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.
Jessica Agarwal et al 2016 AJ 151 12
HST observations of active asteroid 288P/300163 reveal the small vertical extent of its surface dust sheet, ejection speeds well below the nucleus escape speed, and the possibility of a binary nucleus.
Victoria Scowcroft et al 2016 ApJ 816 49
Spitzer observations of classical Cepheids establish a precise distance of 62 ± 0.3 kpc to the SMC. They also confirm the SMC is tilted, such that the eastern side is 20 kpc closer than the western side.
Q. Hao et al 2015 ApJS 221 33
A catalog is created of solar filaments that formed between 1988 and 2013. Statistical analysis reveals relations between the latitudinal location of the filaments and their tilt angles and directions.
Markus Janson et al 2016 ApJ 816 L1
A newly detected feature in the scattered-light image of the circumbinary disk around the young double star AK Sco may be an eccentric ring or spiral arms, possibly caused by an orbiting planet.
K. I. I. Koljonen et al 2015 ApJ 814 139
The properties of jets produced by black holes may be primarily dependent on the properties of the plasma near the black hole, rather than on parameters like the black hole’s mass or spin.