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Spitzer Observations Of Ogle-2015-blg-1212 Reveal A New Path Toward Breaking Strong Microlens Degeneracies (2016)
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Bozza, V., Shvartzvald, Y., Udalski, A., Calchi Novati, S., Bond, I., Han, C., …Kaspi, S. (2016). Spitzer Observations Of Ogle-2015-blg-1212 Reveal A New Path Toward Breaking Strong Microlens Degeneracies. Astrophysical Journal, 820(1), Article 79. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/820/1/79

Spitzer microlensing parallax observations of OGLE-2015-BLG-1212 decisively break a degeneracy between planetary and binary solutions that is somewhat ambiguous when only ground-based data are considered. Only eight viable models survive out of an in... Read More about Spitzer Observations Of Ogle-2015-blg-1212 Reveal A New Path Toward Breaking Strong Microlens Degeneracies.

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.

How much radioactive nickel does ASASSN-15lh require? (2016)
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Kozyreva, A., Hirschi, R., Blinnikov, S., & den Hartogh, J. (2016). How much radioactive nickel does ASASSN-15lh require?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 459(1), L21–L25. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slw036

The discovery of the most luminous supernova ASASSN-15lh triggered a shock-wave in the supernova community. The three possible mechanisms proposed for the majority of other superluminous supernovae do not produce a realistic physical model for this p... Read More about How much radioactive nickel does ASASSN-15lh require?.

Impact of the first-forbidden ß decay on the production of A ~ 195 r-process peak (2016)
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(2016). Impact of the first-forbidden ß decay on the production of A ~ 195 r-process peak. Physics Letters B, 273-277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.03.025

We investigated the effects of first-forbidden transitions in ß decays on the production of the r-process peak. The theoretical calculated ß-decay rates with ß-delayed neutron emission were examined using several astrophysical conditions. As the FF... Read More about Impact of the first-forbidden ß decay on the production of A ~ 195 r-process peak.

What does the word chemical mean to you? (2016)
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Haxton, K. (2016). What does the word chemical mean to you?. Education in Chemistry,

Evidence that phospholipase C is involved in the antitumour action of NSC768313, a new thieno[2,3-b]pyridine derivative. (2016)
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Reynisson. (2016). Evidence that phospholipase C is involved in the antitumour action of NSC768313, a new thieno[2,3-b]pyridine derivative. Cancer cell international, 18 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12935-016-0293-6

BACKGROUND: The thieno[2,3-b]pyridines were discovered by virtual high throughput screening as potential inhibitors of phospholipase C (PLC) isoforms and showed potent growth inhibitory effects in National Cancer Institute's human tumour cell line pa... Read More about Evidence that phospholipase C is involved in the antitumour action of NSC768313, a new thieno[2,3-b]pyridine derivative..

Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide at Gold-Palladium Core-Shell Nanoparticles: Product Distribution versus Shell Thickness (2016)
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Plana. (2016). Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide at Gold-Palladium Core-Shell Nanoparticles: Product Distribution versus Shell Thickness. ChemCatChem, 952 -960. https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201501260

The electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 at carbon-supported Au-Pd core–shell nanoparticles is investigated systematically as a function of the Pd shell thickness. Liquid- and gas-phase products were determined by off-line 1H NMR spectroscopy and on-lin... Read More about Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide at Gold-Palladium Core-Shell Nanoparticles: Product Distribution versus Shell Thickness.

Spitzer Parallax Of Ogle-2015-blg-0966: A Cold Neptune In The Galactic Disk (2016)
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Street, R., Udalski, A., Calchi Novati, S., Hundertmark, M., Zhu, W., Gould, A., …Shin, I. (2016). Spitzer Parallax Of Ogle-2015-blg-0966: A Cold Neptune In The Galactic Disk. Astrophysical Journal, 819(2), Article 93. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/819/2/93

We report the detection of a cold Neptune mplanet = 21 ± 2 M? orbiting a 0.38 M? M dwarf lying 2.5–3.3 kpc toward the Galactic center as part of a campaign combining ground-based and Spitzer observations to measure the Galactic distribution of planet... Read More about Spitzer Parallax Of Ogle-2015-blg-0966: A Cold Neptune In The Galactic Disk.

