Eric D. Lopez and Jonathan J. Fortney 2016 ApJ 818 4
If hot Jupiters gain their large sizes by inflation due to stellar irradiation, then non-inflated gas giants at moderate orbital periods could “re-inflate” as their host stars evolve.
Hideko Nomura et al 2016 ApJ 819 L7
ALMA observations indicate the presence of a gap and a ring in the protoplanetary disk around Tw Hya, located at ~25 and ~41 AU from the central star, and associated with the CO snow line at ~30 AU.
Patrick M. Ogle et al 2016 ApJ 817 109
Newly discovered “super spiral galaxies” — giant, massive spiral galaxies as optically luminous as elliptical brightest cluster galaxies — may be a remnant population of unquenched, massive disk galaxies.
D. W. Gerdes et al 2016 AJ 151 39
Two new Trojan asteroids were discovered in stable orbits around Neptune’s leading Lagrange point — the 8th and 9th such objects found. Neptune Trojans help constrain the evolution of our solar system.
M. McDonald et al 2016 ApJ 817 86
A study of the 90 brightest cluster galaxies suggests that the dominant mode fueling their star formation may have recently transitioned from galaxy–galaxy interactions to cooling of the intracluster medium.
David Vartanyan et al 2016 ApJ 816 94
Analysis of the properties and evolution of protoplanetary disks around stellar binaries reveals that these are in many ways more favorable sites for planet formation than disks around single stars.