Marta L. Bryan et al 2016 ApJ 821 89
8 new long-period gas giants are found in a search of 123 exoplanetary systems for companions, bringing the occurrence rate for the sample to 52% for 1-20 Jupiter-mass companions at 5-20 AU.
Saurabh Sharma et al 2016 AJ 151 126
A large number of deeply embedded low-mass young stellar objects were mapped out in eight southern bright-rimmed clouds. Their detection implies recent star formation in these clouds.
J-R Pycke and E. Russell 2016 ApJ 821 110
Analysis of the Cosmic Void Catalog shows that the size distribution of simulated cosmic voids in the universe is very similar to the galaxy log-normal mass distribution also obtained from numerical studies.
A. van der Wel et al 2016 ApJS 223 29
The Large Early Galaxy Census (LEGA-C), a spectroscopic survey of ~3200 galaxies with redshifts z = 0.6 − 1.0 and stellar masses >1010 solar masses, will let us map stellar content at large lookback time.
K. D. Alexander et al 2016 ApJ 819 L25
Transient radio emission was discovered from the tidal disruption event ASASSN-14l. This first-ever radio detection for a typical TDE provides evidence for the formation of a non-relativistic outflow.
Bei You et al 2016 ApJ 821 104
One issue with the continuum-fitting method for estimating black-hole spin is the apparent decrease in spin with increasing source luminosity. This can be resolved by assuming the presence of a disk wind.