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A constraint on the dissipative tidal deformability of neutron stars Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Justin L. Ripley, Abhishek Hegade K R, Rohit S. Chandramouli, Nicolás Yunes
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Enter the vodka-planet Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Luca Maltagliati
With its exquisite precision and wide wavelength range, JWST is able to push the characterization of exoplanets solidly into the sub-Neptune regime. Such planets, with a size between approximately 1.5 and 2.5 Earth radii (R⊕), are the most common in the Universe but their nature and internal structure are strongly debated. Björn Benneke and colleagues use JWST observations of the 2.2 R⊕-sized TOI-270
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Assessment of the environmental impacts of the Cherenkov Telescope Array mid-sized telescope Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Gabrielle dos Santos Ilha, Marianne Boix, Jürgen Knödlseder, Philippe Garnier, Ludovic Montastruc, Pierre Jean, Giovanni Pareschi, Alexander Steiner, François Toussenel
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Evidence builds for recent merger Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Paul Woods
The Milky Way is thought to have experienced several merger events throughout its history, but there are conflicting ideas regarding which is the most recent: the ‘last major merger’. A scenario put forward by Thomas Donlon and colleagues in 2019 proposes that the Virgo Radial Merger (VRM), an event responsible for an overdensity of stars in Virgo, occurred within the last 3 Gyr, making the VRM the
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Evidence of a hydrated mineral enriched in water and ammonium molecules in the Chang’e-5 lunar sample Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Shifeng Jin, Munan Hao, Zhongnan Guo, Bohao Yin, Yuxin Ma, Lijun Deng, Xu Chen, Yanpeng Song, Cheng Cao, Congcong Chai, Qi Wei, Yunqi Ma, Jiangang Guo, Xiaolong Chen
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Radar evidence of an accessible cave conduit on the Moon below the Mare Tranquillitatis pit Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Leonardo Carrer, Riccardo Pozzobon, Francesco Sauro, Davide Castelletti, Gerald Wesley Patterson, Lorenzo Bruzzone
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A roadmap for the atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets with JWST Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-15
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Detailed study of a rare hyperluminous rotating disk in an Einstein ring 10 billion years ago Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Daizhong Liu, Natascha M. Förster Schreiber, Kevin C. Harrington, Lilian L. Lee, Patrick S. Kamieneski, Richard I. Davies, Dieter Lutz, Alvio Renzini, Stijn Wuyts, Linda J. Tacconi, Reinhard Genzel, Andreas Burkert, Rodrigo Herrera-Camus, Belén Alcalde Pampliega, Amit Vishwas, Melanie Kaasinen, Q. Daniel Wang, Eric F. Jiménez-Andrade, James Lowenthal, Nicholas Foo, Brenda L. Frye, Jinyi Shangguan,
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A benchmark JWST near-infrared spectrum for the exoplanet WASP-39 b Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 A. L. Carter, E. M. May, N. Espinoza, L. Welbanks, E. Ahrer, L. Alderson, R. Brahm, A. D. Feinstein, D. Grant, M. Line, G. Morello, R. O’Steen, M. Radica, Z. Rustamkulov, K. B. Stevenson, J. D. Turner, M. K. Alam, D. R. Anderson, N. M. Batalha, M. P. Battley, D. Bayliss, J. L. Bean, B. Benneke, Z. K. Berta-Thompson, J. Brande, E. M. Bryant, M. R. Burleigh, L. Coulombe, I. J. M. Crossfield, M. Damiano
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Heterogeneous outgassing regions identified on active centaur 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann 1 Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Sara Faggi, Geronimo L. Villanueva, Adam McKay, Olga Harrington Pinto, Michael S. P. Kelley, Dominique Bockelée-Morvan, Maria Womack, Charles A. Schambeau, Lori Feaga, Michael A. DiSanti, James M. Bauer, Nicolas Biver, Kacper Wierzchos, Yanga R. Fernandez
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Detection of the elusive dangling OH ice features at ~2.7 μm in Chamaeleon I with JWST NIRCam Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 J. A. Noble, H. J. Fraser, Z. L. Smith, E. Dartois, A. C. A. Boogert, H. M. Cuppen, H. J. Dickinson, F. Dulieu, E. Egami, J. Erkal, B. M. Giuliano, B. Husquinet, T. Lamberts, B. Maté, M. K. McClure, M. E. Palumbo, T. Shimonishi, F. Sun, J. B. Bergner, W. A. Brown, P. Caselli, E. Congiu, M. N. Drozdovskaya, V. J. Herrero, S. Ioppolo, I. Jimenez-Serra, H. Linnartz, G. J. Melnick, B. A. McGuire, K. I
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Cosmic accretion shocks as a tool to measure the dark matter mass of galaxy clusters Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 David Vallés-Pérez, Vicent Quilis, Susana Planelles
