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OGLE-2015-BLG-0479LA,B: Binary Gravitational Microlens Characterized By Simultaneous Ground-based And Space-based Observations (2016)
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Han, C., Udalski, A., Gould, A., Zhu, W., Street, R., Yee, J., …DePoy, D. (2016). OGLE-2015-BLG-0479LA,B: Binary Gravitational Microlens Characterized By Simultaneous Ground-based And Space-based Observations. Astrophysical Journal, 828(1), Article 53. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/828/1/53

We present a combined analysis of the observations of the gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0479 taken both from the ground and by the Spitzer Space Telescope. The light curves seen from the ground and from space exhibit a time offset of... Read More about OGLE-2015-BLG-0479LA,B: Binary Gravitational Microlens Characterized By Simultaneous Ground-based And Space-based Observations.

WASP-92b, WASP-93b and WASP-118b: three new transiting close-in giant planets (2016)
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Hay, K., Collier-Cameron, A., Doyle, A., Hébrard, G., Skillen, I., Anderson, D., …Wilson, P. (2016). WASP-92b, WASP-93b and WASP-118b: three new transiting close-in giant planets. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 463(3), 3276 - 3289. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2090

We present the discovery of three new transiting giant planets, first detected with the WASP telescopes, and establish their planetary nature with follow up spectroscopy and ground-based photometric light curves. WASP-92 is an F7 star, with a moderat... Read More about WASP-92b, WASP-93b and WASP-118b: three new transiting close-in giant planets.

Erratum: Physical properties, star-spot activity, orbital obliquity and transmission spectrum of the Qatar-2 planetary system from multicolour photometry (2016)
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Mancini, L., Southworth, J., Ciceri, S., Tregloan-Reed, J., Crossfield, I., Nikolov, N., …Henning, T. (2016). Erratum: Physical properties, star-spot activity, orbital obliquity and transmission spectrum of the Qatar-2 planetary system from multicolour photometry. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 462(4), 4266 - 4266. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1991

Many new variable stars discovered in the core of the globular cluster NGC 6715 (M54) with EMCCD observations (2016)
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Figuera Jaimes, R., Bramich, D., Kains, N., Skottfelt, J., Jørgensen, U., Horne, K., …MiNDSTEp Consortium, T. (2016). Many new variable stars discovered in the core of the globular cluster NGC 6715 (M54) with EMCCD observations. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 592, Article A120. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628864

Context. We show the benefits of using electron-multiplying CCDs and the shift-and-add technique as a tool to minimise the effects of atmospheric turbulence, such as blending between stars in crowded fields, and to avoid saturated stars in the fields... Read More about Many new variable stars discovered in the core of the globular cluster NGC 6715 (M54) with EMCCD observations.

Contamination from a nearby star cannot explain the anomalous transmission spectrum of the ultra-short period giant planet WASP-103b (2016)
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Southworth, J., & Evans, D. F. (2016). Contamination from a nearby star cannot explain the anomalous transmission spectrum of the ultra-short period giant planet WASP-103b. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 463(1), 37-44. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1943

The planet in the WASP-103 system is an excellent candidate for transmission spectroscopy because of its large radius and high temperature. Application of this technique found a variation of radius with wavelength which was far too strong to be expla... Read More about Contamination from a nearby star cannot explain the anomalous transmission spectrum of the ultra-short period giant planet WASP-103b.

Another one grinds the dust: variability of the planetary debris disc at the white dwarf SDSS J104341.53+085558.2 (2016)
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Manser, C. J., Gänsicke, B. T., Koester, D., Marsh, T. R., & Southworth, J. (2016). Another one grinds the dust: variability of the planetary debris disc at the white dwarf SDSS J104341.53+085558.2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 462(2), 1461 - 1469. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1760

We report 9 yr of optical spectroscopy of the metal-polluted white dwarf SDSS J104341.53+085558.2, which presents morphological variations of the line profiles of the 8600 Å Ca?II triplet emission from the gaseous component of its debris disc. Simila... Read More about Another one grinds the dust: variability of the planetary debris disc at the white dwarf SDSS J104341.53+085558.2.

Mass Measurements Of Isolated Objects From Space-Based Microlensing (2016)
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Zhu, W., Calchi Novati, S., Gould, A., Udalski, A., Han, C., Shvartzvald, Y., …GROUP, M. (2016). Mass Measurements Of Isolated Objects From Space-Based Microlensing. Astrophysical Journal, 825(1), Article 60. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/825/1/60

We report on the mass and distance measurements of two single-lens events from the 2015 Spitzer microlensing campaign. With both finite-source effect and microlens parallax measurements, we find that the lens of OGLE-2015-BLG-1268 is very likely a br... Read More about Mass Measurements Of Isolated Objects From Space-Based Microlensing.

Five transiting hot Jupiters discovered using WASP-South, Euler and TRAPPIST: WASP-119 b, WASP-124 b, WASP-126 b, WASP-129 b and WASP-133 b (2016)
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Maxted, P., Anderson, D., Collier Cameron, A., Delrez, L., Gillon, M., Hellier, C., …West, R. (2016). Five transiting hot Jupiters discovered using WASP-South, Euler and TRAPPIST: WASP-119 b, WASP-124 b, WASP-126 b, WASP-129 b and WASP-133 b. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 591, Article A55. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628250

We have used photometry from the WASP-South instrument to identify 5 stars showing planet-like transits in their light curves. The planetary nature of the companions to these stars has been confirmed using photometry from the EulerCam instrument on t... Read More about Five transiting hot Jupiters discovered using WASP-South, Euler and TRAPPIST: WASP-119 b, WASP-124 b, WASP-126 b, WASP-129 b and WASP-133 b.

An optical transmission spectrum of the transiting hot Jupiter in the metal-poor WASP-98 planetary system (2016)
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Mancini, L., Giordano, M., Mollière, P., Southworth, J., Brahm, R., Ciceri, S., & Henning, T. (2016). An optical transmission spectrum of the transiting hot Jupiter in the metal-poor WASP-98 planetary system. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 461(1), 1053 - 1061. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1386

The WASP-98 planetary system represents a rare case of a hot Jupiter hosted by a metal-poor main-sequence star. We present a follow-up study of this system based on multiband photometry and high-resolution spectroscopy. Two new transit events of WASP... Read More about An optical transmission spectrum of the transiting hot Jupiter in the metal-poor WASP-98 planetary system.

Kepler-539: A young extrasolar system with two giant planets on wide orbits and in gravitational interaction (2016)
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Mancini, L., Lillo-Box, J., Southworth, J., Borsato, L., Gandolfi, D., Ciceri, S., …Th. Henning. (2016). Kepler-539: A young extrasolar system with two giant planets on wide orbits and in gravitational interaction. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 590, Article A112. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526357

We confirm the planetary nature of Kepler-539?b (aka Kepler object of interest K00372.01), a giant transiting exoplanet orbiting a solar-analogue G2?V star. The mass of Kepler-539?b was accurately derived thanks to a series of precise radial velocity... Read More about Kepler-539: A young extrasolar system with two giant planets on wide orbits and in gravitational interaction.