Jason Galyardt and Robin L. Shelton 2016 ApJ 816 L18
If the Smith high velocity cloud has a dark-matter minihalo, simulations suggest the cloud’s gas was accreted in a collision with the Galactic disk. If it’s dark matter free, then this is the cloud’s first approach.
Ing-Guey Jiang et al 2016 AJ 151 17
New data and analysis finds an orbital decay rate for the short-period exoplanet WASP-43b of ~0.029 s/yr, an order of magnitude lower than previously reported rates.
M. G. Aartsen et al 2016 ApJ 816 75
No significant source of transient neutrino emission was found in the low-energy (30–300 GeV) muon-neutrino sample collected by IceCube, providing some upper limits on their production.
Seiji Fujimoto et al 2016 ApJS 222 1
Statistics of 133 faint 1.2 mm continuum sources detected by ALMA suggest that most observed extragalactic background light (EBL) at 1.2 mm is contributed by sources with at least 0.02 mJy.
Elisa Toloba et al 2016 ApJ 816 L5
The unusual elongation and extremely low surface brightness of the newly discovered dwarf galaxy Scl-MM-Dw2 suggest it may be being tidally disrupted by NGC 253, its possible host.
Murray Brightman et al 2016 ApJ 816 60
A remarkably bright pulsar recently discovered in M82 is not a transient, as was previously believed; analysis of Chandra observations show it has been highly active throughout the last 15 years.