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Analysis of the Kepler Data Release 25 planet candidate list demonstrates that planet occurrence increases with metallicity for all planet radii Rp down to at least Rp ≈ 2 R⊕.
C. M. Ko et al 2020 ApJ 904 46
Calculations show that routine tidal disruption of stars by the supermassive black hole at the galactic center can provide enough cumulative energy to form and maintain large-scale structures like the Fermi Bubbles.
Tomoyuki Tajiri et al 2020 ApJS 251 18
35 dippers — young stellar objects that exhibit episodic dimming — are found within one year’s worth of Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) full-frame images using a convolutional neural network.
Felipe O. Alves et al 2020 ApJL 904 L6
New ALMA observations of a nearly edge-on disk reveal an interesting case where both a star (from the environment and the disk) and a planet (from the disk) are growing in tandem.
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New modeling suggests that volcanoes are unlikely to produce methane fluxes comparable to biological fluxes, indicating that atmospheric methane with carbon dioxide can be used as a biosignature.
Kevin C. Cooke et al 2020 ApJ 903 106
New observations of CQ 4479, a cold quasar at z ~ 0.405, reveal a starburst galaxy with a young stellar population, a high gas mass fraction, and an early-stage AGN that doesn’t yet dominate the far-infrared emission.