Epsilon Canis Majoris: The Brightest Extreme-ultraviolet Source with Surprisingly Low Interstellar Absorption by J. Michael Shull, Rachel M. Curran, Michael W. Topping

“…With its 27.3 ± 0.4 km s ^−1 heliocentric radial velocity and small proper motion, ϵ CMa passed within 9.3 ± 0.5 pc of the Sun 4.4 Myr ago, with a 180 times higher photoionization rate.…”
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Discovery and Spectroscopic Confirmation of Aquarius III: A Low-mass Milky Way Satellite Galaxy by W. Cerny, A. Chiti, M. Geha, B. Mutlu-Pakdil, A. Drlica-Wagner, C. Y. Tan, M. Adamów, A. B. Pace, J. D. Simon, D. J. Sand, A. P. Ji, T. S. Li, A. K. Vivas, E. F. Bell, J. L. Carlin, J. A. Carballo-Bello, A. Chaturvedi, Y. Choi, A. Doliva-Dolinsky, O. Y. Gnedin, G. Limberg, C. E. Martínez-Vázquez, S. Mau, G. E. Medina, M. Navabi, N. E. D. Noël, V. M. Placco, A. H. Riley, I. U. Roederer, G. S. Stringfellow, C. R. Bom, P. S. Ferguson, D. J. James, D. Martínez-Delgado, P. Massana, D. L. Nidever, J. D. Sakowska, L. Santana-Silva, N. F. Sherman, E. J. Tollerud, DELVE Collaboration

“…From medium-resolution Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopy, we identify 11 member stars and measure a mean heliocentric radial velocity of ${v}_{\mathrm{sys}}=-{13.1}_{-0.9}^{+1.0}\ \mathrm{km}\ {{\rm{s}}}^{-1}$ for the system and place an upper limit of σ _v < 3.5 km s ^−1 ( σ _v < 1.6 km s ^−1 ) on its velocity dispersion at the 95% (68%) credible level. …”
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Earth–lunar thermal effect on the temperature stability of TianQin telescope and the suppression methods by Wenbo Chang, Yuxiang Wang, Wenhai Tan, Guanhua Wu, Houyuan Chen, Wei Li, Zizheng Li, Fan Zhu, Zhu Li, Xuefeng Zhang, Shanqing Yang

“…TianQin is a geocentric space-based gravitational wave detection mission, it will confront a more complex and variable orbital thermal environment compared to heliocentric orbit missions like LISA. As one of the core payloads in TianQin, the telescope requires stringent temperature stability. …”
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