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SB 796: a high-velocity RRc star (2019)
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Maxted. (2019). SB 796: a high-velocity RRc star. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 5327-5335. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2828

We report here on a detailed study of a c-type RR Lyrae variable (RRc variable), SB 796, serendipitously discovered in a search of the WASP public data for stars that display large photometric periodic modulation. SB 796 displays a period of P = 0.26... Read More about SB 796: a high-velocity RRc star.

Catalytic performance of microporous materials for the production of renewable fuels (2019)
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Al-Ani, A., Drijfhout, F., Crickett, S., & Zholobenko, V. (2019). Catalytic performance of microporous materials for the production of renewable fuels. Journal of Porous Materials, 26, 69-76. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10934-018-0610-7

ETS-10, zeolite A and sepiolite based nano-structured materials were prepared and modified with potassium containing compounds using ion-exchange or impregnation and evaluated as basic catalysts for transesterification of vegetable oils using microwa... Read More about Catalytic performance of microporous materials for the production of renewable fuels.

Correction: Glycosylated naphthalimides and naphthalimide Tröger's bases as fluorescent aggregation probes for Con A. (2019)
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Hawes, C. S. (2019). Correction: Glycosylated naphthalimides and naphthalimide Tröger's bases as fluorescent aggregation probes for Con A. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2287 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9OB90017A

Correction for 'Glycosylated naphthalimides and naphthalimide Tröger's bases as fluorescent aggregation probes for Con A' by Elena Calatrava-Pérez et al., Org. Biomol. Chem., 2019, DOI: 10.1039/c8ob02980f.

The VMC Survey XXXIII. The tip of the red giant branch in the Magellanic Clouds (2019)
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Van Loon. (2019). The VMC Survey XXXIII. The tip of the red giant branch in the Magellanic Clouds. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833904

In this paper JKs-band data from the VISTA Magellanic Cloud (VMC) survey are used to investigate the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) as a distance indicator. A linear fit to recent theoretical models is used as the basis for the absolute calibrati... Read More about The VMC Survey XXXIII. The tip of the red giant branch in the Magellanic Clouds.

OGLE-2014-BLG-1186: gravitational microlensing providing evidence for a planet orbiting the foreground star or for a close binary source? (2019)
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Dominik, M., Bachelet, E., Bozza, V., Street, R. A., Han, C., Hundertmark, M., …Kozłowski, S. (2019). OGLE-2014-BLG-1186: gravitational microlensing providing evidence for a planet orbiting the foreground star or for a close binary source?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(4), 5608 - 5632. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz306

Discussing the particularly long gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2014-BLG-1186 with a time-scale tE ~ 300 d, we present a methodology for identifying the nature of localised deviations from single-lens point-source light curves, which ensures t... Read More about OGLE-2014-BLG-1186: gravitational microlensing providing evidence for a planet orbiting the foreground star or for a close binary source?.

The PDS 110 observing campaign – photometric and spectroscopic observations reveal eclipses are aperiodic (2019)
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Osborn, H. P., Kenworthy, M., Rodriguez, J. E., de Mooij, E. J. W., Kennedy, G. M., Relles, H., …Zhou, G. (2019). The PDS 110 observing campaign – photometric and spectroscopic observations reveal eclipses are aperiodic. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485(2), 1614-1625. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz283

PDS 110 is a young disc-hosting star in the Orion OB1A association. Two dimming events of similar depth and duration were seen in 2008 (WASP) and 2011 (KELT), consistent with an object in a closed periodic orbit. In this paper, we present data from a... Read More about The PDS 110 observing campaign – photometric and spectroscopic observations reveal eclipses are aperiodic.

Identification of AGN in the XMM-Newton X-ray survey of the SMC (2019)
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Maitra, C., Haberl, F., Ivanov, V. D., Cioni, M. L., & Van Loon, J. T. (2019). Identification of AGN in the XMM-Newton X-ray survey of the SMC. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 622, Article A29. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833663

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Finding Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) behind the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) is difficult because of the high stellar density in these fields. Although the first AGN behind the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) were reported in the 1980s, it is only r... Read More about Identification of AGN in the XMM-Newton X-ray survey of the SMC.

The Dynamics, Structure, and Fate of a Young Cluster during Gas Dispersal: Hectoschelle, Chandra, Spitzer, and Gaia Observations of Cep OB3b (2019)
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(2019). The Dynamics, Structure, and Fate of a Young Cluster during Gas Dispersal: Hectoschelle, Chandra, Spitzer, and Gaia Observations of Cep OB3b. Astrophysical Journal, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaf4c1

We present a study of the kinematics and structure of the Cep OB3b cluster based on new spectra obtained with the Hectoschelle spectrograph on the MMT and data from Spitzer, Chandra, and Gaia. At a distance of 819 +/- 16 pc, Cep OB3b is one of the cl... Read More about The Dynamics, Structure, and Fate of a Young Cluster during Gas Dispersal: Hectoschelle, Chandra, Spitzer, and Gaia Observations of Cep OB3b.

