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Author Hagstotz, S.; de Salas, P.F.; Gariazzo, S.; Pastor, S.; Gerbino, M.; Lattanzi, M.; Vagnozzi, S.; Freese, K. url  doi
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  Title Bounds on light sterile neutrino mass and mixing from cosmology and laboratory searches Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Physical Review D Abbreviated Journal (down) Phys. Rev. D  
  Volume 104 Issue 12 Pages 123524 - 20pp  
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  Abstract We present a consistent framework to set limits on properties of light sterile neutrinos coupled to all three active neutrinos using a combination of the latest cosmological data and terrestrial measurements from oscillations, beta-decay, and neutrinoless double-beta-decay (0 nu beta beta) experiments. We directly constrain the full 3 + 1 active-sterile mixing matrix elements vertical bar U-alpha 4 vertical bar(2) , with alpha is an element of (e,mu,tau), and the mass-squared splitting Delta m(41)(2) (math) m(4)(2) – m(1)(2). We find that results for a 3 + 1 case differ from previously studied 1 + 1 scenarios where the sterile is coupled to only one of the neutrinos, which is largely explained by parameter space volume effects. Limits on the mass splitting and the mixing matrix elements are currently dominated by the cosmological datasets. The exact results are slightly prior dependent, but we reliably find all matrix elements to be constrained below vertical bar U-alpha 4 vertical bar(2) less than or similar to 10(-3) . Short-baseline neutrino oscillation hints in favor of eV-scale sterile neutrinos arc in serious tension with these bounds, irrespective of prior assumptions. We also translate the bounds from the cosmological analysis into constraints on the parameters probed by laboratory searches, such as m(beta) or m(beta)(beta), the effective mass parameters probed by beta-decay and 0 nu beta beta searches, respectively. When allowing for mixing with a light sterile neutrino, cosmology leads to upper bounds of m(beta) < 0.09 eV and m(beta)(beta )< 0.07 eV at 95% CL, more stringent than the limits from current laboratory experiments.  
  Address [Hagstotz, Steffen; de Salas, Pablo F.] Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys, Oskar Klein Ctr Cosmoparticle Phys, Roslagstullsbacken 21A, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden, Email: steffen.hagstotz@fysik.su.se  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
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  ISSN 2470-0010 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes WOS:000730829500002 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5055  
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Author Di Valentino, E.; Gariazzo, S.; Giunti, C.; Mena, O.; Pan, S.; Yang, W.Q. url  doi
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  Title Minimal dark energy: Key to sterile neutrino and Hubble constant tensions? Type Journal Article
  Year 2022 Publication Physical Review D Abbreviated Journal (down) Phys. Rev. D  
  Volume 105 Issue 10 Pages 103511 - 15pp  
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  Abstract Minimal dark energy models, described by the same number of free parameters of the standard cosmological model with cold dark matter plus a cosmological constant to parametrize the dark energy component, constitute very appealing scenarios which may solve long-standing, pending tensions. On the one hand, they alleviate significantly the tension between cosmological observations and the presence of one sterile neutrino motivated by the short-baseline anomalies: we obtain a 95% CL cosmological bound on the mass of a fully thermalized fourth sterile neutrino (N-eff = 4) equal to m(s) < 0.65(1.3) eV within the Phenomenologically Emergent Dark Energy (PEDE) and Vacuum Metamorphosis (VM) scenarios under consideration. Interestingly, these limits are in agreement with the observations at short-baseline experiments, and the PEDE scenario is favored with respect to the Lambda CDM case when the full data combination is considered. On the other hand, the Hubble tension is satisfactorily solved in almost all the minimal dark energy schemes explored here. These phenomenological scenarios may therefore shed light on differences arising from near and far Universe probes, and also on discrepancies between cosmological and laboratory sterile neutrino searches.  
