WASP-117b: a 10-day-period Saturn in an eccentric and misaligned orbit (2014)
Journal Article
Hellier, Smalley, & Maxted. (2014). WASP-117b: a 10-day-period Saturn in an eccentric and misaligned orbit. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424481

We report the discovery of WASP-117b, the first planet with a period beyond 10 days found by the WASP survey. The planet has a mass of Mp = 0.2755 ± 0.0089 MJ, a radius of and is in an eccentric (e = 0.302 ± 0.023), 10.02165 ± 0.00055 d orbit around... Read More about WASP-117b: a 10-day-period Saturn in an eccentric and misaligned orbit.

Period and amplitude variations in post-common-envelope eclipsing binaries observed with SuperWASP (2014)
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Smalley, Hellier, C., & Maxted, P. (2014). Period and amplitude variations in post-common-envelope eclipsing binaries observed with SuperWASP. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424027

Period or amplitude variations in eclipsing binaries may reveal the presence of additional massive bodies in the system, such as circumbinary planets. Here, we have studied twelve previously-known eclipsing post-common-envelope binaries for evidence... Read More about Period and amplitude variations in post-common-envelope eclipsing binaries observed with SuperWASP.

A window on exoplanet dynamical histories: Rossiter-McLaughlin observations of WASP-13b and WASP-32b (2014)
Journal Article
Smalley, Maxted, & Hellier. (2014). A window on exoplanet dynamical histories: Rossiter-McLaughlin observations of WASP-13b and WASP-32b. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 3392 -3401. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu520

We present Rossiter–McLaughlin observations of WASP-13b and WASP-32b and determine the sky-projected angle between the normal of the planetary orbit and the stellar rotation axis (?). WASP-13b and WASP-32b both have prograde orbits and are consistent... Read More about A window on exoplanet dynamical histories: Rossiter-McLaughlin observations of WASP-13b and WASP-32b.

Eclipsing Am binary systems in the SuperWASP survey (2014)
Journal Article
Smalley, B., Southworth, J., I. Pintado, O., Gillon, M., L. Holdsworth, D., R. Anderson, D., C. C. Barros, S., Collier Cameron, A., Delrez, L., Faedi, F., A. Haswell, C., Hellier, C., Horne, K., Jehin, E., F. L. Maxted, P., J. Norton, A., Pollacco, D., Skillen, I., M. S. Smith, A., G. West, R., & 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)
Journal Article
Hellier, C., Anderson, D., Collier Cameron, A., Delrez, L., Gillon, M., Jehin, E., Lendl, M., Maxted, P., Pepe, F., Pollacco, D., Queloz, D., Ségransan, D., Smalley, B., Smith, A., Southworth, J., Triaud, A., Udry, S., & 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.

Transiting planets from WASP-South, Euler, and TRAPPIST WASP-68 b, WASP-73 b, and WASP-88 b, three hot Jupiters transiting evolved solar-type stars (2014)
Journal Article
Delrez, L., Van Grootel, V., Anderson, D., Collier-Cameron, A., Doyle, A., Fumel, A., Gillon, M., Hellier, C., Jehin, E., Lendl, M., Neveu-VanMalle, M., Maxted, P., Pepe, F., Pollacco, D., Queloz, D., Ségransan, D., Smalley, B., Smith, A., Southworth, J., Triaud, A., …West, R. (2014). Transiting planets from WASP-South, Euler, and TRAPPIST WASP-68 b, WASP-73 b, and WASP-88 b, three hot Jupiters transiting evolved solar-type stars. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 563, Article A143. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201323204

Using the WASP transit survey, we report the discovery of three new hot Jupiters, WASP-68 b, WASP-73 b and WASP-88 b. The planet WASP-68 bhas a mass of 0.95 ± 0.03 MJup, a radius of 1.24-0.06+0.10 RJup, and orbits a V = 10.7 G0-type star (1.24 ± 0.0... Read More about Transiting planets from WASP-South, Euler, and TRAPPIST WASP-68 b, WASP-73 b, and WASP-88 b, three hot Jupiters transiting evolved solar-type stars.

