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Equivalent Width of the Interstellar Na i D 1 and D 2 Absorption Lines for Stars with E ( B − V ) < 0.15 (2025)
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Maxted, P. F. L. (2025). Equivalent Width of the Interstellar Na i D 1 and D 2 Absorption Lines for Stars with E ( B − V ) < 0.15. Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, 9(6), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.3847/2515-5172/ade39b

New measurements of the equivalent width of the interstellar Na i D1 and D2 absorption lines for 62 bright B-type stars with E(B − V) < 0.15 are used to recalibrate the relation between these quantities in this low-reddening regime, and to quantify t... Read More about Equivalent Width of the Interstellar Na i D 1 and D 2 Absorption Lines for Stars with E ( B − V ) < 0.15.

The Isaac Newton Telescope Monitoring Survey of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies. VII. Long-period Variable Stars in the Nearest Starburst Dwarf Galaxy, IC 10 (2025)
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Gholami, M., Javadi, A., Mahani, H., van Loon, J. T., Khosroshahi, H., Saremi, E., McDonald, I., Eftekhari, S., Ren, Y., & Altafi, H. (2025). The Isaac Newton Telescope Monitoring Survey of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies. VII. Long-period Variable Stars in the Nearest Starburst Dwarf Galaxy, IC 10. Astronomical Journal, 170(1), Article 54. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/adda2b

To identify long-period variable (LPV) stars in IC 10—the nearest starburst galaxy of the Local Group—we conducted an optical monitoring survey using the 2.5 m Isaac Newton Telescope with the wide-field camera (WFC) in the i band and V band from 2015... Read More about The Isaac Newton Telescope Monitoring Survey of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies. VII. Long-period Variable Stars in the Nearest Starburst Dwarf Galaxy, IC 10.

Dusty Stellar Source Classification by Implementing Machine Learning Methods Based on Spectroscopic Observations in the Magellanic Clouds (2025)
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Ghaziasgar, S., Abdollahi, M., Javadi, A., van Loon, J. T., McDonald, I., Oliveira, J., Masoudnezhad, A., Khosroshahi, H. G., Foing, B. H., & Fazel Hesar, F. (2025). Dusty Stellar Source Classification by Implementing Machine Learning Methods Based on Spectroscopic Observations in the Magellanic Clouds. The Astrophysical Journal, 986(2), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adceeb

Dusty stellar point sources are a significant stage in stellar evolution and contribute to the metal enrichment of galaxies. These objects can be classified using photometric and spectroscopic observations using color–magnitude diagrams and infrared... Read More about Dusty Stellar Source Classification by Implementing Machine Learning Methods Based on Spectroscopic Observations in the Magellanic Clouds.

Vitacrystallography: Appearance and Development of Cancer-Induced Structural Biomarkers in a Mouse Model (2025)
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Avdieiev, O., Denisov, S. A., Ajeer, A., Adams, L., Greenwood, C., Nesbitt, H., Thomas, K., Rogers, K., Solovyeva, O., Mourokh, L., & Lazarev, P. (2025). Vitacrystallography: Appearance and Development of Cancer-Induced Structural Biomarkers in a Mouse Model. Life, 15(6), Article 904. https://doi.org/10.3390/life15060904

Structural biomarkers determined by X-ray scattering of the tissues can complement conventional diagnostics and provide a pathway for early detection of diseases. In the present study, mouse models were utilized to observe the progression of prostate... Read More about Vitacrystallography: Appearance and Development of Cancer-Induced Structural Biomarkers in a Mouse Model.

Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM): The multiplicity properties and evolution of BAF-type supergiants (2025)
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Patrick, L. R., Lennon, D. J., Najarro, F., Shenar, T., Bodensteiner, J., Sana, H., Crowther, P. A., Britavskiy, N., Langer, N., Schootemeijer, A., Evans, C. J., Mahy, L., Götberg, Y., de Mink, S. E., Schneider, F. R. N., O’Grady, A. J. G., Villaseñor, J. I., Bernini-Peron, M., Bowman, D. M., de Koter, A., …Wang, C. (2025). Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM): The multiplicity properties and evolution of BAF-type supergiants. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 698(June 2025), Article A39. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202452949

Given the uncertain evolutionary status of blue supergiant stars, their multiplicity properties hold vital clues to better understand their origin and evolution. As part of The Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM) campaign in the Small Magellanic Clou... Read More about Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM): The multiplicity properties and evolution of BAF-type supergiants.

Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM):. Enhanced multiplicity of early B-type dwarfs and giants at Z=0.2 Zsun (2025)
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Villaseñor, J., Sana, H., Mahy, L., Shenar, T., Bodensteiner, J., Britavskiy, N., Lennon, D., Moe, M., Patrick, L., Pawlak, M., Bowman, D., Crowther, P., de Mink, S., Deshmukh, K., Evans, C., Fabry, M., Fouesneau, M., Holgado, G., Langer, N., Maíz Apellaniz, J., …Vink, J. (2025). Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM):. Enhanced multiplicity of early B-type dwarfs and giants at Z=0.2 Zsun. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 698, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202453166

Early B-type stars with initial masses between 8 and 15M are frequently found in multiple systems, as is evidenced by multi-epoch spectroscopic campaigns in the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Previous studies have shown no strong met... Read More about Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM):. Enhanced multiplicity of early B-type dwarfs and giants at Z=0.2 Zsun.

A Swarm of WASP Planets: Nine Giant Planets Identified by the WASP Survey (2025)
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Schanche, N., Hébrard, G., Stassun, K. G., Hord, B., Barkaoui, K., Bieryla, A., Ciardi, D., Collins, K. A., Collier Cameron, A., Hartman, J., Heidari, N., Hellier, C., Howell, S. B., Lendl, M., McCormac, J., McLeod, K. K., Parviainen, H., Radford, D., Rajpurohit, A. S., Relles, H., …Winn, J. (2025). A Swarm of WASP Planets: Nine Giant Planets Identified by the WASP Survey. Astronomical Journal, 169(6), Article 334. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/adccc6

The Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) survey provided some of the first transiting hot Jupiter candidates. With the addition of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), many WASP planet candidates have now been revisited and given updated... Read More about A Swarm of WASP Planets: Nine Giant Planets Identified by the WASP Survey.

EBLM XV – Revised dynamical masses for the circumbinary planet host Kepler-16 AB, using the SOPHIE spectrograph (2025)
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Sebastian, D., Boisse, I., Santerne, A., Triaud, A. H. M. J., Baycroft, T. A., Davis, Y. T., Deleuil, M., Grouffal, S., Hébrard, G., Heidari, N., Martin, D. V., Maxted, P. F. L., Nelson, R. P., Lalitha, S., Scott, M. G., Scutt, O. J., & Standing, M. (in press). EBLM XV – Revised dynamical masses for the circumbinary planet host Kepler-16 AB, using the SOPHIE spectrograph. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf863

Eclipsing binaries are perfect laboratories to measure precise, accurate and model-independent stellar radii and stellar masses, so long as both components are spectroscopically resolved. Resolving both components is difficult in high-contrast binari... Read More about EBLM XV – Revised dynamical masses for the circumbinary planet host Kepler-16 AB, using the SOPHIE spectrograph.

Systematic studies toward the synthesis of d -galactosamine-containing coumarin glycosides † (2025)
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Wootton, H. S., & Miller, G. J. (2025). Systematic studies toward the synthesis of d -galactosamine-containing coumarin glycosides †. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, https://doi.org/10.1039/d5ob00746a

An O-glycosylation method for accessing coumarin glycosides is presented. We report the reaction of 6,8-difluoro-7-hydroxy-4-methylcoumarin and 4-methylumbelliferone with a variety of glycosyl imidate donors using BF3·Et2O as activator to access a se... Read More about Systematic studies toward the synthesis of d -galactosamine-containing coumarin glycosides †.

Molecularly Defined Glycocalyx Models Reveal AB5 Toxins Recognize Their Target Glycans Superselectively (2025)
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Saltor Núñez, L., Kumar, V., Ross, J. F., Dolan, J. P., Srimasorn, S., Zhang, X., Richter, R. P., & Turnbull, W. B. (2025). Molecularly Defined Glycocalyx Models Reveal AB5 Toxins Recognize Their Target Glycans Superselectively. JACS Au, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.5c00305

AB5 toxins are a class of bacterial toxins that recognize cell surface carbohydrates to facilitate their uptake by the target cell. Among them are cholera toxin (CT) from Vibrio cholerae that causes cholera, and Shiga toxin (STx) from Shigella dysent... Read More about Molecularly Defined Glycocalyx Models Reveal AB5 Toxins Recognize Their Target Glycans Superselectively.