  Address [Di Valentino, Eleonora] Univ Sheffield, Sch Math & Stat, Hounsfield Rd, Sheffield S3 7RH, S Yorkshire, England, Email: e.divalentino@sheffield.ac.uk;  
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  Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
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  ISSN 2470-0010 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes WOS:000807806300013 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5248  
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Author Gariazzo, S.; Di Valentino, E.; Mena, O.; Nunes, R.C. url  doi
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  Title Late-time interacting cosmologies and the Hubble constant tension Type Journal Article
  Year 2022 Publication Physical Review D Abbreviated Journal (down) Phys. Rev. D  
  Volume 106 Issue 2 Pages 023530 - 12pp  
  Keywords ?CDM scenario; cosmic microwave background (CMB)  
  Abstract In this manuscript we reassess the potential of interacting dark matter-dark energy models in solving the Hubble constant tension. These models have been proposed but also questioned as possible solutions to the H0 problem. Here we examine several interacting scenarios against cosmological observations, focusing on the important role played by the calibration of supernovae data. In order to reassess the ability of interacting dark matter-dark energy scenarios in easing the Hubble constant tension, we systematically confront their theoretical predictions using a prior on the supernovae Ia absolute magnitude MB, which has been argued to be more robust and certainly less controversial than using a prior on the Hubble constant H0. While some data combinations do not show any preference for interacting dark sectors and in some of these scenarios the clustering sigma 8 tension worsens, interacting cosmologies with a dark energy equation of state w < -1 are preferred over the canonical lambda CDM picture even with cosmic microwave background data alone and also provide values of sigma 8 in perfect agreement with those from weak lensing surveys. Future cosmological surveys will test these exotic dark energy cosmologies by accurately measuring the dark energy equation of state and its putative redshift evolution.  
  Address [Gariazzo, Stefano] Ist Nazl Fis Nucleare INFN, Sez Torino, Via P Giuria 1, I-10125 Turin, Italy, Email: gariazzo@to.infn.it;  
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  Notes WOS:000843205100006 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5346  
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Author Di Valentino, E.; Gariazzo, S.; Mena, O. url  doi
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  Title Model marginalized constraints on neutrino properties from cosmology Type Journal Article
  Year 2022 Publication Physical Review D Abbreviated Journal (down) Phys. Rev. D  
  Volume 106 Issue 4 Pages 043540 - 9pp  
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  Abstract We present robust, model-marginalized limits on both the total neutrino mass (E m1,) and abundances (Neff) to minimize the role of parametrizations, priors and models when extracting neutrino properties from cosmology. The cosmological observations we consider are cosmic microwave background temperature fluctuation and polarization measurements, supernovae Ia luminosity distances, baryon acoustic oscillation observations and determinations of the growth rate parameter from the Data Release 16 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV. The degenerate neutrino mass spectrum (which implies the prior sigma m(1), > 0) is weakly or moderately preferred over the normal and inverted hierarchy possibilities, which imply the priors sigma m(1), > 0.06 and sigma m(1), > 0.1 eV respectively. Concerning the underlying cosmological model, the ACDM minimal scenario is almost always strongly preferred over the possible extensions explored here. The most constraining 95% CL bound on the total neutrino mass in the ACDM + sigma m(1), picture is sigma m(1), < 0.087 eV. The parameter N-eff is restricted to 3.08 +/- 0.17 (68% CL) in the ACDM + Neff model. These limits barely change when considering the ACDM + sigma m(1), + Neff scenario. Given the robustness and the strong constraining power of the cosmological measurements employed here, the model -marginalized posteriors obtained considering a large spectra of nonminimal cosmologies are very close to the previous bounds, obtained within the ACDM framework in the degenerate neutrino mass spectrum. Future cosmological measurements may improve the current Bayesian evidence favoring the degenerate neutrino mass spectra, challenging therefore the consistency between cosmological neutrino mass bounds and oscillation neutrino measurements, and potentially suggesting a more complicated cosmological model and/or neutrino sector.  
  Address [Di Valentino, Eleonora] Univ Sheffield, Sch Math & Stat, Hounsfield Rd, Sheffield S3 7RH, England, Email: e.divalentino@sheffield.ac.uk;  
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  Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
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  ISSN 2470-0010 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes WOS:000862804700006 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5375  
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Author Di Valentino, E.; Gariazzo, S.; Giare, W.; Melchiorri, A.; Mena, O.; Renzi, F. url  doi
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  Title Novel model-marginalized cosmological bound on the QCD axion mass Type Journal Article
  Year 2023 Publication Physical Review D Abbreviated Journal (down) Phys. Rev. D  
  Volume 107 Issue 10 Pages 103528 - 16pp  
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  Abstract We present model-marginalized limits on mixed hot dark matter scenarios, which consider both thermal neutrinos and thermal QCD axions. A novel aspect of our analyses is the inclusion of small-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and the South Pole Telescope (SPT), together with those from the Planck satellite and baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data. After marginalizing over a number of well-motivated nonminimal background cosmologies, the tightest 95% Confidential Level (CL) upper bound we obtain is 0.21 eV, both for P m nu and ma, from the combination of ACT, Planck and BAO measurements. Restricting the analyses to the standard ?CDM picture, we find P m nu < 0.16 eV and ma < 0.18 eV, both at 95% CL Interestingly, the best background cosmology is never found within the minimal ?CDM plus hot relics, regardless of the datasets exploited in the analyses. The combination of Planck with either BAO, SPT or ACT prefers a universe with a nonzero value of the running in the primordial power spectrum with strong evidence. Small-scale CMB probes, both alone and combined with BAO, either prefer, with substantial evidence, nonflat universes (as in the case of SPT) or a model with a time varying dark energy component (as in the case of ACT).  
