s-process production in rotating massive stars at solar and low metallicities (2015)
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Frischknecht, U., Hirschi, R., Pignatari, M., Maeder, A., Meynet, G., Chiappini, C., …Ekström, S. (2016). s-process production in rotating massive stars at solar and low metallicities. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456(2), 1803 - 1825. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2723

Rotation was shown to have a strong impact on the structure and light element nucleosynthesis in massive stars. In particular, models including rotation can reproduce the primary nitrogen observed in halo extremely metal poor (EMP) stars. Additional... Read More about s-process production in rotating massive stars at solar and low metallicities.

Physical properties of the planetary systemsWASP-45 and WASP-46 from simultaneous multiband photometry (2015)
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Ciceri, S., Mancini, L., Southworth, J., Lendl, M., Tregloan-Reed, J., Brahm, R., …Wertz, O. (2016). Physical properties of the planetary systemsWASP-45 and WASP-46 from simultaneous multiband photometry. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456(1), 990 -1002. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2698

Accurate measurements of the physical characteristics of a large number of exoplanets are useful to strongly constrain theoretical models of planet formation and evolution, which lead to the large variety of exoplanets and planetary-system configurat... Read More about Physical properties of the planetary systemsWASP-45 and WASP-46 from simultaneous multiband photometry.

Doppler imaging of the planetary debris disc at the white dwarf SDSS J122859.93+104032.9 (2015)
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Manser, C. J., Gänsicke, B. T., Marsh, T. R., Veras, D., Koester, D., Breedt, E., …Southworth, J. (2016). Doppler imaging of the planetary debris disc at the white dwarf SDSS J122859.93+104032.9. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(4), 4467 -4478. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2603

Debris discs which orbit white dwarfs are signatures of remnant planetary systems. We present 12 yr of optical spectroscopy of the metal-polluted white dwarf SDSS J1228+1040, which shows a steady variation in the morphology of the 8600?Å Ca?II triple... Read More about Doppler imaging of the planetary debris disc at the white dwarf SDSS J122859.93+104032.9.

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.

Rotation periods and astrometric motions of the Luhman 16AB brown dwarfs by high-resolution lucky-imaging monitoring (2015)
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Mancini, L., Giacobbe, P., Littlefair, S., Southworth, J., Bozza, V., Damasso, M., …Wertz, O. (2015). Rotation periods and astrometric motions of the Luhman 16AB brown dwarfs by high-resolution lucky-imaging monitoring. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 584, Article A104. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526899

Context. Photometric monitoring of the variability of brown dwarfs can provide useful information about the structure of clouds in their cold atmospheres.The brown-dwarf binary system Luhman?16AB is an interesting target for such a study, because its... Read More about Rotation periods and astrometric motions of the Luhman 16AB brown dwarfs by high-resolution lucky-imaging monitoring.

Spectroscopic confirmation of M-dwarf candidate members of the Beta Pictoris and AB Doradus Moving Groups (2015)
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Binks, A., & Jeffries, R. (2016). Spectroscopic confirmation of M-dwarf candidate members of the Beta Pictoris and AB Doradus Moving Groups. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(3), 3345-3358. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2431

Optical spectroscopic observations are reported for 24 and 23, nearby, proper-motion-selected M-dwarf candidate members of the Beta Pictoris and AB Doradus moving groups (BPMG and ABDMG). Using kinematic criteria, the presence of both Halpha emission... Read More about Spectroscopic confirmation of M-dwarf candidate members of the Beta Pictoris and AB Doradus Moving Groups.

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.

Mapping atomic and difuse interstellar band absorption across the Magellanic clouds and the Milky Way (2015)
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Bailey, M., Van Loon, J. T., Sarre, P. J., & Beckman, J. E. (2015). Mapping atomic and difuse interstellar band absorption across the Magellanic clouds and the Milky Way. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454(4), 4013-4026. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2178

Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) trace warm neutral and weakly ionized diffuse interstellar medium (ISM). Here we present a dedicated, high signal-to-noise spectroscopic survey of two of the strongest DIBs, at 5780 and 5797 Å, in optical spectra of... Read More about Mapping atomic and difuse interstellar band absorption across the Magellanic clouds and the Milky Way.

