Refereed journal articles

Refereed journal article list

175. Martins C.J.A.P., Cooke R., Liske J., Murphy M.T., Noterdaeme P., Schmidt T.M., Alcaniz J.S., Alves C.S., Balashev S., Cristiani S., Di Marcantonio P., Gonçalves R.S., Maiolino R., Marconi A., Marques C.M.J., Melo e Sousa M.A.F., Nunes N.J., Origlia L., Péroux C., Zanutta A.,
Cosmology and fundamental physics with the ELT-ANDES spectrograph,
2024, Exp. Astron., submitted, arXiv:2311.16274.

174. Nateghi H., Kacprzak G.G., Nielsen N.M., Sameer, Murphy M.T., Churchill C.W., Charlton J.C.,
Signatures of gas flows – II: Connecting the kinematics of the multiphase circumgalactic medium to galaxy rotation,
2024, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., submitted, arXiv:2311.05165.

170. Nateghi H., Kacprzak G.G., Nielsen N.M., Murphy M.T., Churchill C.W., Muzahid S., Sameer, Charlton J.C.,
Signatures of gas flows – I: Connecting the kinematics of H I circumgalactic medium to galaxy rotation,
2024, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., submitted, arXiv.2311.05164.

169. Yong D., Liu F., Ting Y., Joyce M., Bitsch B., Dai F., Dotter A., Karakas A.I., Murphy M.T.,
C3PO: towards a complete census of co-moving pairs of stars - I. High precision stellar parameters for 250 stars,
2023, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 526, 2181, arXiv:2309.01546.
(ADS: 0 citations.)

168. Molaro P., Aguado D.S., Caffau E., Allende Prieto C., Bonifacio P., González Hernández J.I., Rebolo R., Zapatero Osorio M.R., Cristiani S., Pepe F., Santos N.C., Alibert Y., Cupani G., Di Marcantonio P., D'Odorico V., Lovis C., Martins C.J.A.P., Milaković D., Murphy M.T., Nunes N.J., Schmidt T.M., Sousa S., Sozzetti A., Suárez Mascareño A.,
The 12C/13C isotopic ratio at the dawn of chemical evolution,
2023, Astron. Astrophys., 679, A72, arXiv:2309.11664.
(ADS: 0 citations.)

167. Galbiati M., Fumagalli M., Fossati M., Lofthouse E.K., Dutta R., Prochaska J.X., Murphy M.T., Cantalupo S.,
MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) - V. Linking ionized gas traced by C IV and Si IV absorbers to Ly α emitting galaxies at z ≈ 3.0-4.5,
2023, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 524, 3474, arXiv:2302.00021.
(ADS: 10 citations.)

166. Lehmann C., Murphy M.T., Liu F., Flynn C., Smith D., Berke D.A.,
Survey for Distant Solar Twins (SDST) - III. Identification of new solar twin and solar analogue stars,
2023, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 521, 148, arXiv:2302.00399.
(ADS: 1 citation.)
The catalogue of target stars, including the stellar parameters we derived and the probabilities that each star is a solar twin or solar analogue, is available at doi:10.5281/zenodo.7332606 (hosted on GitHub).

165. Berke D.A., Murphy M.T., Flynn C., Liu F.,
Probing Galactic variations in the fine-structure constant using solar twin stars: methodology and results,
2023, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 519, 1238, arXiv:2210.08275.
(ADS: 5 citations.)
The VarConLib (Varying Constants Library) software used in this work is available at doi:10.5281/zenodo.7196771 (hosted on GitHub). The measurements and results in this work are available at doi:10.5281/zenodo.7196796 (hosted on GitHub).

164. Berke D.A., Murphy M.T., Flynn C., Liu F.,
Probing Galactic variations in the fine-structure constant using solar twin stars: Systematic errors,
2023, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 519, 1221, arXiv:2210.08276.
(ADS: 6 citations.)
The VarConLib (Varying Constants Library) software used in this work is available at doi:10.5281/zenodo.7196771 (hosted on GitHub). The measurements and results in this work are available at doi:10.5281/zenodo.7196796 (hosted on GitHub).

163. Lofthouse E.K., Fumagalli M., Fossati M., Dutta R., Galbiati M., Arrigoni Battaia F., Cantalupo S., Christensen L., Cooke R.J., Longobardi A., Murphy M.T., Prochaska J.X.,
MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) - IV. The gaseous environment of z 3-4 Ly α emitting galaxies,
2023, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 518, 305, arXiv:2209.15021.
(ADS: 21 citations.)

162. Liu F., Murphy M.T., Lehmann C., Flynn C., Smith D., Kos J., Berke D.A., Martell S.L.,
Survey for distant solar twins (SDST) - II. Design, observations, and data,
2022, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 517, 5569, arXiv:2210.09776.
(ADS: 2 citations.)

161. Guarneri F., Calderone G., Cristiani S., Porru M., Fontanot F., Boutsia K., Cupani G., Grazian A., D'Odorico V., Murphy M.T., Bongiorno A., Saccheo I., Nicastro L.,
The probabilistic random forest applied to the QUBRICS survey: improving the selection of high-redshift quasars with synthetic data,
2022, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 517, 2436, arXiv:2209.07257.
(ADS: 3 citations.)

160. Aguado D.S., Molaro P., Caffau E., González Hernández J.I., Zapatero Osorio M.R., Bonifacio P., Allende Prieto C., Rebolo R., Damasso M., Suárez Mascareño A., Howell S.B., Furlan E., Cristiani S., Cupani G., Di Marcantonio P., D'Odorico V., Lovis C., Martins C.J.A.P., Milakovi D., Murphy M.T., Nunes N.J., Pepe F., Santos N.C., Schmidt T.M., Sozzetti A.,
ESPRESSO observations of HE 0107−5240 and other CEMP-no stars with [Fe/H] ≤ -4.5,
2022, Astron. Astrophys., 668, A86, arXiv:2210.04910.
(ADS: 12 citations.)

159. Murphy M.T., Berke D.A., Liu F., Flynn C., Lehmann C., Dzuba V.A., Flambaum V.V.,
A limit on variations in the fine-structure constant from spectra of nearby Sun-like stars,
2022, Science, 378, 634, arXiv:2211.05150.
(ADS: 8 citations.)
Free full access at Science.
Article in The Conversation. Media release: Swinburne.

158. da Fonseca V., Barreiro T., Nunes N.J., Cristiani S., Cupani G., D'Odorico V., Leite A.C.O., Marques C.M.J., Martins C.J.A.P., Milaković D., Molaro P., Murphy M.T., Schmidt T.M., Abreu M., Adibekyan V., Cabral A., Di Marcantonio P., González Hernández J.I., Palle E., Pepe F.A., Rebolo R., Santos N.C., Sousa S.G., Sozzetti A., Mascareño A.S., Osorio M.Z.,
Fundamental physics with ESPRESSO: Constraining a simple parametrisation for varying α,
2022, Astron. Astrophys., 666, A57, arXiv:2204.02930.
(ADS: 5 citations.)

157. Nielsen N.M., Kacprzak G.G., Sameer, Murphy M.T., Nateghi H., Charlton J.C., Churchill C.W.,
A complex multiphase DLA associated with a compact group at z = 2.431 traces accretion, outflows, and tidal streams,
2022, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 514, 6074, arXiv:2206.12501.
(ADS: 12 citations.)

156. Robert P.F., Murphy M.T., O'Meara J.M., Crighton N.H.M., Fumagalli M.,
Discovery of three new near-pristine absorption clouds at z = 2.6-4.4,
2022, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 514, 3559, arXiv:2206.02947.
(ADS: 2 citations.)
Free full access at Oxford Academic.

155. Martins C.J.A.P., Cristiani S., Cupani G., D'Odorico V., Génova Santos R., Leite A.C.O., Marques C.M.J., Milaković D., Molaro P., Murphy M.T., Nunes N.J., Schmidt T.M., Adibekyan V., Alibert Y., Di Marcantonio P., González Hernández J.I., Mégevand D., Palle E., Pepe F.A., Santos N.C., Sousa S.G., Sozzetti A., Suárez Mascareño A., Zapatero Osorio M.R.,
Fundamental physics with ESPRESSO: Constraints on Bekenstein and dark energy models from astrophysical and local probes,
2022, Phys. Rev. D, 105, 123507, arXiv:2205.13848.
(ADS: 6 citations.)

