Duane F. Carbon et al 2017 ApJS 228 19

A new search approach for large spectrum data sets found 59 new extremely metal-poor stars, 11 new carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars, and 2 new cataclysmic variable stars in the SDSS DR10 data set.

F. Moreno et al 2017 ApJL 837 L3

Deep-imaging observations, orbital dynamics, and dust-tail model analyses of the double-component asteroid P/2016 J1 reveal that it likely split into two near its previous perihelion passage ~2300 days ago.

Carl Melis and P. Dufour 2017 ApJ 834 1

Observations of this white dwarf star reveal heavy elements that indicate the WD recently accreted rocky material like that of our Moon, perhaps coming from the outer layers of a differentiated object.

Vladimir S. Airapetian et al 2017 ApJL 836 L3

Many Earth-like exoplanets around M and K stars will lose a significant fraction of their atmospheric oxygen and nitrogen due to XUV radiation, rendering them uninhabitable within a few 10–100 Myr.

Klaus Scherer et al 2016 ApJ 833 38

A careful treatment of the change in entropy across shocks is developed in this work, providing a better picture of how fluid behaves at the interface of the heliosphere (or an astrosphere) with the ISM.

Daniel Foreman-Mackey et al 2016 AJ 152 206

A fully automated search for long-period exoplanets with only 1 or 2 transits in the archival Kepler light curves of 40,000 Sun-like target stars found 16 long-period exoplanet candidates.