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Ground-based detection of an extended helium atmosphere in the Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-69b
DOI: 10.1126/science.aat5348 Bibcode: 2018Sci...362.1388N

Henning, Thomas; Dreizler, Stefan; Sánchez-López, Alejandro +25 more

Hot gas giant exoplanets can lose part of their atmosphere due to strong stellar irradiation, and these losses can affect their physical and chemical evolution. Studies of atmospheric escape from exoplanets have mostly relied on space-based observations of the hydrogen Lyman-α line in the far ultraviolet region, which is strongly affected by inter…

2018 Science
XMM-Newton 228
A dust-enshrouded tidal disruption event with a resolved radio jet in a galaxy merger
DOI: 10.1126/science.aao4669 Bibcode: 2018Sci...361..482M

Bondi, M.; Lundqvist, P.; Clements, D. L. +33 more

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are transient flares produced when a star is ripped apart by the gravitational field of a supermassive black hole (SMBH). We have observed a transient source in the western nucleus of the merging galaxy pair Arp 299 that radiated >1.5 × 1052 erg at infrared and radio wavelengths but was not luminous at …

2018 Science
XMM-Newton 135