  Address [Di Valentino, Eleonora] Univ Sheffield, Sch Math & Stat, Hounsfield Rd, Sheffield S3 7RH, England, Email: e.divalentino@sheffield.ac.uk;  
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  Notes WOS:000999454300009 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5554  
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Author Di Valentino, E.; Gariazzo, S.; Giare, W.; Mena, O. url  doi
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  Title Impact of the damping tail on neutrino mass constraints Type Journal Article
  Year 2023 Publication Physical Review D Abbreviated Journal (down) Phys. Rev. D  
  Volume 108 Issue 8 Pages 083509 - 11pp  
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  Abstract Model-independent mass limits assess the robustness of current cosmological measurements of the neutrino mass scale. Consistency between high-multipole and low-multiple cosmic microwave background observations measuring such scale further valuates the constraining power of present data. We derive here up-to-date limits on neutrino masses and abundances exploiting either the Data Release 4 of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) or the South Pole Telescope polarization measurements from SPT-3G, envisaging different nonminimal background cosmologies and marginalizing over them. By combining these high-l observations with supernova Ia, baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), redshift space distortions (RSD) and a prior on the reionization optical depth fromWMAP data, we find that the marginalized bounds are competitive with those from Planck analyses. We obtain Sigma m(nu) < 0.139 eV and N-eff = 2.82 +/- 0.25 in a dark energy quintessence scenario, both at 95% CL. These limits translate into Sigma m(nu) < 0.20 eV and N-eff = 2.79(-0.28)(+0.30) after marginalizing over a plethora of well-motivated fiducial models. Our findings reassess both the strength and the reliability of cosmological neutrino mass constraints.  
  Address [Di Valentino, Eleonora; Giare, William] Univ Sheffield, Sch Math & Stat, Hounsfield Rd, Sheffield S3 7RH, S Yorkshire, England, Email: e.divalentino@sheffield.ac.uk;  
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  Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
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  ISSN 2470-0010 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes WOS:001157784100002 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5935  
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Author Gariazzo, S.; Giunti, C.; Laveder, M.; Li, Y.F. url  doi
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  Title Model-independent (nu)over-bar(e) short-baseline oscillations from reactor spectral ratios Type Journal Article
  Year 2018 Publication Physics Letters B Abbreviated Journal (down) Phys. Lett. B  
  Volume 782 Issue Pages 13-21  
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  Abstract We consider the ratio of the spectra measured in the DANSS neutrino experiment at 12.7 and 10.7 m from a nuclear reactor. These data give a new model-independent indication in favor of short-baseline (nu) over bar (e) oscillations which reinforce the model-independent indication found in the late 2016 in the NEOS experiment. The combined analysis of the NEOS and DANSS spectral ratios in the framework of 3+1 active-sterile neutrino mixing favor short-baseline (nu) over bar (e) oscillations with a statistical significance of 3.7 sigma. The two mixing parameters sin(2)2 nu ee and Delta m(41)(2) are constrained at 2 sigma a narrow-Delta m(41)(2) island at Delta m(41)(2) similar or equal to 1.3 eV(2), with sin(2)2 nu(ee)= 0.049 +/- 0.023(2 sigma). We discuss the implications of the model-independent NEOS+DANSS analysis for the reactor and Gallium anomalies. The NEOS+DANSS model-independent determination of short-baseline (nu) over bar (e) oscillations allows us to analyze the reactor rates without assumptions on the values of the main reactor antineutrino fluxes and the data of the Gallium source experiments with free detector efficiencies. The corrections to the reactor neutrino fluxes and the Gallium detector efficiencies are obtained from the fit of the data. In particular, we confirm the indication in favor of the need for a recalculation of the (235)Ureactor antineutrino flux found in previous studies assuming the absence of neutrino oscillations.  