Linking 1D evolutionary to 3D hydrodynamical simulations of massive stars (2016)
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Cristini, A., Meakin, C., Hirschi, R., Arnett, D., Georgy, C., & Viallet, M. (2016). Linking 1D evolutionary to 3D hydrodynamical simulations of massive stars. Physica Scripta, 91(3), 034006. https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/91/3/034006

Stellar evolution models of massive stars are important for many areas of astrophysics, for example nucleosynthesis yields, supernova progenitor models and understanding physics under extreme conditions. Turbulence occurs in stars primarily due to nu... Read More about Linking 1D evolutionary to 3D hydrodynamical simulations of massive stars.

Kepler Eclipsing Binary Stars. Vii. The Catalog Of Eclipsing Binaries Found In The Entire Kepler Data Set (2016)
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Kirk, B., Conroy, K., Prša, A., Abdul-Masih, M., Kochoska, A., Matijevič, G., …Borucki, W. (2016). Kepler Eclipsing Binary Stars. Vii. The Catalog Of Eclipsing Binaries Found In The Entire Kepler Data Set. Astronomical Journal, 151(3), Article 68. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-6256/151/3/68

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. Vii. The Catalog Of Eclipsing Binaries Found In The Entire Kepler Data Set.

KEPLER ECLIPSING BINARY STARS. VII. THE CATALOG OF ECLIPSING BINARIES FOUND IN THE ENTIRE KEPLER DATA SET (2016)
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Kirk, B., Conroy, K., Prsa, A., Abdul-Masih, M., Kochoska, A., Matijevic, G., …Borucki, W. (2016). KEPLER ECLIPSING BINARY STARS. VII. THE CATALOG OF ECLIPSING BINARIES FOUND IN THE ENTIRE KEPLER DATA SET. Astronomical Journal, 151(3), Article ARTN 68. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-6256/151/3/68

The primary Kepler Mission provided nearly continuous monitoring of ∼200,000 objects with unprecedented photometric precision. We present the final catalog of eclipsing binary systems within the 105 deg2 Kepler field of view. This release incorporate... Read More about KEPLER ECLIPSING BINARY STARS. VII. THE CATALOG OF ECLIPSING BINARIES FOUND IN THE ENTIRE KEPLER DATA SET.

Geophysical monitoring of simulated graves with resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, conductivity and GPR in Colombia, South America (2016)
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Molina, C. M., Pringle, J. K., Saumett, M., & Evans, G. T. (2016). Geophysical monitoring of simulated graves with resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, conductivity and GPR in Colombia, South America. Forensic Science International, 106-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2016.02.009

In most Latin American countries there are significant numbers of both missing people and forced disappearances, ~71,000 alone in Colombia. Successful detection of buried human remains by forensic search teams can be difficult in varying terrain and... Read More about Geophysical monitoring of simulated graves with resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, conductivity and GPR in Colombia, South America.

Erratum: A detailed census of variable stars in the globular cluster NGC 6333 (M9) from CCD differential photometry (2016)
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Arellano Ferro, A., Bramich, D., Figuera Jaimes, R., Giridhar, S., Kains, N., Kuppuswamy, K., …consortium, T. M. (2016). Erratum: A detailed census of variable stars in the globular cluster NGC 6333 (M9) from CCD differential photometry. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 458(2), 1188 - 1189. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw311

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XVII. Proper motions of the Small Magellanic Cloud and the Milky Way globular cluster 47 Tucanae (2016)
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Cioni, M. L., Bekki, K., Girardi, L., de Grijs, R., Irwin, M. J., Ivanov, V. D., …Van Loon, J. T. (2016). XVII. Proper motions of the Small Magellanic Cloud and the Milky Way globular cluster 47 Tucanae. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 586, Article A77. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527004

Aims. In this study we use multi-epoch near-infrared observations from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Cloud system (VMC) to measure the proper motions of different stellar populations in a tile of 1.5 deg2 in size in the direction of the Galactic... Read More about XVII. Proper motions of the Small Magellanic Cloud and the Milky Way globular cluster 47 Tucanae.

