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Turbulence and nuclear reactions in 3D hydrodynamics simulations of massive stars (2023)
Journal Article
Rizzuti, F., Hirschi, R., Georgy, C., Arnett, D., Meakin, C., & Murphy, A. (2023). Turbulence and nuclear reactions in 3D hydrodynamics simulations of massive stars. EPJ Web of Conferences, 279, 05001. https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202327905001

Our knowledge of massive star evolution and nucleosynthesis is limited by uncertainties related to multi-dimensional processes taking place in stellar interiors. Recently, theoretical works have started to improve 1D stellar evolution codes through t... Read More about Turbulence and nuclear reactions in 3D hydrodynamics simulations of massive stars.

A full transit of nu(2) Lupi d and the search for an exomoon in its Hill sphere with CHEOPS (2023)
Journal Article
Ehrenreich, D., Delrez, L., Akinsanmi, B., Wilson, T. G., Bonfanti, A., Beck, M., …Walton, N. A. (2023). A full transit of nu(2) Lupi d and the search for an exomoon in its Hill sphere with CHEOPS. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 671, Article A154. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202244790

The planetary system around the naked-eye star v(2) Lupi (HD 136352; TOI-2011) is composed of three exoplanets with masses of 4.7, 11.2, and 8.6 Earth masses (M-circle plus). The TESS and CHEOPS missions revealed that all three planets are transiting... Read More about A full transit of nu(2) Lupi d and the search for an exomoon in its Hill sphere with CHEOPS.

Glancing through the debris disk: Photometric analysis of DE Boo with CHEOPS (2023)
Journal Article
Maxted. (2023). Glancing through the debris disk: Photometric analysis of DE Boo with CHEOPS. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 671, Article A127. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202245101

DE Boo is a unique system, with an edge-on view through the debris disk around the star. The disk, which is analogous to the Kuiper belt in the Solar System, was reported to extend from 74 to 84 AU from the central star. The high photometric precisio... Read More about Glancing through the debris disk: Photometric analysis of DE Boo with CHEOPS.

High-mass eclipsing binaries: A testbed for models of interior structure and evolution Accurate fundamental properties and surface chemical composition for V1034 Sco, GL Car, V573 Car, and V346 Cen??? (2023)
Journal Article
Pavlovski, K., Southworth, J., Tkachenko, A., Van Reeth, T., & Tamajo, E. (2023). High-mass eclipsing binaries: A testbed for models of interior structure and evolution Accurate fundamental properties and surface chemical composition for V1034 Sco, GL Car, V573 Car, and V346 Cen???. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 671, Article A139. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202244980

Aims: The surface chemical compositions of stars are affected by physical processes that bring the products of thermonuclear burning to the surface. Despite their potential in helping us understand the structure and evolution of stars, elemental abun... Read More about High-mass eclipsing binaries: A testbed for models of interior structure and evolution Accurate fundamental properties and surface chemical composition for V1034 Sco, GL Car, V573 Car, and V346 Cen???.

Tidally perturbed gravity-mode pulsations in a sample of close eclipsing binaries (2023)
Journal Article
Van Reeth, T., Johnston, C., Southworth, J., Fuller, J., Bowman, D., Poniatowski, L., & Van Beeck, J. (2023). Tidally perturbed gravity-mode pulsations in a sample of close eclipsing binaries. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 671, Article A121. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202245460

Context. Thanks to the high-precision photometry from space missions such as Kepler and TESS, tidal perturbations and tilting of pulsations have been detected in more than a dozen binary systems. However, only two of these were gravity-mode (g-mode)... Read More about Tidally perturbed gravity-mode pulsations in a sample of close eclipsing binaries.

The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation (2023)
Journal Article
Jin, S., Trager, S. C., Dalton, G. B., Aguerri, J. A. L., Drew, J. E., Falcón-Barroso, J., …Zurita, C. (2024). The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 530(3), 2688-2730. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad557

WEAVE, the new wide-field, massively multiplexed spectroscopic survey facility for the William Herschel Telescope, saw first light in late 2022. WEAVE comprises a new 2-deg field-of-view prime-focus corrector system, a nearly 1000-multiplex fibre pos... Read More about The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation.

Synthesis of α-amino acid derived (1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)-picolinamide (tzpa) ligands and their corresponding luminescent Tb(iii) complexes (2023)
Journal Article
Hegarty, I. N., Hawes, C. S., & Gunnlaugsson, T. (2023). Synthesis of α-amino acid derived (1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)-picolinamide (tzpa) ligands and their corresponding luminescent Tb(iii) complexes. Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 10(8), 1915-1926. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3QO00232B

The synthesis of chiral a-amino acid derived (1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)-picolinamide (tzpa) ligands 4-6 designed by combining the coordination properties of two well-known ligand structures within a single unit is described. The self-assembly formation bet... Read More about Synthesis of α-amino acid derived (1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)-picolinamide (tzpa) ligands and their corresponding luminescent Tb(iii) complexes.

Molecular Catalysts Immobilised on Photocathodes for Solar Fuel Generation (2023)
Book Chapter
Creissen, C. E. (2023). Molecular Catalysts Immobilised on Photocathodes for Solar Fuel Generation. In Recent Developments in Functional Materials for Artificial Photosynthesis (120-156). Royal Society of Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/9781839167768-00120

The solar-driven transformation of water and carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals offers a sustainable route to bypass the use of fossil fuels. This can be achieved using molecular catalysts immobilised on semiconductor surfaces. Hybrid photocathod... Read More about Molecular Catalysts Immobilised on Photocathodes for Solar Fuel Generation.

