Tidal Tugs Shed Light on Binary Companions
How can tides help us find hidden compact companions and yield detailed physics on stellar binaries?
A Brown Dwarf in the Desert
Today’s authors found a unique occupant of the “brown dwarf desert,” on an extremely close orbit around its M dwarf host.
Hot planets hiding under a shroud of dust and gas
Evaporating close-in planets could be found more efficiently if you look for them around stars enshrouded in the escaping planetary material.
Astrobites at AAS 235: Day 4
We report on Day 4 of the winter AAS meeting in Honolulu, HI.
TESS reveals HD118203 b transits after 13 years
TESS is out searching for new exoplanets, but on this occasion, it saw an old one in a new light.
Searching for Supernova Survivors
Supernovae may be among the most powerful events in the cosmos, but astronomers think that companion stars may be able to survive these intense explosions.