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Advances in biocatalytic and chemoenzymatic synthesis of nucleoside analogues. (2022)
Journal Article
Cosgrove, S. C., & Miller, G. J. (2022). Advances in biocatalytic and chemoenzymatic synthesis of nucleoside analogues. Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, 17(4), 355-364. https://doi.org/10.1080/17460441.2022.2039620

INTRODUCTION: Nucleoside analogues represent a cornerstone of achievement in drug discovery, rising to prominence particularly in the fields of antiviral and anticancer discovery over the last 60 years. Traditionally accessed using chemical synthesis... Read More about Advances in biocatalytic and chemoenzymatic synthesis of nucleoside analogues..

GASKAP-HI pilot survey science I: ASKAP zoom observations of Hi emission in the Small Magellanic Cloud (2022)
Journal Article
Van Loon. (2022). GASKAP-HI pilot survey science I: ASKAP zoom observations of Hi emission in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2021.59

We present the most sensitive and detailed view of the neutral hydrogen (HI) emission associated with the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), through the combination of data from the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and Parkes (Murriyan... Read More about GASKAP-HI pilot survey science I: ASKAP zoom observations of Hi emission in the Small Magellanic Cloud.

3-D thermoacoustic instability analysis based on Green's function approach (2022)
Journal Article
Wang, X., & Heckl, M. (2022). 3-D thermoacoustic instability analysis based on Green's function approach. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 537, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2022.116816

A fundamental analysis is made of the thermoacoustic instability in a hard-walled box. We model the flame as an acoustically compact source with a heat release characteristic described by a directional nt-law. This has the following features: it give... Read More about 3-D thermoacoustic instability analysis based on Green's function approach.

Design, chemical synthesis and antiviral evaluation of 2'-deoxy-2'-fluoro-2'-C-methyl-4'-thionucleosides. (2022)
Journal Article
Guinan, M., Huang, N., Smith, M., & Miller, G. (2022). Design, chemical synthesis and antiviral evaluation of 2'-deoxy-2'-fluoro-2'-C-methyl-4'-thionucleosides. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 61, Article 128605. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmcl.2022.128605

Nucleoside analogues represent an historically accomplished class of antiviral drug. Notwithstanding this, new molecular scaffolds are required to overcome their limitations and evolve pharmacophore space within this established field. Herein, we dev... Read More about Design, chemical synthesis and antiviral evaluation of 2'-deoxy-2'-fluoro-2'-C-methyl-4'-thionucleosides..

Detection of the tidal deformation of WASP-103b at 3 s with CHEOPS (Corrigendum) (2022)
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Barros, S. C. C., Akinsanmi, B., Boué, G., Smith, A. M. S., Laskar, J., Ulmer-Moll, S., …Walton, N. A. (2022). Detection of the tidal deformation of WASP-103b at 3 s with CHEOPS (Corrigendum). Astronomy & Astrophysics, 658, Article C1. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202142196e

The name of co-author Sébastien Salmon (Observatoire Astronomique de l’Université de Genève, Switzerland) was missing from the author list of the original published article. It is added among the authors in this Corrigendum.

THE TRANSITING PLANETARY SYSTEM WASP-86/KELT-12: TESS PROVIDES THE CASTING VOTE (2022)
Journal Article
Southworth, J., & Faedi, F. (2022). THE TRANSITING PLANETARY SYSTEM WASP-86/KELT-12: TESS PROVIDES THE CASTING VOTE. Observatory, 142, 1 - 10

A transiting planetary system was discovered independently by two groups, under the names WASP-86 (Faedi et al.1) and KELT12 (Stevens et al.2). The properties of the system determined in these works were very different, most tellingly a variation of... Read More about THE TRANSITING PLANETARY SYSTEM WASP-86/KELT-12: TESS PROVIDES THE CASTING VOTE.

Spi-OPS: Spitzer and CHEOPS confirm the near-polar orbit of MASCARA-1 b and reveal a hint of dayside reflection (2022)
Journal Article
Maxted. (2022). Spi-OPS: Spitzer and CHEOPS confirm the near-polar orbit of MASCARA-1 b and reveal a hint of dayside reflection. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202141645

Context. The light curves of tidally locked hot Jupiters transiting fast-rotating, early-type stars are a rich source of information about both the planet and star, with full-phase coverage enabling a detailed atmospheric characterisation of the plan... Read More about Spi-OPS: Spitzer and CHEOPS confirm the near-polar orbit of MASCARA-1 b and reveal a hint of dayside reflection.

An Isolated Stellar-Mass Black Hole Detected Through Astrometric Microlensing (2022)
Journal Article
Sahu, K. C., Anderson, J., Casertano, S., Bond, H. E., Udalski, A., Dominik, M., …Collaboration, R. (2022). An Isolated Stellar-Mass Black Hole Detected Through Astrometric Microlensing. Astrophysical Journal, 933(1),

We report the first unambiguous detection and mass measurement of an isolated stellar-mass black hole (BH). We used the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to carry out precise astrometry of the source star of the long-duration (t_E ~ 270 days), high-magnif... Read More about An Isolated Stellar-Mass Black Hole Detected Through Astrometric Microlensing.

