Near-infrared spectroscopy of the LMC recurrent nova LMCN 1968-12a

Evans, A; Banerjee, D P K; Geballe, T R; Polin, A; Hsiao, E Y; Page, K L; Woodward, C E; Starrfield, S

doi:10.1093/mnras/stae2711

Multi-disciplinary site investigations of WW2 allied aerial bombing decoy sites in North Staffordshire, UK (2025)
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Wisniewski, K., Pringle, J., Doyle, P., Barton, N., Stimpson, I., & Hobson, L. (in press). Multi-disciplinary site investigations of WW2 allied aerial bombing decoy sites in North Staffordshire, UK. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/15740773.2025.2464568

In 1937, the British government implemented a strategy to strengthen UK air defences, constructing a network of decoy sites to mislead enemy aircraft from bombing Allied airfields, industrial centres and major cities. This paper reports on investigat... Read More about Multi-disciplinary site investigations of WW2 allied aerial bombing decoy sites in North Staffordshire, UK.

Anisotropy visualisation from X-ray diffraction of biological apatite in mixed phase calcified tissue samples (2025)
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Scott, R., Lyburn, I. D., Cornford, E., Bouzy, P., Stone, N., Greenwood, C., …Rogers, K. (in press). Anisotropy visualisation from X-ray diffraction of biological apatite in mixed phase calcified tissue samples. Scientific reports, 15(1), Article 5478. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-88940-2

X-ray diffraction is widely used to characterise the mineral component of calcified tissue. Broadening of the diffraction peaks yields valuable information on the size of coherently diffracting domains, sometimes loosely described as crystallite size... Read More about Anisotropy visualisation from X-ray diffraction of biological apatite in mixed phase calcified tissue samples.

The EBLM project – XIV. TESS light curves for eclipsing binaries with very low mass companions (2025)
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Fitzpatrick, J., Maxted, P. F. L., Freckelton, A. V., Triaud, A. H. M. J., Martin, D. V., & Duck, A. (in press). The EBLM project – XIV. TESS light curves for eclipsing binaries with very low mass companions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 537(4), 3943–3953. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf268

Accurate limb-darkening models are needed for accurate characterisation of eclipsing binary stars and transiting exoplanets from the analysis of their light curves. The limb-darkening observed in solar-type stars from the analysis of light curves for... Read More about The EBLM project – XIV. TESS light curves for eclipsing binaries with very low mass companions.

Equatorial Enhancement in the Dustiest OH/IR Stars in the Galactic Bulge (2025)
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Goldman, S. R., van Loon, J. T., Jones, O. C., Blommaert, J. A. D. L., & Groenewegen, M. A. T. (2025). Equatorial Enhancement in the Dustiest OH/IR Stars in the Galactic Bulge. Astrophysical Journal, 980(2), 191. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ada6ad

We have detected the 10 μm silicate feature and the 11.3 μm crystalline forsterite feature in absorption in 21 oxygen-rich asymptotic giant branch stars in the Galactic bulge. The depths of the 10 μm feature indicate highly obscured circumstellar env... Read More about Equatorial Enhancement in the Dustiest OH/IR Stars in the Galactic Bulge.

Multigram-Scale Synthesis of 2,5-Dideoxy-2,5-imino-d-mannitol (DMDP) and 2,5-Dideoxy-2,5-imino-d-glucitol (DGDP) from d-Fructose and l-Sorbose Using a Regioselective Appel Reaction. (2025)
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Sunde-Brown, P., Miller, G. J., & Houston, T. A. (in press). Multigram-Scale Synthesis of 2,5-Dideoxy-2,5-imino-d-mannitol (DMDP) and 2,5-Dideoxy-2,5-imino-d-glucitol (DGDP) from d-Fructose and l-Sorbose Using a Regioselective Appel Reaction. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 90(6), 2288-2297. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.4c02667

We report a practical 5 g scale stereoselective synthesis of the valuable iminosugar DMDP from d-fructose in only 7 synthetic steps and in a 70% overall yield, which doubles previously reported yields. This process requires only two chromatographic p... Read More about Multigram-Scale Synthesis of 2,5-Dideoxy-2,5-imino-d-mannitol (DMDP) and 2,5-Dideoxy-2,5-imino-d-glucitol (DGDP) from d-Fructose and l-Sorbose Using a Regioselective Appel Reaction..

Exploring Supramolecular Frustrated Lewis Pairs (2025)
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Hawkins, P. R., Hawes, C. S., & Matthews, P. D. (2025). Exploring Supramolecular Frustrated Lewis Pairs. ChemPlusChem, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1002/cplu.202400725

Frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) have rapidly become one of the key metal‐free catalysts for a variety of chemical transformations. Embedding these catalysts within a supramolecular assembly can offer improvements to factors such as recyclability and se... Read More about Exploring Supramolecular Frustrated Lewis Pairs.

