Kevin B. Burdge et al 2020 ApJL 905 L7
Newly discovered ZTF J2243+5242 is only the second known eclipsing double white dwarf binary with an orbital period of less than 10 minutes. The binary, which will merge in ~400,000 yr, should be detectable by LISA.
Helen Usher et al 2020 Planet. Sci. J. 1 84
An amateur observing campaign, set up to complement the Rosetta space mission, provided temporal coverage and multiscale observations; this can aid the study of fast-changing and large-scale comet features.
Steven Giacalone et al 2021 AJ 161 24
TRICERATOPS is a new vetting and validation tool to verify TESS objects of interest; it is the only tool currently available that models transits from nearby contaminant stars in addition to the target star.
Carl Melis et al 2020 ApJ 905 56
Optical spectroscopic observations of white dwarf stars within Gaia DR2 reveal nine new gaseous debris disks that orbit single white dwarf stars, a factor of ~2 increase over the previously known sample.
Joel C. Zinn et al 2020 ApJS 251 23
The second data release of red giant asteroseismic parameters from the K2 Galactic Archaeology Program include 4,395 radius and mass coefficients for red giants observed by the extended Kepler mission.
Miriam Cabero et al 2020 ApJL 904 L9
GWSkyNet is a real-time framework to distinguish between gravitational-wave events and instrumental artifacts using only publicly available information from the LIGO-Virgo open public alerts.