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Support for fragile porous dust in a gravitationally self-regulated disk around IM Lup Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Takahiro Ueda, Ryo Tazaki, Satoshi Okuzumi, Mario Flock, Prakruti Sudarshan
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An estimate of the impact rate on Mars from statistics of very-high-frequency marsquakes Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Géraldine Zenhäusern, Natalia Wójcicka, Simon C. Stähler, Gareth S. Collins, Ingrid J. Daubar, Martin Knapmeyer, Savas Ceylan, John F. Clinton, Domenico Giardini
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The broken-exponential radial structure and larger size of the Milky Way galaxy Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Jianhui Lian, Gail Zasowski, Bingqiu Chen, Julie Imig, Tao Wang, Nicholas Boardman, Xiaowei Liu
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A slightly oblate dark matter halo revealed by a retrograde precessing Galactic disk warp Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Yang Huang, Qikang Feng, Tigran Khachaturyants, Huawei Zhang, Jifeng Liu, Juntai Shen, Timothy C. Beers, Youjun Lu, Song Wang, Haibo Yuan
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Supergranular-scale solar convection not explained by mixing-length theory Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Chris S. Hanson, Srijan Bharati Das, Prasad Mani, Shravan Hanasoge, Katepalli R. Sreenivasan
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Ionospheric irregularities at Jupiter observed by JWST Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Henrik Melin, J. O’Donoghue, L. Moore, T. S. Stallard, L. N. Fletcher, M. T. Roman, J. Harkett, O. R. T. King, E. M. Thomas, R. Wang, P. I. Tiranti, K. L. Knowles, I. de Pater, T. Fouchet, P. H. Fry, M. H. Wong, B. J. Holler, R. Hueso, M. K. James, G. S. Orton, A. Mura, A. Sánchez-Lavega, E. Lellouch, K. de Kleer, M. R. Showalter
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Cygnus X-3 revealed as a Galactic ultraluminous X-ray source by IXPE Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Alexandra Veledina, Fabio Muleri, Juri Poutanen, Jakub Podgorný, Michal Dovčiak, Fiamma Capitanio, Eugene Churazov, Alessandra De Rosa, Alessandro Di Marco, Sofia V. Forsblom, Philip Kaaret, Henric Krawczynski, Fabio La Monaca, Vladislav Loktev, Alexander A. Lutovinov, Sergey V. Molkov, Alexander A. Mushtukov, Ajay Ratheesh, Nicole Rodriguez Cavero, James F. Steiner, Rashid A. Sunyaev, Sergey S. Tsygankov
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The Sun: solar dynamo located near the surface Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Bishwanath Gaire
The solar dynamo cycle, a process responsible for solar activity and magnetic fields in the Sun, is believed to be located deep inside the Sun, within the tachocline — a boundary between the outer convective and inner radiative zones. Recently Geoffrey Vasil and colleagues reported their results from state-of-the-art simulations, which support the idea of the solar dynamo originating near (the outer
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More than meets the eye Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Paul Woods
X-ray binaries (XRBs) are systems where material is being accreted onto a compact object (white dwarf/neutron star/stellar-mass black hole) from a donor star, and as such they provide an excellent laboratory for studies of accretion physics. While the physics of the donor–recipient pair is well characterized, little is known about the wider system, including whether such systems have circumbinary disks
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Distance measurement by machine learning Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Morgan Hollis
Given their extreme luminosities, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have the potential to be powerful probes of the early Universe, however observational challenges mean that only 26% of GRBs observed by the Swift Observatory, for example, have confirmed redshifts. Maria Dainotti and colleagues tackle this problem by applying a supervised statistical learning model, fed by the optical afterglow observed by Swift
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The promising Gliese 12 b Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Luca Maltagliati
A rocky Earth-sized exoplanet with a temperate climate and relatively close to us? It seems too good to be true, but this is what Gliese 12 b could be. Simultaneously announced by Masayuki Kuzuhara, Akihiko Fukui and colleagues and by Shishir Dholakia, Larissa Palethorpe and colleagues in two papers published on the same day, Gliese 12 b promises to become a benchmark planet. Gliese 12 b’s signal was
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The scourge of harassment in astronomy Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-20
Surveys aimed at different astronomy communities reveal persistent mental distress, widespread bullying and other unwanted behaviour. Marginalized groups are the most affected, causing continuous and damaging loss of talent from academia.
