Robert H. Tyler et al. 2015 ApJS 218 22
Models of the tidal heating of Jupiter’s moon Io that include a magma ocean just below its surface suggest that including both solid and fluid tidal responses is important for matching observations.
Alexander J. Mustill et al. 2015 ApJ 808 14
In systems with Hot Jupiters, low-mass planets aren’t observed close to the host star. Hot Jupiters may clear all the low-mass inner planets out of the system as their orbits circularize.
Eric R. Coughlin and Chris Nixon 2015 ApJ 808 L11
Simulations show that when a star is disrupted by a supermassive black hole, the self-gravity of the tidal stream causes it to clump as it falls back onto the black hole, affecting the fallback rate.
Sijing Shen et al. 2015 ApJ 807 115
This galactic chemical evolution model suggests that compact binary mergers might be the dominant source of r-process nucleosynthesis in our galaxy.
Thomas R. Ayres 2015 AJ 150 7
Observations of EK Draconis, a young (50 Myr) solar analog, suggest that in its normal state, its stellar corona is constantly flaring. It may appear quiescent at times, but this is an illusion!
N. J. Brassington et al. 2015 ApJS 218 6
Analysis of Spitzer observations found that star-formation rates in nearby spiral galaxies that were interacting are higher than in a general sample of spiral galaxies nearby.