154. Dzuba V.A., Flambaum V.V., Murphy M.T., Berke D.A.,
Relativistic frequency shifts in Cr, Ti, Fe, Ni, Ca, Na, and V to search for variations in the fine-structure constant,
2022, Phys. Rev. A, 105, 062809, arXiv:2204.00131.
(ADS: 4 citations.)

153. Cooke R.J., Noterdaeme P., Johnson J.W., Pettini M., Welsh L., Peroux C., Murphy M.T., Weinberg D.H.,
Primordial Helium-3 Redux: The Helium Isotope Ratio of the Orion Nebula,
2022, Astrophys. J., 932, 60, arXiv:2203.11256.
(ADS: 4 citations.)

152. Lehmann C., Murphy M.T., Liu F., Flynn C., Berke D.A.,
Survey for Distant Solar Twins (SDST) - I. EPIC method for stellar parameter measurement,
2022, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 512, 11, arXiv:2202.06469.
(ADS: 6 citations.)
The EPIC code is available at doi:10.5281/zenodo.6029325 (hosted on GitHub).

151. Murphy M.T., Molaro P., Leite A.C.O., Cupani G., Cristiani S., D'Odorico V., Génova Santos R., Martins C.J.A.P., Milaković D., Nunes N.J., Schmidt T.M., Pepe F.A., Rebolo R., Santos N.C., Sousa S.G., Zapatero Osorio M., Amate M., Adibekyan V., Alibert Y., Allende Prieto C., Baldini V., Benz W., Bouchy F., Cabral A., Dekker H., Di Marcantonio P., Ehrenreich D., Figueira P., González Hernández J.I., Landoni M., Lovis C., Lo Curto G., Manescau A., Mégevand D., Mehner A., Micela G., Pasquini L., Poretti E., Riva M., Sozzetti A., Mascareño A.S., Udry S., Zerbi F.,
Fundamental physics with ESPRESSO: Precise limit on variations in the fine-structure constant towards the bright quasar HE 0515−4414,
2022, Astron. Astrophys., 658, A123, arXiv:2112.05819.
(ADS: 35 citations.)
All final quasar spectra, reduced contributing exposures, and supplementary material available at doi:10.5281/zenodo.5512490 (hosted on GitHub).
Media release: IAC (Spain)

150. Hasan F., Churchill C.W., Stemock B., Nielsen N.M., Kacprzak G.G., Croom M., Murphy M.T.,
Evolution of C IV Absorbers. II. Where Does C IV Live?,
2022, Astrophys. J., 924, 12, arXiv:2108.04924.
(ADS: 6 citations.)

149. Dutta R., Fumagalli M., Fossati M., Bielby R.M., Stott J.P., Lofthouse E.K., Cantalupo S., Cullen F., Crain R.A., Tripp T.M., Prochaska J.X., Arrigoni Battaia F., Burchett J.N., Fynbo J.P.U., Murphy M.T., Schaye J., Tejos N., Theuns T.,
Metal-enriched halo gas across galaxy overdensities over the last 10 billion years,
2021, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 508, 4573, arXiv:2109.10927.
(ADS: 31 citations.)

148. Liu F., Bitsch B., Asplund M., Liu B., Murphy M.T., Yong D., Ting Y., Feltzing S.,
Detailed elemental abundances of binary stars: searching for signatures of planet formation and atomic diffusion,
2021, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 508, 1227, arXiv:2108.11001.
(ADS: 14 citations.)

147. Fossati M., Fumagalli M., Lofthouse E.K., Dutta R., Cantalupo S., Arrigoni Battaia F., Fynbo J.P.U., Lusso E., Murphy M.T., Prochaska J.X., Theuns T., Cooke R.J.,
MUSE analysis of gas around galaxies (MAGG) - III. The gas and galaxy environment of z = 3-4.5 quasars,
2021, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 503, 3044, arXiv:2103.01960.
(ADS: 46 citations.)

146. Chen C., Hamann F., Ma B., Murphy M.,
A Catalog of High-velocity C IV Mini-broad Absorption Lines in the VLT-UVES and Keck-HIRES Archives,
2021, Astrophys. J., 907, 84, arXiv:2102.01362.
(ADS: 3 citations.)

145. Schmidt T.M., Molaro P., Murphy M.T., Lovis C., Cupani G., Cristiani S., Pepe F.A., Rebolo R., Santos N.C., Abreu M., Adibekyan V., Alibert Y., Aliverti M., Allart R., Allende Prieto C., Alves D., Baldini V., Broeg C., Cabral A., Calderone G., Cirami R., Coelho J., Coretti I., D'Odorico V., Di Marcantonio P., Ehrenreich D., Figueira P., Genoni M., Génova Santos R., González Hernández J.I., Kerber F., Landoni M., Leite A.C.O., Lizon J., Lo Curto G., Manescau A., Martins C.J.A.P., Megévand D., Mehner A., Micela G., Modigliani A., Monteiro M., Monteiro M.J.P.F.G., Mueller E., Nunes N.J., Oggioni L., Oliveira A., Pariani G., Pasquini L., Redaelli E., Riva M., Santos P., Sosnowska D., Sousa S.G., Sozzetti A., Suárez Mascareño A., Udry S., Zapatero Osorio M., Zerbi F.,
Fundamental physics with ESPRESSO: Towards an accurate wavelength calibration for a precision test of the fine-structure constant,
2021, Astron. Astrophys., 646, A144, arXiv:2011.13963.
(ADS: 20 citations.)

144. Pepe F., Cristiani S., Rebolo R., Santos N.C., Dekker H., Cabral A., Di Marcantonio P., Figueira P., Lo Curto G., Lovis C., Mayor M., Mégevand D., Molaro P., Riva M., Zapatero Osorio M.R., Amate M., Manescau A., Pasquini L., Zerbi F.M., Adibekyan V., Abreu M., Affolter M., Alibert Y., Aliverti M., Allart R., Allende Prieto C., Álvarez D., Alves D., Avila G., Baldini V., Bandy T., Barros S.C.C., Benz W., Bianco A., Borsa F., Bourrier V., Bouchy F., Broeg C., Calderone G., Cirami R., Coelho J., Conconi P., Coretti I., Cumani C., Cupani G., D'Odorico V., Damasso M., Deiries S., Delabre B., Demangeon O.D.S., Dumusque X., Ehrenreich D., Faria J.P., Fragoso A., Genolet L., Genoni M., Génova Santos R., González Hernández J.I., Hughes I., Iwert O., Kerber F., Knudstrup J., Landoni M., Lavie B., Lillo-Box J., Lizon J.-L., Maire C., Martins C.J.A.P., Mehner A., Micela G., Modigliani A., Monteiro M.A., Monteiro M.J.P.F.G., Moschetti M., Murphy M.T., Nunes N., Oggioni L., Oliveira A., Oshagh M., Pallé E., Pariani G., Poretti E., Rasilla J.L., Rebordão J., Redaelli E.M., Santana Tschudi S., Santin P., Santos P., Ségransan D., Schmidt T.M., Segovia A., Sosnowska D., Sozzetti A., Sousa S.G., Spanò P., Suárez Mascareño A., Tabernero H., Tenegi F., Udry S., Zanutta A.,
ESPRESSO at VLT. On-sky performance and first results,
2021, Astron. Astrophys., 645, A96, arXiv:2010.00316.
(ADS: 241 citations.)

143. Dutta R., Fumagalli M., Fossati M., Lofthouse E.K., Prochaska J.X., Arrigoni Battaia F., Bielby R.M., Cantalupo S., Cooke R.J., Murphy M.T., O'Meara J.M.,
MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) - II: metal-enriched halo gas around z ∼ 1 galaxies,
2020, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 499, 5022, arXiv:2009.14219.
(ADS: 48 citations.)

142. Nielsen N.M., Kacprzak G.G., Pointon S.K., Murphy M.T., Churchill C.W., Davé R.,
The CGM at Cosmic Noon with KCWI: Outflows from a Star-forming Galaxy at z = 2.071,
2020, Astrophys. J., 904, 164, arXiv:2002.08516.
(ADS: 17 citations.)

