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Assigning DOIs to data published in the journals
Starting in 2025, we are further enhancing the digital data published in the AAS Journals by giving each contributed dataset or online-only figure a unique digital object identifier (DOI). Improving data publication in the journals For over twenty-five years, authors have provided digital data with their AAS journal publications.…
AAS Publication Support Fund Process Change
In response to feedback from authors, AAS journals will now adjudicate requests for publication support when a manuscript is submitted, rather than waiting until a manuscript is accepted as was done previously. Under the new processing workflow, the Editor in Chief will review requests within one week of the submission…
Editorial on New Authorship Contribution Section
In this editorial published in the Bulletin of the AAS, AAS Journals Editor in Chief Ethan Vishniac describes the role of the new Authorship Contribution Section in AAS journal articles.
AAS Journals Again Receive Strong Impact Factors
The American Astronomical Society’s peer-reviewed journals remain among the highest-ranked publications in the astronomical sciences according to several key metrics, including impact factor.
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AAS Nova Research Highlights
Getting a Peek of Kitt Peak National Observatory
A mountain top in the Arizona desert scattered with telescopes, the Kitt Peak National Observatory is home to cutting-edge research and cultural connections.
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JWST Follows Up on a Rare Gamma-Ray Burst
Lasting multiple hours and featuring several bursts, GRB 250702B is a rare, powerful, and unusual gamma-ray burst. What do JWST observations tell us about the host galaxy and origins of this event?
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Are Water Worlds Just Made of Soot?
Astrobites reports on whether the low-density planets that keep popping up in our growing collection of exoplanets are really the water worlds that we imagine them to be.
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Supernovae, Shocks, and Spindown: A Possible Origin Story for Ultra-Long-Period Pulsars
New research suggests that ultra-long-period pulsars might begin their lives as massive stars in close binary systems.
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AAS Journals Editorial Board
The AAS Editor in Chief, the ApJ Letters Editor, the PSJ Editor, and a team of seven Lead Editors and more than 30 Science Editors manage peer review of its flagship research journals.
AAS Publications Committee
The AAS Publications Committee works with the AAS Editor in Chief to oversee the policies, editorial personnel, and new initiatives of AAS publishing.