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Structural Insights into Separase Architecture and Substrate Recognition through Computational Modelling of Caspase-Like and Death Domains (2015)
Journal Article
Winter, A., Schmid, R., & Bayliss, R. (2015). Structural Insights into Separase Architecture and Substrate Recognition through Computational Modelling of Caspase-Like and Death Domains. PLoS Computational Biology, e1004548 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004548

Separases are large proteins that mediate sister chromatid disjunction in all eukaryotes. They belong to clan CD of cysteine peptidases and contain a well-conserved C-terminal catalytic protease domain similar to caspases and gingipains. However, unl... Read More about Structural Insights into Separase Architecture and Substrate Recognition through Computational Modelling of Caspase-Like and Death Domains.

Mapping atomic and difuse interstellar band absorption across the Magellanic clouds and the Milky Way (2015)
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Bailey, M., Van Loon, J. T., Sarre, P. J., & Beckman, J. E. (2015). Mapping atomic and difuse interstellar band absorption across the Magellanic clouds and the Milky Way. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454(4), 4013-4026. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2178

Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) trace warm neutral and weakly ionized diffuse interstellar medium (ISM). Here we present a dedicated, high signal-to-noise spectroscopic survey of two of the strongest DIBs, at 5780 and 5797 Å, in optical spectra of... Read More about Mapping atomic and difuse interstellar band absorption across the Magellanic clouds and the Milky Way.

Larger and faster: revised properties and a shorter orbital period for the WASP-57 planetary system from a pro-am collaboration (2015)
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Southworth, J., Mancini, L., Tregloan-Reed, J., Calchi Novati, S., Ciceri, S., D'Ago, G., …Wertz, O. (2015). Larger and faster: revised properties and a shorter orbital period for the WASP-57 planetary system from a pro-am collaboration. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454(3), 3094 -3107. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2183

Transits in the WASP-57 planetary system have been found to occur half an hour earlier than expected. We present 10 transit light curves from amateur telescopes, on which this discovery was based, 13 transit light curves from professional facilities... Read More about Larger and faster: revised properties and a shorter orbital period for the WASP-57 planetary system from a pro-am collaboration.

Red Noise Versus Planetary Interpretations In The Microlensing Event OGLE-2013-BLG-446 (2015)
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Bachelet, E., Bramich, D., Han, C., Greenhill, J., Street, R., Gould, A., …Wertz, O. (2015). Red Noise Versus Planetary Interpretations In The Microlensing Event OGLE-2013-BLG-446. Astrophysical Journal, 812(2), Article 136. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/812/2/136

For all exoplanet candidates, the reliability of a claimed detection needs to be assessed through a careful study of systematic errors in the data to minimize the false positives rate. We present a method to investigate such systematics in microlensi... Read More about Red Noise Versus Planetary Interpretations In The Microlensing Event OGLE-2013-BLG-446.

Growth of epitaxial Pt1-xPbx alloys by surface limited redox replacement and study of their adsorption properties (2015)
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(2015). Growth of epitaxial Pt1-xPbx alloys by surface limited redox replacement and study of their adsorption properties. Langmuir, 10904 -10912. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b02351

The surface limited redox replacement (SLRR) method has been used to design two-dimensional Pt-Pb nanoalloys with controlled thickness, composition, and structure. The electrochemical behavior of these alloys has been systematically studied as a func... Read More about Growth of epitaxial Pt1-xPbx alloys by surface limited redox replacement and study of their adsorption properties.

The micro-architecture of human cancellous bone from fracture neck of femur patients in relation to the structural integrity and fracture toughness of the tissue (2015)
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Greenwood, C., Clement, J., Dicken, A., Evans, J., Lyburn, I., Martin, R., …Zioupos, P. (2015). The micro-architecture of human cancellous bone from fracture neck of femur patients in relation to the structural integrity and fracture toughness of the tissue. Bone Reports, 3, 67 - 75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bonr.2015.10.001

Osteoporosis is clinically assessed from bone mineral density measurements using dual energy X-ray absorption (DXA). However, these measurements do not always provide an accurate fracture prediction, arguably because DXA does not grapple with ‘bone q... Read More about The micro-architecture of human cancellous bone from fracture neck of femur patients in relation to the structural integrity and fracture toughness of the tissue.

