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.
S. Renner et al 2016 AJ 151 122
Saturn’s moon Atlas exhibits a chaotic orbit whose dynamics are primarily controlled by resonant perturbations from the moon Prometheus. This may be common in satellite evolution around giant planets.
S. Heinis et al 2016 ApJ 821 86
A set of machine-learning tools are shown to be useful for automatically differentiating between stars and galaxies in large survey catalogs, and also for estimating photometric redshifts of galaxies.