Infrared spectroscopy of V838 Monocerotis in 2015 and 2022 (2025)
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Geballe, T. R., Kaminskiy, B. M., Banerjee, D. P. K., Evans, A., Pavlenko, Y., Rushton, M. T., Popescu, M., & Eyres, S. P. S. (2025). Infrared spectroscopy of V838 Monocerotis in 2015 and 2022. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 541(4), 3331-3340. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf1193

We report medium-resolution 0.85–2.45 m spectroscopy obtained in 2015 and 2022 and high-resolution 2.27–2.39 m and 4.59–4.77 m spectroscopy obtained in 2015 of V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon), along with modelling of the 0.85–2.45 m spectrum. V838 Mon un... Read More about Infrared spectroscopy of V838 Monocerotis in 2015 and 2022.

The orbit of WASP-4 b is in decay (2025)
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Baştürk, Ö., Kutluay, A. C., Barker, A., Yalçınkaya, S., Southworth, J., Barkaoui, K., Wünsche, A., Burgdorf, M. J., Timmermans, M., Jehin, E., Tregloan-Reed, J., Jaimes, R. F., Hinse, T. C., Duru, B., Hitchcock, J., Longa-Peña, P., Rahvar, S., Sajadian, S., Bretton, M., Selam, S. O., …Mancini, L. (2025). The orbit of WASP-4 b is in decay. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 541(2), 714-730. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf1009

WASP-4 b is a hot Jupiter exhibiting a decreasing orbital period, prompting investigations into potential mechanisms driving its evolution. We analysed 173 transit light curves, including 37 new observations, and derived mid-transit timings with exof... Read More about The orbit of WASP-4 b is in decay.

Vitacrystallography: Appearance and Development of Cancer-Induced Structural Biomarkers in a Mouse Model (2025)
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Avdieiev, O., Denisov, S. A., Ajeer, A., Adams, L., Greenwood, C., Nesbitt, H., Thomas, K., Rogers, K., Solovyeva, O., Mourokh, L., & Lazarev, P. (2025). Vitacrystallography: Appearance and Development of Cancer-Induced Structural Biomarkers in a Mouse Model. Life, 15(6), Article 904. https://doi.org/10.3390/life15060904

Structural biomarkers determined by X-ray scattering of the tissues can complement conventional diagnostics and provide a pathway for early detection of diseases. In the present study, mouse models were utilized to observe the progression of prostate... Read More about Vitacrystallography: Appearance and Development of Cancer-Induced Structural Biomarkers in a Mouse Model.

Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM): Multiplicity properties of Oe and Be stars (2025)
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Bodensteiner, J., Shenar, T., Sana, H., Britavskiy, N., Crowther, P., Langer, N., Lennon, D., Mahy, L., Patrick, L., Villaseñor, J., Abdul-Masih, M., Bowman, D., de Koter, A., de Mink, S., Deshmukh, K., Fabry, M., Gilkis, A., Götberg, Y., Holgado, G., Izzard, R., …Xu, X.-T. (2025). Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM): Multiplicity properties of Oe and Be stars. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202452623

Context. Rapidly rotating classical OBe stars have been proposed as the products of binary interactions, and the fraction of Be stars with compact companions implies that at least some are. However, to constrain the interaction physics spinning up th... Read More about Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM): Multiplicity properties of Oe and Be stars.

Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM):. Enhanced multiplicity of early B-type dwarfs and giants at Z=0.2 Zsun (2025)
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Villaseñor, J., Sana, H., Mahy, L., Shenar, T., Bodensteiner, J., Britavskiy, N., Lennon, D., Moe, M., Patrick, L., Pawlak, M., Bowman, D., Crowther, P., de Mink, S., Deshmukh, K., Evans, C., Fabry, M., Fouesneau, M., Holgado, G., Langer, N., Maíz Apellaniz, J., …Vink, J. (2025). Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM):. Enhanced multiplicity of early B-type dwarfs and giants at Z=0.2 Zsun. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 698, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202453166

Early B-type stars with initial masses between 8 and 15M are frequently found in multiple systems, as is evidenced by multi-epoch spectroscopic campaigns in the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Previous studies have shown no strong met... Read More about Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM):. Enhanced multiplicity of early B-type dwarfs and giants at Z=0.2 Zsun.

