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Roadmap on carbon molecular nanostructures in space (2025)
Journal Article
Hansen, K., García-Hernández, D. A., Campbell, E. E. B., Erbahar, D., Domaracka, A., Jäger, C., Ewels, C., Umek, P., Kwok, S., Peeters, E., Cami, J., Sloan, G. C., Ehrenfreund, P., Linnartz, H., Manchado, A., Cox, N. L. J., Bernard-Salas, J., Campbell, E. K., Monreal-Ibero, A., Foing, B. H., …Manteiga, M. (in press). Roadmap on carbon molecular nanostructures in space. European Physical Journal D, 79(8), Article 94. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-025-00984-1

In this roadmap article, we consider the main challenges and recent breakthroughs in understanding the role of carbon molecular nanostructures in space and propose future avenues of research. The focus lies on small carbon-containing molecules up to... Read More about Roadmap on carbon molecular nanostructures in space.

Fluorinating the Sugar and the Nucleotide: Exploring Fluorination Within GDP-Mannose Probes Using Chemoenzymatic Synthesis (2025)
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Dolan, J. P., Evans, S. T., Benckendorff, C. M. M., Sari, S., Ní Cheallaigh, A., & Miller, G. J. (2025). Fluorinating the Sugar and the Nucleotide: Exploring Fluorination Within GDP-Mannose Probes Using Chemoenzymatic Synthesis. JACS Au, jacsau.5c00626. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.5c00626

Fluorinated glycans offer a prime opportunity to study the intricacies of their associated binding events with proteins, invoke resistance toward enzymatic hydrolysis, and modulate carbohydrate physicochemical properties. Sugar nucleotides are the ke... Read More about Fluorinating the Sugar and the Nucleotide: Exploring Fluorination Within GDP-Mannose Probes Using Chemoenzymatic Synthesis.

Polyvalent Mannuronic Acid-Coated Gold Nanoparticles for Probing Multivalent Lectin–Glycan Interaction and Blocking Virus Infection (2025)
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Basaran, R., Budhadev, D., Dimitriou, E., Wootton, H. S., Miller, G. J., Kempf, A., Nehlmeier, I., Pöhlmann, S., Guo, Y., & Zhou, D. (2025). Polyvalent Mannuronic Acid-Coated Gold Nanoparticles for Probing Multivalent Lectin–Glycan Interaction and Blocking Virus Infection. Viruses, 17(8), Article 1066. https://doi.org/10.3390/v17081066

Multivalent lectin–glycan interactions (MLGIs) are vital for viral infection, cell-cell communication and regulation of immune responses. Their structural and biophysical data are thus important, not only for providing insights into their underlying... Read More about Polyvalent Mannuronic Acid-Coated Gold Nanoparticles for Probing Multivalent Lectin–Glycan Interaction and Blocking Virus Infection.

HD 35843: A Sun-like Star Hosting a Long-period Sub-Neptune and Inner Super-Earth (2025)
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Hesse, K., Mireles, I., Bouchy, F., Dragomir, D., Ulmer-Moll, S., Eisner, N. L., Stassun, K. G., Quinn, S. N., Osborn, H. P., Sousa, S. G., Watkins, C. N., Collins, K. A., Bryant, E. M., Irwin, J. M., Hellier, C., Johnson, M. C., Ziegler, C., Howell, S. B., Anderson, D. R., Bayliss, D., …Zuidema, E. E. (2025). HD 35843: A Sun-like Star Hosting a Long-period Sub-Neptune and Inner Super-Earth. Astronomical Journal, 170(2), 108. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/add7d7

We report the discovery and confirmation of two planets orbiting the metal-poor Sun-like star HD 35843 (TOI 4189). HD 35843 c is a temperate sub-Neptune transiting planet with an orbital period of 46.96 days that was first identified by Planet Hunter... Read More about HD 35843: A Sun-like Star Hosting a Long-period Sub-Neptune and Inner Super-Earth.