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.

Larger and faster: revised properties and a shorter orbital period for the WASP-57 planetary system from a pro-am collaboration (2015)
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Southworth, J., Mancini, L., Tregloan-Reed, J., Calchi Novati, S., Ciceri, S., D'Ago, G., …Wertz, O. (2015). Larger and faster: revised properties and a shorter orbital period for the WASP-57 planetary system from a pro-am collaboration. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454(3), 3094 -3107. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2183

Transits in the WASP-57 planetary system have been found to occur half an hour earlier than expected. We present 10 transit light curves from amateur telescopes, on which this discovery was based, 13 transit light curves from professional facilities... Read More about Larger and faster: revised properties and a shorter orbital period for the WASP-57 planetary system from a pro-am collaboration.

Red Noise Versus Planetary Interpretations In The Microlensing Event OGLE-2013-BLG-446 (2015)
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Bachelet, E., Bramich, D., Han, C., Greenhill, J., Street, R., Gould, A., …Wertz, O. (2015). Red Noise Versus Planetary Interpretations In The Microlensing Event OGLE-2013-BLG-446. Astrophysical Journal, 812(2), Article 136. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/812/2/136

For all exoplanet candidates, the reliability of a claimed detection needs to be assessed through a careful study of systematic errors in the data to minimize the false positives rate. We present a method to investigate such systematics in microlensi... Read More about Red Noise Versus Planetary Interpretations In The Microlensing Event OGLE-2013-BLG-446.

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.

HD183648: a Kepler eclipsing binary with anomalous ellipsoidal variations and a pulsating component (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Derekas, A., Borkovits, T., Fuller, J., Szabó, G., Pavlovski, K., Csák, B., …Jankovics, I. (2015). HD183648: a Kepler eclipsing binary with anomalous ellipsoidal variations and a pulsating component. In EPJ Web of Conferences. https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201510106021

IC 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 medi... Read More about HD183648: a Kepler eclipsing binary with anomalous ellipsoidal variations and a pulsating component.

Lamost Observations In The Kepler Field. I. Database Of Low-resolution Spectra (2015)
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De Cat, P., Fu, J., Ren, A., Yang, X., Shi, J., Luo, A., …Zhou, X. (2015). Lamost Observations In The Kepler Field. I. Database Of Low-resolution Spectra. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 220(1), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/220/1/19

The nearly continuous light curves with micromagnitude precision provided by the space mission Kepler are revolutionizing our view of pulsating stars. They have revealed a vast sea of low-amplitude pulsation modes that were undetectable from Earth. T... Read More about Lamost Observations In The Kepler Field. I. Database Of Low-resolution Spectra.

Multiple star systems observed with CoRoT and Kepler (invited review) (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Southworth, J. (2015). Multiple star systems observed with CoRoT and Kepler (invited review). . https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201510104001

The CoRoT and Kepler satellites were the first space platforms designed to perform high-precision photometry for a large number of stars. Multiple systems display a wide variety of photometric variability, making them natural benefactors of these mis... Read More about Multiple star systems observed with CoRoT and Kepler (invited review).

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.

The GAPS programme with HARPS-N at TNG IX. The multi-planet system KELT-6: Detection of the planet KELT-6 c and measurement of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect for KELT-6 b (2015)
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Damasso, M., Esposito, M., Nascimbeni, V., Desidera, S., Bonomo, A., Bieryla, A., …Zanmar Sanchez, R. (2015). The GAPS programme with HARPS-N at TNG IX. The multi-planet system KELT-6: Detection of the planet KELT-6 c and measurement of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect for KELT-6 b. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 581, Article L6. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526995

Aims. For more than 1.5 years we spectroscopically monitored the star KELT-6 (BD+31?2447), which is known to host the transiting hot-Saturn KELT-6?b, because a previously observed long-term trend in radial velocity time series suggested that there is... Read More about The GAPS programme with HARPS-N at TNG IX. The multi-planet system KELT-6: Detection of the planet KELT-6 c and measurement of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect for KELT-6 b.