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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) @paspjournal.bsky.social · 3d

In a recent article published in @paspjournal.bsky.social a prioritized community list of potential stellar targets for the Habitable Worlds Observatory's (HWO) ExoEarth survey is derived and presented. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Targets in all tiers of our catalog plotted in distance vs. luminosity space, with the tiers indicated by color. From Tuchow etal (2025).

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) @paspjournal.bsky.social · 3d

A recent article published in @paspjournal.bsky.social presents an analysis of the role that the convective kissing instability plays in cataclysmic variable evolution. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Mass coordinate of the convective zones (gray) and radiative zones (white) for the different starting periods. From Larsen & MacDonald (2025).

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) @paspjournal.bsky.social · 3d

A recent open-access topical review published in @paspjournal.bsky.social presents a detailed review of the theory of exozodi sources and dust evolution. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Distribution of asteroids and dust in the inner solar system. From Wyatt etal (2025).

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) @paspjournal.bsky.social · 5d

In a recent article published in @paspjournal.bsky.social an analysis of three binary-source binary-lens microlensing events from the 2024 OGLE and KMTN measurement campaign is presented. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Light curve for lensing event KMT-2024-BLG-2017. From Han etal (2025).

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) @paspjournal.bsky.social · 5d

In a recent open-access article published in @paspjournal.bsky.social radial velocity strategies for the orbital refinement of exoplanet direct imaging targets are discussed and analyzed. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1....

Testing result for orbital period and uncertainty evolution of the HD 134987 c planet based on synthetic RVs. From Li etal (2025).

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) @paspjournal.bsky.social · 5d

In a recent article published in @paspjournal.bsky.social an analysis of the spectrum and polarization variation on short timescales within four luminous Blazars is presented. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Zoomed-in view of multi-band light curves and polarization degree for selected flare events of four blazars. From Yang & Jiang (2025).

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) @paspjournal.bsky.social · 5d

A recent open-access tutorial published in @paspjournal.bsky.social presents an introduction to dust evolution and vertical transport in protoplanetary disks. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Illustration of the temperature structure, dust distribution, and observational constraints in protoplanetary disks from Miotello et al. (2023); Credit: T. Birnstiel.

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) @paspjournal.bsky.social · 10d

A recent open-access article published in @paspjournal.bsky.social presents a validation of the on-axis point spread function reconstruction for the Keck adaptive optics system. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

NIRC2 images (top row), best-fit PRIME PSFs (middle row) and resultant residuals (bottom row). From Sabhlok etal (2025).

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) @paspjournal.bsky.social · 10d

A recent article published in @paspjournal.bsky.social presents a study of the donor star population in x-ray binaries, arguing for the existence of a bimodal distribution. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

The observed distribution of donor stars in XRBs. From Zhang etal (2025).

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) @paspjournal.bsky.social · 10d

In a recent open-access article published in @paspjournal.bsky.social an analysis of the dependency on mass ratio and orbital period of wind accretion in massive binaries experiencing high mass loss rates is presented. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Evolutionary tracks of the companion stars (ranging from 30 to 80 M⊙) and the primary star (100 M⊙) from ZAMS to the WR phase at Galactic metallicity using the MLT++ formalism. From Mukhija & Kashi (2025).

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) @paspjournal.bsky.social · 12d

A recent article published in @paspjournal.bsky.social presents measurements of the JWST Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) cosmic ray hit rate, including a prediction for the incidence of NIRSpec cosmic ray encounters through the 2030s. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Examples of large cosmic ray hit morphologies on NIRSpec images. From Rauscher & Fixsen (2025).

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) @paspjournal.bsky.social · 12d

A recent article published in @paspjournal.bsky.social describes advances in the design, implementation and verification of the Xinjiang Qitai Radio Telescope (QTT) digital backend system. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Architecture of the QTT Wanxiang digital backend. From Pei etal (2025)

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) @paspjournal.bsky.social · 12d

In a recent article published in @paspjournal.bsky.social an algorithm which uses a U-Net deep neural network and line segment detector algorithm to identify artificial satellite trails in ground-based photometric imaging is presented and analyzed. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Image segmentation results from real observational data collected by the Mini-SiTian Array No. 3 telescope at the Xinglong Observatory. From Chen etal (2025)

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) @paspjournal.bsky.social · 12d

A recent open-access article published in @paspjournal.bsky.social describes the La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey (LS4), a wide-field time-domain survey that will be conducted with the 1m ESO Schmidt telescope. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1....

