Publications
Below are publications I have co-authored. Papers included are either accepted, submitted, or very near to submission stage (i.e. no nebulous "in preps").
I have not included proceedings, you can find them in the News section if you really want to know. I keep an updated list on ADS with all peer reviewed articles and sumbitted arXiv pre-prints:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/public-libraries/QJSnG6ZkSei8Mg-aq1r79g
Schuller, Urquhart, Csengeri, Colombo, Durate-Cabral, Ginsburg, Mattern, Pettitt, Wyrowski, Anderson, Azagra, Barnes, Beuther, Bronfman, Menten, Moore, Sanchez-Monge, et al., to be submitted MNRAS,
The SEDIGISM survey: first data release and overview of the Galactic structure
Kawana, Saito, Okumura, Kawabe, Espada, Iono, Kaneko, Lee, Michiyama, Motohara, Nakanishi, Pettitt, Ueda, Yamashita, to be submitted to ApJ, Multi-wavelength view of the minor merger driven star formation in the nearby LIRG NGC 3110
Hunt, Johnston, Pettitt, Cunningham, Kawata, Hogg, submitted to MNRAS, The power of co-ordinate transformations in dynamical interpretations of Galactic structure
Duarte-Cabral, Colombo, Urquhart, Ginsburg, Russeil, Schuller, Agurto, Azagra, Anderson, Barnes, Beltran, Beuther, Bontemps, Bronfman, Csengeri, Dobbs,
Dumke, Eden, Finger, Giannetti, Gonzalez, Henning, Hernandez, Kainulainen, Kauffmann, Leurini, Lee,
Lopez, Mac-Auliffe, Mattern, Medina, Molinari, Menten, Montenegro-Montes, Moore, Motte, Muller, Muzumdar, Nguyen-Luong, Parra, Perez-Beaupuits, Pettitt,
Ragan, Rigby, Sanna, Sanchez-Monge, Schilke, Schisano, Schneider, Suri, Testi, Torstensson, Traficante, Veena, Venegas, Wang, Wienen, Wyrowsk, Zavagno,
submitted to MNRAS, The SEDIGISM survey: Molecular clouds in the inner Galaxy
Benincasa, Wadsley, Couchman, Pettitt, Keller, Woods, Grond, submitted to MNRAS, The Anatomy of a Star-Forming Galaxy II: the role of FUV heating in the structure of galaxies
Sakre, Habe, Pettitt, Okamoto, submitted to PASJ, Trigger of massive core/star formation by cloud-cloud collision: Effect of magnetic field
Pettitt, Ragan, Smith, 2020, MNRAS, 491, 2 Young stars as tracers of a barred-spiral Milky Way
Benincasa, Wadsley, Couchman, Pettitt, Tasker, 2019, MNRAS, 486, 4, A tale of two clump masses: a new way to study clump formation in simulations
Dobbs, Rosolowski, Pettitt, Braine, Crobelli, Sun, 2019 MNRAS, 485, 4, Comparing the Properties of GMCs in M33 from Simulations and Observations
Salak, Noma, Sorai, Miyamoto, Kuno, Pettitt, Kaneko, Tanaka, Yasuda, Kita, Yajima, Shibata, Nakai, Seta, Muraoka, Kuroda, Nakanishi, Takeuchi, Yoda, Morokuma-Matsui, Watanabe, Matsumoto, Oi, Pan, Kajikawa, Yashima, Komatsuzaki, 2019, PASJ, psz004, CO Multi-line Imaging of Nearby Galaxies (COMING). VII. Fourier decomposition of molecular gas velocity fields and bar pattern speed
Pettitt, Egusa, Dobbs, Tasker, Fujimoto, Habe, 2018, MNRAS, 480, 3356, The changing GMC population in galaxy interactions
Espada, Martin, Verley, Pettitt, Matshitaka, Argudo-Fernandez, Randriamanakoto, Hsieh, Saito,
Miura, Kawana, Sabater, Verdes-Montenegro, Ho, Kawabe, Iono, 2018, ApJ, 866, 2, Molecular Gas and Star Formation Properties in Early Stage Mergers: SMA CO(2-1) Observations of the LIRGs NGC 3110 and NGC 232
Pettitt & Wadsley, 2018, MNRAS, 474, 5645, Bars and spirals in tidal interactions with an ensemble of galaxy mass models
Price, Wurster, Tricco, Nixon, Toupin, Pettitt, Chan, Laibe, Glover, Dobbs, Nealon, Liptai, Worpel, Bonnerot, Dipierro, Ballabio, Ragusa, Federrath, Iaconi, Roberto, Reichardt, Forgan, Hutchison, Constantino, Ayliffe, Hirsh, Lodato, 2018,
Pub. Astron. Aus., 35, 31, Phantom: A Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics Code for Astrophysics
Nguyen, Pettitt, Tasker, Okamoto, 2018, MNRAS, 475, 27, The impact of galactic disc environment on star-forming clouds
Dobbs, Pettitt, Corbelli, Pringle, 2018, MNRAS, 478, 3793, Simulations of the flocculent spiral M33: what drives the spiral structure?