Near-infrared spectroscopy of the recurrent nova M31N 2008-12a (2025)
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Banerjee, D. P. K., Geballe, T. R., Evans, A., Woodward, C. E., Page, K. L., & Starrfield, S. (2025). Near-infrared spectroscopy of the recurrent nova M31N 2008-12a. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 540(2 - June 2025), 1780-1785. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf817

Near-infrared (NIR) 0.9–2.5 m spectra of the remarkable recurrent nova (RN) M31N 2008-12a were obtained on days 6.3 and 10.3 after discovery of its 2024 outburst, and are the first NIR spectra of this object. The only prominent line seen in the spect... Read More about Near-infrared spectroscopy of the recurrent nova M31N 2008-12a.

Photoinitiated thiol–ene mediated functionalisation of 4,5-enoses (2025)
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Prieto-Castañeda, A., Martin, H., Manna, T., Beswick, L., McLean, J. T., Pongener, I., González, I. R., Twamley, B., Miller, G. J., & Scanlan, E. M. (2025). Photoinitiated thiol–ene mediated functionalisation of 4,5-enoses. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 23(22), 5332-5338. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5ob00507h

The photoinitiated thiol–ene reaction is emerging as a highly efficient methodology for thioglycoside synthesis. Herein, the radical-mediated hydrothiolation reaction of 4,5-unsaturated saccharides was extended, offering efficient access to C4-positi... Read More about Photoinitiated thiol–ene mediated functionalisation of 4,5-enoses.

Benign/Cancer Diagnostics Based on X-Ray Diffraction: Comparison of Data Analytics Approaches (2025)
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Alekseev, A., Shcherbakov, V., Avdieiev, O., Denisov, S. A., Kubytskyi, V., Blinchevsky, B., Murokh, S., Ajeer, A., Adams, L., Greenwood, C., Rogers, K., Jones, L. J., Mourokh, L., & Lazarev, P. (2025). Benign/Cancer Diagnostics Based on X-Ray Diffraction: Comparison of Data Analytics Approaches. Cancers, 17(10), Article 1662. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers17101662

Background/Objectives: With the number of detected breast cancer cases growing every year, there is a need to augment histopathological analysis with fast preliminary screening. We examine the feasibility of using X-ray diffraction measurements for t... Read More about Benign/Cancer Diagnostics Based on X-Ray Diffraction: Comparison of Data Analytics Approaches.

The 22 Ne( α,n) 25 Mg reaction - state of the art, astrophysics, and perspectives (2025)
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Best, A., Adsley, P., Amberger, R., Battino, U., Chillery, T., La Cognata, M., deBoer, R. J., Mercogliano, D., Ota, S., Rapagnani, D., Sidhu, R. S., Spartà, R., Tumino, A., & Wiescher, M. (2025). The 22 Ne( α,n) 25 Mg reaction - state of the art, astrophysics, and perspectives. European Physical Journal A: Hadrons and Nuclei, 61(5), Article 99. https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01572-y

One of the most important stellar neutron sources is the 22Ne(α, n)25Mg reaction, which gets activated both during the helium intershell burning in asymptotic giant branch stars and in core helium and shell carbon burning in massive stars. The 22Ne(α... Read More about The 22 Ne( α,n) 25 Mg reaction - state of the art, astrophysics, and perspectives.

A modular, reusable biocatalytic flow system for UDP-GlcNAc production (2025)
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Roberts, T. L., Dolan, J. P., Miller, G. J., Lima, M. A. D., & Cosgrove, S. C. (2025). A modular, reusable biocatalytic flow system for UDP-GlcNAc production. Reaction Chemistry and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1039/d5re00127g

We report here the continuous flow synthesis of a high-value sugar nucleotide. Immobilisation of enzymes onto solid carriers permitted transfer of the biocatalysts into packed bed reactors to realise a continuous biocatalytic platform for the synthes... Read More about A modular, reusable biocatalytic flow system for UDP-GlcNAc production.

