Random Papers

We meet every Wednesday at 3.30pm in MSI to discuss 5 random astrophysics papers.

This week's papers

1. A systematic search for near-infrared counterparts of nearby ultraluminous X-ray sources (II) López, K. M., Heida, M., Jonker, P. G., Torres, M. A. P., Roberts, T. P., Walton, D. J., Moon, D. -S., Harrison, F. A., 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

2. A deeper view of the CoRoT-9 planetary system. A small non-zero eccentricity for CoRoT-9b likely generated by planet-planet scattering Bonomo, A. S., Hébrard, G., Raymond, S. N., Bouchy, F., Lecavelier des Etangs, A., Bordé, P., Aigrain, S., Almenara, J. -M., Alonso, R., Cabrera, J., Csizmadia, Sz., Damiani, C., Deeg, H. J., Deleuil, M., Díaz, R. F., Erikson, A., Fridlund, M., Gandolfi, D., Guenther, E., Guillot, T., Hatzes, A., Izidoro, A., Lovis, C., Moutou, C., Ollivier, M., Pätzold, M., Rauer, H., Rouan, D., Santerne, A., Schneider, J., 2017, Astronomy and Astrophysics

3. Periodic Accretion-powered Flares from Colliding EMRIs as TDE Imposters Metzger, Brian D., Stone, Nicholas C., 2017, The Astrophysical Journal

4. ALMA Observations of the Young Substellar Binary System 2M1207 Ricci, L., Cazzoletti, P., Czekala, I., Andrews, S. M., Wilner, D., Szűcs, L., Lodato, G., Testi, L., Pascucci, I., Mohanty, S., Apai, D., Carpenter, J. M., Bowler, B. P., 2017, The Astronomical Journal

5. Characterizing 51 Eri b from 1 to 5 μm: A Partly Cloudy Exoplanet Rajan, Abhijith, Rameau, Julien, De Rosa, Robert J., Marley, Mark S., Graham, James R., Macintosh, Bruce, Marois, Christian, Morley, Caroline, Patience, Jennifer, Pueyo, Laurent, Saumon, Didier, Ward-Duong, Kimberly, Ammons, S. Mark, Arriaga, Pauline, Bailey, Vanessa P., Barman, Travis, Bulger, Joanna, Burrows, Adam S., Chilcote, Jeffrey, Cotten, Tara, Czekala, Ian, Doyon, Rene, Duchêne, Gaspard, Esposito, Thomas M., Fitzgerald, Michael P., Follette, Katherine B., Fortney, Jonathan J., Goodsell, Stephen J., Greenbaum, Alexandra Z., Hibon, Pascale, Hung, Li-Wei, Ingraham, Patrick, Johnson-Groh, Mara, Kalas, Paul, Konopacky, Quinn, Lafrenière, David, Larkin, James E., Maire, Jérôme, Marchis, Franck, Metchev, Stanimir, Millar-Blanchaer, Maxwell A., Morzinski, Katie M., Nielsen, Eric L., Oppenheimer, Rebecca, Palmer, David, Patel, Rahul I., Perrin, Marshall, Poyneer, Lisa, Rantakyrö, Fredrik T., Ruffio, Jean-Baptiste, Savransky, Dmitry, Schneider, Adam C., Sivaramakrishnan, Anand, Song, Inseok, Soummer, Rémi, Thomas, Sandrine, Vasisht, Gautam, Wallace, J. Kent, Wang, Jason J., Wiktorowicz, Sloane, Wolff, Schuyler, 2017, The Astronomical Journal

Selected on Thursday, 3 August 2017 from a total of 785 papers published last month in ApJ, AJ, MNRAS and A&A.

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