Pettitt, Tasker, Wadsley, Keller, Benincasa, 2017, MNRAS, 478, 3793, Star formation and ISM morphology in tidally induced spiral structures
Schuller, Csengeri, Urquhart, Duarte-Cabral, Barnes, Giannetti, Hernandez, Leurini, Mattern, Medina, Agurto, Azagra, Anderson, Beltran, Beuther, Bontemps, Bronfman, Dobbs, Dumke, Finger, Ginsburg, Gonzalez, Henning, Kauffmann, Mac-Auliffe, Menten, Montenegro-Montes, Moore, Muller, Parra, Perez-Beaupuits, Pettitt, Russeil, Sanchez-Monge, Schilke, Schisano, Suri, Testi, Torstensson, Venegas, Wang, Wienen, Wyrowski, Zavagno,
A&A, 601, A124S, SEDIGISM: Structure, excitation, and dynamics of the inner Galactic interstellar medium
Dobbs, Price, Pettitt, Bate, Tricco, 2016, MNRAS, 461, 4482, Magnetic field evolution and reversals in spiral galaxies
Few, Dobbs, Pettitt, Konstandin, 2016, MNRAS, 460, 4382, Testing hydrodynamics schemes in galaxy disc simulations
Pettitt, Tasker, Wadsley, 2016, MNRAS, 458, 3990, Gas and stellar spiral structures in tidally perturbed disc galaxies
Pettitt, Dobbs, Acreman, Bate, 2015, MNRAS, 449, 3911, The morphology of the Milky Way - II. Reconstructing CO maps from disc galaxies with live stellar distributions
Pettitt, Dobbs, Acreman, Price, 2014, MNRAS, 444, 919, The morphology of the Milky Way - I. Reconstructing CO maps from simulations in fixed potentials
Tremblin, Anderson, Didelon, Raga, Minier, Ntormousi, Pettitt, Pinto, Samal, Schneider, Zavagno, 2014, A&A, 568, 4T, Age, size, and position of H ii regions in the Galaxy. Expansion of ionized gas in turbulent molecular clouds
Wilson, Colon, Sing, Ballester, Desert, Ehreneich, Ford, Fortney, Lecavelier des Etangs, Lopez-Morales, Morley, Pettitt, Pont, Vidal-Madjar, 2014, MNRAS, 438, 2395, A search for methane in the atmosphere of GJ 1214b via GTC narrow-band transmission spectrophotometry
CV
Here is my CV if you are so inclined to read [accurate as of December 2019].
Thesis
Here is my entire thesis. Be warned, it is quite a big file! Alternatively feel free to download the individual chapters if you'd prefer:
- Chapter 1: Introduction focused on the structure of disc galaxies and the Milky Way.
- Chapter 2: Methods chapter discussing smoothed particle hydrodynamics and inter-stellar medium physics.
- Chapter 3: Investigation using fixed potentials to reproduce arm/bar structures seen in the Milky Way.
- Chapter 4: Radiative transfer maps of the simulations in Chapter 3, and comparison to observations.
- Chapter 5: Investigation use live N-body stellar disc to create spiral and barred Milky Way-like features.
- Chapter 6: Conclusions and future work.
Codes
Below are codes and some invaluable software I have used in my work, most of which are numerical hydrodynamics codes.
PHANTOM - D. Price's SPH code (NDSPMHD is good too).
GASOLINE - J. Wadsley's SPH code.
GIZMO - P. Hopkin's hydrodynamics code.
GADGET2 - V. Springel's SPH code.
TORUS - A 3D AMR radiative transfer code by T. Harries (not public, yet).
ENZO - A grid-based hydrodynamics code.
SPLASH - D. Price's visualisation software for SPH data.
YT - A versatile python-based analysis package for SPH/AMR data.
glnemo2 - Interactive viewer for astrophysical codes by J. Lambert.