Grids of stellar models with rotation VII: models from 0.8 to 300 M-circle dot at supersolar metallicity (Z=0.020) (2022)
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Yusof, N., Hirschi, R., Eggenberger, P., Ekström, S., Georgy, C., Sibony, Y., …Murphy, L. (2022). Grids of stellar models with rotation VII: models from 0.8 to 300 M-circle dot at supersolar metallicity (Z=0.020). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 511(2), 2814 - 2828. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac230

We present a grid of stellar models at supersolar metallicity (Z = 0.020) extending the previous grids of Geneva models at solar and sub-solar metallicities. A metallicity of Z = 0.020 was chosen to match that of the inner Galactic disc. A modest inc... Read More about Grids of stellar models with rotation VII: models from 0.8 to 300 M-circle dot at supersolar metallicity (Z=0.020).

Aluminium co-localises with Biondi ring tangles in Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy (2022)
Journal Article
(2022). Aluminium co-localises with Biondi ring tangles in Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy. Scientific reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05627-8

Aluminium is known to accumulate in neuropathological hallmarks. However, such has only tentatively been suggested in Biondi ring tangles. Owing to their intracellular and filamentous structure rich in beta-pleated sheets, Biondi ring tangles might a... Read More about Aluminium co-localises with Biondi ring tangles in Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy.

An contextualized enamel growth rate and thickness data set collected from British populations spanning the past 2000 years. (2022)
Dataset
Aris, C. (2022). An contextualized enamel growth rate and thickness data set collected from British populations spanning the past 2000 years. [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.26575/daj.v35i1.338

This article represents an open repository of human enamel data collected/reconstructed from seven populations covering a 2000 year time period in Britain via five temporally distinct periods. In total data was collected from 285 permanent teeth, inc... Read More about An contextualized enamel growth rate and thickness data set collected from British populations spanning the past 2000 years..

BEBOP II: sensitivity to sub-Saturn circumbinary planets using radial-velocities (2022)
Journal Article
Maxted, & Hellier. (2022). BEBOP II: sensitivity to sub-Saturn circumbinary planets using radial-velocities. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 3571 - 3583. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac113

BEBOP is a radial-velocity survey that monitors a sample of single-lined eclipsing binaries, in search of circumbinary planets by using high-resolution spectrographs. Here, we describe and test the methods we use to identify planetary signals within... Read More about BEBOP II: sensitivity to sub-Saturn circumbinary planets using radial-velocities.

V4334 Sgr (Sakurai's Object): still churning out the dust (2022)
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(2022). V4334 Sgr (Sakurai's Object): still churning out the dust. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 713-722. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac095

We present a 0.8–2.5 µm spectrum of the Very Late Thermal Pulse object V4334 Sgr (Sakurai’s Object), obtained in 2020 September. The spectrum displays a continuum that rises strongly to longer wavelengths, and is considerably brighter than the most r... Read More about V4334 Sgr (Sakurai's Object): still churning out the dust.

Parameters of the eclipsing binary a Draconis observed by TESS and SONG (2022)
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Hey, D. R., Kochoska, A., Monier, R., Kochukhov, O., Johnston, C., Bedding, T. R., …Pallé, P. L. (2022). Parameters of the eclipsing binary a Draconis observed by TESS and SONG. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 511(2), 2648-2658. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac020

We present an analysis of the eclipsing single-lined spectroscopic binary system a Dra based on photometry from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission and newly acquired spectroscopic measurements. Recently discovered to have eclips... Read More about Parameters of the eclipsing binary a Draconis observed by TESS and SONG.

A pair of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright K-dwarf TOI-1064 characterized with CHEOPS (2022)
Journal Article
Maxted. (2022). A pair of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright K-dwarf TOI-1064 characterized with CHEOPS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1043 - 1071. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3799

We report the discovery and characterization of a pair of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright K-dwarf TOI-1064 (TIC 79748331), initially detected in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) photometry. To characterize the system, we performed... Read More about A pair of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright K-dwarf TOI-1064 characterized with CHEOPS.

Oxidase enzymes as sustainable oxidation catalysts (2022)
Journal Article
Wahart, A. J. C., Staniland, J., Miller, G. J., & Cosgrove, S. C. (2022). Oxidase enzymes as sustainable oxidation catalysts. Royal Society Open Science, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211572

Oxidation is one of the most important processes used by the chemical industry. However, many of the methods that are used pose significant sustainability and environmental issues. Biocatalytic oxidation offers an alternative to these methods, with a... Read More about Oxidase enzymes as sustainable oxidation catalysts.