HD183648: a Kepler eclipsing binary with anomalous ellipsoidal variations and a pulsating component (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Derekas, A., Borkovits, T., Fuller, J., Szabó, G., Pavlovski, K., Csák, B., …Jankovics, I. (2015). HD183648: a Kepler eclipsing binary with anomalous ellipsoidal variations and a pulsating component. In EPJ Web of Conferences. https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201510106021

IC 8560861 (HD 183648) is a marginally eccentric (e = 0.05) eclipsing binary with an orbital period of Porb = 31.973 d, exhibiting mmag amplitude pulsations on time scales of a few days. We present the results of the complex analysis of high and medi... Read More about HD183648: a Kepler eclipsing binary with anomalous ellipsoidal variations and a pulsating component.

Lamost Observations In The Kepler Field. I. Database Of Low-resolution Spectra (2015)
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De Cat, P., Fu, J., Ren, A., Yang, X., Shi, J., Luo, A., …Zhou, X. (2015). Lamost Observations In The Kepler Field. I. Database Of Low-resolution Spectra. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 220(1), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/220/1/19

The nearly continuous light curves with micromagnitude precision provided by the space mission Kepler are revolutionizing our view of pulsating stars. They have revealed a vast sea of low-amplitude pulsation modes that were undetectable from Earth. T... Read More about Lamost Observations In The Kepler Field. I. Database Of Low-resolution Spectra.

Multiple star systems observed with CoRoT and Kepler (invited review) (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Southworth, J. (2015). Multiple star systems observed with CoRoT and Kepler (invited review). . https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201510104001

The CoRoT and Kepler satellites were the first space platforms designed to perform high-precision photometry for a large number of stars. Multiple systems display a wide variety of photometric variability, making them natural benefactors of these mis... Read More about Multiple star systems observed with CoRoT and Kepler (invited review).

ALMA reveals sunburn: CO dissociation around AGB stars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae (2015)
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McDonald, I., Zijlstra, A. A., Lagadec, E., Sloan, G. C., Boyer, M. L., Matsuura, M., …Groenewegen, M. A. T. (2015). ALMA reveals sunburn: CO dissociation around AGB stars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453(4), 4325-4337. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1968

Atacama Large Millimetre Array observations show a non-detection of carbon monoxide around the four most luminous asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. Stellar evolution models and star counts show that the mass-loss... Read More about ALMA reveals sunburn: CO dissociation around AGB stars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae.

The GAPS programme with HARPS-N at TNG IX. The multi-planet system KELT-6: Detection of the planet KELT-6 c and measurement of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect for KELT-6 b (2015)
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Damasso, M., Esposito, M., Nascimbeni, V., Desidera, S., Bonomo, A., Bieryla, A., …Zanmar Sanchez, R. (2015). The GAPS programme with HARPS-N at TNG IX. The multi-planet system KELT-6: Detection of the planet KELT-6 c and measurement of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect for KELT-6 b. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 581, Article L6. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526995

Aims. For more than 1.5 years we spectroscopically monitored the star KELT-6 (BD+31?2447), which is known to host the transiting hot-Saturn KELT-6?b, because a previously observed long-term trend in radial velocity time series suggested that there is... Read More about The GAPS programme with HARPS-N at TNG IX. The multi-planet system KELT-6: Detection of the planet KELT-6 c and measurement of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect for KELT-6 b.

An evolutionary missing link? A modest-mass early-type galaxy hosting an oversized nuclear black hole (2015)
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van Loon, J. T., & Sansom, A. E. (2015). An evolutionary missing link? A modest-mass early-type galaxy hosting an oversized nuclear black hole. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453(3), 2342-2349. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1787

SAGE1C J053634.78−722658.5 is a galaxy at redshift z = 0.14, discovered behind the Large Magellanic Cloud in the SpitzerSpace Telescope‘Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution’ Spectroscopy survey. It has very strong silicate emission at 10 μm but n... Read More about An evolutionary missing link? A modest-mass early-type galaxy hosting an oversized nuclear black hole.

KIC 9533489: a genuine gamma Doradus - delta Scuti Kepler hybrid pulsator with transit events (2015)
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Bognár, Z., Lampens, P., Frémat, Y., Taylor, J., Sódor, Á., De Cat, P., …Martín-Fernández, P. (2015). KIC 9533489: a genuine gamma Doradus - delta Scuti Kepler hybrid pulsator with transit events. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 581, Article A77. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526154

Context. Several hundred candidate hybrid pulsators of type A–F have been identified from space-based observations. Their large number allows both statistical analyses and detailed investigations of individual stars. This offers the opportunity to st... Read More about KIC 9533489: a genuine gamma Doradus - delta Scuti Kepler hybrid pulsator with transit events.