141. Hasan F., Churchill C.W., Stemock B., Mathes N.L., Nielsen N.M., Finlator K., Doughty C., Croom M., Kacprzak G.G., Murphy M.T.,
Evolution of C IV Absorbers. I. The Cosmic Incidence,
2020, Astrophys. J., 904, 44, arXiv:2007.11751.
(ADS: 16 citations.)

140. Churchill C.W., Evans J.L., Stemock B., Nielsen N.M., Kacprzak G.G., Murphy M.T.,
Mg II Absorbers in High-resolution Quasar Spectra. I. Voigt Profile Models,
2020, Astrophys. J., 904, 28, arXiv:2008.08487.
(ADS: 15 citations.)

139. Damasso M., Sozzetti A., Lovis C., Barros S.C.C., Sousa S.G., Demangeon O.D.S., Faria J.P., Lillo-Box J., Cristiani S., Pepe F., Rebolo R., Santos N.C., Zapatero Osorio M.R., González Hernández J.I., Amate M., Pasquini L., Zerbi F.M., Adibekyan V., Abreu M., Affolter M., Alibert Y., Aliverti M., Allart R., Allende Prieto C., Álvarez D., Alves D., Avila G., Baldini V., Bandy T., Benz W., Bianco A., Borsa F., Bossini D., Bourrier V., Bouchy F., Broeg C., Cabral A., Calderone G., Cirami R., Coelho J., Conconi P., Coretti I., Cumani C., Cupani G., D'Odorico V., Deiries S., Dekker H., Delabre B., Di Marcantonio P., Dumusque X., Ehrenreich D., Figueira P., Fragoso A., Genolet L., Genoni M., Génova Santos R., Hughes I., Iwert O., Kerber F., Knudstrup J., Landoni M., Lavie B., Lizon J.-L., Lo Curto G., Maire C., Martins C.J.A.P., Mégevand D., Mehner A., Micela G., Modigliani A., Molaro P., Monteiro M.A., Monteiro M.J.P.F.G., Moschetti M., Mueller E., Murphy M.T., Nunes N., Oggioni L., Oliveira A., Oshagh M., Pallé E., Pariani G., Poretti E., Rasilla J.L., Rebordão J., Redaelli E.M., Riva M., Santana Tschudi S., Santin P., Santos P., Ségransan D., Schmidt T.M., Segovia A., Sosnowska D., Spanò P., Suárez Mascareño A., Tabernero H., Tenegi F., Udry S., Zanutta A.,
A precise architecture characterization of the π Mensae planetary system,
2020, Astron. Astrophys., 642, A31, arXiv:2007.06410.
(ADS: 45 citations.)

138. Stevens A.R.H., Bellstedt S., Elahi P.J., Murphy M.T.,
The imperative to reduce carbon emissions in astronomy,
2020, Nature Astron., 4, 843, arXiv:1912.05834.
(ADS: 40 citations.)
Free full access at Nature Astronomy. Sustainability statements from
ICRAR and Swinburne.

137. Pointon S.K., Kacprzak G.G., Nielsen N.M., Murphy M.T., Muzahid S., Churchill C.W., Charlton J.C.,
Low-mass Group Environments Have No Substantial Impact on the Circumgalactic Medium Metallicity,
2020, Astron. J., 159, 216, arXiv:2005.00779.
(ADS: 5 citations.)

136. Lofthouse E.K., Fumagalli M., Fossati M., O'Meara J.M., Murphy M.T., Christensen L., Prochaska J.X., Cantalupo S., Bielby R.M., Cooke R.J., Lusso E., Morris S.L.,
MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) - I: Survey design and the environment of a near pristine gas cloud at z ≈ 3.5,
2020, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 491, 2057, arXiv:1910.13458.
(ADS: 37 citations.)

135. Pointon S.K., Kacprzak G.G., Nielsen N.M., Muzahid S., Murphy M.T., Churchill C.W., Charlton J.C.,
Relationship between the Metallicity of the Circumgalactic Medium and Galaxy Orientation,
2019, Astrophys. J., 883, 78, arXiv:1907.05557.
(ADS: 43 citations.)

134. Robert P.F., Murphy M.T., O'Meara J.M., Crighton N.H.M., Fumagalli M.,
Exploring the origins of a new, apparently metal-free gas cloud at z = 4.4,
2019, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 483, 2736, arXiv:1812.05098.
(ADS: 20 citations.)
Free full access at Oxford Academic.
Media releases: Swinburne, Keck Observatory.

133. Ubachs W., Salumbides E.J., Murphy M.T., Abgrall H., Roueff E.,
H2/HD molecular data for analysis of quasar spectra in search of varying constants,
2019, Astron. Astrophys., 622, A127, arXiv:1812.03628.
(ADS: 11 citations.)

132. Murphy M.T., Kacprzak G.G., Savorgnan G.A.D., Carswell R.F.,
The UVES Spectral Quasar Absorption Database (SQUAD) data release 1: the first 10 million seconds,
2019, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 482, 3458, arXiv:1810.06136.
(ADS: 63 citations.)
Free full access at Oxford Academic.
All final quasar spectra, reduced contributing exposures, and supplementary material available at doi:10.5281/zenodo.1345974 (hosted on GitHub).

131. Crighton N.H.M., Prochaska J.X., Murphy M.T., O'Meara J.M., Worseck G., Smith B.D.,
Imprints of the first billion years: Lyman limit systems at z ∼ 5,
2019, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 482, 1456, arXiv:1810.10040.
(ADS: 12 citations.)

130. Nielsen N.M., Kacprzak G.G., Pointon S.K., Churchill C.W., Murphy M.T.,
MAGIICAT VI. The Mg II Intragroup Medium Is Kinematically Complex,
2018, Astrophys. J., 869, 153, arXiv:1808.09562.
(ADS: 43 citations.)

129. Mas-Ribas L., Riemer-Sørensen S., Hennawi J.F., Miralda-Escudé J., O'Meara J.M., Pérez-Ràfols I., Murphy M.T., Webb J.K.,
Origin of Metals around Galaxies. I. Catalogs of Metal-line Absorption Doublets from High-resolution Quasar Spectra,
2018, Astrophys. J., 862, 50, arXiv:1805.00483.
(ADS: 6 citations.)

128. Rorai A., Carswell R.F., Haehnelt M.G., Becker G.D., Bolton J.S., Murphy M.T.,
A new measurement of the intergalactic temperature at z ∼ 2.55-2.95,
2018, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 474, 2871, arXiv:1711.00930.
(ADS: 38 citations.)

127. Murphy M.T., Cooksey K.L.,
Subaru Telescope limits on cosmological variations in the fine-structure constant,
2017, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 471, 4930, arXiv:1708.00014.
(ADS: 43 citations.)
Free full access at Oxford Academic.
Quasar spectra and absorption profile fits available at doi:10.5281/zenodo.574904 (hosted on GitHub).

126. Riemer-Sørensen S., Kotuš S., Webb J.K., Ali K., Dumont V., Murphy M.T., Carswell R.F.,
A precise deuterium abundance: remeasurement of the z = 3.572 absorption system towards the quasar PKS1937-101,
2017, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 468, 3239, arXiv:1703.06656.
(ADS: 29 citations.)

125. Rudie G.C., Newman A.B., Murphy M.T.,
A Unique View of AGN-driven Molecular Outflows: The Discovery of a Massive Galaxy Counterpart to a Z = 2.4 High-metallicity Damped Lyα Absorber,
2017, Astrophys. J., 843, 98, arXiv:1703.03807.
(ADS: 19 citations.)

124. Daprà M., Noterdaeme P., Vonk M., Murphy M.T., Ubachs W.,
Analysis of carbon monoxide absorption at zabs ≃ 2.5 to constrain variation of the proton-to-electron mass ratio,
2017, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 467, 3848, arXiv:1702.03132.
(ADS: 12 citations.)

123. Meade B., Fluke C., Cooke J., Andreoni I., Pritchard T., Curtin C., Bernard S.R., Asher A., Mack K.J., Murphy M.T., Vohl D., Codoreanu A., Kotuš S.M., Rumokoy F., Horst C., Reynolds T.,
Collaborative Workspaces to Accelerate Discovery,
2017, Pub. Astron. Soc. Australia, 34, e023, arXiv:1704.01281.
(ADS: 8 citations.)