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Separate effects of irradiation and impacts on lunar metallic iron formation observed in Chang’e-5 samples Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Laiquan Shen, Rui Zhao, Chao Chang, Jihao Yu, Dongdong Xiao, Haiyang Bai, Zhigang Zou, Mengfei Yang, Weihua Wang
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Constraints on the dense matter equation of state from young and cold isolated neutron stars Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 A. Marino, C. Dehman, K. Kovlakas, N. Rea, J. A. Pons, D. Viganò
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Complex rotational dynamics of the neutron star in Hercules X-1 revealed by X-ray polarization Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Jeremy Heyl, Victor Doroshenko, Denis González-Caniulef, Ilaria Caiazzo, Juri Poutanen, Alexander Mushtukov, Sergey S. Tsygankov, Demet Kirmizibayrak, Matteo Bachetti, George G. Pavlov, Sofia V. Forsblom, Christian Malacaria, Valery F. Suleimanov, Iván Agudo, Lucio Angelo Antonelli, Luca Baldini, Wayne H. Baumgartner, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Stefano Bianchi, Stephen D. Bongiorno, Raffaella Bonino, Alessandro
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JWST confirms that quasars do not evolve across cosmic time Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-17
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A mature quasar at cosmic dawn revealed by JWST rest-frame infrared spectroscopy Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Sarah E. I. Bosman, Javier Álvarez-Márquez, Luis Colina, Fabian Walter, Almudena Alonso-Herrero, Martin J. Ward, Göran Östlin, Thomas R. Greve, Gillian Wright, Arjan Bik, Leindert Boogaard, Karina Caputi, Luca Costantin, Andreas Eckart, Macarena García-Marín, Steven Gillman, Jens Hjorth, Edoardo Iani, Olivier Ilbert, Iris Jermann, Alvaro Labiano, Danial Langeroodi, Florian Peißker, Pierluigi Rinaldi
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A survey of the severity of mental health symptoms in the planetary science community Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 David Trang, Christina E. Swafford, Tamar A. Kreps, Steven D. Vance, Jemma Davidson, Justin Filiberto, Lillian R. Ostrach, Christina R. Richey
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Height-dependent differential rotation of the solar atmosphere detected by CHASE Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Shihao Rao, Chuan Li, Mingde Ding, Jie Hong, Feng Chen, Cheng Fang, Ye Qiu, Zhen Li, Pengfei Chen, Kejun Li, Qi Hao, Yang Guo, Xin Cheng, Yu Dai, Zhixin Peng, Wei You, Yuan Yuan
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A possible direct exposure of the Earth to the cold dense interstellar medium 2–3 Myr ago Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Merav Opher, Abraham Loeb, J. E. G. Peek
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High-resolution observations and measurements show variability of multi-source solar wind Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-06
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An emission-state-switching radio transient with a 54-minute period Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 M. Caleb, E. Lenc, D. L. Kaplan, T. Murphy, Y. P. Men, R. M. Shannon, L. Ferrario, K. M. Rajwade, T. E. Clarke, S. Giacintucci, N. Hurley-Walker, S. D. Hyman, M. E. Lower, Sam McSweeney, V. Ravi, E. D. Barr, S. Buchner, C. M. L. Flynn, J. W. T. Hessels, M. Kramer, J. Pritchard, B. W. Stappers
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Charting quantum horizons to establish a roadmap for microsecond astronomy Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Ryan M. Lau, Amit Ashok, Julie Emms, Douglas R. Gies, Saikat Guha, Zachary Hartman, Brittany McClinton, John Monnier, Jayadev K. Rajagopal, J. Gabriel Richardson, Stephen T. Ridgway, Joel Sanchez-Bermudez, Gail Schaefer, Brian J. Smith, Aziza Suleymanzade
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Multi-source connectivity as the driver of solar wind variability in the heliosphere Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Stephanie L. Yardley, David H. Brooks, Raffaella D’Amicis, Christopher J. Owen, David M. Long, Deb Baker, Pascal Démoulin, Mathew J. Owens, Mike Lockwood, Teodora Mihailescu, Jesse T. Coburn, Ryan M. Dewey, Daniel Müller, Gabriel H. H. Suen, Nawin Ngampoopun, Philippe Louarn, Stefano Livi, Sue Lepri, Andrzej Fludra, Margit Haberreiter, Udo Schühle
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Evidence of ongoing volcanic activity on Venus revealed by Magellan radar Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Davide Sulcanese, Giuseppe Mitri, Marco Mastrogiuseppe
