S. Xu (许偲艺) et al 2017 ApJL 836 L7
The discovery of the accretion of a Kuiper-Belt-Object analog onto the atmosphere of a white dwarf reveal that such objects could deliver volatiles to terrestrial planets beyond the solar system.
Sudip Mandal et al 2016 ApJ 828 72
Observations from HINODE and SDO of longitudinal waves in a coronal loop suggest that footpoint heating can generate a slow wave which then reflects back and forth in the loop before fading.
Konstantin V. Getman et al 2016 AJ 152 188
Chandra observations of four nearby young, eccentric binaries tentatively suggest that colliding magnetospheres in young high-eccentricity binaries might produce elevated average levels of X-ray activity.
Natasha E. Batalha et al 2017 ApJL 836 L5
Degeneracies are shown to exist between transmission spectra of super-Earth planets with different masses and compositions, indicating difficulty in determining a planet’s mass from transmission spectroscopy alone.
Szymon Kozłowski 2017 ApJS 228 9
The black-hole masses are calculated for nearly 300,000 active galactic nuclei using broad emission line data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Data Release 12 (DR12Q).
Taiki Suzuki et al 2016 ApJ 825 79
A survey has detected CH2NH, a precursor to the amino acid glycine, in 8 sources in the ISM. These observations may improve our understanding of how the ingredients for life came to be on Earth.