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Follow Up of GW170817 and Its Electromagnetic Counterpart by Australian-Led Observing Programmes
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- I. Andreoni, K. Ackley, J. Cooke, A. Acharyya, J. R. Allison, G. E. Anderson, M. C. B. Ashley, D. Baade, M. Bailes, K. Bannister, A. Beardsley, M. S. Bessell, F. Bian, P. A. Bland, M. Boer, T. Booler, A. Brandeker, I. S. Brown, D. A. H. Buckley, S.-W. Chang, D. M. Coward, S. Crawford, H. Crisp, B. Crosse, A. Cucchiara, M. Cupák, J. S. de Gois, A. Deller, H. A. R. Devillepoix, D. Dobie, E. Elmer, D. Emrich, W. Farah, T. J. Farrell, T. Franzen, B. M. Gaensler, D. K. Galloway, B. Gendre, T. Giblin, A. Goobar, J. Green, P. J. Hancock, B. A. D. Hartig, E. J. Howell, L. Horsley, A. Hotan, R. M. Howie, L. Hu, Y. Hu, C. W. James, S. Johnston, M. Johnston-Hollitt, D. L. Kaplan, M. Kasliwal, E. F. Keane, D. Kenney, A. Klotz, R. Lau, R. Laugier, E. Lenc, X. Li, E. Liang, C. Lidman, L. C. Luvaul, C. Lynch, B. Ma, D. Macpherson, J. Mao, D. E. McClelland, C. McCully, A. Möller, M. F. Morales, D. Morris, T. Murphy, K. Noysena, C. A. Onken, N. B. Orange, S. Osłowski, D. Pallot, J. Paxman, S. B. Potter, T. Pritchard, W. Raja, R. Ridden-Harper, E. Romero-Colmenero, E. M. Sadler, E. K. Sansom, R. A. Scalzo, B. P. Schmidt, S. M. Scott, N. Seghouani, Z. Shang, R. M. Shannon, L. Shao, M. M. Shara, R. Sharp, M. Sokolowski, J. Sollerman, J. Staff, K. Steele, T. Sun, N. B. Suntzeff, C. Tao, S. Tingay, M. C. Towner, P. Thierry, C. Trott, B. E. Tucker, P. Väisänen, V. Venkatraman Krishnan, M. Walker, L. Wang, X. Wang, R. Wayth, M. Whiting, A. Williams, T. Williams, C. Wolf, C. Wu, X. Wu, J. Yang, X. Yuan, H. Zhang, J. Zhou, H. Zovaro
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- Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia / Volume 34 / 2017
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- 20 December 2017, e069
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The discovery of the first electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational wave signal has generated follow-up observations by over 50 facilities world-wide, ushering in the new era of multi-messenger astronomy. In this paper, we present follow-up observations of the gravitational wave event GW170817 and its electromagnetic counterpart SSS17a/DLT17ck (IAU label AT2017gfo) by 14 Australian telescopes and partner observatories as part of Australian-based and Australian-led research programs. We report early- to late-time multi-wavelength observations, including optical imaging and spectroscopy, mid-infrared imaging, radio imaging, and searches for fast radio bursts. Our optical spectra reveal that the transient source emission cooled from approximately 6 400 K to 2 100 K over a 7-d period and produced no significant optical emission lines. The spectral profiles, cooling rate, and photometric light curves are consistent with the expected outburst and subsequent processes of a binary neutron star merger. Star formation in the host galaxy probably ceased at least a Gyr ago, although there is evidence for a galaxy merger. Binary pulsars with short (100 Myr) decay times are therefore unlikely progenitors, but pulsars like PSR B1534+12 with its 2.7 Gyr coalescence time could produce such a merger. The displacement (~2.2 kpc) of the binary star system from the centre of the main galaxy is not unusual for stars in the host galaxy or stars originating in the merging galaxy, and therefore any constraints on the kick velocity imparted to the progenitor are poor.
