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Quantum confinement and photoresponsivity ofß-In2Se3 nanosheets grown by physical vapour transport (2016)
Journal Article
Balakrishnan, N., Staddon, C., Smith, E., Stec, J., Gay, D., Mudd, G., …Beton, P. (2016). Quantum confinement and photoresponsivity ofß-In2Se3 nanosheets grown by physical vapour transport. 2D Materials, 025030 - 025030. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/3/2/025030

We demonstrate that ß-In2Se3 layers with thickness ranging from 2.8 to 100 nm can be grown on SiO2/Si, mica and graphite using a physical vapour transport method. The ß-In2Se3 layers are chemically stable at room temperature and exhibit a blue-shift... Read More about Quantum confinement and photoresponsivity ofß-In2Se3 nanosheets grown by physical vapour transport.

Kepler-539: A young extrasolar system with two giant planets on wide orbits and in gravitational interaction (2016)
Journal Article
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.

The Spitzer Microlensing Program As A Probe For Globular Cluster Planets: Analysis Of Ogle-2015-BLG-0448 (2016)
Journal Article
Poleski, R., Zhu, W., Christie, G. W., Udalski, A., Gould, A., Bachelet, E., …Wertz, O. (in press). The Spitzer Microlensing Program As A Probe For Globular Cluster Planets: Analysis Of Ogle-2015-BLG-0448. Astrophysical Journal, 823(1), Article 63. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/823/1/63

The microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0448 was observed by Spitzer and lay within the tidal radius of the globular cluster NGC 6558. The event had moderate magnification and was intensively observed, hence it had the potential to probe the distributio... Read More about The Spitzer Microlensing Program As A Probe For Globular Cluster Planets: Analysis Of Ogle-2015-BLG-0448.

Synthesis and structural studies of 1,4-di(2-pyridyl)-1,2,3-triazole dpt and its transition metal complexes; a versatile and subtly unsymmetric ligand (2016)
Journal Article
McCarney, E. P., Hawes, C. S., Blasco, S., & Gunnlaugsson, T. (in press). Synthesis and structural studies of 1,4-di(2-pyridyl)-1,2,3-triazole dpt and its transition metal complexes; a versatile and subtly unsymmetric ligand. Dalton Transactions, 45(25), 10209-10221. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6dt01416j

The synthesis of the ‘click’ derived 1,4-di(2-pyridyl)-1,2,3-triazole (dpt) chelator/ligand from 2-azidopyridine and 2-ethynylpyridine using Cu(I) and TBTA by microwave assisted synthesis is presented. The complexes of the subtly unsymmetric dpt liga... Read More about Synthesis and structural studies of 1,4-di(2-pyridyl)-1,2,3-triazole dpt and its transition metal complexes; a versatile and subtly unsymmetric ligand.

An irradiated brown-dwarf companion to an accreting white dwarf (2016)
Journal Article
Hernández Santisteban, J. V., Knigge, C., Littlefair, S. P., Breton, R. P., Dhillon, V. S., Gänsicke, B. T., …Hauschildt, P. H. (2016). An irradiated brown-dwarf companion to an accreting white dwarf. Nature, 533, 366 -368. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17952

Interacting compact binary systems provide a natural laboratory in which to study irradiated substellar objects. As the mass-losing secondary (donor) in these systems makes a transition from the stellar to the substellar regime, it is also irradiated... Read More about An irradiated brown-dwarf companion to an accreting white dwarf.

Discovery of a long-lived, high-amplitude dusty infrared transient (2016)
Journal Article
Britt, C. T., Maccarone, T. J., Green, J. D., Jonker, P. G., Hynes, R. I., Torres, M. A. P., …Nelemans, G. (2016). Discovery of a long-lived, high-amplitude dusty infrared transient. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(3), 2822-2833. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1182

We report the detection of an infrared-selected transient which has lasted at least five years, first identified by a large mid-infrared and optical outburst from a faint X-ray source detected with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. In this paper we rule... Read More about Discovery of a long-lived, high-amplitude dusty infrared transient.

WASP-120 b, WASP-122 b, and WASP-123 b: Three Newly Discovered Planets from the WASP-South Survey (2016)
Journal Article
Turner, O., Anderson, D., Collier Cameron, A., Delrez, L., Evans, D., Gillon, M., …West, R. (2016). WASP-120 b, WASP-122 b, and WASP-123 b: Three Newly Discovered Planets from the WASP-South Survey. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 128, Article 064401. https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/128/964/064401

We present the discovery by the WASP-South survey of three planets transiting moderately bright stars (V ˜ 11). WASP-120 b is a massive (4.85 M Jup ) planet in a 3.6-day orbit that we find likely to be eccentric around an F5 star. WASP-122 b is a hot... Read More about WASP-120 b, WASP-122 b, and WASP-123 b: Three Newly Discovered Planets from the WASP-South Survey.

Galactic Plane Hα Surveys: IPHAS and VPHAS+ (2016)
Book Chapter
Wright, N. J. (2016). Galactic Plane Hα Surveys: IPHAS and VPHAS+. In The Universe of Digital Sky Surveys (55-59). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19330-4_7

The optical Galactic Plane Hα surveys IPHAS and VPHAS+ are dramatically improving our understanding of Galactic stellar populations and stellar evolution by providing large samples of stars in short lived, but important, evolutionary phases, and high... Read More about Galactic Plane Hα Surveys: IPHAS and VPHAS+.

Cygnus OB2 DANCe: A high-precision proper motion study of the Cygnus OB2 association (2016)
Journal Article
Wright. (2016). Cygnus OB2 DANCe: A high-precision proper motion study of the Cygnus OB2 association. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2593 - 2610. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1148

We present a high-precision proper motion study of 873 X-ray and spectroscopically selected stars in the massive OB association Cygnus OB2 as part of the DANCe project. These were calculated from images spanning a 15 yr baseline and have typical prec... Read More about Cygnus OB2 DANCe: A high-precision proper motion study of the Cygnus OB2 association.