Edwin S. Kite and Laura Schaefer 2021 ApJL 909 L22
A new model predicts that most rocky planets that have orbital periods of 10–100 days and that have radii within 0.1–0.2 Earth radii of the lower edge of the radius valley can still retain water-dominated atmospheres.
Matteo Messa et al 2021 ApJ 909 121
Observations of a sample of 100 extincted star clusters suggest that typical timescales for clearing the natal gas cloud are in between 3 and 5 Myr, roughly 1 Myr older than found in previous studies.
Brian P. Powell et al 2021 AJ 161 162
Analysis of TESS data has revealed TIC 168789840, the first known sextuple system consisting of three eclipsing binaries; they lie in a hierarchical structure of an inner quadruple system with an outer binary subsystem.
Federico Marocco et al 2021 ApJS 253 8
The CatWISE2020 Catalog consists of 1,890,715,640 sources over the entire sky selected from Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and NEOWISE survey data at 3.4 and 4.6 μm collected from 2010 to 2018.
José G. Fernández-Trincado et al 2021 ApJL 908 L42
New abundance analysis shows VVV CL001 is one of the most metal-deficient clusters in our galaxy, indicating it could be an ancient fossil relic left behind by a massive merger event early in our galaxy’s evolution.
Florian Peißker et al 2021 ApJ 909 62
New multiwavelength analysis of the dusty and gaseous bow shock source X7 indicate that this is a dust-enshrouded stellar object that is interacting with a nuclear wind arising from the supermassive black hole Sgr A*.