In situ stress tensor measured in an Alaskan glacier
- W. T. Pfeffer, N. F. Humphrey, B. Amadei, J. Harper, J. Wegmann
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- Annals of Glaciology / Volume 31 / 2000
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- 14 September 2017, pp. 229-235
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An experimental program at Worthington Glacier, Alaska, U.S.A., has yielded the first in situ measurement of the full stress tensor in glacier ice. Measurements were made with an array of stiff (low-compliance) normal-force sensors frozen into a borehole at 120 m depth. Freezing in temperate ice was accomplished by a down-hole heat exchanger which extracted heat at a rate of 15 W. Under slowly varying stress conditions, relaxation of stress anomalies by viscous creep following drilling of the hole and installation of the sensors allows for equilibration of measured stresses with far-field stresses. Equilibration of local and far-field stresses was confirmed and pressure sensors calibrated in laboratory experiments prior to the field program. Results of the stress measurements show principal axes of the stress tensor oriented in directions consistent with the geometry of the glacier and broadly consistent with measured englacial strain rate. The magnitudes of stress-tensor components are more error-prone and more sensitive to uncertainty in sensor magnitude than uncertainty in sensor orientation. Mean stress determined by pressure measurements agrees with estimated lithostatic overburden to within approximately 15%. Unexpected results include a stress perturbation lasting about 5 days that caused a rotation of the orientations of the principal stress axes of approximately 5° about an axis pointing in the down-flow direction.
Crevasse patterns and the strain-rate tensor: a high-resolution comparison
- J. T. Harper, N. F. Humphrey, W. T. Pfeffer
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- Journal of Glaciology / Volume 44 / Issue 146 / 1998
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- 20 January 2017, pp. 68-76
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Values of the strain-rate tensor represented at a 20 m length scale are found to explain the pattern and orientation of crevasses in a 0.13 km2 reach of Worthington Glacier, Alaska, U.S.A. The flow field of the reach is constructed from surveyed displacements of 110 markers spaced 20-30 m apart. A velocity gradient method is then used to calculate values of the principal strain-rate axes at the nodes of a 20 m x 20 m orthogonal grid. Crevasses in the study reach are of two types, splaying and transverse, and are everywhere normal to the trajectories of greatest (most tensile) principal strain rate. Splaying crevasses exist where the longitudinal strain rate (x) is ≤ 0 and transverse crevasses are present under longitudinally extending flow (i.e. x > 0). The orientation of crevasses changes in the down-glacier direction, but the calculated rotation by the flow field does not account for this change in orientation. Observations suggest that individual crevasses represent local values of the regional flow field and are transient on the time-scale of 1-2 years; they are not persistent features that are translated and rotated by flow. Crevasse patterns are thus found to be a useful tool for mapping the strain-rate tensor in this reach of a temperate valley glacier.
A new smooth-shelled Argyrotheca Dall (Brachiopoda, Articulata) from the Eocene of Jamaica
- Stephen K. Donovan, David A. T. Harper, Eamon N. Doyle
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- Journal of Paleontology / Volume 67 / Issue 6 / November 1993
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- 20 May 2016, pp. 1079-1083
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The fossil brachiopods of the Caribbean region are reasonably well known following publication of Cooper's (1979) monograph; however, the Jamaican fauna was not considered in this volume. Until recently, only Trechmann (1927, 1930) had described and figured fossil brachiopods from the island. Harper (1993; Harper and Donovan, 1990) has recently revised Trechmann's identifications and added to the still small faunal list, which includes two Cretaceous and 11 Cenozoic species (excluding those discussed below). Further specimens continue to be found and the present communication is a description of a significant collection of small terebratellaceans from the top of the Paleocene to Eocene Richmond Formation of eastern Jamaica. One of the two species described herein was originally recognized on the basis of three brachial valves as Argyrotheca sp. 1 in Harper (1993). The availability of superior material has confirmed the uniqueness of this species and has permitted adequate description and diagnosis. All specimens described herein are deposited in the James Mitchell Museum of University College, Galway (JMM), and the British Museum (Natural History), London (BMNH).
