Yan-Fei Jiang (姜燕飞) et al 2016 ApJ 830 125
Simulations show that the collisions of a tidal disruption stream with itself can contribute significant optical and ultraviolet light to the flares produced by tidal disruption events, explaining much of the emission.
Joseph D. Twicken et al 2016 AJ 152 158
The 17-quarter primary Kepler mission included 198,709 stellar targets. The final Kepler Data Processing Pipeline search, emphasizing completeness over reliability, identified 34,032 transit signatures.
Daehyeon Oh et al 2016 ApJL 831 L7
Subaru and HiCIAO observations of the transitional disk around solar-like star GM Aur resolves a large inner cavity with radius 18 AU and suggests the possible presence of a 3–4 Jupiter-mass planet at ~20 AU.
E. Chapellier et al 2016 ApJS 226 21
The photometric database from the exoplanet-hunting ASTEP program is used to find data and light curves for 673 eclipsing binaries and 1166 variable stars in the southern hemisphere.
D. P. Bennett et al 2016 AJ 152 125
The first circumbinary microlensing event, OGLE-2007-BLG-349, reveals a planet orbiting two M dwarf stars that total ~0.7 solar masses. This is the lowest-mass circumbinary planet system known.
Christopher J. Conselice et al 2016 ApJ 830 83
Observed galaxy stellar mass functions up to z~8 are used to estimate the evolution of the number density of galaxies in the universe. Results suggest a total of 2 trillion galaxies exist in the universe up to z~8.