A comparison of the FOV (Ω) and light collecting area of the primary mirror (A) highlighting the étendue (AΩ) of past, current, and future time-domain surveys. From Miller etal (2025).

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) @paspjournal.bsky.social · 17d

A recent open-access article published in @paspjournal.bsky.social investigates the origin of hypervelocity white dwarfs (HVWDs) by assessing the dynamically driven double-degenerate double-detonation (D6) scenario for the origin of these systems. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

HR diagrams for the 0.98 solar mass WD models (left) with zoom-in on the Einj = 5x10^(49) erg track afer 10^3 years. The HVWDs studied in this article are indicated. From Yamaguchi etal (2025).

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) @paspjournal.bsky.social · 17d

A recent article published in @paspjournal.bsky.social extends the Supernova Tagging and Classification (STag) system for spectral assignment to the classification of serendipitous supernovae observed by galaxy redshift surveys. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Comparison of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) observed spectra and spectra of each supernova sourced from Transient Name Server (TNS). From Davison etal (2025).

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) @paspjournal.bsky.social · 19d

A recent open-access article published in @paspjournal.bsky.social presents an analysis of the stripped-envelope supernovae SN 2021uvy and SN 2022hgk, and discusses these two supernovae within the context of double-peaked stripped envelope supernovae. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Light (top) and color (bottom) curves for SN 2021uvy (left) and SN 2022hgk (right). From Sharma etal (2025).

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) @paspjournal.bsky.social · 24d

A recent open-access article published in @paspjournal.bsky.social describes the origin of the thermal background contribution to mid-IR direct imaging measurements on the Keck II telescope and its correction. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Comparisons of the various techniques for performing background subtraction including simple flat median subtraction, background LOCI, and extra basis LOCI. From Nguyen etal (2025).

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) @paspjournal.bsky.social · 24d

A recent open-access article published in @paspjournal.bsky.social presents projecc (github.com/logan-pearce...), an open-source Python package designed to generate sky-plane planet location posteriors from literature orbit solutions. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Two views of the predicted sky position of Prox Cen b at the expected time of maximum elongation from the star drawn from published orbital parameters. From Pearce, Males, & Limbach (2025).

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) @paspjournal.bsky.social · 26d

A recent article published in @paspjournal.bsky.social characterizes the Cherenkov photon background emission within low-noise silicon detectors used in space applications. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Relative Cherenkov background rate for maximum solar activity (minimum number of particles per exposure) considering cosmic-ray species individually and in combination. From Gaido etal (2025).

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) @paspjournal.bsky.social · 26d

A recent article published in @paspjournal.bsky.social evaluates the resolution limits of astronomical periodograms imposed by the Rayleigh criterion. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Radial velocities of 55 Cnc used in the analysis presented. From Ramirez Delgado etal (2025).

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) @paspjournal.bsky.social · 26d

In a recent open-access article published in @paspjournal.bsky.social describes a search for dormant black holes in low-metallicity binary star systems. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

$Median fraction of BH companions at d <2 kpc and G <15 (see Section 6.2) recovered by the search strategy presented as a function of orbital period and BH mass, with the shaded regions representing a 68% confidence interval. From Nagarajan etal (2025).$

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) @paspjournal.bsky.social · Sep 9

A recent article published in @paspjournal.bsky.social describes a multimodal deep learning framework, the Photometric Image Spectral Transformer Net (PIST-Net), for Red Giant stellar parameter estimation. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Estimated stellar parameter values from PIST-Net versus catalog values from K2-APO. From Cui etal (2025)

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) @paspjournal.bsky.social · Sep 4

A recent article published in @paspjournal.bsky.social presents a comparison of modeled galaxy completeness in HST SKYSURF WFC3 and ACS/WFC imaging as a function of exposure time and background to that predicted by the HST exposure time calculator. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

The observed relationship between the completeness limit and magnitude of the objects measured. From Goisman etal (2025).

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) @paspjournal.bsky.social · Sep 4

A recent open-access article published in @paspjournal.bsky.social presents a characterization of the intrinsic demographics of approximately 10,000 resolved triple star systems within 500 pc of the Sun using the Gaia measurement archive. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Imaes of resolved triples with proper motion vectors. From Shariat, El-Badry & Naoz (2025).

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