A flexible crinoid from the Llandovery (Silurian) of western Ireland
- Stephen K. Donovan, Eamon N. Doyle, David A. T. Harper
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- Journal of Paleontology / Volume 66 / Issue 2 / March 1992
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- 14 July 2015, pp. 262-266
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“Complete” crinoids are rare fossils in the lower Paleozoic of Ireland. Cryptanisocrinus kilbridensis n. gen. and sp., from the Upper Llandovery (Telychian) Finny School Beds of the upper Kilbride Formation, County Mayo, is an anisocrinine homalocrinid and the first Irish lower Paleozoic flexible crinoid. The unique holotype is an external mold without counterpart that does not retain the anal series. Cryptanisocrinus kilbridensis has a kylixiform dorsal cup, a low but prominent, infrabasal circlet, low, triangular basals, arms that branch isotomously at least three times, and two interprimibrachial plates in each interray, the lower of which is the larger.
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Cambrian rocks and faunas of the Wachi La, Black Mountains, Bhutan
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The Pele La Group in the Wachi La section in the Black Mountains of central Bhutan represents the easternmost exposure of Cambrian strata known in the Himalaya. The group contains a succession of siliciclastic rocks with minor amounts of carbonate, the uppermost unit of which, the Quartzite Formation, bears age-diagnostic trilobite body fossils that are approximately 493 Ma old. Trilobite species include Kaolishania granulosa, Taipaikia glabra and the new species Lingyuanaspis sangae. A billingsellid brachiopod, Billingsella cf. tonkiniana, is co-occurrent. This fauna is precisely correlated with that of a specific stratigraphic horizon within the upper part of the Kaolishania Zone, Stage 9 of the Cambrian System, Furongian Epoch of the North China block, and thus represents the youngest Cambrian sedimentary rocks yet known from the Himalaya. The faunal similarity suggests proximity between North China and the Himalayan margin at this time. This unit was deposited in a predominantly storm-influenced shelf and shoreface environment. U–Pb geochronological data from detrital zircon grains from the fossil-bearing beds of the Quartzite Formation and strata of the underlying Deshichiling Formation show grain age spectra consistent with those from Cambrian rocks of the Lesser and Tethyan Himalaya in Tibet, India and Pakistan. These data support continuity of the northern Gondwanan margin across the Himalaya. Prominent peaks of approximately 500 Ma zircons in both the Quartzite and Deshichiling formations are consistent with the Furongian (late Cambrian) age assignment for these strata. The presence of these relatively young zircon populations implies rapid post-cooling erosion of igneous bodies and subsequent deposition which may reflect the influence of a widespread Cambro-Ordovician orogenic event evident in the western Himalaya.
The Iapetus suture in the British Isles – comment on its position in eastern Ireland
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The Silurian inliers of the Midland Valley of Scotland all exhibit a regressive sequence, and despite evident facies differences between inliers, marine successions invariably pass upwards into redbeds of continental origin. Contrasting types of shoreline facies can be seen in different inliers; here the beds in the North Esk Inlier (NEI) are compared with those previously described from Knockgardner. At Knockgardner a high energy coastal environment prevailed, but in the NEI very different conditions can be identified in near-contemporaneous deposits. In the NEI thin sandstones and siltstones of the Reservoir and Deerhope formations are succeeded by the sandstones and conglomeratic beds of the Cock Rig Formation. These are overlain by the marine mudstones of the Wether Law Linn Formation and, at the top of the sequence, the continental redbeds of the Henshaw Formation.
