Lars A. Buchhave et al 2016 AJ 152 160
New observations of the Kepler-20 solar system characterize the 1.8 Earth-radius Kepler-20b as the most massive planet with a likely rocky composition found, and reveal a sixth planet that doesn’t transit.
T. L. Campante et al 2016 ApJ 830 138
NASA’s upcoming Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission is predicted to detect solar-like oscillations in several hundred exoplanet host stars, including both solar-type and red-giant stars.
J. J. DeLaunay et al 2016 ApJL 832 L1
A transient gamma-ray counterpart was found with Swift for the fast radio burst FRB 131104 — but the energy and timescale of the gamma-ray emission are inconsistent with most current models for FRBs.
Samir Salim et al 2016 ApJS 227 2
A catalog of the physical properties of ~700,000 galaxies at z < 0.3 is used to argue that a comparison of star formation rates (SFRs) is less informative and physically motivated than one of specific SFRs.
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.