The Gaseous Blowout of the 30 Doradus Starburst Region in the LMC (2025)
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Poudel, S., Horton, A., Vazquez, J., Barger, K. A., Cashman, F. H., Fox, A. J., Lehner, N., Lucchini, S., Krishnarao, D., McClure-Griffiths, N. M., D’Onghia, E., Tumlinson, J., Tuli, A. G., Sdun, L., Gebhart, S., Anthony, K., Cole, B., van Loon, J. T., Roman-Duval, J., Ma, Y. K., …Leahy, D. (2025). The Gaseous Blowout of the 30 Doradus Starburst Region in the LMC. Astrophysical Journal, 984(2), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adc099

Widespread galactic winds emanate from the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), with the 30 Doradus starburst region generating the fastest and most concentrated gas flows. We report on the gas distribution, kinematics, and ionization conditions of the near... Read More about The Gaseous Blowout of the 30 Doradus Starburst Region in the LMC.

Benchmark stars for mean stellar density and surface gravity estimates of solar-type stars (2025)
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Maxted, P. F. L. (2025). Benchmark stars for mean stellar density and surface gravity estimates of solar-type stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 539(4), 3741-3757. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf735

Adding an independent estimate of the mean stellar density, , as a constraint in the analysis of stars that host transiting exoplanets can significantly improve the precision of the planet radius estimate in cases where the light curve is too noisy t... Read More about Benchmark stars for mean stellar density and surface gravity estimates of solar-type stars.

The past, present and future of observations of externally irradiated disks (2025)
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Allen, M., Anania, R., Andersen, M., Aru, M.-L., Ballabio, G., Ballering, N. P., Beccari, G., Berné, O., Bik, A., Boyden, R., Coleman, G., Díaz-Berrios, J., Eatson, J. W., Frediani, J., Forbrich, J., Gkimisi, K., Goicoechea, J. R., Gupta, S., Guarcello, M. G., Haworth, T. J., …Zeidler, P. (2025). The past, present and future of observations of externally irradiated disks. Open Journal of Astrophysics, 8, https://doi.org/10.33232/001c.137538

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the community studying the effect of ultraviolet radiation environment, predominantly set by OB stars, on protoplanetary disc evolution and planet formation. This is important because a significant fracti... Read More about The past, present and future of observations of externally irradiated disks.

TOI-6478 b: a cold under-dense Neptune transiting a fully convective M dwarf from the thick disc (2025)
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Scott, M. G., Triaud, A. H. M. J., Barkaoui, K., Sebastian, D., Burgasser, A. J., Collins, K. A., Dransfield, G., Hellier, C., Howell, S. B., Piette, A. A. A., Rackham, B. V., Stassun, K. G., Stokholm, A., Timmermans, M., Watkins, C. N., Fausnaugh, M., Fukui, A., Jenkins, J. M., Narita, N., Ricker, G., …Watanabe, D. (2025). TOI-6478 b: a cold under-dense Neptune transiting a fully convective M dwarf from the thick disc. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 540(2), 1909–1927. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf684

Growing numbers of exoplanet detections continue to reveal the diverse nature of planetary systems. Planet formation around late-type M dwarfs is of particular interest. These systems provide practical laboratories to measure exoplanet occurrence rat... Read More about TOI-6478 b: a cold under-dense Neptune transiting a fully convective M dwarf from the thick disc.

A Neutral Hydrogen Absorption Study of Cold Gas in the Outskirts of the Magellanic Clouds Using the GASKAP-H i Survey (2025)
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Chen, H., Stanimirović, S., Pingel, N. M., Dempsey, J., Buckland-Willis, F., Clark, S. E., Dénes, H., Dickey, J. M., Gibson, S., Jameson, K., Kemp, I., Leahy, D., Lee, M.-Y., Lynn, C., Ma, Y. K., McClure-Griffiths, N. M., Murray, C. E., Nguyen, H., Uscanga, L., van Loon, J. T., & Vázquez-Semadeni, E. (2025). A Neutral Hydrogen Absorption Study of Cold Gas in the Outskirts of the Magellanic Clouds Using the GASKAP-H i Survey. Astronomical Journal, 169(5), Article 284. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/adc67c

Cold neutral hydrogen (H i) is a crucial precursor for molecular gas formation and can be studied via H i absorption. This study investigates H i absorption in low column density regions of the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds (SMC and LMC) using th... Read More about A Neutral Hydrogen Absorption Study of Cold Gas in the Outskirts of the Magellanic Clouds Using the GASKAP-H i Survey.