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Best-title awards

2016
To Ba or not to Ba: enrichment in s-process elements in binary systems with WD companions of various masses
(Merle T. et al, 2016, A&A, 586, 151)

GRB 141221A: gone is the wind
(Bardho O. et al, 2016, MNRAS, 459, 508)

2015
2D or not 2D: the effect of dimensionality on the dynamics of fingering convection at low Prandtl number
(Garaud, P., Brummell, N., 2015, ApJ, 815, 42)

2010
Shaken and stirred: conduction and turbulence in clusters of galaxies
(Ruszkowski M., Peng Oh S., 2010, ApJ, 713, 1332)

2009
Saturn in hot water: viscous evolution of the Enceladus torus
(Farmer A.J., 2009, Icarus, 202, 280)

2007
It's a wonderful tail: the mass loss history of Mira
(Wareing C.J., Zijlstra A.A., O'Brien T.J., 2007, ApJ, 670, L125)

Geysers in the lagoon: new Herbig-Haro objects in M8
(Barba R.H. & Arias J.I., 2007, A&A, 471, 841)

2006
A neutron star in F sharp
(Grindlay J.E., 2006, Science, 311, 1876)

Getting a kick out of numerical relativity
(Baker J.G. et al, 2006, ApJ, 653, L93)

2005
When Darwin met Einstein: gravitational lens inversion with genetic algorithms
(Brewer B.J., Lewis G.F., 2005, PASA, 22, 128)

2004
Geminga: a tale of two tails, and much more
(Caraveo P.A. et al, 2004, Mem. Soc. It., 75, 470)

A hierarchy of voids: much ado about nothing
(Sheth R.K., van de Weygaert R., 2004, MNRAS, 350, 517)

2003
The salty scrambled egg: detection of NaCl toward CRL 2688
(Highberger J.L., Thomson K.J., Young P.A., Arnett D., Ziurys L.M., 2003, ApJ, 593, 393)

2002
Shapes and shears, stars and smears: optimal measurements for weak lensing
(Bernstein G.M., Jarvis M., 2002, AJ, 123, 583)
The Planetary Nebula Spectrograph: the green light for galaxy kinematics
(Douglas N.G. et al, 2002, PASP, 114, 1234)

2000
From I see to IC: the perfection of astronomical detectors
(Walker G.A.H., 2000, PASP, 112, 751)

Boomerang returns unexpectedly
(White M., Scott D., Pierpaoli E., 2000, ApJ, 545, 1)

1998
M32+-1
(Lauer T.R., 1998, AJ, 116, 2263)

1992
Rocks around the clock: limits on pulsar planetary systems
(Thorsett S.E., Phillips J.A., 1992, ApJ, 387, L69)


Nominations welcome (for any year). Thanks to Heinz Andernach for contributions.

Chris Benn (crb@ing.iac.es)

Last revised 27 January 2019

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