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Kepler-432 b: a massive planet in a highly eccentric orbit transiting a red giant (2014)
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Ciceri, S., Lillo-Box, J., Southworth, J., Mancini, L., Th. Henning, & Barrado, D. (2015). Kepler-432 b: a massive planet in a highly eccentric orbit transiting a red giant. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 573, Article L5. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425145

We report the first disclosure of the planetary nature of Kepler-432?b (aka Kepler object of interest KOI-1299.01). We accurately constrained its mass and eccentricity by high-precision radial velocity measurements obtained with the CAFE spectrograph... Read More about Kepler-432 b: a massive planet in a highly eccentric orbit transiting a red giant.

Orbital periods of cataclysmic variables identified by the SDSS IX. NTT photometry of eight eclipsing and three magnetic systems (2014)
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Southworth, J., Tappert, C., Gänsicke, B., & Copperwheat, C. (2015). Orbital periods of cataclysmic variables identified by the SDSS IX. NTT photometry of eight eclipsing and three magnetic systems. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 573, Article A61. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425060

We report the discovery of eclipses and the first orbital period measurements for four cataclysmic variables, plus the first orbital period measurements for one known eclipsing and two magnetic systems. SDSS J093537.46+161950.8 exhibits 1 mag deep ec... Read More about Orbital periods of cataclysmic variables identified by the SDSS IX. NTT photometry of eight eclipsing and three magnetic systems.

High-precision photometry by telescope defocusing - VII. The ultrashort period planet WASP-103 (2014)
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Southworth, J., Mancini, L., Ciceri, S., Budaj, J., Dominik, M., Figuera Jaimes, R., …Surdej, J. (2015). High-precision photometry by telescope defocusing - VII. The ultrashort period planet WASP-103. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447(1), 711 -721. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2394

We present 17 transit light curves of the ultrashort period planetary system WASP-103, a strong candidate for the detection of tidally-induced orbital decay. We use these to establish a high-precision reference epoch for transit timing studies. The t... Read More about High-precision photometry by telescope defocusing - VII. The ultrashort period planet WASP-103.

WASP-94 A and B planets: hot-Jupiter cousins in a twin-star system (2014)
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Neveu-VanMalle, M., Queloz, D., Anderson, D., Charbonnel, C., Collier Cameron, A., Delrez, L., …West, R. (2014). WASP-94 A and B planets: hot-Jupiter cousins in a twin-star system. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424744

We report the discovery of two hot-Jupiter planets, each orbiting one of the stars of a wide binary system. WASP-94A (2MASS 20550794–3408079) is an F8 type star hosting a transiting planet with a radius of 1.72 ± 0.06 RJup, a mass of 0.452 ± 0.034 MJ... Read More about WASP-94 A and B planets: hot-Jupiter cousins in a twin-star system.

KIC 10526294: a slowly rotating B star with rotationally split, quasi-equally spaced gravity modes(Corrigendum) (2014)
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Pápics, P. I., Moravveji, E., Aerts, C., Tkachenko, A., Triana, S. A., Bloemen, S., & Southworth, J. (2014). KIC 10526294: a slowly rotating B star with rotationally split, quasi-equally spaced gravity modes(Corrigendum). Astronomy & Astrophysics, 570, Article C4. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424094e

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Three WASP-South transiting exoplanets: WASP-74b, WASP-83b & WASP-89b (2014)
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Hellier, C., Anderson, D., Collier Cameron, A., Delrez, L., Gillon, M., Jehin, E., …West, R. (2014). Three WASP-South transiting exoplanets: WASP-74b, WASP-83b & WASP-89b. Astronomical Journal, 150(1), Article 18. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/150/1/18

We report the discovery of three new transiting hot Jupiters by WASP-South together with the TRAPPIST photometer and the Euler/CORALIE spectrograph. WASP-74b orbits a star of V = 9.7, making it one of the brighter systems accessible to Southern teles... Read More about Three WASP-South transiting exoplanets: WASP-74b, WASP-83b & WASP-89b.

Variable emission from a gaseous disc around a metal-polluted white dwarf (2014)
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Wilson, D., Gänsicke, B., Koester, D., Raddi, R., Breedt, E., Southworth, J., & Parsons, S. (2014). Variable emission from a gaseous disc around a metal-polluted white dwarf. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445(2), 1878 -1884. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1876

We present the discovery of strongly variable emission lines from a gaseous disc around the DA white dwarf SDSS J1617+1620, a star previously found to have an infrared excess indicative of a dusty debris disc formed by the tidal disruption of a rocky... Read More about Variable emission from a gaseous disc around a metal-polluted white dwarf.

