Simon B. Porter et al 2016 ApJ 828 L15

The LORRI instrument on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made the first close observations of any Kuiper Belt object other than Pluto, constraining 1994 JR1’s surface properties and rotation period.

R. M. Shannon et al 2016 ApJ 828 L1

A broadband variation is noted in the pulse profile of the millisecond pulsar J1643−1224. Understanding and accounting for such profile variations is essential for pulsar-timing experiments.

Michelle Lochner et al 2016 ApJS 225 31

A pipeline is developed for automated photometric supernova classification that can achieve accurate classification purely from light curve data, without the need for any redshift information.

E. Schlawin et al 2016 ApJ 826 156

New observations of KIC 12557548b, which is believed to be a small rocky planet with a trailing comet-like tail of dusty debris, show larger particles and a shallower transit depth than previous observations.

Elisabeth R. Adams et al 2016 AJ 152 47

Data from Kepler’s K2 mission reveals 19 planet candidates with periods of <1 day, yielding an occurrence rate for ultra-short-period planets among K2 stars that’s ~1/2 that estimated from the Kepler sample.

S. J. Smartt et al 2016 ApJ 827 L40

The search for an optical counterpart to GW151226 using Pan-STARRS1 yielded 49 extragalactic transients, none of which were found to be likely to be linked to the gravitational wave signal.