Gilles Chabrier and Romain Lenoble 2023 ApJL 944 L33
The central bulge of our galaxy may have the same stellar and brown dwarf initial mass function as the galactic disk, suggesting that brown dwarfs form in the same way that stars do.
Kevin France et al 2023 AJ 165 63
A recent cubesat mission aims to detect the extended atmospheres of nearby exoplanets undergoing atmospheric escape — a process thought to play a fundamental role in the evolution of exoplanetary atmospheres.
Fiamma Capitanio et al 2023 ApJ 943 129
The first observations by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer of a weakly magnetized neutron star allowed researchers to place an upper limit on the object’s polarization and constrain its inclination.
A laboratory investigation of space weathering — chemical and physical processes that change the spectral properties of asteroids — suggests that the solar wind plays a dominant role in weathering.
F. Massaro et al 2023 ApJS 265 32
Researchers have compiled a new catalog of 264 southern radio sources, a large portion of which have known optical and mid-infrared counterparts as well as redshift estimates.
Hayk Hakobyan et al 2023 ApJ 943 105
Three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of a pulsar magnetosphere illuminate the pathways through which energy is dissipated as a function of the pulsar’s inclination angle, among other factors.