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Globules and pillars in Cygnus X: I.Herschelfar-infrared imaging of the Cygnus OB2 environment⋆ (2016)
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Schneider, N., Bontemps, S., Motte, F., Blazere, A., André, P., Anderson, L. D., …Wright, N. J. (2016). Globules and pillars in Cygnus X: I.Herschelfar-infrared imaging of the Cygnus OB2 environment⋆. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 591, Article A40. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628328

The radiative feedback of massive stars on molecular clouds creates pillars, globules and other features at the interface between the H II  region and molecular cloud. Optical and near-infrared observations from the ground as well as with the Hubble... Read More about Globules and pillars in Cygnus X: I.Herschelfar-infrared imaging of the Cygnus OB2 environment⋆.

Quantum confinement and photoresponsivity ofß-In2Se3 nanosheets grown by physical vapour transport (2016)
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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)
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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.

The Spitzer Microlensing Program As A Probe For Globular Cluster Planets: Analysis Of Ogle-2015-BLG-0448 (2016)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Cygnus OB2 DANCe: A high-precision proper motion study of the Cygnus OB2 association (2016)
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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.

The effect of gold nanoparticles on the impedance of microcapsules visualized by scanning photo-induced impedance microscopy (2016)
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Watkinson. (2016). The effect of gold nanoparticles on the impedance of microcapsules visualized by scanning photo-induced impedance microscopy. Electrochimica Acta, 39 - 46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2016.05.017

Polyelectrolyte microcapsules have attracted great interest in drug delivery applications, and microcapsules modified with gold nanoparticles have been used in this way with triggered release when a laser can be used to remotely open shells through l... Read More about The effect of gold nanoparticles on the impedance of microcapsules visualized by scanning photo-induced impedance microscopy.

The VMC Survey - XXI. New star cluster candidates discovered from infrared photometry in the Small Magellanic Cloud (2016)
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Piatti, A. E., Ivanov, V. D., Rubele, S., Marconi, M., Ripepi, V., Cioni, M. L., …Bekki, K. (2016). The VMC Survey - XXI. New star cluster candidates discovered from infrared photometry in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(1), 383 - 395. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1000

We report the first search for new star clusters performed using the VISTA near-infrared YJKs Magellanic Clouds survey (VMC) data sets. We chose a pilot field of ~0.4 deg2 located in the South-west of the Small Magelllanic Cloud bar, where the star f... Read More about The VMC Survey - XXI. New star cluster candidates discovered from infrared photometry in the Small Magellanic Cloud.

High-resolution Imaging of Transiting Extrasolar Planetary systems (HITEP) I. Lucky imaging observations of 101 systems in the southern hemisphere (2016)
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Evans, D., Southworth, J., Maxted, P., Skottfelt, J., Hundertmark, M., Jørgensen, U., …Wertz, O. (2016). High-resolution Imaging of Transiting Extrasolar Planetary systems (HITEP) I. Lucky imaging observations of 101 systems in the southern hemisphere. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 589, A58. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527970

Context. Wide binaries are a potential pathway for the formation of hot Jupiters. The binary fraction among host stars is an important discriminator between competing formation theories, but has not been well characterised. Additionally, contaminatin... Read More about High-resolution Imaging of Transiting Extrasolar Planetary systems (HITEP) I. Lucky imaging observations of 101 systems in the southern hemisphere.

Distortion induced magnetic phase transition in cubic BaFeO 3 (2016)
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Rahman, G., Morbec, J. M., Ferradás, R., García-Suárez, V. M., & English, N. J. (2016). Distortion induced magnetic phase transition in cubic BaFeO 3. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 401, 1097-1105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2015.11.002

The electronic and magnetic structures of cubic BaFeO3 (BFO) in the ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) states are studied using density functional theory (DFT) with the local spin density approximation (LSDA) and the generalized gradient... Read More about Distortion induced magnetic phase transition in cubic BaFeO 3.

An Updated Synthesis of the Diazo-Transfer Reagent Imidazole-1-sulfonyl Azide Hydrogen Sulfate (2016)
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Potter, G. T., Jayson, G. C., Miller, G. J., & Gardiner, J. M. (2016). An Updated Synthesis of the Diazo-Transfer Reagent Imidazole-1-sulfonyl Azide Hydrogen Sulfate. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 81(8), 3443-3446. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.6b00177

Imidazole-1-sulfonyl azide and salts thereof are valuable reagents for diazo-transfer reactions, most particularly conversion of primary amines to azides. The parent reagent and its HCl salt present stability and detonation risks, but the hydrogen su... Read More about An Updated Synthesis of the Diazo-Transfer Reagent Imidazole-1-sulfonyl Azide Hydrogen Sulfate.

Kepler Eclipsing Binary Stars. Viii. Identification Of False Positive Eclipsing Binaries And Re-extraction Of New Light Curves (2016)
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Abdul-Masih, M., Prša, A., Conroy, K., Bloemen, S., Boyajian, T., Doyle, L. R., …Southworth, J. (2016). Kepler Eclipsing Binary Stars. Viii. Identification Of False Positive Eclipsing Binaries And Re-extraction Of New Light Curves. Astronomical Journal, 151(4), Article 101. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-6256/151/4/101

The Kepler mission has provided unprecedented, nearly continuous photometric data of ~200,000 objects in the ~105 deg2 field of view (FOV) from the beginning of science operations in May of 2009 until the loss of the second reaction wheel in May of 2... Read More about Kepler Eclipsing Binary Stars. Viii. Identification Of False Positive Eclipsing Binaries And Re-extraction Of New Light Curves.

Estimating the parameters of globular cluster M 30 (NGC 7099) from time-series photometry (vol 555, pg A36, 2013) (2016)
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Kains, N., Bramich, D. M., Arellano Ferro, A., Figuera Jaimes, R., Jørgensen, U. G., Giridhar, S., …consortium, T. M. (2016). Estimating the parameters of globular cluster M 30 (NGC 7099) from time-series photometry (vol 555, pg A36, 2013). Astronomy & Astrophysics, 588, Article C2. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321819e

Aims. We present the analysis of 26 nights of V and I time-series observations from 2011 and 2012 of the globular cluster M 30 (NGC 7099). We used our data to search for variable stars in this cluster and refine the periods of known variables; we the... Read More about Estimating the parameters of globular cluster M 30 (NGC 7099) from time-series photometry (vol 555, pg A36, 2013).

Linking 1D evolutionary to 3D hydrodynamical simulations of massive stars (2016)
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Hirschi. (2016). Linking 1D evolutionary to 3D hydrodynamical simulations of massive stars. Physica Scripta, 98-99. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921314006371

In this contribution we present initial results of a study on convective boundary mixing (CBM) in massive stellar models using the GENEVA stellar evolution code (Eggenberger et al.2008). Before undertaking costly 3D hydrodynamic simulations, it is im... Read More about Linking 1D evolutionary to 3D hydrodynamical simulations of massive stars.

An optical transmission spectrum of the giant planet WASP-36 b (2016)
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Mancini, L., Kemmer, J., Southworth, J., Bott, K., Mollière, P., Ciceri, S., …Th. Henning. (2016). An optical transmission spectrum of the giant planet WASP-36 b. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 459(2), 1393 -1402. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw659

We present broad-band photometry of five transits in the planetary system WASP-36, totalling 17 high-precision light curves. Four of the transits were simultaneously observed in four passbands (g', r', i', z'), using the telescope-defocusing techniqu... Read More about An optical transmission spectrum of the giant planet WASP-36 b.