Three Saturn-mass planets transiting F-type stars revealed with TESS and HARPS: TOI-615b, TOI-622b, and TOI-2641b (2023)
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Psaridi, A., Bouchy, F., Lendl, M., Akinsanmi, B., Stassun, K. G., Smalley, B., …Zapata, A. (2023). Three Saturn-mass planets transiting F-type stars revealed with TESS and HARPS: TOI-615b, TOI-622b, and TOI-2641b. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 675, A39. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202346406

While the sample of confirmed exoplanets continues to grow, the population of transiting exoplanets around early-type stars is still limited. These planets allow us to investigate the planet properties and formation pathways over a wide range of stel... Read More about Three Saturn-mass planets transiting F-type stars revealed with TESS and HARPS: TOI-615b, TOI-622b, and TOI-2641b.

Spitzer Dayside Emission of WASP-34b (2022)
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Smalley. (2022). Spitzer Dayside Emission of WASP-34b. https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ac1e9e

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>We analyzed two eclipse observations of the low-density transiting, likely grazing, exoplanet WASP-34b with the Spitzer Space Telescope’s InfraRed Array Camera using two techniques to correct for intrapixel s... Read More about Spitzer Dayside Emission of WASP-34b.

TESS Cycle 1 observations of roAp stars with 2-min cadence data (2021)
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Smalley, L. Holdsworth, D., S. Cunha, M., W. Kurtz, D., Antoci, V., R. Hey, D., …Vanderspek, R. (2021). TESS Cycle 1 observations of roAp stars with 2-min cadence data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 506(1), 1073-1110. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1578

We present the results of a systematic search for new rapidly oscillating Ap (roAp) stars using the 2-min cadence data collected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) during its Cycle 1 observations. We identify 12 new roAp stars. Among... Read More about TESS Cycle 1 observations of roAp stars with 2-min cadence data.

Ground-based Transmission Spectroscopy with VLT FORS2: Evidence for Faculae and Clouds in the Optical Spectrum of the Warm Saturn WASP-110b (2021)
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Smalley. (2021). Ground-based Transmission Spectroscopy with VLT FORS2: Evidence for Faculae and Clouds in the Optical Spectrum of the Warm Saturn WASP-110b. Astronomical Journal, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac01da

We present a ground-based optical transmission spectrum for the warm Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-110b from two transit observations made with the FOcal Reducer and Spectrograph on the Very Large Telescope. The spectrum covers the wavelength range from... Read More about Ground-based Transmission Spectroscopy with VLT FORS2: Evidence for Faculae and Clouds in the Optical Spectrum of the Warm Saturn WASP-110b.

KIC 5950759: a high-amplitude δ Sct star with amplitude and frequency modulation near the terminal age main sequence (2021)
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M. Bowman, D., Hermans, J., Daszyńska-Daszkiewicz, J., L. Holdsworth, D., Tkachenko, A., J. Murphy, S., …W. Kurtz, D. (2021). KIC 5950759: a high-amplitude δ Sct star with amplitude and frequency modulation near the terminal age main sequence. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 504(3), 4039-4053. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1124

Amongst the intermediate mass pulsating stars known as d Sct stars is a subset of high-amplitude and predominantly radial-mode pulsators known as high-amplitude d Sct (HADS) stars. From more than 2000 d Sct stars observed by the Kepler space mission,... Read More about KIC 5950759: a high-amplitude δ Sct star with amplitude and frequency modulation near the terminal age main sequence.

WASP-186 and WASP-187: two hot Jupiters discovered by SuperWASP and SOPHIE with additional observations by TESS (2020)
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Smalley, Hellier, & Maxted. (2020). WASP-186 and WASP-187: two hot Jupiters discovered by SuperWASP and SOPHIE with additional observations by TESS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 428-440. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2848

We present the discovery of two new hot Jupiters identified from the WASP survey, WASP-186b and WASP-187b (TOI-1494.01 and TOI-1493.01). Their planetary nature was established from SOPHIE spectroscopic observations, and additional photometry was obta... Read More about WASP-186 and WASP-187: two hot Jupiters discovered by SuperWASP and SOPHIE with additional observations by TESS.