Detectability of shape deformation in short-period exoplanets (2019)
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Maxted. (2019). Detectability of shape deformation in short-period exoplanets. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834215

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Short-period planets are influenced by the extreme tidal forces of their parent stars. These forces deform the planets causing them to attain nonspherical shapes. The nonspherical shapes, modeled here as triaxial ellipsoids, can have an impa... Read More about Detectability of shape deformation in short-period exoplanets.

Biological nitrogen fixation in peatlands: Comparison between acetylene reduction assay and 15N2 assimilation methods (2019)
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Drijfhout. (2019). Biological nitrogen fixation in peatlands: Comparison between acetylene reduction assay and 15N2 assimilation methods. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 157 - 165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2019.01.011

Biological Nitrogen Fixation (BNF) is an essential microbial process supplying available nitrogen (N) to Sphagnum mosses in ombrotrophic peatlands. Acetylene Reduction Assay (ARA) and the 15N2 assimilation are the main methods used for the measuremen... Read More about Biological nitrogen fixation in peatlands: Comparison between acetylene reduction assay and 15N2 assimilation methods.

Crystallographic studies of 2-picolyl substituted naphthalene diimide and bis-phthalimide ligands and their supramolecular coordination chemistry (2019)
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Hawes, C. S. (2019). Crystallographic studies of 2-picolyl substituted naphthalene diimide and bis-phthalimide ligands and their supramolecular coordination chemistry. CrystEngComm, 207-217. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8ce01756e

Here we report the synthesis of two N-(2-picolyl) substituted bis-imide ligands, N,N'-di(2-picolyl)-1,4,5,8-naphthalenetetracarboxylic diimide L1 and N,N'-di(2-picolyl)-4,4'-oxybisphthalimide L2, and describe their coordination chemistry in the cryst... Read More about Crystallographic studies of 2-picolyl substituted naphthalene diimide and bis-phthalimide ligands and their supramolecular coordination chemistry.

Indium-Mediated 2-Oxonia Cope Rearrangement of 1,4-Dienols to 1,3-Dienols (2019)
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(2019). Indium-Mediated 2-Oxonia Cope Rearrangement of 1,4-Dienols to 1,3-Dienols. ACS Omega, 785 -792. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.8b03118

An indium-mediated isomerization of 1,4-dienols to 1,3-dienols is described. This procedure consists of the addition of pentadienylindium, in a protic solvent, to aldehydes giving the kinetic ?-allylation product in high yields. The subsequent conver... Read More about Indium-Mediated 2-Oxonia Cope Rearrangement of 1,4-Dienols to 1,3-Dienols.

Recent advances in the catalytic oxidation of alkene and alkane substrates using immobilized manganese complexes with nitrogen containing ligands (2019)
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Nodzewska, A., Wadolowska, A., & Watkinson, M. (2019). Recent advances in the catalytic oxidation of alkene and alkane substrates using immobilized manganese complexes with nitrogen containing ligands. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 382, 181-216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2018.12.004

In recent years, many supported manganese catalysts for the oxidative transformations of hydrocarbons by various terminal oxidants have been designed and tested. A vast range of inorganic (e.g. silica, carbon, zeolites), organic (e.g. polymers, dendr... Read More about Recent advances in the catalytic oxidation of alkene and alkane substrates using immobilized manganese complexes with nitrogen containing ligands.

New transiting hot Jupiters discovered by WASP-South, Euler/CORALIE and TRAPPIST-South (2019)
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Smalley, Hellier, & Maxted. (2019). New transiting hot Jupiters discovered by WASP-South, Euler/CORALIE and TRAPPIST-South. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1379-1391. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2741

We report the discovery of eight hot-Jupiter exoplanets from the WASP-South transit survey. WASP-144b has a mass of 0.44 Mj, a radius of 0.85 Rj, and is in a 2.27-d orbit around a V = 12.9, K2 star which shows a 21-d rotational modulation. WASP-145Ab... Read More about New transiting hot Jupiters discovered by WASP-South, Euler/CORALIE and TRAPPIST-South.

Wildlife Crime: The application of forensic geoscience to assist with criminal investigations (2019)
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D. Wisniewski, K., K. Pringle, J., Allen, D., & E. Wilson, G. (2019). Wildlife Crime: The application of forensic geoscience to assist with criminal investigations. Forensic Science International, 11-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2018.10.026

Wildlife crime is a growing problem in many rural areas. However, it can often be difficult to determine exactly what had happened and provide evidential Court material, especially where evidence is ephemeral. This paper presents a case study where a... Read More about Wildlife Crime: The application of forensic geoscience to assist with criminal investigations.