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JWST view of a massive z=0.729 group with hot X-ray halo (Toni, G., et al., 2025, A&A, 697, A197)

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How bad could it be? Modelling the 3D complexity of the polarised dust signal using moment expansion

L. Vacher, A. Carones, J. Aumont, J. Chluba, N. Krachmalnicoff, C. Ranucci, M. Remazeilles and A. Rizzieri

A&A, 697 (2025) A212

Published online: 21 May 2025
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Introducing the AIDA-TNG project: Galaxy formation in alternative dark matter models

Giulia Despali, Lauro Moscardini, Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich, Volker Springel and Mark Vogelsberger

A&A, 697 (2025) A213

Published online: 21 May 2025
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Dark matter halo dynamics in 2D Vlasov simulations - A self-similar approach

Abineet Parichha, Stephane Colombi, Shohei Saga and Atsushi Taruya

A&A, 697 (2025) A218

Published online: 21 May 2025
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A search for periodic activity in multi-peaked long gamma-ray bursts

C. Guidorzi, M. Orlandini, R. Maccary, L. Amati, L. Bazzanini, M. Bulla, L. Ferro, F. Frontera, M. Maistrello, W.-J. Tan et al. (3 more)

A&A, 697 (2025) A228

Published online: 21 May 2025
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Dust sub-millimetre emission in green valley galaxies

Massimiliano Parente, Cinthia Ragone-Figueroa, Gian Luigi Granato, Laura Silva, Valeria Coenda, Héctor J. Martínez, Hernán Muriel and Andrea Lapi

A&A, 697 (2025) A231

Published online: 21 May 2025
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Binary-single interactions with different mass ratios - Implications for gravitational waves from globular clusters

Bruno Rando Forastier, Daniel Marín Pina, Mark Gieles, Simon Portegies Zwart and Fabio Antonini

A&A, 697 (2025) A118

Published online: 21 May 2025
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A systematic method to identify runaways from star clusters produced from single-binary interactions - A case study of M67

A. Herrera-Urquieta, N. Leigh, J. Pinto, G. Díaz-Cerda, S. M. Grondin, J. J. Webb, R. Mathieu, T. Ryu, A. Geller, M. Kounkel et al. (2 more)

A&A, 697 (2025) A183

Published online: 21 May 2025
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Searching for exotic object companions in the dense core of NGC 362 - A multi-wavelength and multi-epoch photometric analysis

Greta Ettorre, Emanuele Dalessandro, Cristina Pallanca, Mario Cadelano, Gourav Kumawat, Craig O. Heinke, Sebastian Kamann, Mattia Libralato, Phyllis M. Lugger, Haldan N. Cohn and Stefan Dreizler

A&A, 697 (2025) A215

Published online: 21 May 2025

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16188	Press Release Open Access Euclid: A complete Einstein ring in NGC 6505 C. M. O’Riordan, L. J. Oldham, A. Nersesian, T. Li, T. E. Collett, D. Sluse, B. Altieri, B. Clément, K. G. C. Vasan, S. Rhoades et al. (188 more) A&A, 694 (2025) A145 Published online: 10 February 2025
1889	Press Release Open Access Revisiting the multi-planetary system of the nearby star HD 20794 - Confirmation of a low-mass planet in the habitable zone of a nearby G-dwarf N. Nari, X. Dumusque, N. C. Hara, A. Suárez Mascareño, M. Cretignier, J. I. González Hernández, A. K. Stefanov, V. M. Passegger, R. Rebolo, F. Pepe et al. (37 more) A&A, 693 (2025) A297 Published online: 28 January 2025
788	Press Release Open Access Coronal hole picoflare jets are progenitors of both fast and Alfvénic slow solar wind L. P. Chitta, Z. Huang, R. D’Amicis, D. Calchetti, A. N. Zhukov, E. Kraaikamp, C. Verbeeck, R. Aznar Cuadrado, J. Hirzberger, D. Berghmans et al. (12 more) A&A, 694 (2025) A71 Published online: 05 February 2025
768	Planck 2018 results Free Access Planck 2018 results - VI. Cosmological parameters Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, Y. Akrami, M. Ashdown, J. Aumont, C. Baccigalupi, M. Ballardini, A. J. Banday, R. B. Barreiro, N. Bartolo et al. (172 more) A&A, 641 (2020) A6 Published online: 11 September 2020
719	ZTF SN Ia DR2 Press Release Open Access ZTF SN Ia DR2: Overview M. Rigault, M. Smith, A. Goobar, K. Maguire, G. Dimitriadis, J. Johansson, J. Nordin, U. Burgaz, S. Dhawan, J. Sollerman et al. (53 more) A&A, 694 (2025) A1 Published online: 14 February 2025