Octabetaines: a DFT Study of Unexplored Eight-Membered 10π Heterocycles (2025)
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Ramsden, C. A., & Oziminski, W. P. (in press). Octabetaines: a DFT Study of Unexplored Eight-Membered 10π Heterocycles. ACS Omega, 10(5), 4978 - 4986. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.4c10544

Eight-membered 10π heterocyclic mesomeric betaines (HMBs) are unusual in that they are associated with two 1,3-dipolar fragments in mutual conjugation; they are conjugated HMBs belonging to Class 1A. Apart from the characterization of five derivative... Read More about Octabetaines: a DFT Study of Unexplored Eight-Membered 10π Heterocycles.

Coordination chemistry of a fused triazolopyrazine ligand favoring structural anion···π interactions (2025)
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King, A. D., Woodfine, S. E., & Hawes, C. S. (in press). Coordination chemistry of a fused triazolopyrazine ligand favoring structural anion···π interactions. Journal of Coordination Chemistry, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/00958972.2024.2445214

The fused heterocyclic ligand 1,2,4-triazolo[4,3-a]pyrazine (L1) is a rigid heterocyclic building block capable of pyrazolate-like coordination modes while retaining neutral electronic character. Here, we examine the coordination chemistry of this sp... Read More about Coordination chemistry of a fused triazolopyrazine ligand favoring structural anion···π interactions.

The VMC Survey – LI. Classifying extragalactic sources using a probabilistic random forest supervised machine learning algorithm (2025)
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Pennock, C. M., van Loon, J. T., Cioni, M.-R. L., Maitra, C., Oliveira, J. M., Craig, J. E. M., …Groenewegen, M. A. T. (2025). The VMC Survey – LI. Classifying extragalactic sources using a probabilistic random forest supervised machine learning algorithm. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 537(2), 1028-1055. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf080

We used a supervised machine learning algorithm (probabilistic random forest) to classify ∼130 million sources in the VISTA Survey of the Magellanic Clouds (VMC). We used multi-wavelength photometry from optical to far-infrared as features to be trai... Read More about The VMC Survey – LI. Classifying extragalactic sources using a probabilistic random forest supervised machine learning algorithm.

Considerations with stacking absorption spectra: cold H i gas in cirrus region of the Milky Way (2025)
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Lynn, C., Marchal, A., McClure-Griffiths, N. M., Miville-Deschênes, M.-A., Murray, C. E., Nguyen, H., …Dénes, H. (2025). Considerations with stacking absorption spectra: cold H i gas in cirrus region of the Milky Way. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 536(4), 3538-3553. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2818

We use the Milky Way neutral hydrogen (H i) absorption and emission spectra from the Galactic Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (GASKAP) Phase II Pilot survey along with toy models to investigate the effects of stacking multicomponent spec... Read More about Considerations with stacking absorption spectra: cold H i gas in cirrus region of the Milky Way.

Carrier-free chemo-phototherapeutic nanomedicines with endo/lysosomal escape function enhance the therapeutic effect of drug molecules in tumors (2024)
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Feng, X., Brown, C. M., Wang, H., Kashif, S., Roberts, S., Yan, L., …Chen, X. (in press). Carrier-free chemo-phototherapeutic nanomedicines with endo/lysosomal escape function enhance the therapeutic effect of drug molecules in tumors. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 12(27), 6703-6715. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4tb00465e

Carrier-free nanomedicines offer advantages of extremely high drug loading capacity (>80%), minimal non-drug constituent burden, and facile preparation processes. Numerous studies have proved that multimodal cancer therapy can enhance chemotherapy ef... Read More about Carrier-free chemo-phototherapeutic nanomedicines with endo/lysosomal escape function enhance the therapeutic effect of drug molecules in tumors.

Cold case report: Geoforensic brownfield site search for murder victim based on prison informant lead (2024)
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Pringle, J. K., Binley, A., Wisniewski, K. D., Davenward, B., Heaton, V. G., & Handley, G. E. (2024). Cold case report: Geoforensic brownfield site search for murder victim based on prison informant lead. Forensic Science International: Reports, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsir.2024.100404

Cold case searches for the missing can be challenging, especially when the convicted perpetrator may or may not be giving forensic investigators truthful information. This paper reports on a cold case search for a teenage girl who was reported missin... Read More about Cold case report: Geoforensic brownfield site search for murder victim based on prison informant lead.

Star Formation History of the Local Group Dwarf Irregular Galaxy, NGC 6822 (2024)
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Khatamsaz, F., Abdollahi, M., Abdollahi, H., Javadi, A., & van Loon, J. T. (in press). Star Formation History of the Local Group Dwarf Irregular Galaxy, NGC 6822. Communications of the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, 71(2), 394-397. https://doi.org/10.52526/25792776-24.71.2-394

NGC 6822 is an isolated dwarf irregular galaxy in the local group at a distance of ∼ 490 kpc. In this paper, we present the star formation history (SFH) within a field with a radius of ∼ 3 kpc, beyond the optical body of the galaxy ( ∼ 1.2 kpc). We u... Read More about Star Formation History of the Local Group Dwarf Irregular Galaxy, NGC 6822.

Machine Learning Classification of Young Stellar Objects and Evolved Stars in the Magellanic Clouds Using the Probabilistic Random Forest Classifier (2024)
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Ghaziasgar, S., Abdollahi, M., Javadi, A., van Loon, J. T., McDonald, I., Oliveira, J., & Khosroshahi, H. G. (in press). Machine Learning Classification of Young Stellar Objects and Evolved Stars in the Magellanic Clouds Using the Probabilistic Random Forest Classifier. Communications of the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, 71(2), 377-382. https://doi.org/10.52526/25792776-24.71.2-377

The Magellanic Clouds (MCs) are excellent locations to study stellar dust emission and its contribution to galaxy evolution. Through spectral and photometric classification, MCs can serve as a unique environment for studying stellar evolution and gal... Read More about Machine Learning Classification of Young Stellar Objects and Evolved Stars in the Magellanic Clouds Using the Probabilistic Random Forest Classifier.

Deciphering Galactic Halos: A Detailed Review of Star Formation in NGC 5128 (Cen A) (2024)
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Abdollahi, M., Aghdam, S. T., Javadi, A., Hashemi, S. A., van Loon, J. T., Khosroshahi, H., …Saberi, M. (in press). Deciphering Galactic Halos: A Detailed Review of Star Formation in NGC 5128 (Cen A). Communications of the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, 71(2), 345-350. https://doi.org/10.52526/25792776-24.71.2-345

NGC 5128 (Centaurus A), the closest giant elliptical galaxy outside the Local Group to the Milky Way, is one of the brightest extragalactic radio sources. It is distinguished by a prominent dust lane and powerful jets, driven by a supermassive black... Read More about Deciphering Galactic Halos: A Detailed Review of Star Formation in NGC 5128 (Cen A).

A Deep Dive into Stellar Populations in M33’s Central Region: Near-Infrared Observations and Analysis (2024)
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Alizadeh, M., Javadi, A., van Loon, J. T., Abedini, Y., Abdollahi, H., & Seifipour, S. (in press). A Deep Dive into Stellar Populations in M33’s Central Region: Near-Infrared Observations and Analysis. Communications of the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, 71(2), 389-393. https://doi.org/10.52526/25792776-24.71.2-389

Data collection was conducted using three cameras on the UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) from 2003 to 2007. Throughout three nights in August 2005, the UKIRT Fast-Track Imager (UFTI) made K-band observations. The J and H bands Wide Field Camera (WFCAM)... Read More about A Deep Dive into Stellar Populations in M33’s Central Region: Near-Infrared Observations and Analysis.

Detection of the Long Period Variable Stars of And II Dwarf Satellite galaxy (2024)
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We conducted an extensive study of the spheroidal dwarf satellite galaxies around the Andromeda galaxy to produce an extensive catalog of LPV stars. The optical monitoring project consists of 55 dwarf galaxies and four globular clusters that are memb... Read More about Detection of the Long Period Variable Stars of And II Dwarf Satellite galaxy.

NGTS-EB-7, an eccentric, long-period, low-mass eclipsing binary (2024)
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Rodel, T., Watson, C. A., Ulmer-Moll, S., Gill, S., Maxted, P. F. L., Casewell, S. L., …Wheatley, P. J. (in press). NGTS-EB-7, an eccentric, long-period, low-mass eclipsing binary. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2799

Despite being the most common types of stars in the Galaxy, the physical properties of late M dwarfs are often poorly constrained. A trend of radius inflation compared to evolutionary models has been observed for earlier type M dwarfs in eclipsing bi... Read More about NGTS-EB-7, an eccentric, long-period, low-mass eclipsing binary.

Near-infrared spectroscopy of the LMC recurrent nova LMCN 1968-12a (2024)
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Evans, A., Banerjee, D. P. K., Geballe, T. R., Polin, A., Hsiao, E. Y., Page, K. L., …Starrfield, S. (2024). Near-infrared spectroscopy of the LMC recurrent nova LMCN 1968-12a. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 536(2), 1710-1717. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2711

We have obtained near-infrared (0.80–2.45 $\, \mu$m) spectra of the recurrent nova LMCN 1968-12a on two occasions during its 2024 August eruption. This is the first near-infrared spectroscopy of an extragalactic nova. The initial spectrum, on day 8.4... Read More about Near-infrared spectroscopy of the LMC recurrent nova LMCN 1968-12a.

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