EBLM XV – Revised dynamical masses for the circumbinary planet host Kepler-16 AB, using the SOPHIE spectrograph (2025)
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Sebastian, D., Boisse, I., Santerne, A., Triaud, A. H. M. J., Baycroft, T. A., Davis, Y. T., Deleuil, M., Grouffal, S., Hébrard, G., Heidari, N., Martin, D. V., Maxted, P. F. L., Nelson, R. P., Lalitha, S., Scott, M. G., Scutt, O. J., & Standing, M. (in press). EBLM XV – Revised dynamical masses for the circumbinary planet host Kepler-16 AB, using the SOPHIE spectrograph. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf863

Eclipsing binaries are perfect laboratories to measure precise, accurate and model-independent stellar radii and stellar masses, so long as both components are spectroscopically resolved. Resolving both components is difficult in high-contrast binari... Read More about EBLM XV – Revised dynamical masses for the circumbinary planet host Kepler-16 AB, using the SOPHIE spectrograph.

Systematic studies toward the synthesis of d -galactosamine-containing coumarin glycosides † (2025)
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Wootton, H. S., & Miller, G. J. (2025). Systematic studies toward the synthesis of d -galactosamine-containing coumarin glycosides †. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, https://doi.org/10.1039/d5ob00746a

An O-glycosylation method for accessing coumarin glycosides is presented. We report the reaction of 6,8-difluoro-7-hydroxy-4-methylcoumarin and 4-methylumbelliferone with a variety of glycosyl imidate donors using BF3·Et2O as activator to access a se... Read More about Systematic studies toward the synthesis of d -galactosamine-containing coumarin glycosides †.

Near-infrared spectroscopy of the recurrent nova M31N 2008-12a (2025)
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Banerjee, D. P. K., Geballe, T. R., Evans, A., Woodward, C. E., Page, K. L., & Starrfield, S. (2025). Near-infrared spectroscopy of the recurrent nova M31N 2008-12a. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 540(2 - June 2025), 1780-1785. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf817

Near-infrared (NIR) 0.9–2.5 m spectra of the remarkable recurrent nova (RN) M31N 2008-12a were obtained on days 6.3 and 10.3 after discovery of its 2024 outburst, and are the first NIR spectra of this object. The only prominent line seen in the spect... Read More about Near-infrared spectroscopy of the recurrent nova M31N 2008-12a.

Molecularly Defined Glycocalyx Models Reveal AB5 Toxins Recognize Their Target Glycans Superselectively (2025)
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Saltor Núñez, L., Kumar, V., Ross, J. F., Dolan, J. P., Srimasorn, S., Zhang, X., Richter, R. P., & Turnbull, W. B. (2025). Molecularly Defined Glycocalyx Models Reveal AB5 Toxins Recognize Their Target Glycans Superselectively. JACS Au, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.5c00305

AB5 toxins are a class of bacterial toxins that recognize cell surface carbohydrates to facilitate their uptake by the target cell. Among them are cholera toxin (CT) from Vibrio cholerae that causes cholera, and Shiga toxin (STx) from Shigella dysent... Read More about Molecularly Defined Glycocalyx Models Reveal AB5 Toxins Recognize Their Target Glycans Superselectively.

Benign/Cancer Diagnostics Based on X-Ray Diffraction: Comparison of Data Analytics Approaches (2025)
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Alekseev, A., Shcherbakov, V., Avdieiev, O., Denisov, S. A., Kubytskyi, V., Blinchevsky, B., Murokh, S., Ajeer, A., Adams, L., Greenwood, C., Rogers, K., Jones, L. J., Mourokh, L., & Lazarev, P. (2025). Benign/Cancer Diagnostics Based on X-Ray Diffraction: Comparison of Data Analytics Approaches. Cancers, 17(10), Article 1662. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers17101662

Background/Objectives: With the number of detected breast cancer cases growing every year, there is a need to augment histopathological analysis with fast preliminary screening. We examine the feasibility of using X-ray diffraction measurements for t... Read More about Benign/Cancer Diagnostics Based on X-Ray Diffraction: Comparison of Data Analytics Approaches.