The Wether Law Linn Formation is interpreted, on various lines of evidence, as a lagoonal system. Conditions therein were initially fully marine, though within the photic zone, but subsequently the faunas were increasingly influenced by fluctuating salinity, prior to deposition of the redbeds. Such a lagoon would have required an offshore bar impounding it, which is represented by the Cock Rig Formation. These sedimentary rocks, previously interpreted as deposits of a laterally unconfined submarine channel, are now considered to be of shallow water origin. The succession closely conforms to classic models in which shoreface sands, consisting of small cross-bedded packets, are succeeded by tabular sandstone sheets representing foreshore beach deposits. Coarser and thicker beds, with herringbone cross-sets, linguoid ripples and trains of rounded pebbles, are interpreted as the deposits of tidal channels within the barrier complex. The barrier-lagoon system persisted throughout the whole of Cock Rig time and most or all of the time during which the Wether Law Linn Formation was deposited, and was either static or prograded seawards until the lagoon dried up during a final marine regression. The sedimentary and faunal evidence is consistent with this interpretation, and the contrast between the shoreline environments of the NEI and Knockgardner is striking. Brief reference is made to other inliers in the Midland Valley.
1 - ‘ON THE RUINS OF MELAKA FORT’
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In Malacca, beside a large reconstruction of the palace of its kings, housed in the old British Club where Somerset Maugham set his short story ‘Footprints in the jungle’, is an exhibition of over 500 years of Malaysian history. It portrays old Melaka as the centre of a great maritime Malay Islamic civilisation, and charts the town's place in the unfolding story of a nation. In the years before independence, colonial Malacca had declined into something of a backwater. Yet it was still of immense symbolic significance for Malayan nationalists. It was at a Malay Nationalist Party conference in Malacca in the heady year 1945 that the radical, Dr Burhanuddin Al-Helmy, one of Malay nationalism's most important ideologues, declaimed the famous pantun:
Di atas robohan Melaka
Kita dirikan jiwa merdeka
Bersatu padulah segenap baka
Membela hak keadilan pusaka
On the ruins of Melaka fort
We build the soul of independence
Be united every race
Defend the right of justice inherited.
It was here in early 1956 that Tunku Abdul Rahman announced the date for the transfer of power: 31 August 1957. His partner in independence, the leader of the Malayan Chinese Tan Cheng Lock, was the quintessential man of Malacca. The town today has been designated a bandaraya bersejarah, a living museum: its architecture, its tableaux, the tombs of its heroes have become symbolic of many of the foundation myths of modern Malaysia. The ‘soul of independence’ has been envisaged in many different ways.
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Modern Malaya was born in a time of war and revolution. This book is an account of the ways in which its people sought to create a nation from a plural society caught in the flux of crisis and social change. A central purpose of the doctoral thesis in which this book had its genesis was to analyse the extent to which the late colonial state shaped the political landscape of independent Malaya. This early emphasis has been retained. The anatomy of late colonialism that follows is a contribution to the comparative history of western expansion and retreat. But as I spent more time in Malaysia the book became an exercise in Southeast Asian social history. The achievement of independence is examined, not primarily through the metropolitan mind of colonialism, but through the struggle within Malayan society for its soul. Many of the ideas and forces this brought to prominence still dominated political life during the late 1980s and 1990s - a period of great change in Malaysia - and my comprehension of them has been coloured by what Malaysians had to say about them at the time. The first lesson of my own historical schooling was that every history is foremost a history of its own making. Other authors have begun to rewrite Malaysian history in new directions, and I hope I have done credit to the richness of their work.
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9 - THE COLONIAL INHERITANCE
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At the height of the political crisis in the middle of 1951 Dato Onn took the High Commissioner, Sir Henry Gurney, into his confidence. ‘Independence was not the object,’ he told him. ‘The object was the good of the people to which independence was only a means’. This was all very true. The struggle for Merdeka had left much undone. Those who had led it had quite deliberately left many questions unanswered, and the unfinished business of decolonisation would dominate Malaysian politics in the following decades. It is beyond the ambition of this book to do justice to the post-colonial experience of Malaya. We can do no more than briefly identify some of the forces of change that had their roots in the late colonial period. This final chapter, or afterword, examines Merdeka in Malaysian history, rather than the history of Malaysia after Merdeka. A first theme is the nature of the colonial inheritance itself and this provokes an outline of the ways in which the British presence in Malaya was felt after independence. A second theme addresses the strategies by which the new state sought to carve out an independent course for itself, in particular the introduction of ambitious programmes to reconfigure Malaya's economy and society. A third theme is the continued attempts to define and inculcate a sense of national identity that development has necessitated: we examine how Malaya has faced the political tensions to which state-building has given rise.
