Kepler-539: A young extrasolar system with two giant planets on wide orbits and in gravitational interaction (2016)
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Mancini, L., Lillo-Box, J., Southworth, J., Borsato, L., Gandolfi, D., Ciceri, S., Barrado, D., Brahm, R., & Th. Henning. (2016). Kepler-539: A young extrasolar system with two giant planets on wide orbits and in gravitational interaction. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 590, Article A112. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526357

We confirm the planetary nature of Kepler-539?b (aka Kepler object of interest K00372.01), a giant transiting exoplanet orbiting a solar-analogue G2?V star. The mass of Kepler-539?b was accurately derived thanks to a series of precise radial velocity... Read More about Kepler-539: A young extrasolar system with two giant planets on wide orbits and in gravitational interaction.

STARSPOTS ON WASP-85 (2016)
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Hellier. (2016). STARSPOTS ON WASP-85. Astronomical Journal, https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-6256/151/6/150

By analyzing K2 short-cadence observations, we detect starspots on WASP-85A, the host star of the hot Jupiter WASP-85Ab. The detection of recurring starspot occultation events indicates that the planet's orbit is aligned with the star's rotational ax... Read More about STARSPOTS ON WASP-85.

The Spitzer Microlensing Program As A Probe For Globular Cluster Planets: Analysis Of Ogle-2015-BLG-0448 (2016)
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Poleski, R., Zhu, W., Christie, G. W., Udalski, A., Gould, A., Bachelet, E., Skottfelt, J., Calchi Novati, S., Szymański, M., Soszyński, I., Pietrzyński, G., Wyrzykowski, Ł., Ulaczyk, K., Pietrukowicz, P., Kozłowski, S., Skowron, J., Mróz, P., Pawlak, M., Beichman, C., Bryden, G., …Wertz, O. (in press). The Spitzer Microlensing Program As A Probe For Globular Cluster Planets: Analysis Of Ogle-2015-BLG-0448. Astrophysical Journal, 823(1), Article 63. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/823/1/63

The microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0448 was observed by Spitzer and lay within the tidal radius of the globular cluster NGC 6558. The event had moderate magnification and was intensively observed, hence it had the potential to probe the distributio... Read More about The Spitzer Microlensing Program As A Probe For Globular Cluster Planets: Analysis Of Ogle-2015-BLG-0448.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Pre-Main Sequence Stars in the Young Open Cluster NGC 3293 (2016)
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Delgado, A., Sampedro, L., Alfaro, E., Costado, M., Yun, J., Frasca, A., Lanzafame, A., Drew, J., Eislöffel, J., Blomme, R., Morel, T., Lobel, A., Semaan, T., Randich, S., Jeffries, R., Micela, G., Vallenari, A., Kalari, V., Gilmore, G., Flaccomio, E., …Magrini, L. (2016). The Gaia-ESO Survey: Pre-Main Sequence Stars in the Young Open Cluster NGC 3293. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(3), 3305-3315. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1217

The young open cluster NGC3293 is included in the observing program of the Gaia-ESO survey (GES). The radial velocity values provided have been used to assign cluster membership probabilities by means of a single-variable parametric analysis. These m... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: Pre-Main Sequence Stars in the Young Open Cluster NGC 3293.

An irradiated brown-dwarf companion to an accreting white dwarf (2016)
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Hernández Santisteban, J. V., Knigge, C., Littlefair, S. P., Breton, R. P., Dhillon, V. S., Gänsicke, B. T., Marsh, T. R., Pretorius, M. L., Southworth, J., & Hauschildt, P. H. (2016). An irradiated brown-dwarf companion to an accreting white dwarf. Nature, 533, 366 -368. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17952

Interacting compact binary systems provide a natural laboratory in which to study irradiated substellar objects. As the mass-losing secondary (donor) in these systems makes a transition from the stellar to the substellar regime, it is also irradiated... Read More about An irradiated brown-dwarf companion to an accreting white dwarf.

WASP-120 b, WASP-122 b, and WASP-123 b: Three Newly Discovered Planets from the WASP-South Survey (2016)
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Turner, O., Anderson, D., Collier Cameron, A., Delrez, L., Evans, D., Gillon, M., Hellier, C., Jehin, E., Lendl, M., Maxted, P. F. L., Pepe, F., Pollacco, D., Queloz, D., Ségransan, D., Smalley, B., Smith, A., Triaud, A., Udry, S., & West, R. (2016). WASP-120 b, WASP-122 b, and WASP-123 b: Three Newly Discovered Planets from the WASP-South Survey. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 128, Article 064401. https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/128/964/064401

We present the discovery by the WASP-South survey of three planets transiting moderately bright stars (V ˜ 11). WASP-120 b is a massive (4.85 M Jup ) planet in a 3.6-day orbit that we find likely to be eccentric around an F5 star. WASP-122 b is a hot... Read More about WASP-120 b, WASP-122 b, and WASP-123 b: Three Newly Discovered Planets from the WASP-South Survey.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: A lithium-rotation connection at 5 Myr? (2016)
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Bouvier, J., Lanzafame, A., Venuti, L., Klutsch, A., Jeffries, R., Frasca, A., Moraux, E., Biazzo, K., Messina, S., Micela, G., Randich, S., Stauffer, J., Cody, A., Flaccomio, E., Gilmore, G., Bayo, A., Bensby, T., Bragaglia, A., Carraro, G., Casey, A., …Zwitter, T. (2016). The Gaia-ESO Survey: A lithium-rotation connection at 5 Myr?. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 590, Article A78. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628336

Context
The evolution of lithium abundance in cool dwarfs provides a unique probe of nonstandard processes in stellar evolution.