The 22 Ne( α,n) 25 Mg reaction - state of the art, astrophysics, and perspectives (2025)
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Best, A., Adsley, P., Amberger, R., Battino, U., Chillery, T., La Cognata, M., deBoer, R. J., Mercogliano, D., Ota, S., Rapagnani, D., Sidhu, R. S., Spartà, R., Tumino, A., & Wiescher, M. (2025). The 22 Ne( α,n) 25 Mg reaction - state of the art, astrophysics, and perspectives. European Physical Journal A: Hadrons and Nuclei, 61(5), Article 99. https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01572-y

One of the most important stellar neutron sources is the 22Ne(α, n)25Mg reaction, which gets activated both during the helium intershell burning in asymptotic giant branch stars and in core helium and shell carbon burning in massive stars. The 22Ne(α... Read More about The 22 Ne( α,n) 25 Mg reaction - state of the art, astrophysics, and perspectives.

A modular, reusable biocatalytic flow system for UDP-GlcNAc production (2025)
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Roberts, T. L., Dolan, J. P., Miller, G. J., Lima, M. A. D., & Cosgrove, S. C. (2025). A modular, reusable biocatalytic flow system for UDP-GlcNAc production. Reaction Chemistry and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1039/d5re00127g

We report here the continuous flow synthesis of a high-value sugar nucleotide. Immobilisation of enzymes onto solid carriers permitted transfer of the biocatalysts into packed bed reactors to realise a continuous biocatalytic platform for the synthes... Read More about A modular, reusable biocatalytic flow system for UDP-GlcNAc production.

The Gaseous Blowout of the 30 Doradus Starburst Region in the LMC (2025)
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Poudel, S., Horton, A., Vazquez, J., Barger, K. A., Cashman, F. H., Fox, A. J., Lehner, N., Lucchini, S., Krishnarao, D., McClure-Griffiths, N. M., D’Onghia, E., Tumlinson, J., Tuli, A. G., Sdun, L., Gebhart, S., Anthony, K., Cole, B., van Loon, J. T., Roman-Duval, J., Ma, Y. K., …Leahy, D. (2025). The Gaseous Blowout of the 30 Doradus Starburst Region in the LMC. Astrophysical Journal, 984(2), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adc099

Widespread galactic winds emanate from the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), with the 30 Doradus starburst region generating the fastest and most concentrated gas flows. We report on the gas distribution, kinematics, and ionization conditions of the near... Read More about The Gaseous Blowout of the 30 Doradus Starburst Region in the LMC.

Benchmark stars for mean stellar density and surface gravity estimates of solar-type stars (2025)
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Maxted, P. F. L. (2025). Benchmark stars for mean stellar density and surface gravity estimates of solar-type stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 539(4), 3741-3757. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf735

Adding an independent estimate of the mean stellar density, , as a constraint in the analysis of stars that host transiting exoplanets can significantly improve the precision of the planet radius estimate in cases where the light curve is too noisy t... Read More about Benchmark stars for mean stellar density and surface gravity estimates of solar-type stars.

TOI-6478 b: a cold under-dense Neptune transiting a fully convective M dwarf from the thick disc (2025)
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Scott, M. G., Triaud, A. H. M. J., Barkaoui, K., Sebastian, D., Burgasser, A. J., Collins, K. A., Dransfield, G., Hellier, C., Howell, S. B., Piette, A. A. A., Rackham, B. V., Stassun, K. G., Stokholm, A., Timmermans, M., Watkins, C. N., Fausnaugh, M., Fukui, A., Jenkins, J. M., Narita, N., Ricker, G., …Watanabe, D. (2025). TOI-6478 b: a cold under-dense Neptune transiting a fully convective M dwarf from the thick disc. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 540(2), 1909–1927. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf684

Growing numbers of exoplanet detections continue to reveal the diverse nature of planetary systems. Planet formation around late-type M dwarfs is of particular interest. These systems provide practical laboratories to measure exoplanet occurrence rat... Read More about TOI-6478 b: a cold under-dense Neptune transiting a fully convective M dwarf from the thick disc.

