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Enhanced Tracking of Manuscript Status Now Available

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AAS Journals Welcome New Scientific Editors

We’re pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Kat Volk and Dr. Jennifer Hanley as scientific editors for the Planetary Science Journal (PSJ). Volk, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, brings expertise in small bodies within our solar system, such as comets, trans-Neptunian objects, and the distant, icy…

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.…

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AAS Nova Research Highlights

When Bright Spots Go Dark

New modeling tests a common assumption that's important for interpreting exoplanet spectra: that stars of all spectral types exhibit bright magnetized regions called faculae.

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Thermal Electrons Can Explain the Mysterious Radio Behavior of a Tidal Disruption Event

Astrobites reports on how synchrotron emission from thermal electrons could help to explain the behavior of certain tidal disruption events.

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Who Needs Jupiter?

The original plan for an upcoming flagship mission to Uranus called for a slingshot around Jupiter. Now that the planet won't be in the right position at launch time, the spacecraft will need to follow a different path.

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Primordial Planetesimals from the Guts of Population III Stars

How early did planets form in the universe? A recent study used simulations to find that planetesimals could have formed significantly earlier than previously thought.

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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.