Tidal disruption events occur rarely in any individual galaxy. Over the last decade, however,
time-domain surveys have begun to accumulate statistical samples of these flares. What …

We perform an extensive review of the numerous studies and methods used to determine
the total mass of the Milky Way. We group the various studies into seven broad classes …

Abstract The Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration 2 (SEGUE-2)
obtained 128,288 low-resolution spectra (R∼ 1800) of 118,958 unique stars in the first year …

While cooler giant planets are often observed with nonzero eccentricities, the short-period
circular orbits of hot Jupiters suggest that they lose orbital energy and angular momentum …

Context. Gaia's Early Third Data Release (EDR3) does not contain new radial velocities
because these will be published in Gaia's full third data release (DR3), expected in the first …

In this work, we combine spectroscopic information from the SkyMapper survey for Extremely
Metal-Poor stars and astrometry from Gaia DR2 to investigate the kinematics of a sample of …

The third data release (DR3) of the European Space Agency satellite Gaia provides
coordinates, parallaxes, proper motions, and radial velocities for a sample of∼ 34 million …

Abstract Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo's newly released GWTC-2 catalog of
gravitational-wave detections offers unprecedented information about the spin magnitudes …

Type Ia and other peculiar supernovae (SNe) are thought to originate from the
thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs (WDs). Some of the proposed channels involve …

Theory predicts that we should find fast, ejected (runaway) stars of all masses around dense,
young star-forming regions. N-body simulations show that the number and distribution of …