K. Garcia-Sage et al 2017 ApJL 844 L13
Models show an Earth-like planet would not be able to prevent the evaporation of its atmosphere due to incoming stellar EUV flux at Proxima Centauri b’s location around its host star.
David A. Neufeld et al 2017 ApJ 843 94
The GREAT instrument on SOFIA was used to discover water maser emission at frequencies above 1 THz toward three oxygen-rich evolved stars: W Hya, U Her, and VY CMa.
M. Damiano et al 2017 AJ 154 39
Transmission spectroscopy of HAT-P-32b, one of the most inflated exoplanets discovered, with Hubble reveal the presence of water vapor and clouds in the planet’s atmosphere.
L. Bisigello et al 2017 ApJS 231 3
James Webb Space Telescope images in different filters will allow us to recover various properties of distant galaxies like age, color excess, specific star formation rate, and stellar mass.
Natalia Ivanova et al 2017 ApJL 843 L30
In a dense globular cluster, grazing tidal encounters between subgiant stars and black holes could result in the formation of a low-mass X-ray binary with a non-degenerate donor.
A. U. Abeysekara et al 2017 ApJ 843 40
The first catalog of TeV gamma-ray sources is presented from the newly completed High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) — the most sensitive TeV survey to date for such a large fraction of the sky.