122. Daprà M., van der Laan M., Murphy M.T., Ubachs W.,
Constraint on a varying proton-to-electron mass ratio from H2 and HD absorption at zabs ≃ 2.34,
2017, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 465, 4057, arXiv:1611.05191.
(ADS: 13 citations.)

121. Kotuš S.M., Murphy M.T., Carswell R.F.,
High-precision limit on variation in the fine-structure constant from a single quasar absorption system,
2017, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 464, 3679, arXiv:1609.03860.
(ADS: 54 citations.)

120. Nielsen N.M., Kacprzak G.G., Muzahid S., Churchill C.W., Murphy M.T., Charlton J.C.,
The Highly Ionized Circumgalactic Medium is Kinematically Uniform around Galaxies,
2017, Astrophys. J., 834, 148, arXiv:1611.07585.
(ADS: 26 citations.)

119. Noterdaeme P., Krogager J.-K., Balashev S., Ge J., Gupta N., Krühler T., Ledoux C., Murphy M.T., Pâris I., Petitjean P., Rahmani H., Srianand R., Ubachs W.,
Discovery of a Perseus-like cloud in the early Universe. H I-to-H2 transition, carbon monoxide and small dust grains at zabs≈ 2.53 towards the quasar J0000+0048,
2017, Astron. Astrophys., 597, A82, arXiv:1609.01422.
(ADS: 68 citations.)

118. Murphy M.T., Malec A.L., Prochaska J.X.,
Precise limits on cosmological variability of the fine-structure constant with zinc and chromium quasar absorption lines,
2016, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 461, 2461, arXiv:1606.06293.
(ADS: 31 citations.)
Quasar spectra and Zn/CrII absorption profile fits available at doi:10.5281/zenodo.51504 (hosted on GitHub). Erratum: Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. (2016).

117. Daprà M., Niu M.L., Salumbides E.J., Murphy M.T., Ubachs W.,
Constraint on a Cosmological Variation in the Proton-to-electron Mass Ratio from Electronic CO Absorption,
2016, Astrophys. J., 826, 192, arXiv:1605.09742.
(ADS: 23 citations.)

116. Ubachs W., Bagdonaite J., Salumbides E.J., Murphy M.T., Kaper L.,
Colloquium: Search for a drifting proton-electron mass ratio from H2,
2016, Rev. Mod. Phys., 88, 021003, arXiv:1511.04476.
(ADS: 44 citations.)

115. Bouché N., Finley H., Schroetter I., Murphy M.T., Richter P., Bacon R., Contini T., Richard J., Wendt M., Kamann S., Epinat B., Cantalupo S., Straka L.A., Schaye J., Martin C.L., Péroux C., Wisotzki L., Soto K., Lilly S., Carollo C.M., Brinchmann J., Kollatschny W.,
Possible Signatures of a Cold-flow Disk from MUSE Using a z ∼ 1 Galaxy-Quasar Pair toward SDSS J1422-0001,
2016, Astrophys. J., 820, 121, arXiv:1601.07567.
(ADS: 87 citations.)

114. Crighton N.H.M., O'Meara J.M., Murphy M.T.,
Possible Population III remnants at redshift 3.5,
2016, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 457, L44, arXiv:1512.00477.
(ADS: 28 citations.)
Media release: Swinburne.

113. Boera E., Murphy M.T., Becker G.D., Bolton J.S.,
Constraining the temperature-density relation of the intergalactic medium with the Lyman α and β forests,
2016, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 456, L79, arXiv:1510.08857.
(ADS: 8 citations.)

112. Nielsen N.M., Churchill C.W., Kacprzak G.G., Murphy M.T., Evans J.L.,
MAGIICAT IV. Kinematics of the Circumgalactic Medium and Evidence for Quiescent Evolution Around Red Galaxies,
2016, Astrophys. J., 818, 171, arXiv:1512.06969.
(ADS: 27 citations.)

111. Murphy M.T., Bernet M.L.,
The dust content of damped Lyman α systems in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey,
2016, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 455, 1043, arXiv:1510.05667.
(ADS: 28 citations.)
Tables from the Supporting Information containing the DLA, absorber, non-DLA and non-absorber catalogues, respectively: Table 1, Table 2, Table 3, Table 4. Emulation of the SDSS quasar colour-selection code available at doi:10.5281/zenodo.31470 (hosted on GitHub).

110. Wilczynska M.R., Webb J.K., King J.A., Murphy M.T., Bainbridge M.B., Flambaum V.V.,
A new analysis of fine-structure constant measurements and modelling errors from quasar absorption lines,
2015, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 454, 3082, arXiv:1510.02536.
(ADS: 22 citations.)

109. Daprà M., Bagdonaite J., Murphy M.T., Ubachs W.,
Constraint on a varying proton-to-electron mass ratio from molecular hydrogen absorption towards quasar SDSS J123714.60+064759.5,
2015, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 454, 489, arXiv:1508.07419.
(ADS: 20 citations.)

108. Zwaan M.A., Liske J., Péroux C., Murphy M.T., Bouché N., Curran S.J., Biggs A.D.,
New H I 21-cm absorbers at low and intermediate redshifts,
2015, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 453, 1268, arXiv:1507.07588.
(ADS: 25 citations.)

107. Nielsen N.M., Churchill C.W., Kacprzak G.G., Murphy M.T., Evans J.L.,
MAGIICAT V. Orientation of Outflows and Accretion Determine the Kinematics and Column Densities of the Circumgalactic Medium,
2015, Astrophys. J., 812, 83, arXiv:1505.07167.
(ADS: 67 citations.)

106. Crighton N.H.M., Murphy M.T., Prochaska J.X., Worseck G., Rafelski M., Becker G.D., Ellison S.L., Fumagalli M., Lopez S., Meiksin A., O'Meara J.M.,
The neutral hydrogen cosmological mass density at z = 5,
2015, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 452, 217, arXiv:1506.02037.
(ADS: 143 citations.)

105. Schroetter I., Bouché N., Péroux C., Murphy M.T., Contini T., Finley H.,
The VLT SINFONI Mg II Program for Line Emitters (SIMPLE). II. Background Quasars Probing Z ~ 1 Galactic Winds,
2015, Astrophys. J., 804, 83, arXiv:1502.07895.
(ADS: 54 citations.)

104. Riemer-Sørensen S., Webb J.K., Crighton N., Dumont V., Ali K., Kotuš S., Bainbridge M., Murphy M.T., Carswell R.,
A robust deuterium abundance; re-measurement of the z = 3.256 absorption system towards the quasar PKS 1937-101,
2015, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 447, 2925, arXiv:1412.4043.
(ADS: 32 citations.)

103. Bagdonaite J., Ubachs W., Murphy M.T., Whitmore J.B.,
Constraint on a Varying Proton-Electron Mass Ratio 1.5 Billion Years after the Big Bang,
2015, Phys. Rev. Lett., 114, 071301, arXiv:1501.05533.
(ADS: 25 citations.)

102. Whitmore J.B., Murphy M.T.,
Impact of instrumental systematic errors on fine-structure constant measurements with quasar spectra,
2015, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 447, 446, arXiv:1409.4467.
(ADS: 84 citations.)

101. Kacprzak G.G., Churchill C.W., Murphy M.T., Cooke J.,
Probing the circumgalactic medium of active galactic nuclei with background quasars,
2015, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 446, 2861, arXiv:1411.2611.
(ADS: 4 citations.)

100. Crighton N.H.M., Hennawi J.F., Simcoe R.A., Cooksey K.L., Murphy M.T., Fumagalli M., Prochaska J.X., Shanks T.,
Metal-enriched, subkiloparsec gas clumps in the circumgalactic medium of a faint z = 2.5 galaxy,
2015, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 446, 18, arXiv:1406.4239.
(ADS: 115 citations.)

99. Worseck G., Prochaska J.X., O'Meara J.M., Becker G.D., Ellison S.L., Lopez S., Meiksin A., Ménard B., Murphy M.T., Fumagalli M.,
The Giant Gemini GMOS survey of zem > 4.4 quasars - I. Measuring the mean free path across cosmic time,
2014, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 445, 1745, arXiv:1402.4154.
(ADS: 157 citations.)

