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(2011) Nicholas J. McConnell et al.   NATURE

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(2010) L. J. Tacconi et al.   NATURE

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The effect of galaxy mass ratio on merger-driven starbursts

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Interaction-induced star formation in a complete sample of 105nearby star-forming galaxies

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The nearly universal merger rate of dark matter haloes in ΛCDM cosmology

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