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The fleeting, beating heart of the Snake Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Paul Woods
Two teams of astronomers have recently discovered a potential clue to the origin of the Snake, which is more formally known as non-thermal filament G359.1−0.2, and is 70 pc in length and less than a parsec wide. Farhad Yusef-Zadeh and colleagues (Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 530, 254–263; 2024) located a fast-moving compact radio source close to the major kink in the filament, and Marcus Lower, Shi Dai
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A tristatic phased array radar system in China Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Xinan Yue, Baiqi Ning, Lin Jin, Chi Wang
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Widespread CO2 and CO ices in the trans-Neptunian population revealed by JWST/DiSCo-TNOs Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Mário N. De Prá, Elsa Hénault, Noemí Pinilla-Alonso, Bryan J. Holler, Rosario Brunetto, John A. Stansberry, Ana Carolina de Souza Feliciano, Jorge M. Carvano, Brittany Harvison, Javier Licandro, Thomas G. Müller, Nuno Peixinho, Vania Lorenzi, Aurélie Guilbert-Lepoutre, Michele T. Bannister, Yvonne J. Pendleton, Dale P. Cruikshank, Charles A. Schambeau, Lucas McClure, Joshua P. Emery
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The fillings of a protoplanetary layer cake Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Paul Woods
Using well-polished techniques, the emission surfaces of vertically extended molecular lines were extracted from the observations, giving a map of molecular layers (see image): 12CO is found to trace a height of z/r ≈ 0.3, HCO+ z/r ≈ 0.2, 13CO z/r ≈ 0.1 and C18O the disk midplane. Features such as the cleared-out cavity wall at around 45 au (in the 12CO J = 3–2 panel) can be distinguished. One can
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Planet-sized laboratories offer cosmological insights Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Morgan Hollis
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission is scheduled to be humanity’s first space-based gravitational wave (GW) detector when launched in the mid-2030s. In an intriguing proof-of-concept study, Tao Liu, Jing Ren and Chen Zhang suggest a novel method of using planetary magnetospheres as detectors for high-frequency gravitational waves (HFGWs), utilizing space-based instrumentation that
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Hydrogen escape on Mars dominated by water vapour photolysis above the hygropause Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Armin Kleinböhl, Karen Willacy, Marek J. Slipski, Loïc Poncin, Jasper S. Halekas, Majd Mayyasi
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A unified framework for global auroral morphologies of different planets Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 B. Zhang, Z. Yao, O. J. Brambles, P. A. Delamere, W. Lotko, D. Grodent, B. Bonfond, J. Chen, K. A. Sorathia, V. G. Merkin, J. G. Lyon
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More hints of Planet Nine Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Luca Maltagliati
One of the most debated issues in Solar System studies of the last decade is whether there is a massive body hidden beyond the orbit of Neptune, known as ‘Planet Nine’ (P9). Invisible to direct observations so far, its presence has been hinted at by its effects on the dynamics of the Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNO) population, and many works have been published to support or disprove the significance
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A bullying problem reveals an astronomy and geophysics community in crisis Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Áine Clare O’Brien, Sheila Kanani, Robert Massey, Natasha R. Stephen
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Magnetism in massive stars from mergers Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Bishwanath Gaire
Magnetic fields in stars are mass dependent. Lower-mass stars like the Sun sustain a magnetic field, but only about 7% of the massive stars (with eight or more solar masses) have large-scale surface magnetic fields. The origin of such magnetic fields is unclear. Abigail Frost and colleagues investigate a binary system of two massive stars (HD 148937) using interferometric and spectroscopic methods