Infrared spectroscopy of V838 Monocerotis in 2015 and 2022 (2025)
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Geballe, T. R., Kaminskiy, B. M., Banerjee, D. P. K., Evans, A., Pavlenko, Y., Rushton, M. T., Popescu, M., & Eyres, S. P. S. (2025). Infrared spectroscopy of V838 Monocerotis in 2015 and 2022. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 541(4), 3331-3340. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf1193

We report medium-resolution 0.85–2.45 m spectroscopy obtained in 2015 and 2022 and high-resolution 2.27–2.39 m and 4.59–4.77 m spectroscopy obtained in 2015 of V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon), along with modelling of the 0.85–2.45 m spectrum. V838 Mon un... Read More about Infrared spectroscopy of V838 Monocerotis in 2015 and 2022.

Transition radiation in dusty novae with non-thermal radio emission (2025)
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Evans, A. (2025). Transition radiation in dusty novae with non-thermal radio emission. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 541(4), 3214-3219. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf1175

Transition radiation is produced when a relativistic charged particle enters or leaves a solid medium. The electrons that produce synchrotron radiation may interact with the dust in circumstellar environments, leading to the emission of transition ra... Read More about Transition radiation in dusty novae with non-thermal radio emission.

Revealing Prostate Calcification Heterogeneity through Their Elemental Distribution (2025)
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Gosling, S. B., Arnold, E. L., Adams, L., Cool, P., Geraki, K., Kitchen, M. O., Lyburn, I. D., Rogers, K. D., Snow, T., Stone, N., & Greenwood, C. E. (2025). Revealing Prostate Calcification Heterogeneity through Their Elemental Distribution. Chemical & Biomedical Imaging, https://doi.org/10.1021/cbmi.5c00050

Calcifications across the body offer snapshots of the surrounding ionic environment at the time of their formation. Links between prostate calcification chemistry and cancer are becoming of increasing interest, particularly in identifying biomarkers... Read More about Revealing Prostate Calcification Heterogeneity through Their Elemental Distribution.

Advancing the accuracy in age determinations of old-disk stars using an oscillating red giant in an eclipsing binary (2025)
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Thomsen, J. S., Miglio, A., Brogaard, K., Montalbán, J., Tailo, M., van Rossem, W. E., Casali, G., Jones, D., Arentoft, T., Casagrande, L., Sebastian, D., Buldgen, G., Triaud, A. H. M. J., Matteuzzi, M., Stokholm, A., Lund, M. N., Mosser, B., Maxted, P. F. L., Southworth, J., Gadeberg, J. T., …Frandsen, S. (2025). Advancing the accuracy in age determinations of old-disk stars using an oscillating red giant in an eclipsing binary. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 699, Article A152. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202453347

Context. The study of resonant oscillation modes in low-mass red giant branch stars enables us to infer their ages with exceptional (∼10%) precision. This unlocks the possibility to reconstruct the temporal evolution of the Milky Way at early cosmic... Read More about Advancing the accuracy in age determinations of old-disk stars using an oscillating red giant in an eclipsing binary.

Eleven New Transiting Brown Dwarfs and Very-low-mass Stars from TESS (2025)
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Vowell, N., Rodriguez, J. E., Latham, D. W., Quinn, S. N., Schulte, J., Eastman, J. D., Bieryla, A., Barkaoui, K., Ciardi, D. R., Collins, K. A., Girardin, E., Hébrard, G., Heldridge, E., Jafariyazani, M., Kotten, B., Mancini, L., Murgas, F., Narita, N., Radford, D. J., Relles, H. M., …Winn, J. N. (2025). Eleven New Transiting Brown Dwarfs and Very-low-mass Stars from TESS. Astronomical Journal, 170(2), Article 68. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/addd17

We present the discovery of 11 new transiting brown dwarfs (BDs) and low-mass M dwarfs from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission: TOI-2844, TOI-3122, TOI-3577, TOI-3755, TOI-4462, TOI-4635, TOI-4737, TOI-4759, TOI-5240, TOI-546... Read More about Eleven New Transiting Brown Dwarfs and Very-low-mass Stars from TESS.