Six newly-discovered hot Jupiters transiting F/G stars: WASP-87b, WASP-108b, WASP-109b, WASP-110b, WASP-111b & WASP-112b (2014)
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Anderson, D., Brown, D., Collier Cameron, A., Delrez, L., Fumel, A., Gillon, M., …West, R. (2014). Six newly-discovered hot Jupiters transiting F/G stars: WASP-87b, WASP-108b, WASP-109b, WASP-110b, WASP-111b & WASP-112b. arXiv,

We present the discoveries of six transiting hot Jupiters: WASP-87b, WASP-108b, WASP-109b, WASP-110b, WASP-111b and WASP-112b. The planets have masses of 0.51--2.2 MJup and radii of 1.19--1.44 RJup and are in orbits of 1.68--3.78 d around stars with... Read More about Six newly-discovered hot Jupiters transiting F/G stars: WASP-87b, WASP-108b, WASP-109b, WASP-110b, WASP-111b & WASP-112b.

Three newly discovered sub-Jupiter-mass planets: WASP-69b and WASP-84b transit active K dwarfs and WASP-70Ab transits the evolved primary of a G4+K3 binary (2014)
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Anderson, D., Collier Cameron, A., Delrez, L., Doyle, A., Faedi, F., Fumel, A., …West, R. (2014). Three newly discovered sub-Jupiter-mass planets: WASP-69b and WASP-84b transit active K dwarfs and WASP-70Ab transits the evolved primary of a G4+K3 binary. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445(2), 1114 -1129. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1737

We report the discovery of the transiting exoplanets WASP-69b, WASP-70Ab and WASP-84b, each of which orbits a bright star (V ~ 10). WASP-69b is a bloated Saturn-mass planet (0.26 MJup, 1.06 RJup) in a 3.868-d period around an active, ~1-Gyr, mid-K dw... Read More about Three newly discovered sub-Jupiter-mass planets: WASP-69b and WASP-84b transit active K dwarfs and WASP-70Ab transits the evolved primary of a G4+K3 binary.

KIC 10526294: a slowly rotating B star with rotationally split, quasi-equally spaced gravity modes (2014)
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Pápics, P., Moravveji, E., Aerts, C., Tkachenko, A., Triana, S., Bloemen, S., & Southworth, J. (2014). KIC 10526294: a slowly rotating B star with rotationally split, quasi-equally spaced gravity modes. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 570, Article A8. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424094

Context. Massive stars are important for the chemical enrichment of the universe. Since internal mixing processes influence their lives, it is very important to place constraints on the corresponding physical parameters, such as core overshooting and... Read More about KIC 10526294: a slowly rotating B star with rotationally split, quasi-equally spaced gravity modes.

Tracing CNO exposed layers in the Algol-type binary system u Her (2014)
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Kolbas, V., Dervişoğlu, A., Pavlovski, K., & Southworth, J. (2014). Tracing CNO exposed layers in the Algol-type binary system u Her. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 444(4), 3118 -3129. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1652

The chemical composition of stellar photospheres in mass-transferring binary systems is a precious diagnostic of the nucleosynthesis processes that occur deep within stars, and preserves information on the components’ history. The binary system u Her... Read More about Tracing CNO exposed layers in the Algol-type binary system u Her.

Physical properties of the WASP-67 planetary system from multi-colour photometry (2014)
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Mancini, L., Southworth, J., Ciceri, S., Calchi Novati, S., Dominik, M., Henning, T., …Wertz, O. (2014). Physical properties of the WASP-67 planetary system from multi-colour photometry. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 568, Article A127. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424106

Context. The extrasolar planet WASP-67 b is the first hot Jupiter definitively known to undergo only partial eclipses. The lack of the second and third contact points in this planetary system makes it difficult to obtain accurate measurements of its... Read More about Physical properties of the WASP-67 planetary system from multi-colour photometry.

High-precision photometry by telescope defocussing - VI. WASP-24, WASP-25 and WASP-26 (2014)
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Southworth, J., Hinse, T., Burgdorf, M., Calchi Novati, S., Dominik, M., Galianni, P., …Vilela, C. (2014). High-precision photometry by telescope defocussing - VI. WASP-24, WASP-25 and WASP-26. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 444(1), 776 -789. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1492

We present time series photometric observations of 13 transits in the planetary systems WASP-24, WASP-25 and WASP-26. All three systems have orbital obliquity measurements, WASP-24 and WASP-26 have been observed with Spitzer, and WASP-25 was previous... Read More about High-precision photometry by telescope defocussing - VI. WASP-24, WASP-25 and WASP-26.

