Stellar-mass black holes have all been discovered through X-ray emission, which arises from the accretion of gas from their binary companions (this gas is...
A benchmark JWST near-infrared spectrum for the exoplanet WASP-39 b
Observing exoplanets through transmission spectroscopy supplies detailed information about their atmospheric composition, physics and chemistry. Before the...
A biconical ionised gas outflow and evidence of positive feedback in NGC 7172 uncovered by MIRI/JWST
We present observations of the type-2 Seyfert NGC 7172 obtained with the medium-resolution spectrometer (MRS) of the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on board the...
A binary merger origin for inflated hot Jupiter planets
We hypothesize that hot Jupiters with inflated sizes represent a separate planet formation channel, the merging of two low-mass stars. We show that the...
We have discovered an object in the field of the Galactic open cluster [1]36 which exhibits a nebulous tail-like structure and a high velocity outflow. We first...
A Black Hole Nova Obscured by an Inner Disk Torus.
Stellar-mass black holes (BHs) are mostly found in X-ray transients, a subclass of X-ray binaries that exhibit violent outbursts. None of the 50 Galactic BHs...
A black hole X-ray binary at ̃100 Hz: multiwavelength timing of MAXI J1820+070 with HiPERCAM and NICER
We report on simultaneous sub-second optical and X-ray timing observations of the low-mass X-ray binary black hole candidate MAXI J1820+070. The bright 2018...
A black widow population dissection through HiPERCAM multiband light-curve modelling
Black widows are extreme millisecond pulsar binaries where the pulsar wind ablates their low-mass companion stars. In the optical range, their light curves vary...
A blind detection of a large, complex, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich structure
We present an interesting Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) detection in the first of the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) ‘blind’, degree-square fields to have been...