Highlights from AAS Nova: 19 May – 1 June 2024

AAS Nova provides brief highlights of recently published articles from the AAS journals, i.e., The Astronomical Journal (AJ), The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), ApJ Letters, ApJ Supplements, The Planetary Science Journal, and Research Notes of the AAS. The website's intent is to gain broader exposure for AAS authors and to provide astronomy researchers and enthusiasts with summaries of recent, interesting research across a wide range of astronomical fields.

The following are the AAS Nova highlights from the past two weeks; follow the links to read more, or visit AAS Nova for more posts.

31 May 2024
Monthly Roundup: Where Elements Are Made
Three recent articles examine the making of heavy elements in supernovae, collapsars, and neutron star mergers.

29 May 2024
JWST Spies a Debris Disk
JWST has detected a faint debris disk surrounding the M-dwarf star Fomalhaut C, marking just the fifth scattered-light debris disk detected around an M dwarf.

28 May 2024
Vulcan II: The Wrath of Stellar Activity
Astrobites reports on a purported exoplanet whose uncertain signal may instead be a sign of stellar activity.

24 May 2024
Modeling the Unknown: A New Tool for Radio Bursts
How do you model an observation when you aren’t sure of its source? Radio astronomers have a new answer to that question: a tool called “fitburst.”

22 May 2024
Seeking the Sources of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays
New research examines whether the sources of the highest-energy photons could also be the sources of the highest-energy charged particles.

21 May 2024
To Inspiral or Not to Inspiral
Astrobites reports on efforts to detect the shrinking orbits of close-in hot-Jupiter exoplanets.

20 May 2024
Probing for Rocks in an Ice Giant’s Core
How much of Uranus’s icy core is made of rock? Researchers propose a new method to make this measurement using a probe of the Uranian atmosphere.