98. Evans T.M., Murphy M.T., Whitmore J.B., Misawa T., Centurion M., D'Odorico S., Lopez S., Martins C.J.A.P., Molaro P., Petitjean P., Rahmani H., Srianand R., Wendt M.,
The UVES Large Program for testing fundamental physics - III. Constraints on the fine-structure constant from three telescopes,
2014, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 445, 128, arXiv:1409.1923.
(ADS: 62 citations.)
Background and publicity images. Media releases: Swinburne, Dell’Istituto Nazionale Di Astrofisica (in Italian), Universidad do Porto (in Portuguese).

97. Bagdonaite J., Salumbides E.J., Preval S.P., Barstow M.A., Barrow J.D., Murphy M.T., Ubachs W.,
Limits on a Gravitational Field Dependence of the Proton-Electron Mass Ratio from H2 in White Dwarf Stars,
2014, Phys. Rev. Lett., 113, 123002, arXiv:1409.1000.
(ADS: 25 citations.)

96. Jorgenson R.A., Murphy M.T., Thompson R., Carswell R.F.,
The Magellan uniform survey of damped Lyman α systems - II. Paucity of strong molecular hydrogen absorption,
2014, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 443, 2783, arXiv:1407.1111.
(ADS: 32 citations.)
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95. Boera E., Murphy M.T., Becker G.D., Bolton J.S.,
The thermal history of the intergalactic medium down to redshift z = 1.5: a new curvature measurement,
2014, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 441, 1916, arXiv:1404.1083.
(ADS: 85 citations.)
Background and publicity movie. Media release: Swinburne.

94. Muller S., Combes F., Guélin M., Gérin M., Aalto S., Beelen A., Black J.H., Curran S.J., Darling J., V-Trung D., García-Burillo S., Henkel C., Horellou C., Martín S., Martí-Vidal I., Menten K.M., Murphy M.T., Ott J., Wiklind T., Zwaan M.A.,
An ALMA Early Science survey of molecular absorption lines toward PKS 1830-211. Analysis of the absorption profiles,
2014, Astron. Astrophys., 566, A112, arXiv:1404.7667.
(ADS: 60 citations.)

93. Murphy M.T., Berengut J.C.,
Laboratory atomic transition data for precise optical quasar absorption spectroscopy,
2014, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 438, 388, arXiv:1311.2949.
(ADS: 42 citations.)
Full, updated atomic transition database available through Research Data Australia (hosted on GitHub).

92. Bagdonaite J., Ubachs W., Murphy M.T., Whitmore J.B.,
Analysis of Molecular Hydrogen Absorption toward QSO B0642-5038 for a Varying Proton-to-electron Mass Ratio,
2014, Astrophys. J., 782, 10, arXiv:1308.1330.
(ADS: 43 citations.)

91. Cooke R.J., Pettini M., Jorgenson R.A., Murphy M.T., Steidel C.C.,
Precision Measures of the Primordial Abundance of Deuterium,
2014, Astrophys. J., 781, 31, arXiv:1308.3240.
(ADS: 306 citations.)

90. Richter P., Fox A.J., Ben Bekhti N., Murphy M.T., Bomans D., Frank S.,
High-resolution absorption spectroscopy of the circumgalactic medium of the Milky Way,
2014, Astron. Nachr., 335, 92, arXiv:1310.4514.
(ADS: 6 citations.)

89. Bonifacio P., Rahmani H., Whitmore J.B., Wendt M., Centurion M., Molaro P., Srianand R., Murphy M.T., Petitjean P., Agafonova I.I., D'Odorico S., Evans T.M., Levshakov S.A., Lopez S., Martins C.J.A.P., Reimers D., Vladilo G.,
Fundamental constants and high-resolution spectroscopy,
2014, Astron. Nachr., 335, 83, arXiv:1310.6280.
(ADS: 24 citations.)

88. Evans T.M., Murphy M.T.,
A New Method for Detecting Velocity Shifts and Distortions between Optical Spectra,
2013, Astrophys. J., 778, 173, arXiv:1310.5703.
(ADS: 10 citations.)

87. Rahmani H., Wendt M., Srianand R., Noterdaeme P., Petitjean P., Molaro P., Whitmore J.B., Murphy M.T., Centurion M., Fathivavsari H., D'Odorico S., Evans T.M., Levshakov S.A., Lopez S., Martins C.J.A.P., Reimers D., Vladilo G.,
The UVES large program for testing fundamental physics - II. Constraints on a change in μ towards quasar HE 0027-1836,
2013, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 435, 861, arXiv:1307.5864.
(ADS: 102 citations.)

86. Jorgenson R.A., Murphy M.T., Thompson R.,
The Magellan uniform survey of damped Lyman α systems - I. Cosmic metallicity evolution,
2013, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 435, 482, arXiv:1307.4429.
(ADS: 66 citations.)

85. Nielsen N.M., Churchill C.W., Kacprzak G.G., Murphy M.T.,
MAGIICAT I. The Mg II Absorber-Galaxy Catalog,
2013, Astrophys. J., 776, 114, arXiv:1304.6716.
(ADS: 90 citations.)

84. Rodríguez Hidalgo P., Eracleous M., Charlton J., Hamann F., Murphy M.T., Nestor D.,
Discovery of the Transition of a Mini-broad Absorption Line into a Broad Absorption Line in the SDSS Quasar J115122.14+020426.3,
2013, Astrophys. J., 775, 14, arXiv:1307.6266.
(ADS: 23 citations.)

83. Bouché N., Murphy M.T., Kacprzak G.G., Péroux C., Contini T., Martin C.L., Dessauges-Zavadsky M.,
Signatures of Cool Gas Fueling a Star-Forming Galaxy at Redshift 2.3,
2013, Science, 341, 50, arXiv:1306.0134.
(ADS: 193 citations.)
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82. Molaro P., Centurión M., Whitmore J.B., Evans T.M., Murphy M.T., Agafonova I.I., Bonifacio P., D'Odorico S., Levshakov S.A., Lopez S., Martins C.J.A.P., Petitjean P., Rahmani H., Reimers D., Srianand R., Vladilo G., Wendt M.,
The UVES Large Program for testing fundamental physics I. Bounds on a change in α towards quasar HE 2217-2818,
2013, Astron. Astrophys., 555, A68, arXiv:1305.1884.
(ADS: 114 citations.)

81. Cooke R., Pettini M., Jorgenson R.A., Murphy M.T., Rudie G.C., Steidel C.C.,
The explosion energy of early stellar populations: the Fe-peak element ratios in low-metallicity damped Lyα systems,
2013, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 431, 1625, arXiv:1211.2805.
(ADS: 15 citations.)

80. Evans J.L., Churchill C.W., Murphy M.T., Nielsen N.M., Klimek E.S.,
The Redshift Distribution of Intervening Weak Mg II Quasar Absorbers and a Curious Dependence on Quasar Luminosity,
2013, Astrophys. J., 768, 3, arXiv:1303.2111.
(ADS: 13 citations.)

79. Cooke R., Pettini M., Murphy M.T.,
A new candidate for probing Population III nucleosynthesis with carbon-enhanced damped Lyα systems,
2012, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 425, 347, arXiv:1201.1004.
(ADS: 50 citations.)

78. King J.A., Webb J.K., Murphy M.T., Flambaum V.V., Carswell R.F., Bainbridge M.B., Wilczynska M.R., Koch F.E.,
Spatial variation in the fine-structure constant - new results from VLT/UVES,
2012, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 422, 3370, arXiv:1202.4758.
(ADS: 233 citations.)
Appendix C: Voigt profile fits. Text table containing all 154 & 141 Δα/α values from VLT and Keck, respectively.

77. Ben Bekhti N., Winkel B., Richter P., Kerp J., Klein U., Murphy M.T.,
An absorption-selected survey of neutral gas in the Milky Way halo. New results based on a large sample of Ca ii, Na i, and H i spectra towards QSOs,
2012, Astron. Astrophys., 542, A110, arXiv:1203.5603.
(ADS: 26 citations.)

76. Carswell R.F., Becker G.D., Jorgenson R.A., Murphy M.T., Wolfe A.M.,
The kinetic temperature in a damped Lyman α absorption system in Q2206-199 - an example of the warm neutral medium,
2012, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 422, 1700, arXiv:1202.3012.
(ADS: 27 citations.)

75. Murphy M.T., Locke C.R., Light P.S., Luiten A.N., Lawrence J.S.,
Laser frequency comb techniques for precise astronomical spectroscopy,
2012, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 422, 761, arXiv:1202.0819.
(ADS: 23 citations.)

