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., …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.

Very massive stars and the Eddington Limit (2012)
Journal Article
(2012). Very massive stars and the Eddington Limit

We use contemporary evolutionary models for Very Massive Stars (VMS) to assess whether the Eddington limit constrains the upper stellar mass limit. We also consider the interplay between mass and age for the wind properties and spectral morphology of... Read More about Very massive stars and the Eddington Limit.

EChO - Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory (2012)
Journal Article
Tinetti, G., Beaulieu, J., Henning, T., Meyer, M., Micela, G., Ribas, I., …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.

HSTEP -- Homogeneous Studies of Transiting Extrasolar Planets (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Southworth, J. (2012). HSTEP -- Homogeneous Studies of Transiting Extrasolar Planets. . https://doi.org/10.1017/S174392131301332X

I give a summary of the HSTEP project: an effort to calculate the physical properties of the known transiting extrasolar planets using a homogeneous approach. I discuss the motivation for the project, list the 83 planets which have already been studi... Read More about HSTEP -- Homogeneous Studies of Transiting Extrasolar Planets.

Grids of stellar models with rotation - I. Models from 0.8 to 120 Msun at solar metallicity (Z = 0.014) (2012)
Journal Article
(2012). Grids of stellar models with rotation - I. Models from 0.8 to 120 Msun at solar metallicity (Z = 0.014). Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117751

[abridged] Many topical astrophysical research areas, such as the properties of planet host stars, the nature of the progenitors of different types of supernovae and gamma ray bursts, and the evolution of galaxies, require complete and homogeneous se... Read More about Grids of stellar models with rotation - I. Models from 0.8 to 120 Msun at solar metallicity (Z = 0.014).

The helium abundance in the ejecta of U Scorpii (2012)
Journal Article
(2012). The helium abundance in the ejecta of U Scorpii. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 3414 -3415. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19803.x

U Scorpii (U Sco) is a recurrent nova which has been observed in outburst on 10 occasions, most recently in 2010. We present near-infrared (near-IR) and optical spectroscopy of the 2010 outburst of U Sco. The reddening of U Sco is found to be E(B - V... Read More about The helium abundance in the ejecta of U Scorpii.

Eclipsing Binary Stars: the Royal Road to Stellar Astrophysics (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Taylor. (2012). Eclipsing Binary Stars: the Royal Road to Stellar Astrophysics. In Proceedings of the workshop "Orbital Couples: Pas de Deux in the Solar System and the Milky Way" (51-58)

Russell (1948) famously described eclipses as the "royal road" to stellar astrophysics. From photometric and spectroscopic observations it is possible to measure the masses and radii (to 1% or better!), and thus surface gravities and mean densities,... Read More about Eclipsing Binary Stars: the Royal Road to Stellar Astrophysics.