G. B. Lansbury et al 2017 ApJ 846 20
Eight NuSTAR sources with extremely hard X-ray spectra are identified as highly obscured active galactic nuclei, including three robust Compton-thick AGN at low redshift and one likely one at higher redshift.
A. K. Dupree et al 2017 ApJL 846 L1
Two populations of rotating stars — one rapidly rotating, and the other younger and slowly rotating — have been discovered in the young (~200 Myr) Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) cluster NGC 1866.
Sarah Millholland and Gregory Laughlin 2017 AJ 154 83
A supervised learning algorithm has been used to detect 60 high-probability non-transiting short-period giant planets in the Kepler field, after classifying ~140,000 Kepler stars.
Young-Soo Jo et al 2017 ApJS 231 21
The first all-sky map of far-ultraviolet fluorescent molecular hydrogen emission in the Milky Way covers 76% of the sky and allows for future exploration of the galaxy’s interstellar medium.
Eliza M.-R. Kempton et al 2017 ApJL 845 L20
Photochemically generated hazes and equilibrium condensate clouds can be distinguished in observations of exoplanet atmospheres based on the transmission spectra measured at the planet limbs.
H. Boyce et al 2017 ApJ 846 14
The dynamics of the Large Magellanic Cloud are analyzed to arrive at a 3-sigma upper limit of 10^7.1 solar masses for the mass of the potential black hole in the LMC’s center.