Frédérique Baron et al 2018 AJ 156 137

WEIRD survey results constrain the occurrence of 1–13 M_Jup planetary-mass companions on orbits with a semimajor axis between 1,000 and 5,000 AU at less than 0.03, with a 95% confidence level.

Eli Visbal and Zoltán Haiman 2018 ApJL 865 L9

Simulations suggest that high-redshift direct-collapse black holes will be distinguishable from smaller black-hole seeds due to the unusually high hlack-hole mass to stellar mass ratios of the faintest observed quasars.

Athanasios Papageorgiou et al 2018 ApJS 238 4

Data from the Catalina Sky Surveys is used to produce an updated catalog of 4,680 northern eclipsing binaries that have well-defined beginnings and ends of their primary and secondary eclipses (Algol-type).

Scott J. Kenyon et al 2018 ApJ 864 130

For typical hypervelocity stars ejected from the galactic center toward low (high) galactic latitudes, the disk bends trajectories by up to 30° (3°–10°); the Large Magellanic Cloud often produces similar deflections.

Ping Zhou et al 2018 ApJL 865 L6

XMM-Newton observations of the supernova remnant SNR G7.7−3.7 suggest that its position and age are compatible with a supernova origin noted in Chinese historical records as a “guest star” in 386 CE.

Joshua Krissansen-Totton et al 2018 AJ 156 114

~10 transit observations of a planet with JWST may be sufficient to detect carbon dioxide and constrain methane abundances sufficiently well to rule out known, nonbiological methane production scenarios.