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By June 1948 a cycle of rural violence was in motion for which the leadership of the Malayan Communist Party was largely unprepared. Many of its wartime veterans – older, married and re-established in civilian life - were reluctant to follow their old commanders into the jungle. Captured guerrillas confirmed that the party leadership had assumed that any armed struggle would begin from September 1948, and it was only by September that guerrilla mobilisation was deemed to be complete. Against the judgement of some of his commanders, Chin Peng decreed that the MCP should seize power by the ‘Yenan Way’. However, its forces - the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) - were denied early successes in establishing liberated areas, particularly in an attack on Gua Musang in Ulu Kelantan and operations around Batu Arang and Kajang on the west coast. A slow revision of guerrilla strategy began which culminated in the October 1951 Directives in which the MCP sounded a tactical retreat to deep jungle bases, especially in northern border areas, and reactivated the united front through labour, youth, educational movements and approaches to the Malay masses, strategies which had been prosecuted to great effect during the party's heyday of the Malayan Spring. It was only after 1951 that the government began to take the initiative: its troops learned the art of ‘fighting guerrillas with guerrilla methods’, and the bulk of the rural Chinese were resettled into protected areas.
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The fulfilment of Britain's mission in Malaya lay in the establishment of multi-racial politics. This was both a measure of political advancement and a condition of independence. However, schemes to restore the initiative to the locality and to break down ethnic blocs through projects of social engineering and democratisation merely revealed the possibilities of these strategies for communal advancement. The aim of drawing Chinese society in the New Villages into the mainstream of national life was subverted when the government's local allies, the MCA, were implicated in a movement of Chinese cultural resurgence. Resurrected trade unionism became a communal enclave. Increasing economic differentiation within the Malay heartlands presaged a shift from locally based movements of self-improvement to corporatism directed from the centre. Malay political leadership did not merely defend this as a strategy for development, but as a political entitlement, an indissoluble component of Malay identity. In a parallel process, the colonial government's propagation of a ‘Malayan’ national culture was anticipated by a flood of alternative expressions of community and movements of cultural reconstruction. Powerful cultural and political alternatives emerged which refused to conform to the colonial paradigm, and much of the fabric of Malayan social life stood outside of it. These were not to fuse, as the ideologues of the new imperialism had suggested, but to accommodate after a fashion in a social compact, guaranteed in the last resort by the power of the state.
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In the aftermath of war a struggle began for the soul of Malaya. The troubled years between the British reoccupation in September 1945 and the declaration of the Emergency in July 1948 set in motion politics that would dominate the transition to independence. This period has concentrated the minds of a great number of Malaya's historians. Much of their work has focused on the restructuring of the British presence in Malaya under a military administration and the introduction of, and opposition to, the Malayan Union scheme in 1946 and the Federal constitution which succeeded it in February 1948. This period saw the emergence of the movement that became the main vehicle of Malay nationalism the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO). It also witnessed the floundering of a range of radical challenges to its primacy. In the historical writings on the period many of the foundation myths of modern Malaysia have been carved out and contested. A nation is defined by its tragedies as much as its triumphs, and for many the communal and insurrectionary violence of these years set the constraints that would govern subsequent political life and defined the limits of what the structure of Malaya's plural society could tolerate. To others, the constitutional struggles appear as a lost opportunity to effect its transformation. It is hard to exaggerate the importance of these events in shaping the landscape of Malayan politics.