Discovery and characterization of the exoplanets WASP-148b and c - A transiting system with two interacting giant planets (2020)
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Hellier, Smalley, & Maxted. (2020). Discovery and characterization of the exoplanets WASP-148b and c - A transiting system with two interacting giant planets. Astronomy and Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202038296

We present the discovery and characterization of WASP-148, a new extrasolar system that includes at least two giant planets. The host star is a slowly rotating inactive late-G dwarf with a V = 12 magnitude. The planet WASP-148b is a hot Jupiter of 0.... Read More about Discovery and characterization of the exoplanets WASP-148b and c - A transiting system with two interacting giant planets.

Fundamental effective temperature measurements for eclipsing binary stars I. Development of the method and application to AI Phoenicis (2020)
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Smalley, & Maxted. (2020). Fundamental effective temperature measurements for eclipsing binary stars I. Development of the method and application to AI Phoenicis. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2899-2909. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2167

Stars with accurate and precise effective temperature (Teff) measurements are needed to test stellar atmosphere models and calibrate empirical methods to determine Teff. There are few standard stars currently available to calibrate temperature indica... Read More about Fundamental effective temperature measurements for eclipsing binary stars I. Development of the method and application to AI Phoenicis.

Very regular high-frequency pulsation modes in young intermediate-mass stars (2020)
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Bedding, T. R., Murphy, S. J., Hey, D. R., Huber, D., Li, T., Smalley, B., …Vanderspek, R. K. (2020). Very regular high-frequency pulsation modes in young intermediate-mass stars. Nature, 581, 147 - 151. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2226-8

Asteroseismology probes the internal structures of stars by using their natural pulsation frequencies1. It relies on identifying sequences of pulsation modes that can be compared with theoretical models, which has been done successfully for many clas... Read More about Very regular high-frequency pulsation modes in young intermediate-mass stars.

Two Transiting Hot Jupiters from the WASP Survey: WASP-150b and WASP-176b (2020)
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Cooke, B. F., Pollacco, D., Almleaky, Y., Barkaoui, K., Benkhaldoun, Z., Blake, J. A., …Alikakos, J. (2020). Two Transiting Hot Jupiters from the WASP Survey: WASP-150b and WASP-176b. Astronomical Journal, 159(6), Article 255. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab88db

We report the discovery of two transiting exoplanets from the WASP survey, WASP-150b and WASP-176b. WASP-150b is an eccentric (e = 0.38) hot Jupiter on a 5.6 day orbit around a V = 12.03, F8 main-sequence host. The host star has a mass and radius of... Read More about Two Transiting Hot Jupiters from the WASP Survey: WASP-150b and WASP-176b.

Detection of Na, K, and H2O in the hazy atmosphere of WASP-6b (2020)
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Smalley. (2020). Detection of Na, K, and H2O in the hazy atmosphere of WASP-6b. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 5449 - 5472. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1078

We present new observations of the transmission spectrum of the hot Jupiter WASP-6b both from the ground with the Very Large Telescope FOcal Reducer and Spectrograph (FORS2) from 0.45 to 0.83 µm, and space with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satelli... Read More about Detection of Na, K, and H2O in the hazy atmosphere of WASP-6b.

NGTS-10b: the shortest period hot Jupiter yet discovered (2020)
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Smalley, B., McCormac, J., Gillen, E., Jackman, J. A. G., Brown, D. J. A., Bayliss, D., …West, R. G. (2020). NGTS-10b: the shortest period hot Jupiter yet discovered. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 493(1), 126-140. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa115

We report the discovery of a new ultrashort period (USP) transiting hot Jupiter from the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS). NGTS-10b has a mass and radius of 2.162+0.092-0.107?MJ and 1.205+0.117-0.083?RJ and orbits its host star with a period of... Read More about NGTS-10b: the shortest period hot Jupiter yet discovered.

Spectroscopy of hot ? Doradus and A–F hybrid Kepler candidates close to the hot border of the d Scuti instability strip (2020)
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Smalley. (2020). Spectroscopy of hot ? Doradus and A–F hybrid Kepler candidates close to the hot border of the d Scuti instability strip. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 4518 - 4532. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa399

If ? Dor-type pulsations are driven by the convective blocking mechanism, a convective envelope at a sufficient depth is essential. There are several hot ? Dor and hybrid star candidates in which there should not be an adequate convective envelope to... Read More about Spectroscopy of hot ? Doradus and A–F hybrid Kepler candidates close to the hot border of the d Scuti instability strip.