Aims
We investigate the lithium content of young low-mass stars in the 5 Myr old, star forming region NGC 2264 and i... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: A lithium-rotation connection at 5 Myr?.

Cygnus OB2 DANCe: A high-precision proper motion study of the Cygnus OB2 association (2016)
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Wright. (2016). Cygnus OB2 DANCe: A high-precision proper motion study of the Cygnus OB2 association. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2593 - 2610. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1148

We present a high-precision proper motion study of 873 X-ray and spectroscopically selected stars in the massive OB association Cygnus OB2 as part of the DANCe project. These were calculated from images spanning a 15 yr baseline and have typical prec... Read More about Cygnus OB2 DANCe: A high-precision proper motion study of the Cygnus OB2 association.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: membership and initial mass function of the. Velorum cluster (2016)
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Jeffries. (2016). The Gaia-ESO Survey: membership and initial mass function of the. Velorum cluster. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527875

Context. Understanding the properties of young open clusters, such as the initial mass function (IMF), star formation history, and dynamic evolution, is crucial for obtaining reliable theoretical predictions of the mechanisms involved in the star for... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: membership and initial mass function of the. Velorum cluster.

The VMC Survey - XXI. New star cluster candidates discovered from infrared photometry in the Small Magellanic Cloud (2016)
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Piatti, A. E., Ivanov, V. D., Rubele, S., Marconi, M., Ripepi, V., Cioni, M.-R. L., Oliveira, J. M., & Bekki, K. (2016). The VMC Survey - XXI. New star cluster candidates discovered from infrared photometry in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(1), 383 - 395. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1000

We report the first search for new star clusters performed using the VISTA near-infrared YJKs Magellanic Clouds survey (VMC) data sets. We chose a pilot field of ~0.4 deg2 located in the South-west of the Small Magelllanic Cloud bar, where the star f... Read More about The VMC Survey - XXI. New star cluster candidates discovered from infrared photometry in the Small Magellanic Cloud.

Broadband short term variability of the quasar PDS 456 (2016)
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(2016). Broadband short term variability of the quasar PDS 456. Astronomische Nachrichten, 495-499. https://doi.org/10.1002/asna.201612336

We present a detailed analysis of a recent $500$ ks net exposure \textit{Suzaku} observation, carried out in 2013, of the nearby ($z=0.184$) luminous (L$_{\rm bol}\sim10^{47}$ erg s$^{-1}$) quasar PDS 456 in which the X-ray flux was unusually low. Th... Read More about Broadband short term variability of the quasar PDS 456.

Imprints of a high-velocity wind on the soft X-ray spectrum of PG1211+143 (2016)
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(2016). Imprints of a high-velocity wind on the soft X-ray spectrum of PG1211+143. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 4389 - 4396. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw933

An extended XMM–Newton observation of the luminous narrow-line Seyfert galaxy PG1211+143 in 2014 has revealed a more complex high-velocity wind, with components distinguished in velocity, ionization level, and column density. Here we report soft X-ra... Read More about Imprints of a high-velocity wind on the soft X-ray spectrum of PG1211+143.

High-resolution Imaging of Transiting Extrasolar Planetary systems (HITEP) I. Lucky imaging observations of 101 systems in the southern hemisphere (2016)
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Evans, D., Southworth, J., Maxted, P., Skottfelt, J., Hundertmark, M., Jørgensen, U., Dominik, M., Alsubai, K., Andersen, M., Bozza, V., Bramich, D., Burgdorf, M., Ciceri, S., D’Ago, G., Figuera Jaimes, R., Gu, S.-H., Haugbøll, T., Hinse, T., JuncheN. Kains, D., Kerins, E., …Wertz, O. (2016). High-resolution Imaging of Transiting Extrasolar Planetary systems (HITEP) I. Lucky imaging observations of 101 systems in the southern hemisphere. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 589, A58. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527970

Context. Wide binaries are a potential pathway for the formation of hot Jupiters. The binary fraction among host stars is an important discriminator between competing formation theories, but has not been well characterised. Additionally, contaminatin... Read More about High-resolution Imaging of Transiting Extrasolar Planetary systems (HITEP) I. Lucky imaging observations of 101 systems in the southern hemisphere.