HD 183648: a Kepler eclipsing binary with anomalous ellipsoidal variations and a pulsating component (2014)
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Borkovits, T., Derekas, A., Fuller, J., Szabó, G., Pavlovski, K., Csák, B., …Jankovics, I. (2014). HD 183648: a Kepler eclipsing binary with anomalous ellipsoidal variations and a pulsating component. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 443(4), 3068 - 3081. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1379

KIC 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 me... Read More about HD 183648: a Kepler eclipsing binary with anomalous ellipsoidal variations and a pulsating component.

KIC 7582608: a new Kepler roAp star with frequency variability (2014)
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Holdsworth, D. L., Smalley, B., Kurtz, D. W., Southworth, J., Cunha, M. S., & Clubb, K. I. (2014). KIC 7582608: a new Kepler roAp star with frequency variability. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 443(3), 2049 - 2062. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1303

We analyse the fifth rapidly oscillating Ap (roAp) star reported in the Kepler field, KIC 7582608, discovered with the SuperWASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets) project. The object shows a high-frequency pulsation at 181.7324 d-1 (P = 7.9 min) with a... Read More about KIC 7582608: a new Kepler roAp star with frequency variability.

Warm ice giant GJ 3470b - II. Revised planetary and stellar parameters from optical to near-infrared transit photometry (2014)
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Biddle, L. I., Pearson, K. A., Crossfield, I. J. M., Fulton, B. J., Ciceri, S., Eastman, J., …Webber, M. W. (2014). Warm ice giant GJ 3470b - II. Revised planetary and stellar parameters from optical to near-infrared transit photometry. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 443(2), 1810-1820. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1199

It is important to explore the diversity of characteristics of low-mass, low-density planets to understand the nature and evolution of this class of planets. We present a homogeneous analysis of 12 new and 9 previously published broad-band photometri... Read More about Warm ice giant GJ 3470b - II. Revised planetary and stellar parameters from optical to near-infrared transit photometry.

The GAPS programme with HARPS-N at TNG: IV. A planetary system around XO-2S⋆⋆⋆ (2014)
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Desidera, S., Bonomo, A. S., Claudi, R. U., Damasso, M., Biazzo, K., Sozzetti, A., …Zanmar Sanchez, R. (2014). The GAPS programme with HARPS-N at TNG: IV. A planetary system around XO-2S⋆⋆⋆. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 567, Article L6. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424339

We performed an intensive radial velocity monitoring of XO-2S, the wide companion of the transiting planet-host XO-2N, using HARPS-N at TNG in the framework of the GAPS programme. The radial velocity measurements indicate the presence of a new planet... Read More about The GAPS programme with HARPS-N at TNG: IV. A planetary system around XO-2S⋆⋆⋆.

The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG: III: The retrograde orbit of HAT-P-18b (2014)
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Esposito, M., Covino, E., Mancini, L., Harutyunyan, A., Southworth, J., Biazzo, K., …Smareglia, R. (2014). The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG: III: The retrograde orbit of HAT-P-18b. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 564, Article L13. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201423735

The measurement of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect for transiting exoplanets places constraints on the orientation of the orbital axis with respect to the stellar spin axis, which can shed light on the mechanisms shaping the orbital configuration of p... Read More about The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG: III: The retrograde orbit of HAT-P-18b.

Eclipsing Am binary systems in the SuperWASP survey (2014)
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Smalley, B., Southworth, J., I. Pintado, O., Gillon, M., L. Holdsworth, D., R. Anderson, D., …J. Wheatley, P. (2014). Eclipsing Am binary systems in the SuperWASP survey. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 564, Article A69. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201323158

The results of a search for eclipsing Am star binaries using photometry from the SuperWASP survey are presented. The light curves of 1742 Am stars fainter than V = 8.0 were analysed for the presence of eclipses. A total of 70 stars were found to exhi... Read More about Eclipsing Am binary systems in the SuperWASP survey.

Transiting hot Jupiters from WASP-South, Euler and TRAPPIST: WASP-95b to WASP-101b (2014)
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Hellier, C., Anderson, D., Collier Cameron, A., Delrez, L., Gillon, M., Jehin, E., …West, R. (2014). Transiting hot Jupiters from WASP-South, Euler and TRAPPIST: WASP-95b to WASP-101b. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 440(3), 1982 -1992. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu410

We report the discovery of the transiting exoplanets WASP-95b, WASP-96b, WASP-97b, WASP-98b, WASP-99b, WASP-100b and WASP-101b. All are hot Jupiters with orbital periods in the range 2.1–5.7 d, masses of 0.5–2.8 MJup and radii of 1.1–1.4 RJup. The or... Read More about Transiting hot Jupiters from WASP-South, Euler and TRAPPIST: WASP-95b to WASP-101b.