Yi Wen et al 2026 ApJL 1004 L8
A curious gamma-ray burst with ambiguous properties may have been caused by a giant flare from a magnetar, but this would make the event three orders of magnitude more energetic than others of its class.
Jackie Villadsen et al 2026 ApJ 1005 51
No bursty radio emission characteristic of star–planet interaction was detected from a sample of five M dwarfs with close-in terrestrial planets, but researchers were able to place limits on the magnetic fields of the planets.
SDSS Collaboration et al 2026 ApJS 285 9
For nearly three decades, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey has collected photometric and spectroscopic data for millions of objects; this article describes the most substantial data release to date for SDSS-V.
Stuart J. Robbins and Rachael H. Hoover 2026 Planet. Sci. J. 7 164
A uniform analysis of crater catalogs finds that practically all computer-generated catalogs return worse metrics than manually generated catalogs, though most catalogs do well in some areas and poorly in others.
Cheongho Han et al 2026 ApJ 1004 183
Three newly characterized microlensing events augment the growing list of events involving binary sources and lenses, emphasizing the importance of testing models of this complexity.
Cristobal Bordiu et al 2026 ApJL 1005 L34
Researchers have detected SO and SO2 for the first time in an early-type evolved star; these results suggest that B[e]supergiants could be useful for studying sulfur chemistry under extreme radiation conditions.