74. Bagdonaite J., Murphy M.T., Kaper L., Ubachs W.,
Constraint on a variation of the proton-to-electron mass ratio from H2 absorption towards quasar Q2348-011,
2012, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 421, 419, arXiv:1112.0428.
(ADS: 32 citations.)

73. Bouché N., Murphy M.T., Péroux C., Contini T., Martin C.L., Forster Schreiber N.M., Genzel R., Lutz D., Gillessen S., Tacconi L., Davies R., Eisenhauer F.,
Enriched haloes at redshift z = 2 with no star formation: implications for accretion and wind scenarios,
2012, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 419, 2, arXiv:1107.4618.
(ADS: 56 citations.)

72. Webb J.K., King J.A., Murphy M.T., Flambaum V.V., Carswell R.F., Bainbridge M.B.,
Indications of a Spatial Variation of the Fine Structure Constant,
2011, Phys. Rev. Lett., 107, 191101, arXiv:1008.3907.
(ADS: 440 citations.)

71. King J.A., Murphy M.T., Ubachs W., Webb J.K.,
New constraint on cosmological variation of the proton-to-electron mass ratio from Q0528-250,
2011, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 417, 3010, arXiv:1106.5786.
(ADS: 62 citations.)

70. Kacprzak G.G., Churchill C.W., Evans J.L., Murphy M.T., Steidel C.C.,
Morphological properties of z∼ 0.5 absorption-selected galaxies: the role of galaxy inclination,
2011, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 416, 3118, arXiv:1106.3068.
(ADS: 89 citations.)

69. Curran S.J., Whiting M.T., Combes F., Kuno N., Francis P., Nakai N., Webb J.K., Murphy M.T., Wiklind T.,
On the absence of molecular absorption in high-redshift millimetre-band searches,
2011, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 416, 2143, arXiv:1106.0578.
(ADS: 23 citations.)

68. Chornock R., Filippenko A.V., Li W., Marion G.H., Foley R.J., Modjaz M., Rafelski M., Becker G.D., de Vries W.H., Garnavich P., Jorgenson R.A., Lynch D.K., Malec A.L., Moran E.C., Murphy M.T., Rudy R.J., Russell R.W., Silverman J.M., Steele T.N., Stockton A., Wolfe A.M., Woodward C.E.,
The Transitional Stripped-envelope SN 2008ax: Spectral Evolution and Evidence for Large Asphericity,
2011, Astrophys. J., 739, 41, arXiv:1001.2775.
(ADS: 66 citations.)

67. van Weerdenburg F., Murphy M.T., Malec A.L., Kaper L., Ubachs W.,
First Constraint on Cosmological Variation of the Proton-to-Electron Mass Ratio from Two Independent Telescopes,
2011, Phys. Rev. Lett., 106, 180802, arXiv:1104.2969.
(ADS: 61 citations.)

66. Curran S.J., Whiting M.T., Murphy M.T., Webb J.K., Bignell C., Polatidis A.G., Wiklind T., Francis P., Langston G.,
Redshifted H I and OH absorption in radio galaxies and quasars,
2011, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 413, 1165, arXiv:1012.1972.
(ADS: 37 citations.)

65. Richter P., Krause F., Fechner C., Charlton J.C., Murphy M.T.,
The neutral gas extent of galaxies as derived from weak intervening Ca ii absorbers,
2011, Astron. Astrophys., 528, A12, arXiv:1008.2201.
(ADS: 41 citations.)

64. Carswell R.F., Jorgenson R.A., Wolfe A.M., Murphy M.T.,
A cold component and the complex velocity structure of DLA1331 + 170,
2011, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 411, 2319, arXiv:1010.2821.
(ADS: 24 citations.)

63. Hamann F., Kanekar N., Prochaska J.X., Murphy M.T., Ellison S., Malec A.L., Milutinovic N., Ubachs W.,
A high-velocity narrow absorption line outflow in the quasar J212329.46 - 005052.9,
2011, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 410, 1957, arXiv:1008.3728.
(ADS: 119 citations.)

62. Whitmore J.B., Murphy M.T., Griest K.,
Wavelength Calibration of the VLT-UVES Spectrograph,
2010, Astrophys. J., 723, 89, arXiv:1004.3325.
(ADS: 61 citations.)

61. Tumlinson J., Malec A.L., Carswell R.F., Murphy M.T., Buning R., Milutinovic N., Ellison S.L., Prochaska J.X., Jorgenson R.A., Ubachs W., Wolfe A.M.,
Cosmological Concordance or Chemical Coincidence? Deuterated Molecular Hydrogen Abundances at High Redshift,
2010, Astrophys. J., 718, L156, arXiv:1007.0030.
(ADS: 35 citations.)
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60. Kacprzak G.G., Murphy M.T., Churchill C.W.,
Galaxy group at z = 0.3 associated with the damped Lyman α system towards quasar Q1127-145,
2010, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 406, 445, arXiv:1003.3669.
(ADS: 57 citations.)

59. Malec A.L., Buning R., Murphy M.T., Milutinovic N., Ellison S.L., Prochaska J.X., Kaper L., Tumlinson J., Carswell R.F., Ubachs W.,
Keck telescope constraint on cosmological variation of the proton-to-electron mass ratio,
2010, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 403, 1541, arXiv:1001.4078.
(ADS: 94 citations.)
Appendix B: Supporting information including full version of Figure 1. Text version of Table 1.

58. Kacprzak G.G., Churchill C.W., Ceverino D., Steidel C.C., Klypin A., Murphy M.T.,
Halo Gas and Galaxy Disk Kinematics Derived from Observations and ΛCDM Simulations of Mg II Absorption-selected Galaxies at Intermediate Redshift,
2010, Astrophys. J., 711, 533, arXiv:0912.2746.
(ADS: 109 citations.)

57. Curran S.J., Tzanavaris P., Darling J.K., Whiting M.T., Webb J.K., Bignell C., Athreya R., Murphy M.T.,
New searches for HI 21 cm in damped Lyman α absorption systems,
2010, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 402, 35, arXiv:0910.3742.
(ADS: 30 citations.)

56. Bochanski J.J., Hennawi J.F., Simcoe R.A., Prochaska J.X., West A.A., Burgasser A.J., Burles S.M., Bernstein R.A., Williams C.L., Murphy M.T.,
MASE: A New Data-Reduction Pipeline for the Magellan Echellette Spectrograph,
2009, Pub. Astron. Soc. Pacific, 121, 1409, arXiv:0910.1834.
(ADS: 97 citations.)

55. Dessauges-Zavadsky M., Ellison S.L., Murphy M.T.,
Revisiting the origin of the high metallicities of sub-damped Lyman-alpha systems,
2009, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 396, L61, arXiv:0904.2531.
(ADS: 34 citations.)

54. Henkel C., Menten K.M., Murphy M.T., Jethava N., Flambaum V.V., Braatz J.A., Muller S., Ott J., Mao R.Q.,
The density, the cosmic microwave background, and the proton-to-electron mass ratio in a cloud at redshift 0.9,
2009, Astron. Astrophys., 500, 725, arXiv:0904.3081.
(ADS: 93 citations.)

53. Alves-Brito A., Forbes D.A., Mendel J.T., Hau G.K.T., Murphy M.T.,
The outer halo globular clusters of M31,
2009, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 395, L34, arXiv:0902.0639.
(ADS: 23 citations.)

52. Zych B.J., Murphy M.T., Hewett P.C., Prochaska J.X.,
Dust depletion, chemical uniformity and environment of CaII H&K quasar absorbers,
2009, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 392, 1429, arXiv:0810.5131.
(ADS: 18 citations.)

51. Ellison S.L., Murphy M.T., Dessauges-Zavadsky M.,
The kinematic signature of damped Lyman alpha systems: using the D-index to screen for high column density H i absorbers*,
2009, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 392, 998, arXiv:0810.3700.
(ADS: 17 citations.)

50. King J.A., Webb J.K., Murphy M.T., Carswell R.F.,
Stringent Null Constraint on Cosmological Evolution of the Proton-to-Electron Mass Ratio,
2008, Phys. Rev. Lett., 101, 251304, arXiv:0807.4366.
(ADS: 117 citations.)

