The Global Implications of the Hard Excess II: Analysis of the Local population of Radio Quiet AGN (2016)
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(2016). The Global Implications of the Hard Excess II: Analysis of the Local population of Radio Quiet AGN. Astrophysical Journal, https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/818/1/12

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) show evidence for reprocessing gas, outflowing from the accreting black hole. The combined effects of absorption and scattering from the circumnuclear material likely explains the `hard excess' of X-ray emission above 20... Read More about The Global Implications of the Hard Excess II: Analysis of the Local population of Radio Quiet AGN.

Hot Jupiters with relatives: discovery of additional planets in orbit around WASP-41 and WASP-47 (2016)
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Hellier. (2016). Hot Jupiters with relatives: discovery of additional planets in orbit around WASP-41 and WASP-47. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526965

We report the discovery of two additional planetary companions to WASP-41 and WASP-47. WASP-41 c is a planet of minimum mass 3.18 ± 0.20 MJup and eccentricity 0.29 ± 0.02, and it orbits in 421 ± 2 days. WASP-47 c is a planet of minimum mass 1.24 ± 0.... Read More about Hot Jupiters with relatives: discovery of additional planets in orbit around WASP-41 and WASP-47.

The Kinematics of Star Formation: Theory and Observation in the Gaia Era (Published title 'Star Formation in the Gaia Era') (2016)
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Wright, N. (2016). The Kinematics of Star Formation: Theory and Observation in the Gaia Era (Published title 'Star Formation in the Gaia Era'). Astronomy and Geophysics, 37-42. https://doi.org/10.1093/astrogeo/atw042

The European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope, launched in 2013, aims to measure the positions, parallaxes, and proper motions of a billion stars in our Galaxy and throughout the Local Group. In doing so it will include hundreds of thousands of yo... Read More about The Kinematics of Star Formation: Theory and Observation in the Gaia Era (Published title 'Star Formation in the Gaia Era').

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Stellar radii in the young open clusters NGC 2264, NGC 2547, and NGC 2516 (2016)
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Jackson, R. J., Jeffries, R. D., Randich, S., Bragaglia, A., Carraro, G., Costado, M., Flaccomio, E., Lanzafame, A., Lardo, C., Monaco, L., Morbidelli, L., Smiljanic, R., & Zaggia, S. (2016). The Gaia-ESO Survey: Stellar radii in the young open clusters NGC 2264, NGC 2547, and NGC 2516. Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, 586, Article A52. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527507

Context. Rapidly rotating, low-mass members of eclipsing binary systems have measured radii that are significantly larger than predicted by standard evolutionary models. It has been proposed that magnetic activity is responsible for this radius infla... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: Stellar radii in the young open clusters NGC 2264, NGC 2547, and NGC 2516.

The EChO science case (2015)
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Maxted. (2015). The EChO science case. Experimental Astronomy, 329 - 391. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-015-9484-8

The discovery of almost two thousand exoplanets has revealed an unexpectedly diverse planet population. We see gas giants in few-day orbits, whole multi-planet systems within the orbit of Mercury, and new populations of planets with masses between th... Read More about The EChO science case.

Integral field spectroscopy of massive young stellar objects in the N113 H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (2015)
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Ward, J., Oliveira, J., Van Loon, J. T., & Sewiło, M. (2016). Integral field spectroscopy of massive young stellar objects in the N113 H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(3), 2345 - 2362. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2424

The Spitzer Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution (SAGE) survey has allowed the identification and analysis of significant samples of Young Stellar Object (YSO) candidates in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). However, the angular resolution of Spi... Read More about Integral field spectroscopy of massive young stellar objects in the N113 H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The JCMT Plane Survey: early results from the l=30 degrees field (2015)
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(2015). The JCMT Plane Survey: early results from the l=30 degrees field. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 4264 -4277. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1833

We present early results from the JCMT (James Clerk Maxwell Telescope) Plane Survey (JPS), which has surveyed the northern inner Galactic plane between longitudes = 7? and = 63? in the 850-µm continuum with SCUBA-2 (Submm Common-User Bolometer Arra... Read More about The JCMT Plane Survey: early results from the l=30 degrees field.

