 V. Ramakrishnan et al.: Nuclear kinematics in nearby AGN – I. An ALMA perspective on the morphology and kinematics of the molecular CO(2–1) emission 456 F. Belfiore, F. Vincenzo, R. Maiolino and F. Matteucci: From ‘bathtub’ galaxy evolution models to metallicity gradients 475 G. B. Choudhury, A. Barman, H. S. Das and B. J. Medhi: Bok globule CB 17: polarization, extinction and distance 486 M. Magg, R. S. Klessen, S. C. O. Glover and H. Li: Observational constraints on the survival of pristine stars 491 J. I. Katz: Fast radio burst energetics and sources 502 A. Nanni, M. A. T. Groenewegen, B. Aringer, S. Rubele, A. Bressan, J. Th. van Loon, S. R. Goldman and M. L. Boyer: The mass-loss, expansion velocities, and dust production rates of carbon stars in the Magellanic Clouds 522 S. Bose, M. Vogelsberger, J. Zavala, C. Pfrommer, F.-Y. Cyr-Racine, S. Bohr and T. Bringmann: ETHOS – an Effective Theory of Structure Formation: detecting dark matter interactions through the Lyman-α forest 537 N. Orosz, J. S. Dillon, A. Ewall-Wice, A. R. Parsons and N. Thyagarajan: Mitigating the effects of antenna-to-antenna variation on redundant-baseline calibration for 21 cm cosmology 550 M. Liska, A. Tchekhovskoy, A. Ingram and M. van der Klis: Bardeen–Petterson alignment, jets, and magnetic truncation in GRMHD simulations of tilted thin accretion discs 562 C. Conneely, A. H. Jaffe and C. M. F. Mingarelli: On the amplitude and Stokes parameters of a stochastic gravitational-wave background 580 R. A. Schönrich and D. H. Weinberg: The chemical evolution of r-process elements from neutron star mergers: the role of a 2-phase interstellar medium 595 G. Houdek, M. N. Lund, R. Trampedach, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, R. Handberg and T. Appourchaux: Damping rates and frequency corrections of Kepler LEGACY stars 609 C. Sykes, M. Fumagalli, R. Cooke, T. Theuns and A. Benítez-Llambay: Fluorescent rings in star-free dark matter haloes 622 P. Tuan-Anh et al.: Observation of narrow polar jets in the nascent wind of oxygen-rich AGB star EP Aqr 640 A. Doi, S. Nakahara, M. Nakamura, M. Kino, N. Kawakatu and H. Nagai: Radio jet structures at ~100 pc and larger scales of the γ -ray-emitting narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy PMN J0948+0022 650 R. Beradze and M. Gogberashvili: LIGO signals from the mirror world continued on inside back cover continued from outside back cover 653 A. Niemiec, E. Jullo, C. Giocoli, M. Limousin and M. Jauzac: Dark matter stripping in galaxy clusters: a look at the stellar-to-halo mass relation in the Illustris simulation 667 P. Chainakun, A. Watcharangkool, A. J. Young and S. Hancock: X-ray time lags in AGN: inverse-Compton scattering and spherical corona model 681 S. Ginzburg and E. Chiang: The end of runaway: how gap opening limits the final masses of gas giants 691 G. Picogna, B. Ercolano, J. E. Owen and M. L. Weber: The dispersal of protoplanetary discs – I. A new generation of X-ray photoevaporation models 702 J. R. Lönnborn, A. Melatos and B. Haskell: Collective, glitch-like vortex motion in a neutron star with an annular pinning barrier 711 S. Rozier, J.-B. Fouvry, P. G. Breen, A. L. Varri, C. Pichon and D. C. Heggie: Mapping the stability of stellar rotating spheres via linear response theory 729 D. Tamayo and J. A. Vázquez: Fourier-series expansion of the dark-energy equation of state 737 S. Ji ( ), S. P. Oh and P. Masterson: Simulations of radiative turbulent mixing layers THE BOARD OF EDITORS 755 I. Palit, A. Janiuk and P. Sukova: Effects of adiabatic index on the sonic surface and time variability of low angular momentum accretion flows Editor-in-Chief 769 F. Abbate, M. Spera and M. Colpi: Intermediate mass black holes in globular clusters: effects on jerks and jounces of millisecond pulsars : D. R. Flower, University of Durham 782 G. Li, T. Van Reeth, T. R. Bedding, S. J. Murphy and V. Antoci: Period spacings of γ Doradus pulsators in the Kepler field: Rossby and gravity Deputy Editor-in-Chief: A. R. King, University of Leicester modes in 82 stars ii P. Armitage, University of Colorado A. R. Liddle, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics 801 Y. Zhao, J. Ge, X. Yuan, T. Zhao, C. Wang and X. Li: Identifying Mg narrow absorption lines with deep learning E.
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