A Neutral Hydrogen Absorption Study of Cold Gas in the Outskirts of the Magellanic Clouds Using the GASKAP-H i Survey (2025)
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Chen, H., Stanimirović, S., Pingel, N. M., Dempsey, J., Buckland-Willis, F., Clark, S. E., Dénes, H., Dickey, J. M., Gibson, S., Jameson, K., Kemp, I., Leahy, D., Lee, M.-Y., Lynn, C., Ma, Y. K., McClure-Griffiths, N. M., Murray, C. E., Nguyen, H., Uscanga, L., van Loon, J. T., & Vázquez-Semadeni, E. (2025). A Neutral Hydrogen Absorption Study of Cold Gas in the Outskirts of the Magellanic Clouds Using the GASKAP-H i Survey. Astronomical Journal, 169(5), Article 284. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/adc67c

Cold neutral hydrogen (H i) is a crucial precursor for molecular gas formation and can be studied via H i absorption. This study investigates H i absorption in low column density regions of the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds (SMC and LMC) using th... Read More about A Neutral Hydrogen Absorption Study of Cold Gas in the Outskirts of the Magellanic Clouds Using the GASKAP-H i Survey.

The growth of a lithium abundance dispersion in pre-main-sequence stars (2025)
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Jackson, R. J., Jeffries, R. D., & Tognelli, E. (2025). The growth of a lithium abundance dispersion in pre-main-sequence stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 539(4), 3364-3380. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf683

Lithium is predicted, and observed, to be depleted in contracting low-mass pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars. Yet, these stars reach the zero-age main-sequence (ZAMS) with a spread in lithium abundance at a given effective temperature that is not predict... Read More about The growth of a lithium abundance dispersion in pre-main-sequence stars.

Shape and spin state model of contact binary (388188) 2006 DP14using combined radar and optical observations (2025)
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Cannon, R. E., Rożek, A., Brozović, M., Pravec, P., Snodgrass, C., Busch, M. W., Robinson, J. E., Donaldson, A., Holc, T., Benner, L. A. M., Naidu, S., Kušnirák, P., Gardener, D., Kučáková, H., Khalouei, E., Pollock, J., Bonavita, M., Fatka, P., Hornoch, K., Sajadian, S., …Tregloan-Reed, J. (in press). Shape and spin state model of contact binary (388188) 2006 DP14using combined radar and optical observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 538(4), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf371

Contact binaries are found throughout the solar system. The recent discovery of Selam, the satellite of MBA (152830) Dinkinesh, by the NASA LUCY mission has made it clear that the term ‘contact binary’ covers a variety of different types of bi-modal... Read More about Shape and spin state model of contact binary (388188) 2006 DP14using combined radar and optical observations.

The EBLM project – XIV. TESS light curves for eclipsing binaries with very low mass companions (2025)
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Fitzpatrick, J., Maxted, P. F. L., Freckelton, A. V., Triaud, A. H. M. J., Martin, D. V., & Duck, A. (in press). The EBLM project – XIV. TESS light curves for eclipsing binaries with very low mass companions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 537(4), 3943–3953. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf268

Accurate limb-darkening models are needed for accurate characterisation of eclipsing binary stars and transiting exoplanets from the analysis of their light curves. The limb-darkening observed in solar-type stars from the analysis of light curves for... Read More about The EBLM project – XIV. TESS light curves for eclipsing binaries with very low mass companions.

Equatorial Enhancement in the Dustiest OH/IR Stars in the Galactic Bulge (2025)
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Goldman, S. R., van Loon, J. T., Jones, O. C., Blommaert, J. A. D. L., & Groenewegen, M. A. T. (2025). Equatorial Enhancement in the Dustiest OH/IR Stars in the Galactic Bulge. Astrophysical Journal, 980(2), 191. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ada6ad

We have detected the 10 μm silicate feature and the 11.3 μm crystalline forsterite feature in absorption in 21 oxygen-rich asymptotic giant branch stars in the Galactic bulge. The depths of the 10 μm feature indicate highly obscured circumstellar env... Read More about Equatorial Enhancement in the Dustiest OH/IR Stars in the Galactic Bulge.