Fine-tuning of the size of supramolecular nanotoroids suppresses the subsequent catenation of nano-[2]catenane (2023)
Journal Article
Itabashi, H., Datta, S., Tsukuda, R., Hollamby, M. J., & Yagai, S. (2023). Fine-tuning of the size of supramolecular nanotoroids suppresses the subsequent catenation of nano-[2]catenane. Chemical Science, 14(12), 3270 - 3276. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SC07063D

A judicious combination of ring-closing supramolecular polymerization and secondary nucleation can hierarchically organize a diphenylnaphthalene barbiturate monomer bearing a 3,4,5-tri(dodecyloxy)benzyloxy unit into self-assembled nano-polycatenanes... Read More about Fine-tuning of the size of supramolecular nanotoroids suppresses the subsequent catenation of nano-[2]catenane.

An Investigation of the Temperature Dependence of a Monomer–Dimer Equilibrium Using UV–Vis and 1H NMR Spectroscopies (2023)
Journal Article
Hancock, L. M., McGarvey, D. J., & Plana, D. (2023). An Investigation of the Temperature Dependence of a Monomer–Dimer Equilibrium Using UV–Vis and 1H NMR Spectroscopies. Journal of Chemical Education, 100(3), 1283-1288. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00917

A laboratory experiment in which 1H NMR and UV–vis spectroscopies are applied to probe the temperature dependence of a monomer–dimer equilibrium involving a cyclopentadienone derivative is described and discussed. Details of the data analysis for ext... Read More about An Investigation of the Temperature Dependence of a Monomer–Dimer Equilibrium Using UV–Vis and 1H NMR Spectroscopies.

Limb darkening measurements from TESS and Kepler light curves of transiting exoplanets (2023)
Journal Article
Maxted. (2023). Limb darkening measurements from TESS and Kepler light curves of transiting exoplanets. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 3723-3735. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3741

Inaccurate limb-darkening models can be a significant source of error in the analysis of the light curves for transiting exoplanet and eclipsing binary star systems. To test the accuracy of published limb-darkening models, I have compared limb-darken... Read More about Limb darkening measurements from TESS and Kepler light curves of transiting exoplanets.

The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. II. Twenty New Giant Planets* (2023)
Journal Article
Hellier. (2023). The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. II. Twenty New Giant Planets*. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aca286

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission promises to improve our understanding of hot Jupiters by providing an all-sky, magnitude-limited sample of transiting hot Jupiters suitable for population studies. Assembling such a sample r... Read More about The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. II. Twenty New Giant Planets*.

TOI-4562b: A Highly Eccentric Temperate Jupiter Analog Orbiting a Young Field Star (2023)
Journal Article
Hellier. (2023). TOI-4562b: A Highly Eccentric Temperate Jupiter Analog Orbiting a Young Field Star. Astronomical Journal, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/acb5a2

We report the discovery of TOI-4562b (TIC-349576261), a Jovian planet orbiting a young F7V-type star, younger than the Praesepe/Hyades clusters (<700 Myr). This planet stands out because of its unusually long orbital period for transiting planets wit...

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Preparing the ground for 4MOST and WEAVE galactic surveys (2023)
Journal Article
Nepal, S., Guiglion, G., de Jong, R., Valentini, M., Chiappini, C., Steinmetz, M., …Zaggia, S. (2023). The Gaia-ESO Survey: Preparing the ground for 4MOST and WEAVE galactic surveys. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 671, Article A61. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202244765

Context. Originating from several sources (Big Bang, stars, cosmic rays) and being strongly depleted during stellar lifetime, the lithium element is of great interest as its chemical evolution in the Milky Way is not yet well understood. To help cons... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: Preparing the ground for 4MOST and WEAVE galactic surveys.

Hint of an exocomet transit in the CHEOPS light curve of HD 172555 (2023)
Journal Article
Maxted. (2023). Hint of an exocomet transit in the CHEOPS light curve of HD 172555. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202245104

HD 172555 is a young (~20 Myr) A7V star surrounded by a 10 au wide debris disk suspected to be replenished partly by collisions between large planetesimals. Small evaporating transiting bodies, that is exocomets, have also been detected in this syste... Read More about Hint of an exocomet transit in the CHEOPS light curve of HD 172555.

A precise blue-optical transmission spectrum from the ground: evidence for haze in the atmosphere of WASP-74b (2023)
Journal Article
Spyratos, P., Nikolov, N. K., Constantinou, S., Southworth, J., Madhusudhan, N., Sedaghati, E., …Mancini, L. (2023). A precise blue-optical transmission spectrum from the ground: evidence for haze in the atmosphere of WASP-74b. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521(2), 2163 - 2180. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad637

We report transmission spectroscopy of the bloated hot Jupiter WASP-74b in the wavelength range from 4000 to 6200 Å. We observe two transit events with the Very Large Telescope (VLT) Focal Reducer and Spectrograph and present a new method to measure... Read More about A precise blue-optical transmission spectrum from the ground: evidence for haze in the atmosphere of WASP-74b.