IDENTIFICATION OF A CLASS OF LOW-MASS ASYMPTOTIC GIANT BRANCH STARS STRUGGLING TO BECOME CARBON STARS IN THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS (2015)
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Boyer, M. L., McDonald, I., Srinivasan, S., Zijlstra, A., Loon, J. T. V., Olsen, K. A. G., & Sonneborn, G. (in press). IDENTIFICATION OF A CLASS OF LOW-MASS ASYMPTOTIC GIANT BRANCH STARS STRUGGLING TO BECOME CARBON STARS IN THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS. Astrophysical Journal, 810(2), 116. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/810/2/116

Changes in the chemical profile of cephalic salivary glands of Scaptotrigona postica (Hymenoptera, Meliponini) workers are phase related (2015)
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Poiani, S. B., Morgan, E. D., Drijfhout, F. P., & da Cruz-Landim, C. (2015). Changes in the chemical profile of cephalic salivary glands of Scaptotrigona postica (Hymenoptera, Meliponini) workers are phase related. Journal of Experimental Biology, 218(17), 2738-2744. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.124180

Most advanced eusocial bees recruit their nest mates to food resources. Recent studies in Meliponini species have revealed that the cephalic salivary (labial) glands (CSGs) are responsible for the production of scent trail pheromones. Studies on CSGs... Read More about Changes in the chemical profile of cephalic salivary glands of Scaptotrigona postica (Hymenoptera, Meliponini) workers are phase related.

Surface activation of Pt nanoparticles synthesised by "hot injection" in the presence of oleylamine. (2015)
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(2015). Surface activation of Pt nanoparticles synthesised by "hot injection" in the presence of oleylamine. Chemistry - A European Journal, 12694 -12701. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201501496

Oleylamine (OA) based "hot injection" colloidal synthesis offers a versatile approach to the synthesis of highly monodisperse metallic and multi-metallic alloyed nanostructures in the absence of potentially toxic and unstable phosphine compounds. For... Read More about Surface activation of Pt nanoparticles synthesised by "hot injection" in the presence of oleylamine..

Young Stellar Objects in the Magellanic Clouds: Herschel Spectroscopy First Results (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Oliveira, J. M., van Loon, J. T., & Sewiło, M. (2015). Young Stellar Objects in the Magellanic Clouds: Herschel Spectroscopy First Results. . https://doi.org/10.1017/s1743921316008231

We present preliminary results from spectroscopy obtained with PACS and SPIRE onboard the Herschel Space Observatory of a sample of massive Young Stellar Objects in the Magellanic Clouds. We analyse key gas-phase cooling species (OI], [CII], H2O, CO,... Read More about Young Stellar Objects in the Magellanic Clouds: Herschel Spectroscopy First Results.

Clues on the first stars from CEMP-no stars (2015)
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Choplin, A., Meynet, G., Maeder, A., Hirschi, R., Ekström, S., & Chiappini, C. (2015). Clues on the first stars from CEMP-no stars. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 11(S317), 282-283. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1743921315006808

The material used to form the CEMP-no stars presents signatures of processing by the CNO cycle and by He-burning from a previous stellar generation called spinstars. We compare the composition of the ejecta (wind + supernova) of a spinstar model to o... Read More about Clues on the first stars from CEMP-no stars.

Double riches: asteroseismology in eclipsing binaries (2015)
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Southworth, J. (2015). Double riches: asteroseismology in eclipsing binaries. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 11, 628 - 635. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921316006220

The study of eclipsing binaries is our primary source of measured properties of normal stars, achieved through analysis of light and radial velocity curves of eclipsing systems. The study of oscillations and pulsations is increasingly vital for deter... Read More about Double riches: asteroseismology in eclipsing binaries.

Characterising the Protostellar Population of the Magellanic Clouds with VLT/SINFONI (2015)
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Ward, J., Oliveira, J., van Loon, J., & Sewilo, M. (2015). Characterising the Protostellar Population of the Magellanic Clouds with VLT/SINFONI. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 11(S315), https://doi.org/10.1017/s1743921316008449

At distances of ~50 kpc and ~60 kpc for the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) respectively the Magellanic Clouds present us with a unique opportunity to study star formation in environments outside our own galaxy. Through... Read More about Characterising the Protostellar Population of the Magellanic Clouds with VLT/SINFONI.