Richard S. Miller and David J. Lawrence 2016 ApJ 823 L31
NASA’s Lunar Prospector mission detected Cygnus X-1 from the Moon at MeV energies, demonstrating the feasibility of the Lunar Occultation Technique and using the Moon as a platform for science.
E. M. Schlegel et al 2016 ApJ 823 75
A double-arc-like X-ray structure lying south of NGC 5195’s nucleus suggest a focused outflow from episodic outbursts of its central supermassive black hole.
Andrew Schenck et al 2016 AJ 151 161
Archival Chandra X-ray data for 16 supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud provide new elemental abundance measurements for the interstellar medium of this Milky Way satellite.
V. Ripepi et al 2016 ApJS 224 21
Light curves are presented for 4172 classical cepheids in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). These data are used to estimate the relative SMC–LMC distance and the absolute distance to the SMC.
Stephen Durkan et al 2016 ApJ 824 58
Re-analysis of archival Spitzer IRAC surveys indicate that the frequency of 0.5–13 Jupiter-mass planets at separations of 10–1000 AU is less than 9% in the study sample.
Kumiko Kotera and Joseph Silk 2016 ApJ 823 L29
If merging black holes like those in LIGO detection GW140915 have spin, relic magnetic fields, and surrounding disk debris, the merger environment could accelerate ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays.