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Strange Inclinations: A Unique Multiplanet System
Title: Stellar Spin-Orbit Misalignment in a Multiplanet System Authors: Daniel Huber, Joshua A. Carter, Mauro Barbieri, et al. First Author’s Institution: NASA Ames Research Center Our Solar System is...
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Pinpointing Stellar Properties with Bayesian Statistics
Title: Fundamental Stellar Parameters and Metallicities from Bayesian Spectroscopy: Application to Low- and High-Resolution Spectra Authors: Ralph Schönrich and Maria Bergemann First Author’s...
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Timing is Everything: A Pulsar in Orbit
Title: A Millisecond Pulsar in a Stellar Triple System Authors: S. M. Ransom, I. H. Stairs, A. M. Archibald, et al. First Author’s Institution: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville,...
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Spots and Tantrums: A Moody X-ray Binary
Title: The Spotty Donor Star in the X-ray Transient Cen X-4 Authors: T. Shahbaz, C.A. Watson, and V.S. Dhillon First Author’s Institution: Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) and Dept....
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One Star, Two Star, Brown Star, Blue Star
Not-to-scale schematic cross section of a hot subdwarf B star. Credit: Uwe W. Title: Binaries discovered by the MUCHFUSS project: SDSS J162256.66+473051.1 – An eclipsing subdwarf B binary with a...
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Linking Stellar Age, Rotation, and Magnetic Activity
Title: Towards asteroseismically calibrated age-rotation-activity relations for Kepler solar-like stars Authors: R. A. García, T. Ceillier, D. Salabert, S. Mathur, J. L. van Saders, M. Pinsonneault,...
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Binary Hunting with Phase Variations
Title: Finding binaries among Kepler pulsating stars from phase modulation of their pulsations Authors: Simon J. Murphy, Timothy R. Bedding, Hiromoto Shibahashi, Donald W. Kurtz and Hans Kjeldsen...
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Titan’s Cameo as an Exoplanet
Title: Titan solar occultation observations reveal transit spectra of a hazy world Authors: Tyler D. Robinson, Luca Maltagliati, Mark S. Marley, and Jonathan J. Fortney First Author’s Institution:...
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SciCoder Recap
Given an infinite number of astronomers with an infinite number of Macs, somebody will eventually get a PhD. Last week, I attended the annual SciCoder workshop with fellow Astrobite author Adele...
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What’s in a Heartbeat?
Title: A Class of Eccentric Binaries with Dynamic Tidal Distortions Discovered With Kepler Authors: Susan E. Thompson, Mark Everett, Fergal Mullally, Thomas Barclay, Steve B. Howell, Martin Still,...
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Three Stars in a High-Energy Dance
Title: A multiwavelength study of the hierarchical triple HD 181068: A test bed for studying star-planet interaction? Authors: S. Czesla, K.F. Huber, P.C. Schneider, and J. H. M. M. Schmitt First...
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Mind the Gaps
Title: MIARMA: An information preserving method for filling gaps in time series (Application to CoRoT light curves) Authors: J. Pascual-Granado, R. Garrido, J. C Suárez First Author’s Institution:...
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Real-Time Stellar Evolution
Title: Evolution of the central stars of young planetary nebulae Authors: M. Hajduk, P. A. M. van Hoof, A. A. Zijlstra First Author’s Institution: Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, ul....
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Simulating X-ray Binary Winds
Title: Stellar wind in state transitions of high-mass X-ray binaries Authors: J. Čechura and P. Hadrava First Author’s Institution: Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic Paper...
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Cool Stars Have Magnetic Fields Too
Title: Molecules as magnetic probes of starspots Authors: N. Afram and S. V. Berdyugina First Author’s Institution: Kiepenheuer Institut für Sonnenphysik, Freiburg, Germany Paper Status: Submitted to...
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Wreaking Havoc with a Stellar Fly-By
Title: A tidal encounter caught in the act: modelling a star-disc fly-by in the young RW Aurigae system Authors: Fei Dai, Stefano Facchini, Cathie J. Clark, and Thomas J. Haworth First Author’s...
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A Cepheid Pulsator in an Eccentric Binary
Title: The Araucaria Project: The First-Overtone Classical Cepheid in the Eclipsing System OGLE-LMC-CEP-2532 Authors: B. Pilecki, D. Graczyk, W. Gieren, G. Pietrzyński, I. B. Thompson, R. Smolec, A....
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How do M-dwarf Stars Measure Up?
Title: A 0.24 + 0.18 M⊙ double-lined eclipsing binary from the HATSouth survey Authors: G. Zhou, D. Bayliss, J. D. Hartman, M. Rabus, G. Á. Bakos, A. Jordán, R. Brahm, K. Penev, Z. Csubry, L. Mancini,...
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Capella’s Secrets
Title: Capella (α Aurigae) Revisited: New Binary Orbit, Physical Properties, and Evolutionary State Authors: Guillermo Torres, Antonio Claret, Kresimir Pavlovski, and Aaron Dotter First Author’s...
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White Dwarf Surprise
Title: A Second Case of Outbursts in a Pulsating White Dwarf Observed by Kepler Authors: J. J. Hermes, M. H. Montgomery, Keaton J. Bell, P. Chote, B. T. Gänsicke, Steven D. Kawaler, J. C. Clemens, B....
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