The Chandra/HETG view of NGC 1365 in a Compton-thick state (2015)
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Nardini, E., Gofford, J., Reeves, J. N., Braito, V., Risaliti, G., & Costa, M. (2015). The Chandra/HETG view of NGC 1365 in a Compton-thick state. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453(3), 2558-2568. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1826

We present the analysis of a Chandra High-Energy Transmission Grating (HETG) observation of the local Seyfert galaxy NGC 1365. The source, well known for its dramatic X-ray spectral variability, was caught in a reflection-dominated, Compton-thick sta... Read More about The Chandra/HETG view of NGC 1365 in a Compton-thick state.

The Early Infrared Temporal Development Of Nova Delphini 2013 (v339 Del) Observed With The Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (sofia) And From The Ground (2015)
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(2015). The Early Infrared Temporal Development Of Nova Delphini 2013 (v339 Del) Observed With The Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (sofia) And From The Ground. Astrophysical Journal, https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/812/2/132

We present ground-based infrared photometry, JHK spectroscopy, and 5–28 µm SOFIA FORCAST spectroscopy documenting the early temporal development of Nova Delphini 2013 (V339 Del). We derive a distance of ~4.5 kpc using data available from the early ex... Read More about The Early Infrared Temporal Development Of Nova Delphini 2013 (v339 Del) Observed With The Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (sofia) And From The Ground.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: chemical signatures of rocky accretion in a young solar-type star (2015)
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Jeffries. (2015). The Gaia-ESO Survey: chemical signatures of rocky accretion in a young solar-type star. Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526896

It is well known that newly formed planetary systems undergo processes of orbital reconfiguration and planetary migration. As a result, planets or protoplanetary objects may accrete onto the central star, being fused and mixed into its external layer... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: chemical signatures of rocky accretion in a young solar-type star.

X-ray emission from massive stars in CYG OB2 (2015)
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Wright. (2015). X-ray emission from massive stars in CYG OB2. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/221/1/1

We report on the analysis of the Chandra-ACIS data of O, B, and WR stars in the young association Cyg OB2. X-ray spectra of 49 O-stars, 54 B-stars, and 3 WR-stars are analyzed and for the brighter sources, the epoch dependence of the X-ray fluxes is... Read More about X-ray emission from massive stars in CYG OB2.

The Araucaria project. Precise physical parameters of the eclipsing binary IO Aquarii (2015)
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Maxted. (2015). The Araucaria project. Precise physical parameters of the eclipsing binary IO Aquarii. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526211

Aims. Our aim is to precisely measure the physical parameters of the eclipsing binary IO Aqr and derive a distance to this system by applying a surface brightness – colour relation. Our motivation is to combine these parameters with future precise di... Read More about The Araucaria project. Precise physical parameters of the eclipsing binary IO Aquarii.

Apparent Age Spreads in Clusters and the Role of Stellar Rotation (2015)
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(2015). Apparent Age Spreads in Clusters and the Role of Stellar Rotation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2070-2074. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1791

We use the Geneva Syclist isochrone models that include the effects of stellar rotation to investigate the role that rotation has on the resulting colour-magnitude diagram (CMD) of young and intermediate age clusters. We find that if a distribution o... Read More about Apparent Age Spreads in Clusters and the Role of Stellar Rotation.

Cuticular Hydrocarbon Pheromones for Social Behavior and Their Coding in the Ant Antenna. (2015)
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Jones. (2015). Cuticular Hydrocarbon Pheromones for Social Behavior and Their Coding in the Ant Antenna. Cell Reports, 1261 - 1271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2015.07.031

The sophisticated organization of eusocial insect societies is largely based on the regulation of complex behaviors by hydrocarbon pheromones present on the cuticle. We used electrophysiology to investigate the detection of cuticular hydrocarbons (CH... Read More about Cuticular Hydrocarbon Pheromones for Social Behavior and Their Coding in the Ant Antenna..