Volume 697 (May 2025) (in progress)
1. A mosaic of ten fields from Euclid's Early Release Observations, covering objects from Galactic nebulae to clusters of galaxies
  (Credits: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi)
  ("Euclid on Sky" Special issue, 2025, A&A, 697)
2. JWST view of a massive z=0.729 group with hot X-ray halo (Toni, G., et al., 2025, A&A, 697, A197)
See the table of contents
Volume 696 (April 2025)
1. Precession and expansion of a relativistic jet (Foschi, M., et al., 2025, A&A, 696, A117)
2. Multiple images in MACS 0416, found by JWST (Rihtaršič, G., et al., 2025, A&A, 696, A15)
3. Dust shells and a dark linear stripe on comet C/2023 A3 (Moreno, F., et al., 2025, A&A, 696, A43)
4. Hydrodynamic simulation of planetary and stellar wind (Gillet, A., et al., 2025, A&A, 696, A64)
5. Sub-arcsecond resolution view of the Orion Bar (Goicoechea, J. R., et al., 2025, A&A, 696, A100)
6. Web of unshocked ejecta filaments in Cassiopeia A (Orlando, S., et al., 2025, A&A, 696, A108)
7. NOEMA resolves molecular gas chemistry and density in M51 (Stuber, S. K., et al., 2025, A&A, 696, A182)
8. Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities in supernova ejecta (Roussel-Hard, L., et al., 2025, A&A, 696, A201)
9. Cassiopeia A–circumstellar shell interaction (Orlando, S., et al., 2025, A&A, 696, A188)
10. ALMA survey reveals most Lupus disks are very small (< 30 au) (Guerra-Alvarado, O. M., et al., 2025, A&A, 696, A232)
11. Multiple AGN bubbles in the galaxy group Nest200047 (Brienza, M., et al., 2025, A&A, 696, A239)
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Volume 695 (March 2025)
1. A deep LOFAR map of ELAIS-N1 with 154 952 sources (Shimwell, T. W., et al., 2025, A&A, 695, A80)
2. Plasma simulation of a pulsar magnetosphere (Cerutti, B., et al., 2025, A&A, 695, A93)
See the table of contents

16188	Press Release Open Access Euclid: A complete Einstein ring in NGC 6505 C. M. O’Riordan, L. J. Oldham, A. Nersesian, T. Li, T. E. Collett, D. Sluse, B. Altieri, B. Clément, K. G. C. Vasan, S. Rhoades et al. (188 more) A&A, 694 (2025) A145 Published online: 10 February 2025
7072	Press Release Open Access Revisiting the multi-planetary system of the nearby star HD 20794 - Confirmation of a low-mass planet in the habitable zone of a nearby G-dwarf N. Nari, X. Dumusque, N. C. Hara, A. Suárez Mascareño, M. Cretignier, J. I. González Hernández, A. K. Stefanov, V. M. Passegger, R. Rebolo, F. Pepe et al. (37 more) A&A, 693 (2025) A297 Published online: 28 January 2025
3519	Press Release Highlight Open Access CRIRES⁺ transmission spectroscopy of WASP-127 b - Detection of the resolved signatures of a supersonic equatorial jet and cool poles in a hot planet L. Nortmann, F. Lesjak, F. Yan, D. Cont, S. Czesla, A. Lavail, A. D. Rains, E. Nagel, L. Boldt-Christmas, A. Hatzes et al. (7 more) A&A, 693 (2025) A213 Published online: 21 January 2025
3394	Press Release Open Access The persistent shadow of the supermassive black hole of M87 - II. Model comparisons and theoretical interpretations The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Kazunori Akiyama, Ezequiel Albentosa-Ruíz, Antxon Alberdi, Walter Alef, Juan Carlos Algaba, Richard Anantua, Keiichi Asada, Rebecca Azulay, Uwe Bach et al. (260 more) A&A, 693 (2025) A265 Published online: 22 January 2025
3006	Planck 2018 results Free Access Planck 2018 results - VI. Cosmological parameters Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, Y. Akrami, M. Ashdown, J. Aumont, C. Baccigalupi, M. Ballardini, A. J. Banday, R. B. Barreiro, N. Bartolo et al. (172 more) A&A, 641 (2020) A6 Published online: 11 September 2020

