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Introducing AASTeX v7.0
AAS publishing is proud to announce the latest release of our popular AASTeX package! Learn more about the new features in AASTeX v7.0 and download the package here.
Author Contribution Statements
With the release of AASTeX v7.0, AAS Journals authors now have the ability to include Author Contribution statements in their manuscripts.
A Few Updates to AAS Journal Style
The Journals staff has been hard at work on a complete revamping of the AASTeX code. In tandem with this, the Publications Committee has identified a few key spots in AAS journal style where improvements could be made to better align with community standards and our core values.
Welcome to Kerry Kroffe, AAS Director of Scholarly Publishing
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) is pleased to announce that Kerry Kroffe is serving as the Director of Scholarly Publishing for the organization as of 9 September, 2024, following the recent retirement of AAS Chief Publishing Officer Julie Steffen.
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AAS Nova Research Highlights
A Late-Stage Infall Renovation: Mapping the Circumstellar Disk of AB Aurigae
What happens when a young star captures some extra gas and dust? New observations of a dusty disk reveals how a late-stage infall event may be influencing planet formation in AB Aurigae.
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Gravitationally Lensed Gravitational Waves from Black Holes Around Black Holes
Gravitational-wave detectors have spotted dozens of merging black hole pairs. New research explores whether any of these collisions could have happened in the disk around an accreting supermassive black hole.
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Twenty Thousand Stars Later, They Didn’t Find a Single Planet (and That’s Cool, Too!)
Astrobites reports on a study that shows that hot stars seem to host fewer small planets than their cooler stellar cousins.
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Fifteen Years of X-Rays from Andromeda’s Supermassive Black Hole
What has the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way's galactic neighbor been up to? The Chandra X-ray Observatory provides all the details.
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