49. Pettini M., Zych B.J., Murphy M.T., Lewis A., Steidel C.C.,
Deuterium abundance in the most metal-poor damped Lyman alpha system: converging on Ωb,0h2,
2008, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 391, 1499, arXiv:0805.0594.
(ADS: 178 citations.)

48. Curran S.J., Whiting M.T., Wiklind T., Webb J.K., Murphy M.T., Purcell C.R.,
A survey for redshifted molecular and atomic absorption lines - II. Associated HI, OH and millimetre lines in the z >~ 3 Parkes quarter-Jansky flat-spectrum sample,
2008, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 391, 765, arXiv:0805.1581.
(ADS: 61 citations.)

47. Steinmetz T., Wilken T., Araujo-Hauck C., Holzwarth R., Hänsch T.W., Pasquini L., Manescau A., D'Odorico S., Murphy M.T., Kentischer T., Schmidt W., Udem T.,
Laser Frequency Combs for Astronomical Observations,
2008, Science, 321, 1335, arXiv:0809.1663.
(ADS: 402 citations.)
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46. Ben Bekhti N., Richter P., Westmeier T., Murphy M.T.,
Ca II and Na I absorption signatures from extraplanar gas in the halo of the Milky Way,
2008, Astron. Astrophys., 487, 583, arXiv:0806.3204.
(ADS: 40 citations.)

45. Murphy M.T., Flambaum V.V., Muller S., Henkel C.,
Strong Limit on a Variable Proton-to-Electron Mass Ratio from Molecules in the Distant Universe,
2008, Science, 320, 1611, arXiv:0806.3081.
(ADS: 143 citations.)
Free full access at Science.
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44. Liske J., Grazian A., Vanzella E., Dessauges M., Viel M., Pasquini L., Haehnelt M., Cristiani S., Pepe F., Avila G., Bonifacio P., Bouchy F., Dekker H., Delabre B., D'Odorico S., D'Odorico V., Levshakov S., Lovis C., Mayor M., Molaro P., Moscardini L., Murphy M.T., Queloz D., Shaver P., Udry S., Wiklind T., Zucker S.,
Cosmic dynamics in the era of Extremely Large Telescopes,
2008, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 386, 1192, arXiv:0802.1532.
(ADS: 233 citations.)
Swinburne Media release.

43. Murphy M.T., Webb J.K., Flambaum V.V.,
Revision of VLT/UVES constraints on a varying fine-structure constant,
2008, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 384, 1053, arXiv:astro-ph/0612407.
(ADS: 141 citations.)
Text version of Table 1.

42. Kacprzak G.G., Churchill C.W., Steidel C.C., Murphy M.T.,
Halo Gas Cross Sections and Covering Fractions of Mg II Absorption Selected Galaxies,
2008, Astron. J., 135, 922, arXiv:0710.5765.
(ADS: 120 citations.)

41. Ellison S.L., York B.A., Murphy M.T., Zych B.J., Smith A.M., Sarre P.J.,
Diffuse interstellar bands in z < 0.6 CaII absorbers,
2008, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 383, L30, arXiv:0710.0901.
(ADS: 26 citations.)

40. Murphy M.T., Webb J.K., Flambaum V.V.,
Comment on ``Limits on the Time Variation of the Electromagnetic Fine-Structure Constant in the Low Energy Limit from Absorption Lines in the Spectra of Distant Quasars'',
2007, Phys. Rev. Lett., 99, 239001, arXiv:0708.3677.
(ADS: 90 citations.)
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39. Bouché N., Murphy M.T., Péroux C., Davies R., Eisenhauer F., Förster Schreiber N.M., Tacconi L.,
The SINFONI Mg II Program for Line Emitters (SIMPLE): Discovering Starbursts near QSO Sight Lines,
2007, Astrophys. J., 669, L5, arXiv:0709.4248.
(ADS: 83 citations.)
Media releases: ESO, Swinburne.

38. Curran S.J., Tzanavaris P., Murphy M.T., Webb J.K., Pihlström Y.M.,
Detection of broad 21-cm absorption at zabs = 0.656 in the complex sight-line towards 3C336,
2007, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 381, L6, arXiv:0706.2692.
(ADS: 27 citations.)

37. Cristiani S., Avila G., Bonifacio P., Bouchy F., Carswell B., D'Odorico S., D'Odorico V., Delabre B., Dekker H., Dessauges M., Dimarcantonio P., Garcia-Lopez R., Grazian A., Haehnelt M., Herreros J.M., Israelian G., Levshakov S., Liske J., Lovis C., Manescau A., Martin E., Mayor M., Megevand D., Molaro P., Murphy M., Pasquini L., Pepe F., Perez J., Queloz D., Rebolo R., Santin P., Shaver P., Spanò P., Udry S., Vanzella E., Viel M., Zapatero M.R., Zerbi F., Zucker S.,
The CODEX-ESPRESSO experiment: Cosmic dynamics, fundamental physics, planets and much more...,
2007, Nuovo Cimento B Ser., 122, 1165, arXiv:0712.4152.
(ADS: 31 citations.)

36. Murphy M.T., Udem Th., Holzwarth R., Sizmann A., Pasquini L., Araujo-Hauck C., Dekker H., D'Odorico S., Fischer M., Hänsch T.W., Manescau A.,
High-precision wavelength calibration of astronomical spectrographs with laser frequency combs,
2007, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 380, 839, arXiv:astro-ph/0703622.
(ADS: 226 citations.)

35. Zych B.J., Murphy M.T., Pettini M., Hewett P.C., Ryan-Weber E.V., Ellison S.L.,
The host galaxies of strong CaII quasar absorption systems at z < 0.5,
2007, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 379, 1409, arXiv:0705.3462.
(ADS: 22 citations.)

34. Murphy M.T., Tzanavaris P., Webb J.K., Lovis C.,
Selection of ThAr lines for wavelength calibration of echelle spectra and implications for variations in the fine-structure constant,
2007, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 378, 221, arXiv:astro-ph/0703623.
(ADS: 82 citations.)
Supplementary material, including electronic versions of all input and output ThAr atlases and updates. Colour versions of Fig. 3(right): EPS or GIF.

33. Kacprzak G.G., Churchill C.W., Steidel C.C., Murphy M.T., Evans J.L.,
A Correlation between Galaxy Morphology and Mg II Halo Absorption Strength,
2007, Astrophys. J., 662, 909, arXiv:astro-ph/0703377.
(ADS: 50 citations.)

32. Murphy M.T., Curran S.J., Webb J.K., Ménager H., Zych B.J.,
The connection between metallicity and metal-line kinematics in (sub-)damped Lyα systems,
2007, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 376, 673, arXiv:astro-ph/0701028.
(ADS: 46 citations.)

31. Bouché N., Murphy M.T., Péroux C., Csabai I., Wild V.,
Are strong Mg II absorbers the signature of outflows?,
2007, New Astron. Rev., 51, 131, .
(ADS: 8 citations.)

30. Tzanavaris P., Murphy M.T., Webb J.K., Flambaum V.V., Curran S.J.,
Probing variations in fundamental constants with radio and optical quasar absorption-line observations,
2007, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 374, 634, arXiv:astro-ph/0610326.
(ADS: 53 citations.)

29. Bouché N., Murphy M.T., Péroux C., Csabai I., Wild V.,
New perspectives on strong z≃ 0.5 Mg ii absorbers: are halo mass and equivalent width anticorrelated?,
2006, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 371, 495, arXiv:astro-ph/0606328.
(ADS: 125 citations.)

28. Curran S.J., Whiting M.T., Murphy M.T., Webb J.K., Longmore S.N., Pihlström Y.M., Athreya R., Blake C.,
A survey for redshifted molecular and atomic absorption lines - I. The Parkes half-Jansky flat-spectrum red quasar sample,
2006, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 371, 431, arXiv:astro-ph/0607582.
(ADS: 53 citations.)

27. Aldenius M., Johansson S., Murphy M.T.,
Accurate laboratory ultraviolet wavelengths for quasar absorption-line constraints on varying fundamental constants,
2006, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 370, 444, arXiv:astro-ph/0605053.
(ADS: 31 citations.)

