Fabio Antonini et al 2016 AJ 152 174
The majority of Jupiter pairs are shown to be dynamically unstable if the inner planet is placed more than 1 AU from the host star, suggesting such planets could not have tidally migrated to their current orbits.
Brian Punsly and Preeti Kharb 2016 ApJ 833 57
Deep Very Large Array imaging is used to detect diffuse extended structure — radio lobes — around the jets of the famous radio-loud quasar 3C 273 for the first time.
André Izidoro et al 2016 ApJ 833 40
The orbits of the asteroids in our solar system may have been excited to their current state if Jupiter’s and Saturn’s early orbits were chaotic, and the gas giants only later moved to their current orbits.
Michael G. Gowanlock 2016 ApJ 832 38
Models of the lethality of long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in the Milky Way suggest that over the past 1 Gyr, the inner Galaxy hosts the greatest density of stars (and associated planets) that survive GRB events.
Sota Arakawa and Taishi Nakamoto 2016 ApJL 832 L19
A solar system model is put forward in which nm-sized silicate grains are produced by evaporation and recondensation events in early solar nebula, and these nanograins aggregate into rocky planetesimals.
Daisuke Homma et al 2016 ApJ 832 21
Early survey data from Subaru’s Hyper Suprime-Cam program reveals the presence of a new ultra-faint dwarf satellite companion of the Milky Way, located in the constellation of Virgo.