Crime passional de um casal de estrelas pode ter gerado planeta gigante
Figura 1. Ilustração artÃstica do sistema KIC10544976 (Crédito da imagem: L. de Almeida). Exoplanetas são corpos semelhantes aos...
HS 2231+2441: an HW Vir system composed by a low-mass white dwarf and a brown dwarf
HW Vir systems are rare evolved eclipsing binaries composed by a hot compact star and a low-mass main-sequence star in a close orbit....
Multi-band characterization of the hot Jupiters: WASP-5b, WASP-44b, and WASP-46b
We have carried out a campaign to characterize the hot Jupiters WASP-5b, WASP-44b, and WASP-46b using multi-band photometry collected at...
Exploratory Spectroscopy of Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables Candidates and Other Variable Objects
The increasing number of synoptic surveys made by small robotic telescopes, as the photometric Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey...
Extinction law in the range 0.4-4.8 µm and the 8620 A DIB towards the stellar cluster Westerlund 1
The young stellar cluster Westerlund 1 (Wd 1: l=339.6∘, b=−0.4∘) is one of the most massive in the local Universe, but accurate...
Selections from 2015: Mixing in Two Stars that Touch
http://aasnova.org/2015/12/23/selections-from-2015-mixing-in-two-stars-that-touch/ The paper "Discovery of the Massive Overcontact Binary...
Two bodies with high eccentricity around the cataclysmic variable QS Vir
QS Vir is an eclipsing cataclysmic variable with 3.618 hrs orbital period. This system has the interesting characteristics that it does...
Final Kiss of Two Stars Heading for Catastrophe (ESO press release)
An international team of scientists using the ESO's Very Large Telescope have found the most massive and hottest overcontact binary known...