A search for supersymmetry involving events with at least one photon, one electron or muon, and large missing transverse momentum has been performed by the CMS experiment. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb-1 of pp collisions at √{ s} = 8 TeV, produced at the CERN LHC. No excess of events is observed beyond

A search for the production of a heavy B quark, having electric charge -1 /3 and vector couplings to W , Z , and H bosons, is carried out using proton-proton collision data recorded at the CERN LHC by the CMS experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb-1 . The B quark is assumed to be pair produced and to decay in one of three

We present 15 new transit observations of the exoplanet WASP-43b in the i‧, g‧, and R filters with the 1.0 m telescopes of Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network and the IAC80 telescope. We combine our 15 new light curves with 52 others from the literature, to homogeneously analyze all the available transit light curves of this exoplanet

We present new binary stellar evolution models that include the effects of tidal forces, rotation, and magnetic torques with the goal of testing planetary nebulae (PNs) shaping via binary interaction. We explore whether tidal interaction with a companion can spin-up the asymptotic giant brach (AGB) envelope. To do so, we have selected binary

We present a long-term study of the secondary star in the cataclysmic variable AE Aqr, using Roche tomography to indirectly image starspots on the stellar surface spanning 8 years of observations. The seven maps show an abundance of spot features at both high and low latitudes. We find that all maps have at least one large high-latitude spot region

Accretion of matter onto black holes is universally associated with strong radiative feedback and powerful outflows. In particular, black-hole transients have outflows whose properties are strongly coupled to those of the accretion flow. This includes X-ray winds of ionized material, expelled from the accretion disk encircling the black hole, and