λ Bootis stars in the SuperWASP survey (2015)
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Paunzen, E., Skarka, M., Walczak, P., Holdsworth, D., Smalley, B., West, R., & Janík, J. (2015). λ Bootis stars in the SuperWASP survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453(2), 1241 -1248. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1652

We have analysed around 170 000 individual photometric WASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets) measurements of 15 well-established ? Bootis stars to search for variability. The ? Bootis stars are a small group of late-B to early-F, Pop I, stars that sho... Read More about λ Bootis stars in the SuperWASP survey.

The Suzaku view of highly ionized outflows in AGN - II. Location, energetics and scalings with bolometric luminosity (2015)
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Gofford, J., Reeves, J. N., McLaughlin, D. E., Braito, V., Turner, T. J., Tombesi, F., & Cappi, M. (2015). The Suzaku view of highly ionized outflows in AGN - II. Location, energetics and scalings with bolometric luminosity. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 451(4), 4169-4182. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1207

Ongoing studies with XMM-Newton have shown that powerful accretion disc winds, as revealed through highly-ionised Fe\,K-shell absorption at E>=6.7 keV, are present in a significant fraction of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the local Universe (Tombe... Read More about The Suzaku view of highly ionized outflows in AGN - II. Location, energetics and scalings with bolometric luminosity.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: empirical determination of the precision of stellar radial velocities and projected rotation velocities (2015)
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Jeffries, & Jackson, R. (2015). The Gaia-ESO Survey: empirical determination of the precision of stellar radial velocities and projected rotation velocities. Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526248

Context. The Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) is a large public spectroscopic survey at the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope.

Aims. A key aim is to provide precise radial velocities (RVs) and projected equatorial velocities (vsini) for repr... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: empirical determination of the precision of stellar radial velocities and projected rotation velocities.

WASP-80b has a dayside within the T-dwarf range (2015)
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Maxted, Smalley, & Hellier. (2015). WASP-80b has a dayside within the T-dwarf range. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2279 -2290. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv706

WASP-80b is a missing link in the study of exoatmospheres. It falls between the warm Neptunes and the hot Jupiters and is amenable for characterization, thanks to its host star's properties. We observed the planet through transit and during occultati... Read More about WASP-80b has a dayside within the T-dwarf range.

Spectroscopic survey of Kepler stars.(a similar to...) I. HERMES/Mercator observations of A- and F-type stars (2015)
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Smalley. (2015). Spectroscopic survey of Kepler stars.(a similar to...) I. HERMES/Mercator observations of A- and F-type stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2764 -2783. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv528

The Kepler space mission provided near-continuous and high-precision photometry of about 207 000 stars, which can be used for asteroseismology. However, for successful seismic modeling it is equally important to have accurate stellar physical paramet... Read More about Spectroscopic survey of Kepler stars.(a similar to...) I. HERMES/Mercator observations of A- and F-type stars.

A kinematically unbiased search for nearby young stars in the Northern hemisphere selected using SuperWASP rotation periods (2015)
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Binks, A., Jeffries, R., & Maxted, P. (2015). A kinematically unbiased search for nearby young stars in the Northern hemisphere selected using SuperWASP rotation periods. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452(1), 173-192. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1309

We present a kinematically-unbiased search to identify young, nearby low-mass members of kinematic moving groups (MGs). Objects with both rotation periods shorter than 5 days in the SuperWASP All-Sky Survey and X-ray counterparts in the ROSAT All-Sky... Read More about A kinematically unbiased search for nearby young stars in the Northern hemisphere selected using SuperWASP rotation periods.