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Detection of an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting the nearby ultracool dwarf star SPECULOOS-3 Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Michaël Gillon, Peter P. Pedersen, Benjamin V. Rackham, Georgina Dransfield, Elsa Ducrot, Khalid Barkaoui, Artem Y. Burdanov, Urs Schroffenegger, Yilen Gómez Maqueo Chew, Susan M. Lederer, Roi Alonso, Adam J. Burgasser, Steve B. Howell, Norio Narita, Julien de Wit, Brice-Olivier Demory, Didier Queloz, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud, Laetitia Delrez, Emmanuël Jehin, Matthew J. Hooton, Lionel J. Garcia, Clàudia
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An extended low-density atmosphere around the Jupiter-sized planet WASP-193 b Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Khalid Barkaoui, Francisco J. Pozuelos, Coel Hellier, Barry Smalley, Louise D. Nielsen, Prajwal Niraula, Michaël Gillon, Julien de Wit, Simon Müller, Caroline Dorn, Ravit Helled, Emmanuel Jehin, Brice-Olivier Demory, Valerie Van Grootel, Abderahmane Soubkiou, Mourad Ghachoui, David. R. Anderson, Zouhair Benkhaldoun, Francois Bouchy, Artem Burdanov, Laetitia Delrez, Elsa Ducrot, Lionel Garcia, Abdelhadi
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Low-temperature formation of pyridine and (iso)quinoline via neutral–neutral reactions Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Zhenghai Yang, Chao He, Shane J. Goettl, Alexander M. Mebel, Paulo F. G. Velloso, Márcio O. Alves, Breno R. L. Galvão, Jean-Christophe Loison, Kevin M. Hickson, Michel Dobrijevic, Xiaohu Li, Ralf I. Kaiser
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The metal-poor atmosphere of a potential sub-Neptune progenitor Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Saugata Barat, Jean-Michel Désert, Allona Vazan, Robin Baeyens, Michael R. Line, Jonathan J. Fortney, Trevor J. David, John H. Livingston, Bob Jacobs, Vatsal Panwar, Hinna Shivkumar, Kamen O. Todorov, Lorenzo Pino, Georgia Mraz, Erik A. Petigura
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Characterization of the regimes of hydrodynamic escape from low-mass exoplanets Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 J. H. Guo
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Characterization of the decametre sky at subarcminute resolution Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 C. Groeneveld, R. J. van Weeren, E. Osinga, W. L. Williams, J. R. Callingham, F. de Gasperin, A. Botteon, T. Shimwell, F. Sweijen, J. M. G. H. J. de Jong, L. F. Jansen, G. K. Miley, G. Brunetti, M. Brüggen, H. J. A. Röttgering
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Nightside clouds form and winds drive disequilibrium chemistry on a hot Jupiter Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-30
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Nightside clouds and disequilibrium chemistry on the hot Jupiter WASP-43b Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Taylor J. Bell, Nicolas Crouzet, Patricio E. Cubillos, Laura Kreidberg, Anjali A. A. Piette, Michael T. Roman, Joanna K. Barstow, Jasmina Blecic, Ludmila Carone, Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Elsa Ducrot, Mark Hammond, João M. Mendonça, Julianne I. Moses, Vivien Parmentier, Kevin B. Stevenson, Lucas Teinturier, Michael Zhang, Natalie M. Batalha, Jacob L. Bean, Björn Benneke, Benjamin Charnay, Katy L. Chubb
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A low-density ocean inside Titan inferred from Cassini data Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Sander Goossens, Bob van Noort, Alfonso Mateo, Erwan Mazarico, Wouter van der Wal
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On our bookshelf Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 May Chiao
What’s Hidden Inside Planets? Sabine Stanley & John WenzJohns Hopkins: 2023. 245pp. $16.95 Next time you look up at a colourful auroral display in the ionosphere, give a thought to the Earth’s molten iron core that makes the shimmering light show possible. As Sabine Stanley explains in What’s Hidden Inside Planets, there is quite a lot going on beneath the surface — from the processes controlling the
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Maintaining spherical polarization in solar wind plasma Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Bishwanath Gaire
The solar wind consists of plasma with fluctuating velocity and magnetic fields in a manner often referred to as Alfvénic. A magnetic field (B) and its fluctuation (δB) with only a small change in its intensity (that is, δB/B ~1) is called spherical polarization. For large-amplitude magnetic fields, this condition (δB/B ~1) is equivalent to the rotation of the magnetic field vector. When the plasma
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Under new management Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-22
As the eighth anniversary of Nature Astronomy’s opening to submissions nears, we say goodbye to our inaugural Chief Editor, May Chiao, and welcome her successor, Paul Woods, to the helm.