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Quantifying the Impact of Starspot-Crossing Events on Retrieved Parameters from Transit Lightcurves

Catriona A. Murray and Zachory Berta-Thompson 2026 AJ 171 344
An analysis of synthetic starspot-crossing events suggests that while starspot longitudes are tightly constrained in high signal-to-noise data, other properties are more loosely determined.

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Chemical Fingerprints of Accreted Ultrafaint Dwarf Galaxies in the Milky Way Halo

Diala M. Taneenah et al 2026 ApJL 1003 L11
Researchers have discovered two chemically distinct populations in a sample of 97 metal-poor stars in the Milky Way halo, potentially providing a way to identify accreted halo stars.

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Revisiting the Evidence for Double Sequences of Blue Straggler Stars in Globular Clusters

Gourav Kumawat et al 2026 AJ 171 306
Analysis of blue straggler stars in 56 Milky Way globular clusters finds no evidence for a bimodal distribution in color–magnitude space due to differing formation pathways.

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Warped and Hooked: Mapping the Magellanic Clouds in Three Dimensions Using Red Clump Stars

Slater J. Oden et al 2026 ApJ 1003 9
By constructing a detailed distance map to the Magellanic Clouds, researchers have revealed substructures within this interacting galaxy pair, including an azimuthal warp in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

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Potential Interaction of 99942 Apophis with the High Earth Orbit Population During the 2029 Close Approach

Giulia Schettino and Alessandro Rossi 2026 Planet. Sci. J. 7 110
Though the asteroid Apophis will not collide with Earth in 2029, there is a slim but present possibility that it will strike an artificial object orbiting Earth, potentially compromising future missions to the asteroid.

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The First Systematic Survey of Stellar Halos in High-Inclination Galaxies Reveals Unusually Quiescent Merger Histories of Nearby Galaxies

Bojun Tao et al 2026 ApJS 284 31
Analysis of 93 stellar halos detected in a sample of 169 high-inclination galaxies showed that high-mass galaxies have more extended halos and more active merger histories, among other findings.

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Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Large and Luminous Galaxy with Weak Emission Lines at z = 13.53

Callum T. Donnan et al 2026 ApJ 1002 134
PAN-z14-1 is the fourth most distant galaxy known to date, and its properties are consistent with the emerging picture of two separate galaxy populations at redshifts greater than 10.

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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Roman Sees Where You Are: Predicting Exoplanet Transit Yields in the Rosette Nebula with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Ritvik Sai Narayan et al 2026 AJ 171 282
Simulations predict that the Roman Space Telescope will discover 33 Β± 9 young exoplanets in a one-month survey, expanding our understanding of the properties of planets around very young stars.

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UGC 2369S: A Kiloparsec-Scale Triple Merger Candidate Identified in a Nearby Luminous Infrared Galaxy

Yuanze Ding et al 2026 ApJ 1002 130
Researchers present the first high-resolution multi-wavelength observations of a triple-nucleus merger, showing one black hole with mass of order 100 million solar masses and two with evidence of tidal disruption.

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Radar-Derived Compositional Diversity of the Youngest Martian Volcanics: An Exploratory Study

Gareth A. Morgan and Bruce A. Campbell 2026 Planet. Sci. J. 7 99
Using the SHAllow RADar split-chirp technique, researchers showed how orbital radar loss estimates could be used to map the composition of Mars’s volcanics on a global scale.

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Excavating the Ruins: An Ancient z = 2.675 Galaxy Which Formed in the First 500 Myr

Ian McConachie et al 2026 ApJ 1002 74
Analysis of JWST and Hubble Space Telescope observations of the galaxy β€œEridu” suggests that the galaxy formed within 300 million years of the Big Bang and was quenched by a redshift of z ~ 10.

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Probing the Origin of the Kilonova Candidate GRB 230307A: Analysis of Host Galaxy and Offset

Clecio R. Bom et al 2026 ApJL 1001 L37
The combination of data and binary neutron star merger simulations shows that the source of GRB 230307A is unlikely to be a globular cluster; a disk origin is possible but requires finely tuned conditions.

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Searching for Extragalactic Exoplanets: A Survey of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy Stream with TESS

William Schap et al 2026 AJ 171 273
A search for extragalactic exoplanets in data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite detected none, but the analysis suggested that investigations of additional stellar streams may find these sought-after worlds.

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Raman Spectroscopy of Salt Deposits from the Simulated Subsurface Ocean of Enceladus

Jun Takeshita et al 2026 Planet. Sci. J. 7 91
Using weakly and strongly alkaline materials frozen under vacuum conditions similar to those on Enceladus, researchers have shown that Raman spectroscopy can distinguish between critical mineral phases.

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Observations of the Fermi Bubbles and the Galactic Center Excess with the Dark Matter Particle Explorer

F. Alemanno et al 2026 ApJS 284 22
In the first 102 months of data from the Dark Matter Particle Explorer, researchers have independently confirmed the detection of the Fermi bubbles and identified a GeV excess toward the galactic center.

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