16188	Press Release Open Access Euclid: A complete Einstein ring in NGC 6505 C. M. O’Riordan, L. J. Oldham, A. Nersesian, T. Li, T. E. Collett, D. Sluse, B. Altieri, B. Clément, K. G. C. Vasan, S. Rhoades et al. (188 more) A&A, 694 (2025) A145 Published online: 10 February 2025
12612	Free Access A hydrodynamic mechanism of meteor ablation - The melt-spraying model Oleksandr G. Girin A&A, 606 (2017) A63 Published online: 12 October 2017
10449	Press Release Open Access The SRG/eROSITA diffuse soft X-ray background - I. The local hot bubble in the western Galactic hemisphere Michael C. H. Yeung, Gabriele Ponti, Michael J. Freyberg, Konrad Dennerl, Teng Liu, Nicola Locatelli, Martin G. F. Mayer, Jeremy S. Sanders, Manami Sasaki, Andy Strong et al. (3 more) A&A, 690 (2024) A399 Published online: 29 October 2024
9606	Press Release Open Access Imaging the innermost circumstellar environment of the red supergiant WOH G64 in the Large Magellanic Cloud K. Ohnaka, K.-H. Hofmann, G. Weigelt, J. Th. van Loon, D. Schertl and S. R. Goldman A&A, 691 (2024) L15 Published online: 21 November 2024
9598	Planck 2018 results Free Access Planck 2018 results - VI. Cosmological parameters Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, Y. Akrami, M. Ashdown, J. Aumont, C. Baccigalupi, M. Ballardini, A. J. Banday, R. B. Barreiro, N. Bartolo et al. (172 more) A&A, 641 (2020) A6 Published online: 11 September 2020

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How bad could it be? Modelling the 3D complexity of the polarised dust signal using moment expansion

Introducing the AIDA-TNG project: Galaxy formation in alternative dark matter models

Dark matter halo dynamics in 2D Vlasov simulations - A self-similar approach

A search for periodic activity in multi-peaked long gamma-ray bursts

Dust sub-millimetre emission in green valley galaxies

Binary-single interactions with different mass ratios - Implications for gravitational waves from globular clusters

A systematic method to identify runaways from star clusters produced from single-binary interactions - A case study of M67

Searching for exotic object companions in the dense core of NGC 362 - A multi-wavelength and multi-epoch photometric analysis

Euclid: A complete Einstein ring in NGC 6505

Revisiting the multi-planetary system of the nearby star HD 20794 - Confirmation of a low-mass planet in the habitable zone of a nearby G-dwarf

Coronal hole picoflare jets are progenitors of both fast and Alfvénic slow solar wind

Planck 2018 results - VI. Cosmological parameters

ZTF SN Ia DR2: Overview

Euclid: A complete Einstein ring in NGC 6505

Revisiting the multi-planetary system of the nearby star HD 20794 - Confirmation of a low-mass planet in the habitable zone of a nearby G-dwarf

CRIRES⁺ transmission spectroscopy of WASP-127 b - Detection of the resolved signatures of a supersonic equatorial jet and cool poles in a hot planet

The persistent shadow of the supermassive black hole of M87 - II. Model comparisons and theoretical interpretations

Planck 2018 results - VI. Cosmological parameters

Euclid: A complete Einstein ring in NGC 6505

A hydrodynamic mechanism of meteor ablation - The melt-spraying model

The SRG/eROSITA diffuse soft X-ray background - I. The local hot bubble in the western Galactic hemisphere

Imaging the innermost circumstellar environment of the red supergiant WOH G64 in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Planck 2018 results - VI. Cosmological parameters

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