Age dating of an early Milky Way merger via asteroseismology of the naked-eye star ν Indi (2020)
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J. Chaplin, W., M. Serenelli, A., Miglio, A., Morel, T., Mackereth, J. T., Vincenzo, F., …Yıldız, M. (2020). Age dating of an early Milky Way merger via asteroseismology of the naked-eye star ν Indi. Nature Astronomy, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0975-9

Over the course of its history, the Milky Way has ingested multiple smaller satellite galaxies. While these accreted stellar populations can be forensically identified as kinematically distinct structures within the Galaxy, it is difficult in general... Read More about Age dating of an early Milky Way merger via asteroseismology of the naked-eye star ν Indi.

WASP-South hot Jupiters: WASP-178b, WASP-184b, WASP-185b &amp; WASP-192b (2019)
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Smalley, Hellier, & Maxted. (2019). WASP-South hot Jupiters: WASP-178b, WASP-184b, WASP-185b &amp; WASP-192b. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1479-1487. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2713

We report on four new transiting hot Jupiters discovered by the WASP-South survey. WASP-178b transits a V = 9.9, A1V star with Teff = 9350 ± 150 K, the second-hottest transit host known. It has a highly bloated radius of 1.81 ± 0.09 RJup, in line wit... Read More about WASP-South hot Jupiters: WASP-178b, WASP-184b, WASP-185b &amp; WASP-192b.

The first view of δ Scuti and γ Doradus stars with the TESS mission (2019)
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Antoci, V., Cunha, M., Bowman, D., Murphy, S., Kurtz, D., Bedding, T., …Weiss, W. (2019). The first view of δ Scuti and γ Doradus stars with the TESS mission. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 490(3), 4040-4059. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2787

We present the first asteroseismic results for $\delta$ Scuti and $\gamma$ Doradus stars observed in Sectors 1 and 2 of the TESS mission. We utilise the 2-min cadence TESS data for a sample of 117 stars to classify their behaviour regarding variabili... Read More about The first view of δ Scuti and γ Doradus stars with the TESS mission.

SuperWASP dispositions and false positive catalogue (2019)
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Smalley, & Maxted. (2019). SuperWASP dispositions and false positive catalogue. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 4905 - 4915. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2064

SuperWASP, the Northern hemisphere WASP observatory, has been observing the skies from La Palma since 2004. In that time, more than 50 planets have been discovered with data contributions from SuperWASP. In the process of validating planets, many fal... Read More about SuperWASP dispositions and false positive catalogue.

WASP-169, WASP-171, WASP-175, and WASP-182: three hot Jupiters and one bloated sub-Saturn mass planet discovered by WASP-South (2019)
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Hellier, Smalley, & Maxted. (2019). WASP-169, WASP-171, WASP-175, and WASP-182: three hot Jupiters and one bloated sub-Saturn mass planet discovered by WASP-South. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2478 -2487. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2351

We present the discovery of four new giant planets from the Wide Angle Search for Planets-South (WASP-South), three hot Jupiters and one bloated sub-Saturn mass planet: WASP-169b, WASP-171b, WASP-175b, and WASP-182b. Besides the discovery photometry... Read More about WASP-169, WASP-171, WASP-175, and WASP-182: three hot Jupiters and one bloated sub-Saturn mass planet discovered by WASP-South.

WASP-180Ab: Doppler tomography of an hot Jupiter orbiting the primary star in a visual binary (2019)
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Temple, L. Y., Hellier, C., Anderson, D. R., Barkaoui, K., Bouchy, F., Brown, D. J. A., …Zouhair, B. (2019). WASP-180Ab: Doppler tomography of an hot Jupiter orbiting the primary star in a visual binary. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 490(2), 2467-2474. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2632

We report the discovery and characterization of WASP-180Ab, a hot Jupiter confirmed by the detection of its Doppler shadow and by measuring its mass using radial velocities. We find the 0.9  ±  0.1 MJup, 1.24  ±  0.04 RJup planet to be in a misaligne... Read More about WASP-180Ab: Doppler tomography of an hot Jupiter orbiting the primary star in a visual binary.

WASP-166b: a bloated super-Neptune transiting a V = 9 star (2019)
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Maxted, Hellier, & Smalley. (2019). WASP-166b: a bloated super-Neptune transiting a V = 9 star. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 3067 -3075. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1903

We report the discovery of WASP-166b, a super-Neptune planet with a mass of 0.1 MJup (1.9 MNep) and a bloated radius of 0.63 RJup. It transits a V = 9.36, F9V star in a 5.44-d orbit that is aligned with the stellar rotation axis (sky-projected obliqu... Read More about WASP-166b: a bloated super-Neptune transiting a V = 9 star.