CK Vul: a smorgasbord of hydrocarbons rules out a 1670 nova (and much else besides) (2016)
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Van Loon. (2016). CK Vul: a smorgasbord of hydrocarbons rules out a 1670 nova (and much else besides). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2871 - 2876. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw352

We present observations of CK Vul obtained with the Spitzer Space Telescope. The infrared spectrum reveals a warm dust continuum with nebular, molecular hydrogen and HCN lines superimposed, together with the ‘Unidentified Infrared’ features. The nebu... Read More about CK Vul: a smorgasbord of hydrocarbons rules out a 1670 nova (and much else besides).

Detection of a second high-velocity component in the highly ionized wind from PG 1211+143 (2016)
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(2016). Detection of a second high-velocity component in the highly ionized wind from PG 1211+143. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2951 -2957. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw165

An extended XMM–Newton observation of the luminous narrow line Seyfert galaxy PG1211+143 in 2014 has revealed a more complex highly ionized, high-velocity outflow.
The detection of previously unresolved spectral structure in Fe K absorption finds a... Read More about Detection of a second high-velocity component in the highly ionized wind from PG 1211+143.

Exploring the crowded central region of ten Galactic globular clusters using EMCCDs Variable star searches and new discoveries (2016)
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Figuera Jaimes, R., Bramich, D., Skottfelt, J., Kains, N., Jørgensen, U., Horne, K., Dominik, M., Alsubai, K., Bozza, V., Calchi Novati, S., Ciceri, S., D’Ago, G., Galianni, P., Gu, S.-H., Harpsøe, K., Haugbølle, T., Hinse, T., Hundertmark, M., Juncher, D., Korhonen, H., …MiNDSTEp Consortium, T. (2016). Exploring the crowded central region of ten Galactic globular clusters using EMCCDs Variable star searches and new discoveries. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 588, Article A128. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527641

Aims. We aim to obtain time-series photometry of the very crowded central regions of Galactic globular clusters; to obtain better angular resolution thanhas been previously achieved with conventional CCDs on ground-based telescopes; and to complete,... Read More about Exploring the crowded central region of ten Galactic globular clusters using EMCCDs Variable star searches and new discoveries.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Dynamical analysis of the L1688 region in Ophiuchus (2016)
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Jeffries, R., & Wright, N. J. (2016). The Gaia-ESO Survey: Dynamical analysis of the L1688 region in Ophiuchus. Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527253

The Gaia ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey (GES) is providing the astronomical community with high-precision measurements of many stellar parameters including radial velocities (RVs) of stars belonging to several young clusters and star-forming regions... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: Dynamical analysis of the L1688 region in Ophiuchus.

Kepler Eclipsing Binary Stars. Viii. Identification Of False Positive Eclipsing Binaries And Re-extraction Of New Light Curves (2016)
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Abdul-Masih, M., Prša, A., Conroy, K., Bloemen, S., Boyajian, T., Doyle, L. R., Johnston, C., Kostov, V., Latham, D. W., Matijevič, G., Shporer, A., & Southworth, J. (2016). Kepler Eclipsing Binary Stars. Viii. Identification Of False Positive Eclipsing Binaries And Re-extraction Of New Light Curves. Astronomical Journal, 151(4), Article 101. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-6256/151/4/101

The Kepler mission has provided unprecedented, nearly continuous photometric data of ~200,000 objects in the ~105 deg2 field of view (FOV) from the beginning of science operations in May of 2009 until the loss of the second reaction wheel in May of 2... Read More about Kepler Eclipsing Binary Stars. Viii. Identification Of False Positive Eclipsing Binaries And Re-extraction Of New Light Curves.

Estimating the parameters of globular cluster M 30 (NGC 7099) from time-series photometry (vol 555, pg A36, 2013) (2016)
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Kains, N., Bramich, D. M., Arellano Ferro, A., Figuera Jaimes, R., Jørgensen, U. G., Giridhar, S., Penny, M. T., Alsubai, K. A., Andersen, J. M., Bozza, V., Browne, P., Burgdorf, M., Calchi Novati, S., Damerdji, Y., Diehl, C., Dodds, P., Dominik, M., Elyiv, A., Fang, X.-S., Giannini, E., …consortium, T. M. (2016). Estimating the parameters of globular cluster M 30 (NGC 7099) from time-series photometry (vol 555, pg A36, 2013). Astronomy & Astrophysics, 588, Article C2. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321819e

Aims. We present the analysis of 26 nights of V and I time-series observations from 2011 and 2012 of the globular cluster M 30 (NGC 7099). We used our data to search for variable stars in this cluster and refine the periods of known variables; we the... Read More about Estimating the parameters of globular cluster M 30 (NGC 7099) from time-series photometry (vol 555, pg A36, 2013).

Linking 1D evolutionary to 3D hydrodynamical simulations of massive stars (2016)
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Hirschi. (2016). Linking 1D evolutionary to 3D hydrodynamical simulations of massive stars. Physica Scripta, 98-99. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921314006371

In this contribution we present initial results of a study on convective boundary mixing (CBM) in massive stellar models using the GENEVA stellar evolution code (Eggenberger et al.2008). Before undertaking costly 3D hydrodynamic simulations, it is im... Read More about Linking 1D evolutionary to 3D hydrodynamical simulations of massive stars.