High-frequency A-type pulsators discovered using SuperWASP(star)dagger (2014)
Journal Article
Holdsworth, D. L., Smalley, B., Gillon, M., Clubb, K. I., Southworth, J., Maxted, P. F. L., Anderson, D. R., Barros, S. C. C., Collier Cameron, A., Delrez, L., Faedi, F., Haswell, C. A., Hellier, C., Horne, K., Jehin, E., Norton, A. J., Pollacco, D., Skillen, I., Smith, A. M. S., West, R. G., & Wheatley, P. J. (2014). High-frequency A-type pulsators discovered using SuperWASP(star)dagger. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 439(2), 2078 - 2095. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu094

We present the results of a survey using the WASP archive to search for high-frequency pulsations in F-, A- and B-type stars. Over 1.5 million targets have been searched for pulsations with amplitudes greater than 0.5 millimagnitude. We identify over... Read More about High-frequency A-type pulsators discovered using SuperWASP(star)dagger.

WASP-103 b: a new planet at the edge of tidal disruption (2014)
Journal Article
Gillon, M., Anderson, D., Collier-Cameron, A., Delrez, L., Hellier, C., Jehin, E., Lendl, M., Maxted, P., Pepe, F., Pollacco, D., Queloz, D., Ségransan, D., Smith, A., Smalley, B., Southworth, J., Triaud, A., Udry, S., Van Grootel, V., & West, R. (2014). WASP-103 b: a new planet at the edge of tidal disruption. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 562, Article L3. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201323014

We report the discovery of WASP-103?b, a new ultra-short-period planet (P = 22.2 h) transiting a 12.1 V-magnitude F8-type main-sequence star (1.22 ± 0.04 M?, 1.44-0.03+0.05 R?, Teff = 6110 ± 160 K). WASP-103?b is significantly more massive (1.49 ± 0.... Read More about WASP-103 b: a new planet at the edge of tidal disruption.

Thermal Emission Of Wasp-14b Revealed With Three Spitzer Eclipses (2013)
Journal Article
Maxted, Blecic, J., Harrington, J., Madhusudhan, N., Stevenson, K. B., Hardy, R. A., Cubillos, P. E., Hardin, M., Campo, C. J., Bowman, W. C., Nymeyer, S., Loredo, T. J., Anderson, D. R., & Maxted, P. F. L. (2013). Thermal Emission Of Wasp-14b Revealed With Three Spitzer Eclipses. Astrophysical Journal, 779(1), https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/779/1/5

Exoplanet WASP-14b is a highly irradiated, transiting hot Jupiter. Joshi et al. calculate an equilibrium temperature (T eq) of 1866 K for zero albedo and reemission from the entire planet, a mass of 7.3 ± 0.5 Jupiter masses (M J), and a radius of 1.2... Read More about Thermal Emission Of Wasp-14b Revealed With Three Spitzer Eclipses.

Warm Spitzer Occultation Photometry of WASP-26b at 3.6{\mu}m and 4.5{\mu}m (2013)
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Mahtani, D. P., Mahtani, D. P., Maxted, P. F. L., Anderson, D. R., Smith, A. M. S., Smalley, B., Tregloan-Reed, J., Southworth, J., Madhusudhan, N., Collier Cameron, A., Gillon, M., Harrington, J., Hellier, C., Pollacco, D., Queloz, D., Triaud, A. H. M. J., & West, R. G. (2013). Warm Spitzer Occultation Photometry of WASP-26b at 3.6{\mu}m and 4.5{\mu}m. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 432(1), 693-701. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt505

We present new warm Spitzer occultation photometry of WASP-26 at 3.6{\mu}m and 4.5{\mu}m along with new transit photometry taken in the g,r and i bands. We report the first detection of the occultation of WASP-26b, with occultation depths at 3.6{\mu}... Read More about Warm Spitzer Occultation Photometry of WASP-26b at 3.6{\mu}m and 4.5{\mu}m.

