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most citedThe Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package

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astro-ph.EP201787 cited

Col-OSSOS: Colors of the Interstellar Planetesimal 1I/`Oumuamua

Michele T. Bannister, Megan E. Schwamb, Wesley C. Fraser +10

The recent discovery by Pan-STARRS1 of 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua), on an unbound and hyperbolic orbit, offers a rare opportunity to explore the planetary formation processes of other s…

astro-ph.EP201758 cited

Variability of the Lowest Mass Objects in the AB Doradus Moving Group

Johanna M. Vos, Katelyn N. Allers, Beth A. Biller +5

We present the detection of [m] photometric variability in two young, L/T transition brown dwarfs, WISE J004701.06+680352.1 (W0047) and 2MASS J2244316+204343 (2M2244) using…

astro-ph.EP201733 cited

Planet Four: Terrains - Discovery of Araneiforms Outside of the South Polar Layered Deposits

Megan E. Schwamb, Klaus-Michael Aye, Ganna Portyankina +7

We present the results of a systematic mapping of seasonally sculpted terrains on the South Polar region of Mars with the Planet Four: Terrains (P4T) online citizen science project…

astro-ph.EP201756 cited

Col-OSSOS: z Band Photometry Reveals Three Distinct TNO Surface Types

Rosemary E. Pike, Wesley C. Fraser, Megan E. Schwamb +11

Several different classes of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) have been identified based on their optical and near-infrared colors. As part of the Colours of the Outer Solar System O…

astro-ph.EP201744 cited

Gemini/GMOS Transmission Spectral Survey: Complete Optical Transmission Spectrum of the hot Jupiter WASP-4b

C. M. Huitson, J-. M Desert, J. L. Bean +3

We present the complete optical transmission spectrum of the hot Jupiter WASP-4b from 440-940 nm at R ~ 400-1500 obtained with the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrometers (GMOS); this is…

astro-ph.EP2017119 cited

Improving and Assessing Planet Sensitivity of the GPI Exoplanet Survey with a Forward Model Matched Filter

Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Bruce Macintosh, Jason J. Wang +49

We present a new matched filter algorithm for direct detection of point sources in the immediate vicinity of bright stars. The stellar Point Spread Function (PSF) is first subtract…