The impact of wind mass loss on nucleosynthesis and yields of very massive stars at low metallicity (2025)
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Higgins, E. R., Vink, J. S., Hirschi, R., Laird, A. M., & Sabhahit, G. (2025). The impact of wind mass loss on nucleosynthesis and yields of very massive stars at low metallicity. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 699, Article A71. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202453472

The chemical feedback from stellar winds in low metallicity (Z) environments is key to understanding the evolution of globular clusters and the early Universe. With a disproportionate amount of mass lost from the most massive stars (M > 100 M⊙) and a... Read More about The impact of wind mass loss on nucleosynthesis and yields of very massive stars at low metallicity.

Non‐invasive detection and characterization of underground twentieth‐century military complexes (2025)
Journal Article
Pringle, J., Doyle, P., Ruffell, A., Styles, P., Stringfellow, M., Russill, N., Stimpson, I., Wisniewski, K., Barton, N., Rees‐Hughes, L., Carr, S., Hunter, R., Ainsworth, J., Kyriakou, C., & Hobson, L. (2025). Non‐invasive detection and characterization of underground twentieth‐century military complexes. Geology Today, 41(4), 160-165. https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12521

Recent events in conflict zones have shown that the successful detection and characterization of buried military complexes is vitally important for geoforensic investigators globally, to reduce or solve criminal activities, address national security... Read More about Non‐invasive detection and characterization of underground twentieth‐century military complexes.

Chemical Synthesis of S-linked Glycosaminoglycans (2025)
Thesis
O’Shea, C. (2025). Chemical Synthesis of S-linked Glycosaminoglycans. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1280018

Heparan sulfate (HS), a sulfated linear carbohydrate that decorates the cell surface and extracellular matrix, is ubiquitously distributed throughout the animal kingdom and represents a key regulator of biological processes. An example of a glycosami... Read More about Chemical Synthesis of S-linked Glycosaminoglycans.

Equivalent Width of the Interstellar Na i D 1 and D 2 Absorption Lines for Stars with E ( B − V ) < 0.15 (2025)
Journal Article
Maxted, P. F. L. (2025). Equivalent Width of the Interstellar Na i D 1 and D 2 Absorption Lines for Stars with E ( B − V ) < 0.15. Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, 9(6), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.3847/2515-5172/ade39b

New measurements of the equivalent width of the interstellar Na i D1 and D2 absorption lines for 62 bright B-type stars with E(B − V) < 0.15 are used to recalibrate the relation between these quantities in this low-reddening regime, and to quantify t... Read More about Equivalent Width of the Interstellar Na i D 1 and D 2 Absorption Lines for Stars with E ( B − V ) < 0.15.

Chemical synthesis of glycosaminoglycan mimetics for targeting endoglycosidase activity (2025)
Thesis
Wootton, H. S. (2025). Chemical synthesis of glycosaminoglycan mimetics for targeting endoglycosidase activity. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1279726

Glycosaminoglycans are a family of extraordinary, long-chain polysaccharides that are highly abundant on the mammalian cell surface and in the extracellular matrix. These linear chains exist as proteoglycans which perform critical roles in many biolo... Read More about Chemical synthesis of glycosaminoglycan mimetics for targeting endoglycosidase activity.

The Isaac Newton Telescope Monitoring Survey of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies. VII. Long-period Variable Stars in the Nearest Starburst Dwarf Galaxy, IC 10 (2025)
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Gholami, M., Javadi, A., Mahani, H., van Loon, J. T., Khosroshahi, H., Saremi, E., McDonald, I., Eftekhari, S., Ren, Y., & Altafi, H. (2025). The Isaac Newton Telescope Monitoring Survey of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies. VII. Long-period Variable Stars in the Nearest Starburst Dwarf Galaxy, IC 10. Astronomical Journal, 170(1), Article 54. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/adda2b

To identify long-period variable (LPV) stars in IC 10—the nearest starburst galaxy of the Local Group—we conducted an optical monitoring survey using the 2.5 m Isaac Newton Telescope with the wide-field camera (WFC) in the i band and V band from 2015... Read More about The Isaac Newton Telescope Monitoring Survey of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies. VII. Long-period Variable Stars in the Nearest Starburst Dwarf Galaxy, IC 10.

