T. Sumi et al 2016 ApJ 825 112
MOA-2013-BLG-605Lb is presented as the first Neptune-analog exoplanet. Its mass is similar to Neptune or a super-Earth and it orbits at 9-14 times its system’s snow line distance, compared to Neptune’s 11x.
M. L. Lister et al 2016 AJ 152 12
New insights into the kinematics of relativistic jets emitted from active galactic nuclei are presented, based on 1625 new 15 GHz VLBA images of 295 jets, spanning observations between 1994 and 2013.
E. K. Campbell et al 2016 ApJ 826 L4
The spectral signature of an unusual cation was recently detected for the first time in diffuse interstellar clouds. New laboratory experiments examine its absorption spectrum to compare with observations.
Keunho Kim et al 2016 ApJS 225 6
A database of 2D bulge–disk decompositions for 14,233 SDSS galaxies is presented and used to examine the properties of bulges residing in the local universe (0.005 < z < 0.05).
B. E. Tetarenko et al 2016 ApJ 825 10
The radio source VLA J213002.08+120904 (found at 2.2 kpc) is the first black hole X-ray binary discovered in quiescence outside of a globular cluster. There’s likely a large population of such objects in our galaxy.
Adam L. Kraus et al 2016 AJ 152 8
High-resolution imaging of 382 Kepler Objects of Interest reveals a paucity of binary companions at solar-system scales, suggesting that the influence of a binary companion prevents planetary-system formation.