Graphene-philic surfactants for nanocomposites in latex technology (2016)
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Mohamed, A., Ardyani, T., Abu Bakar, S., Brown, P., Hollamby, M., Sagisaka, M., & Eastoe, J. (2016). Graphene-philic surfactants for nanocomposites in latex technology. Advances in colloid and interface science, 230, 54-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cis.2016.01.003

Graphene is the newest member of the carbon family, and has revolutionized materials science especially in the field of polymer nanocomposites. However, agglomeration and uniform dispersion remains an Achilles' heel (even an elephant in the room), ha... Read More about Graphene-philic surfactants for nanocomposites in latex technology.

A Synthetic Route for the Effective Preparation of Metal Alloy Nanoparticles and Their Use as Active Electrocatalysts (2016)
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Plana. (2016). A Synthetic Route for the Effective Preparation of Metal Alloy Nanoparticles and Their Use as Active Electrocatalysts. ACS catalysis, 1533 -1539. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.5b02598

By taking advantage of the nonequilibrium synthetic conditions, we used the cathodic corrosion method to prepare a selected number of alloys of which solid–solution alloys do not exist under ambient conditions. To illustrate our findings, we present... Read More about A Synthetic Route for the Effective Preparation of Metal Alloy Nanoparticles and Their Use as Active Electrocatalysts.

WASP-135b: A Highly Irradiated, Inflated Hot Jupiter Orbiting a G5V Star (2016)
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Spake, J. J., Brown, D. J. A., Doyle, A. P., Hébrard, G., McCormac, J., Armstrong, D. J., …Wheatley, P. J. (2016). WASP-135b: A Highly Irradiated, Inflated Hot Jupiter Orbiting a G5V Star. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 128(960), 024401. https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/128/960/024401

We report the discovery of a new transiting planet from the WASP survey. WASP-135b is a hot Jupiter with radius 1.30 ± 0.09 RJup, mass 1.90 ± 0.08 MJup, and an orbital period of 1.401 days. Its host is a Sun-like star, with a G5 spectral type and a m... Read More about WASP-135b: A Highly Irradiated, Inflated Hot Jupiter Orbiting a G5V Star.

High-precision photometry by telescope defocussing - VIII. WASP-22, WASP-41, WASP-42 and WASP-55 (2016)
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Southworth, J., Tregloan-Reed, J., Andersen, M., Calchi Novati, S., Ciceri, S., Colque, J., …Wang, Y. (2016). High-precision photometry by telescope defocussing - VIII. WASP-22, WASP-41, WASP-42 and WASP-55. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 457(4), 4205 - 4217. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw279

We present 13 high-precision and four additional light curves of four bright southern-hemisphere transiting planetary systems: WASP-22, WASP-41, WASP-42 and WASP-55. In the cases of WASP-42 and WASP-55, these are the first follow-up observations sinc... Read More about High-precision photometry by telescope defocussing - VIII. WASP-22, WASP-41, WASP-42 and WASP-55.

Charge transport properties of bulk Ta3N5 from first principles (2016)
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Morbec, J. M., & Galli, G. (2016). Charge transport properties of bulk Ta3N5 from first principles. Physical Review B, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.035201

Tantalum nitride is considered a promising material for photoelectrochemical water splitting, however, its charge transport properties remain poorly understood. We investigated polaronic and band transport in Ta3N5 using first-principles calculatio... Read More about Charge transport properties of bulk Ta3N5 from first principles.

Long-term Geophysical Monitoring of Simulated Clandestine Graves using Electrical and Ground Penetrating Radar Methods: 4–6 Years After Burial (2016)
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Pringle, J. K., Jervis, J. R., Roberts, D., Dick, H. C., Wisniewski, K. D., Cassidy, N. J., & Cassella, J. P. (2016). Long-term Geophysical Monitoring of Simulated Clandestine Graves using Electrical and Ground Penetrating Radar Methods: 4–6 Years After Burial. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 61(2), 309-321. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.13009

This ongoing monitoring study provides forensic search teams with systematic geophysical data over simulated clandestine graves for comparison to active cases. Simulated ‘wrapped’, ‘naked’ and ‘control’ burials were created. Multiple geophysical surv... Read More about Long-term Geophysical Monitoring of Simulated Clandestine Graves using Electrical and Ground Penetrating Radar Methods: 4–6 Years After Burial.