26. Purcell C.R., Balasubramanyam R., Burton M.G., Walsh A.J., Minier V., Hunt-Cunningham M.R., Kedziora-Chudczer L.L., Longmore S.N., Hill T., Bains I., Barnes P.J., Busfield A.L., Calisse P., Crighton N.H.M., Curran S.J., Davis T.M., Dempsey J.T., Derragopian G., Fulton B., Hidas M.G., Hoare M.G., Lee J.-K., Ladd E.F., Lumsden S.L., Moore T.J.T., Murphy M.T., Oudmaijer R.D., Pracy M.B., Rathborne J., Robertson S., Schultz A.S.B., Shobbrook J., Sparks P.A., Storey J., Travouillion T.,
A CH3CN and HCO+ survey towards southern methanol masers associated with star formation,
2006, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 367, 553, arXiv:astro-ph/0512589.
(ADS: 115 citations.)

25. Tzanavaris P., Webb J.K., Murphy M.T., Flambaum V.V., Curran S.J.,
Limits on Variations in Fundamental Constants from 21-cm and Ultraviolet Quasar Absorption Lines,
2005, Phys. Rev. Lett., 95, 041301, arXiv:astro-ph/0412649.
(ADS: 78 citations.)

24. Fenner Y., Murphy M.T., Gibson B.K.,
On variations in the fine-structure constant and stellar pollution of quasar absorption systems,
2005, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 358, 468, arXiv:astro-ph/0501168.
(ADS: 36 citations.)

23. Curran S.J., Murphy M.T., Pihlström Y.M., Webb J.K., Purcell C.R.,
Spin temperatures and covering factors for HI 21-cm absorption in damped Lyman α systems,
2005, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 356, 1509, arXiv:astro-ph/0410647.
(ADS: 50 citations.)

22. Murphy M.T., Liske J.,
Dust-reddening and gravitational lensing of SDSS QSOs due to foreground damped Lyman α systems,
2004, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 354, L31, arXiv:astro-ph/0405472.
(ADS: 101 citations.)
Text version of Table 1.

21. Bouché N., Murphy M.T., Péroux C.,
The clustering of luminous red galaxies around MgII absorbers,
2004, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 354, L25, arXiv:astro-ph/0408468.
(ADS: 32 citations.)
Text version of Table 1. arXiv version includes appendix on correlation functions.

20. Curran S.J., Murphy M.T., Pihlström Y.M., Webb J.K., Bolatto A.D., Bower G.C.,
Molecular fraction limits in damped Lyman α absorption systems,
2004, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 352, 563, arXiv:astro-ph/0404516.
(ADS: 28 citations.)

19. Curran S.J., Webb J.K., Murphy M.T., Carswell R.F.,
Cosmological evolution of heavy-element and H2 abundances,
2004, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 351, L24, arXiv:astro-ph/0311357.
(ADS: 23 citations.)

18. Murphy M.T., Flambaum V.V., Webb J.K., Dzuba V.A., Prochaska J.X., Wolfe A.M.,
Constraining Variations in the Fine-Structure Constant, Quark Masses and the Strong Interaction,
2004, Lecture Notes Phys., 648, 131, arXiv:astro-ph/0310318.
(ADS: 140 citations.)
Table of all 143 &Delta

17. Murphy M.T., Webb J.K., Flambaum V.V.,
Further evidence for a variable fine-structure constant from Keck/HIRES QSO absorption spectra,
2003, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 345, 609, arXiv:astro-ph/0306483.
(ADS: 466 citations.)
Colour versions of Fig. 6: EPS, GIF. Colour versions of Fig. 8: EPS, GIF. Colour versions of Fig. 10: EPS, GIF. Text version of Table 3.

16. Murphy M.T., Curran S.J., Webb J.K.,
A search for high-redshift molecular absorption lines towards millimetre-loud, optically faint quasars,
2003, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 342, 830, arXiv:astro-ph/0303074.
(ADS: 14 citations.)

15. Curran S.J., Murphy M.T., Webb J.K., Pihlström Y.M.,
A 22-GHz search for molecular absorption at z~ 3 with the upgraded ATCA,
2003, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 340, 139, arXiv:astro-ph/0211387.
(ADS: 4 citations.)

14. Murphy M.T., Webb J.K., Flambaum V.V., Curran S.J.,
Does the fine structure constant vary? A detailed investigation into systematic effects,
2003, Astrophys. Space Sci., 283, 577, arXiv:astro-ph/0210532.
(ADS: 65 citations.)

13. Webb J.K., Murphy M.T., Flambaum V.V., Curran S.J.,
Does the fine structure constant vary? A third quasar absorption sample consistent with varying α,
2003, Astrophys. Space Sci., 283, 565, arXiv:astro-ph/0210531.
(ADS: 68 citations.)

12. Curran S.J., Murphy M.T., Webb J.K., Rantakyrö F., Johansson L.E.B., Nikolić S.,
A search for molecules in damped Lyman-alpha absorbers occulting millimetre-loud quasars,
2002, Astron. Astrophys., 394, 763, arXiv:astro-ph/0209175.
(ADS: 10 citations.)

11. Curran S.J., Webb J.K., Murphy M.T., Bandiera R., Corbelli E., Flambaum V.V.,
A Catalogue of Damped Lyman Alpha Absorption Systems and Radio Flux Densities of the Background Quasars,
2002, Pub. Astron. Soc. Australia, 19, 455, arXiv:astro-ph/0206091.
(ADS: 35 citations.)
HTML catalogue.

10. Murphy M.T., Webb J.K., Flambaum V.V., Drinkwater M.J., Combes F., Wiklind T.,
Improved constraints on possible variation of physical constants from H i 21-cm and molecular QSO absorption lines,
2001, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 327, 1244, arXiv:astro-ph/0101519.
(ADS: 114 citations.)

9. Murphy M.T., Webb J.K., Flambaum V.V., Prochaska J.X., Wolfe A.M.,
Further constraints on variation of the fine-structure constant from alkali-doublet QSO absorption lines,
2001, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 327, 1237, arXiv:astro-ph/0012421.
(ADS: 131 citations.)

8. Murphy M.T., Webb J.K., Flambaum V.V., Churchill C.W., Prochaska J.X.,
Possible evidence for a variable fine-structure constant from QSO absorption lines: systematic errors,
2001, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 327, 1223, arXiv:astro-ph/0012420.
(ADS: 115 citations.)

7. Murphy M.T., Webb J.K., Flambaum V.V., Dzuba V.A., Churchill C.W., Prochaska J.X., Barrow J.D., Wolfe A.M.,
Possible evidence for a variable fine-structure constant from QSO absorption lines: motivations, analysis and results,
2001, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 327, 1208, arXiv:astro-ph/0012419.
(ADS: 295 citations.)

6. Webb J.K., Murphy M.T., Flambaum V.V., Dzuba V.A., Barrow J.D., Churchill C.W., Prochaska J.X., Wolfe A.M.,
Further Evidence for Cosmological Evolution of the Fine Structure Constant,
2001, Phys. Rev. Lett., 87, 091301, arXiv:astro-ph/0012539.
(ADS: 713 citations.)

5. Dzuba V.A., Flambaum V.V., Murphy M.T., Webb J.K.,
Relativistic effects in Ni II and the search for variation of the fine-structure constant,
2001, Phys. Rev. A, 63, 042509, arXiv:astro-ph/0012422.
(ADS: 27 citations.)

4. Dzuba V.A., Flambaum V.V., Murphy M.T., Webb J.K.,
Relativistic Corrections in Atoms and Space-Time Variation of the Fine Structure Constant,
2001, Lecture Notes Phys., 570, 564, .
(ADS: 2 citations.)

3. Murphy M.T., Webb J.K., Heng I.S.,
A method for detecting gravitational waves coincident with gamma-ray bursts,
2000, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 316, 657, arXiv:astro-ph/9911071.
(ADS: 9 citations.)

2. Murphy M.T., Bessell M.S.,
Catalogue of candidate emission-line objects in the Small Magellanic Cloud,
2000, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 311, 741, arXiv:astro-ph/9909196.
(ADS: 22 citations.)
Text version of catalogue.

1. Byrnes T.M.R., Murphy M.T., Sushkov O.P.,
One- and two-dimensional spin systems in the regime close to deconfinement of spinons,
1999, Phys. Rev. B, 60, 4057, arXiv:cond-mat/9902249.
(ADS: 12 citations.)