Spitzer 3.6 and 4.5 mu m full-orbit light curves of WASP-18 (2012)
Journal Article
Maxted, P., Anderson, D. R., Doyle, A. P., Gillon, M., Harrington, J., Iro, N., Jehin, E., Lafreniere, D., Smalley, B., & Southworth, J. (2013). Spitzer 3.6 and 4.5 mu m full-orbit light curves of WASP-18. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 428(3), 2645-2660. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts231

We present new lightcurves of the massive hot Jupiter system WASP-18 obtained with the Spitzer spacecraft covering the entire orbit at 3.6 micron and 4.5 micron. These lightcurves are used to measure the amplitude, shape and phase of the thermal phas... Read More about Spitzer 3.6 and 4.5 mu m full-orbit light curves of WASP-18.

EChO - Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory (2012)
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Tinetti, G., Beaulieu, J., Henning, T., Meyer, M., Micela, G., Ribas, I., Stam, D., Swain, M., Krause, O., Ollivier, M., Pace, E., Swinyard, B., Aylward, A., van Boekel, R., Coradini, A., Encrenaz, T., Snellen, I., Zapatero-Osorio, M., Bouwman, J., Y-K. Cho, J., …Yurchenko, S. (2012). EChO - Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory. Experimental Astronomy, 34, 311-353. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-012-9303-4

A dedicated mission to investigate exoplanetary atmospheres represents a major milestone in our quest to understand our place in the universe by placing our Solar System in context and by addressing the suitability of planets for the presence of life... Read More about EChO - Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory.

Kinematic structure in the young σ Orionis association (2006)
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Jeffries, R., Maxted, P., Oliveira, J., & Naylor, T. (2006). Kinematic structure in the young σ Orionis association. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 371(1), L6 - L10. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-3933.2006.00196.x

We have used precise radial velocity measurements for a large number of candidate low-mass stars and brown dwarfs, to show that the young Sigma Ori ``cluster'' consists of two spatially superimposed components which are kinematically separated by 7 k... Read More about Kinematic structure in the young σ Orionis association.

Membership, binarity and accretion among very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs of the s Orionis cluster (2005)
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Kenyon, M., Jeffries, R., Naylor, T., Oliveira, J., & Maxted, P. (2005). Membership, binarity and accretion among very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs of the s Orionis cluster. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 356(1), 89 -106. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08455.x

Intermediate resolution (R=7000) spectroscopy is presented for 76 photometrically selected very low mass (0.04<M<0.3M_{sun}) candidate members of the Sigma Orionis cluster. More than two thirds appear to be genuine cluster members on the basis of Li...

Accurate fundamental parameters of eclipsing binary stars (2004)
Journal Article
Southworth, J., Smalley, B., Maxted, P., & Etzel, P. (2004). Accurate fundamental parameters of eclipsing binary stars. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2004(IAUS224), 548-561. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921305009324

The study of detached eclipsing binaries is one of the most powerful ways to investigate the properties of individual stars and stellar systems. We present preliminary masses, radii and effective temperatures for the eclipsing binary WW Aurigae, whic... Read More about Accurate fundamental parameters of eclipsing binary stars.

Eclipsing binaries in open clusters (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Southworth, J., Maxted, P., & Smalley, B. Eclipsing binaries in open clusters

Accurate physical parameters have been determined for two early-type detached eclipsing binaries in the open cluster h Persei (NGC 869). Masses accurate to 1.5% are derived from high-resolution spectroscopy and radii accurate to 4--6% have been obtai... Read More about Eclipsing binaries in open clusters.

The host galaxy of GRB010222: the strongest damped Lyman-alpha system known (2001)
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Maxted, P. (2001). The host galaxy of GRB010222: the strongest damped Lyman-alpha system known

Analysis of the absorption lines in the afterglow spectrum of the gamma-ray burst GRB010222 indicates that its host galaxy (at a redshift of z=1.476) is the strongest damped Lyman-alpha (DLA) system known, having a very low metallicity and modest dus... Read More about The host galaxy of GRB010222: the strongest damped Lyman-alpha system known.

Emission from the secondary star in the old CV WZ Sge (2001)
Journal Article
Maxted. (2001). Emission from the secondary star in the old CV WZ Sge. Astrophysical Journal, 145-148. https://doi.org/10.1086/338107

We present the first detection of the mass donor star in the cataclysmic variable WZ Sge. Phase resolved spectroscopy reveals narrow Balmer emission components from the irradiated secondary star during the 2001 outburst. Its radial velocity curve ind... Read More about Emission from the secondary star in the old CV WZ Sge.