ASKAP–EMU radio continuum detection of planetary nebula NGC 5189: the “Infinity” nebula (2025)
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Asher, A. D., Smeaton, Z. J., Filipović, M. D., Hopkins, A. M., van Loon, J. T., Galvin, T. J., & Barnes, L. A. (in press). ASKAP–EMU radio continuum detection of planetary nebula NGC 5189: the “Infinity” nebula. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2025.10058

We report the radio continuum detection of well known Galactic Planetary Nebula (PN) NGC5189, observed at 943MHz during the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) survey. Two detections of NGC5189... Read More about ASKAP–EMU radio continuum detection of planetary nebula NGC 5189: the “Infinity” nebula.

Red Supergiant Mass Loss and Mass-Loss Rates (2025)
Journal Article
van Loon, J. T. (2025). Red Supergiant Mass Loss and Mass-Loss Rates. Galaxies, 13(4), Article 72. https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies13040072

This review discusses the causes, nature, importance and observational evidence of mass loss by red supergiants. It arrives at the perception that mass loss finds its origin in the gravity which makes the star a star in the first place, and is a mech... Read More about Red Supergiant Mass Loss and Mass-Loss Rates.

The orbit of WASP-4 b is in decay (2025)
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Baştürk, Ö., Kutluay, A. C., Barker, A., Yalçınkaya, S., Southworth, J., Barkaoui, K., Wünsche, A., Burgdorf, M. J., Timmermans, M., Jehin, E., Tregloan-Reed, J., Jaimes, R. F., Hinse, T. C., Duru, B., Hitchcock, J., Longa-Peña, P., Rahvar, S., Sajadian, S., Bretton, M., Selam, S. O., …Mancini, L. (2025). The orbit of WASP-4 b is in decay. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 541(2), 714-730. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf1009

WASP-4 b is a hot Jupiter exhibiting a decreasing orbital period, prompting investigations into potential mechanisms driving its evolution. We analysed 173 transit light curves, including 37 new observations, and derived mid-transit timings with exof... Read More about The orbit of WASP-4 b is in decay.

Dusty Stellar Source Classification by Implementing Machine Learning Methods Based on Spectroscopic Observations in the Magellanic Clouds (2025)
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Ghaziasgar, S., Abdollahi, M., Javadi, A., van Loon, J. T., McDonald, I., Oliveira, J., Masoudnezhad, A., Khosroshahi, H. G., Foing, B. H., & Fazel Hesar, F. (2025). Dusty Stellar Source Classification by Implementing Machine Learning Methods Based on Spectroscopic Observations in the Magellanic Clouds. The Astrophysical Journal, 986(2), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adceeb

Dusty stellar point sources are a significant stage in stellar evolution and contribute to the metal enrichment of galaxies. These objects can be classified using photometric and spectroscopic observations using color–magnitude diagrams and infrared... Read More about Dusty Stellar Source Classification by Implementing Machine Learning Methods Based on Spectroscopic Observations in the Magellanic Clouds.

The Nearby Evolved Stars Survey (NESS) V: properties of volume-limited samples of Galactic evolved stars (2025)
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McDonald, I., Srinivasan, S., Scicluna, P., Jones, O. C., Zijlstra, A. A., Wallström, S. H. J., Danilovich, T., He, J. H., Marshall, J. P., van Loon, J. T., Wesson, R., Kemper, F., Trejo-Cruz, A., Greaves, J., Dharmawardena, T., Cami, J., Kim, H., Kraemer, K. E., Clark, C. J. R., Shinnaga, H., …Rau, G. (2025). The Nearby Evolved Stars Survey (NESS) V: properties of volume-limited samples of Galactic evolved stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1-36. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf978

We provide a meta-study of the statistical and individual properties of two volume-complete sets of evolved stars in the Solar Neighbourhood: (1) 852 stars from the Nearby Evolved Stars Survey (NESS), and (2) a partially overlapping set of 507 evolve... Read More about The Nearby Evolved Stars Survey (NESS) V: properties of volume-limited samples of Galactic evolved stars.