Gaia: The New Kepler?
There’s a new space telescope on the block, which just might find as many new planet candidates as the Kepler mission.
How Massive is Kappa Andromedae B?
A “Super-Jupiter” recently discovered by direct imaging techniques may not be as it initially seemed. Hinkley et al. find the system to be older than expected and the Super-Jupiter to really be a brown dwarf.
More hypervelocity stars are jetting out of the galaxy
Palladino et al. find 13 new hypervelocity star candidates in the galaxy and find they probably do not originate from the center of the galaxy.
(Not) Detecting Planets around Brown Dwarfs with Radio Waves
Forbich, Berger, and Reid attempt to use a large radio array to detect stellar wobbles induced by orbiting planets at larger separations than are usually probed
Seeing Black Holes with a Gas Cloud
The gas cloud G2 is rapidly approaching the galactic center. Can tidal disruption events with stellar remnants help constrain its orbit?