Comparing Apples with Apples: Robust Detection Limits for Exoplanet High-contrast Imaging in the Presence of Non-Gaussian Noise by Markus J. Bonse, Emily O. Garvin, Timothy D. Gebhard, Felix A. Dannert, Faustine Cantalloube, Gabriele Cugno, Olivier Absil, Jean Hayoz, Julien Milli, Markus Kasper, Sascha P. Quanz

“…Second, to find and characterize planets in our immediate solar neighborhood. Both goals heavily rely on the metric used to quantify planet detections and nondetections. …”
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An Estimate of the Binary Star Fraction among Young Stars at the Galactic Center: Possible Evidence of a Radial Dependence by Abhimat K. Gautam, Tuan Do, Andrea M. Ghez, Devin S. Chu, Matthew W. Hosek Jr., Shoko Sakai, Smadar Naoz, Mark R. Morris, Anna Ciurlo, Zoë Haggard, Jessica R. Lu

“…This inferred GC young star binary fraction is consistent with that typically seen in young stellar populations in the solar neighborhood. Furthermore, our measured binary fraction is significantly higher than that recently reported by Chu et al. based on radial velocity measurements for stars ≲1″ of the SMBH. …”
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Investigating the Impact of Metallicity on Star Formation in the Outer Galaxy. I. VLT/KMOS Survey of Young Stellar Objects in Canis Major by Dominika Itrich, Agata Karska, Marta Sewiło, Lars E. Kristensen, Gregory J. Herczeg, Suzanne Ramsay, William J. Fischer, Benoît Tabone, Will R. M. Rocha, Maciej Koprowski, Ngân Lê, Beata Deka-Szymankiewicz

“…The effects of metallicity on the evolution of protoplanetary disks may be studied in the outer Galaxy where the metallicity is lower than in the solar neighborhood. We present the VLT/KMOS integral field spectroscopy in the near-infrared of ∼120 candidate young stellar objects (YSOs) in the CMa- ℓ 224 star-forming region located at a Galactocentric distance of 9.1 kpc. …”
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A Noninteracting Galactic Black Hole Candidate in a Binary System with a Main-sequence Star by Sukanya Chakrabarti, Joshua D. Simon, Peter A. Craig, Henrique Reggiani, Timothy D. Brandt, Puragra Guhathakurta, Paul A. Dalba, Evan N. Kirby, Philip Chang, Daniel R. Hey, Alessandro Savino, Marla Geha, Ian B. Thompson

“…We describe the discovery of a solar neighborhood ( d = 468 pc) binary system with a main-sequence sunlike star and a massive noninteracting black hole candidate. …”
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Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Population of Isolated, Intermediate-mass Young Stellar Objects by Michael A. Kuhn, Ramzi Saber, Matthew S. Povich, Rafael S. de Souza, Alberto Krone-Martins, Emille E. O. Ishida, Catherine Zucker, Robert A. Benjamin, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Alfred Castro-Ginard, Xingyu Zhou, For the COIN collaboration

“…The 3D spatial distribution of these stars, based on Gaia astrometry, reveals that the “isolated” YSOs are not evenly distributed in the Solar neighborhood but are concentrated in kiloparsec-scale dusty Galactic structures that also contain the majority of the SPICY YSO clusters. …”
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Toward detection and characterization of exoplanetary magnetic fields via low frequency radio observation by Knapp, Mary (Mary E.)

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A Tale of Two Disks: Mapping the Milky Way with the Final Data Release of APOGEE by Julie Imig, Cathryn Price, Jon A. Holtzman, Alexander Stone-Martinez, Steven R. Majewski, David H. Weinberg, Jennifer A. Johnson, Carlos Allende Prieto, Rachael L. Beaton, Timothy C. Beers, Dmitry Bizyaev, Michael R. Blanton, Joel R. Brownstein, Katia Cunha, José G. Fernández-Trincado, Diane K. Feuillet, Sten Hasselquist, Christian R. Hayes, Henrik Jönsson, Richard R. Lane, Jianhui Lian, Szabolcs Mészáros, David L. Nidever, Annie C. Robin, Matthew Shetrone, Verne Smith, John C. Wilson

“…We discuss how radial migration predicts many of the observed trends near the solar neighborhood and in the outer disk, but an additional more dramatic evolution history, such as the multi-infall model or a merger event, is needed to explain the chemical and age bimodality elsewhere in the Galaxy.…”
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