Michael Hippke and Daniel Angerhausen 2015 ApJ 810 29
PLATO 2.0, an exoplanetary mission planned for 2024, will observe >1 billion stars and will have the capability to detect Venus and Earth analogs, or even transiting exomoons, with enough data.
Alberto Zonca et al 2015 ApJ 810 70
The extinction profiles of the Magellanic Clouds are successfully modeled by absorption by a population of classical dust grains and a collection of free-flying polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
Maxwell Moe and Rosanne Di Stefano 2015 ApJ 810 61
A study of 221 eclipsing binaries in the LMC suggests that 1) younger eclilpsing binaries tend to reside in dustier environments, and 2) younger eclipsing binaries generally have large eccentricities.
E. Dalessandro et al 2015 ApJ 810 40
NGC 6101 shows no evidence of mass segregation, even in the innermost regions, making it one of the few globulars where the absence of mass segregation has been observed so far.
Jincheng Guo et al 2015 ApJ 810 L17
A candidate debris disk was identified around the white dwarf SDSS J114404.74+052951.6, potentially making this one of the hottest and youngest WD debris-disk systems.
Dheeraj R. Pasham et al 2015 ApJ 811 L11
The detection of quasi-periodic oscillations in the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 1313 X-1 have led researchers to estimate that this source may be an intermediate-mass black hole.