  Address [Gariazzo, S.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Paterna, Valencia, Spain, Email: gariazzo@ific.uv.es;  
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  Publisher Elsevier Science Bv Place of Publication Editor  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0370-2693 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes WOS:000438486900003 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3662  
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Author de Salas, P.F.; Gariazzo, S.; Martinez-Mirave, P.; Pastor, S.; Tortola, M. url  doi
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  Title Cosmological radiation density with non-standard neutrino-electron interactions Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Physics Letters B Abbreviated Journal (down) Phys. Lett. B  
  Volume 820 Issue Pages 136508 - 9pp  
  Keywords Neutrino interactions; Non-standard neutrino interactions; Cosmology; Neutrino oscillations  
  Abstract Neutrino non-standard interactions (NSI) with electrons are known to alter the picture of neutrino de coupling from the cosmic plasma. NSI modify both flavour oscillations through matter effects, and the annihilation and scattering between neutrinos and electrons and positrons in the thermal plasma. In view of the forthcoming cosmological observations, we perform a precision study of the impact of non universal and flavour-changing NSI on the effective number of neutrinos, Neff. We present the variation of Neff arising from the different NSI parameters and discuss the existing degeneracies among them, from cosmology alone and in relation to the current bounds from terrestrial experiments. Even though cosmology is generally less sensitive to NSI than these experiments, we find that future cosmological data would provide competitive and complementary constraints for some of the couplings and their combinations.  
  Address [de Salas, Pablo F.] Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys, Oskar Klein Ctr Cosmoparticle Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden, Email: pablo.fernandez@fysik.su.se;  
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  Publisher Elsevier Place of Publication Editor  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
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  ISSN 0370-2693 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes WOS:000713101800031 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5023  
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Author Gariazzo, S.; Mena, O.; Ramirez, H.; Boubekeur, L. url  doi
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  Title Primordial power spectrum features in phenomenological descriptions of inflation Type Journal Article
  Year 2017 Publication Physics of the Dark Universe Abbreviated Journal (down) Phys. Dark Universe  
  Volume 17 Issue Pages 38-45  
  Keywords Inflation; Primordial power spectrum; Sound speed  
  Abstract We extend an alternative, phenomenological approach to inflation by means of an equation of state and a sound speed, both of them functions of the number of e-folds and four phenomenological parameters. This approach captures a number of possible inflationary models, including those with non-canonical kinetic terms or scale-dependent non-gaussianities. We perform Markov Chain Monte Carlo analyses using the latest cosmological publicly available measurements, which include Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data from the Planck satellite. Within this parameterization, we discard scale invariance with a significance of about 10 sigma, and the running of the spectral index is constrained as alpha(s) = -0.60(-0.10)(+0.08) x 10(-3) (68% CL errors). The limit on the tensor-to-scalar ratio is r < 0.005 at 95% CL from CMB data alone. We find no significant evidence for this alternative parameterization with present cosmological observations. The maximum amplitude of the equilateral non-gaussianity that we obtain, vertical bar f(NL)(equil)vertical bar < 1, is much smaller than the current Planck mission errors, strengthening the case for future high-redshift, all-sky surveys, which could reach the required accuracy on equilateral non-gaussianities.  
  Address [Gariazzo, Stefano] Univ Turin, Dept Phys, Via P Giuria 1, I-10125 Turin, Italy, Email: omena@ific.uv.es  
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  Publisher Elsevier Science Bv Place of Publication Editor  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
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  ISSN 2212-6864 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes WOS:000411869100006 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3319  
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Author Vagnozzi, S.; Di Valentino, E.; Gariazzo, S.; Melchiorri, A.; Mena, O.; Silk, J. url  doi
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  Title The galaxy power spectrum take on spatial curvature and cosmic concordance Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Physics of the Dark Universe Abbreviated Journal (down) Phys. Dark Universe  
  Volume 33 Issue Pages 100851 - 17pp  
  Keywords Cosmological parameters; Spatial curvature; Cosmological tensions  
  Abstract The concordance of the ACDM cosmological model in light of current observations has been the subject of an intense debate in recent months. The 2018 Planck Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropy power spectrum measurements appear at face value to favour a spatially closed Universe with curvature parameter Omega(K) < 0. This preference disappears if Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) measurements are combined with Planck data to break the geometrical degeneracy, although the reliability of this combination has been questioned due to the strong tension present between the two datasets when assuming a curved Universe. Here, we approach this issue from yet another point of view, using measurements of the full-shape (FS) galaxy power spectrum, P(k), from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR12 CMASS sample. By combining Planck data with FS measurements, we break the geometrical degeneracy and find Omega(K) = 0.0023 +/- 0.0028. This constrains the Universe to be spatially flat to sub-percent precision, in excellent agreement with results obtained using BAO measurements. However, as with BAO, the overall increase in the best-fit chi(2) suggests a similar level of tension between Planck and P(k) under the assumption of a curved Universe. While the debate on spatial curvature and the concordance between cosmological datasets remains open, our results provide new perspectives on the issue, highlighting the crucial role of FS measurements in the era of precision cosmology.  
  Address [Vagnozzi, Sunny] Univ Cambridge, Kavli Inst Cosmol, Cambridge CB3 0HA, England, Email: sunny.vagnozzi@ast.cam.ac.uk;  
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  Notes WOS:000704383100022 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 4984  
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