P. M. Saz Parkinson et al 2016 ApJ 820 8
Machine learning techniques can classify Fermi/LAT sources as AGN or pulsars with >96% accuracy, and pulsars as young or millisecond with ~90% accuracy. This can be used to identify unassociated sources.
Nicholas W. Troup et al 2016 AJ 151 85
Initial results are presented for 382 of the most compelling stellar/substellar companion candidates detected by APOGEE, found orbiting a variety of host stars in diverse environments in the Milky Way.
Vincent L. Fish et al 2016 ApJ 820 90
Initial observations by the Event Horizon Telescope demonstrate that the mm emission from the Galactic-center black hole Sagittarius A* is asymmetric on scales similar to the black hole’s shadow.
S. Dasadia et al 2016 ApJ 820 L20
Deep Chandra observations of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 665 have revealed a strong shock with a Mach number of M=3 propagating in front of a cold, disrupted cloud.
A. J. Bird et al 2016 ApJS 223 15
A new all-sky soft gamma-ray (17-100 keV) source catalog is reported from the first 1000 orbits of INTEGRAL. It includes 939 sources, of which 120 are previously undiscovered soft gamma-ray emitters.
B. Sicardy et al 2016 ApJ 819 L38
Ground-based stellar occultation measurements of Pluto’s atmosphere two weeks before the New Horizons flyby show that its atmosphere is still expanding, with a 5% pressure increase since 2013.