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Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) - V. Detection of sodium on the bloated super-Neptune WASP-166b

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A&A, 641 (2020) L7

Published online: 18 September 2020
The ablation of gas clouds by blazar jets

Jonathan Heil and Michael Zacharias

A&A, 641 (2020) A114

Published online: 18 September 2020
The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey - XV. The mean rest-UV spectra of Lyα emitters at z > 3

Anna Feltre, Michael V. Maseda, Roland Bacon, Jayadev Pradeep, Floriane Leclercq, Haruka Kusakabe, Lutz Wisotzki, Takuya Hashimoto, Kasper B. Schmidt, Jeremy Blaizot et al. (15 more)

A&A, 641 (2020) A118

Published online: 18 September 2020
Relations among structural parameters in barred galaxies with a direct measurement of bar pattern speed

V. Cuomo, J. A. L. Aguerri, E. M. Corsini and V. P. Debattista

A&A, 641 (2020) A111

Published online: 18 September 2020
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Statistical deprojection of intervelocities, interdistances, and masses in the Isolated Galaxy Pair Catalog

Laurent Nottale and Pierre Chamaraux

A&A, 641 (2020) A115

Published online: 18 September 2020
Nonparametric galaxy morphology from UV to submm wavelengths

Maarten Baes, Angelos Nersesian, Viviana Casasola, Simone Bianchi, Letizia P. Cassarà, Christopher J. R. Clark, Ilse De Looze, Wouter Dobbels, Jacopo Fritz, Maud Galametz et al. (6 more)

A&A, 641 (2020) A119

Published online: 18 September 2020
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Etching glass in the early Universe: Luminous HF and H₂O emission in a QSO-SMG pair at z = 4.7

M. D. Lehnert, C. Yang, B. H. C. Emonts, A. Omont, E. Falgarone, P. Cox and P. Guillard

A&A, 641 (2020) A124

Published online: 18 September 2020
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Long, depolarising Hα-filament towards the Monogem ring

Wolfganga Reich, Patricia Reich and Xiaohui Sun

A&A, 641 (2020) A121

Published online: 18 September 2020

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1. An artist’s view of the Planck satellite and the cosmic microwave background
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2. Impact craters on Titan’s surface tell very different stories of evolution
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1. Overview of the Orion Nebula in the Hα, C⁺, CO, and ¹³CO emission
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Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) - V. Detection of sodium on the bloated super-Neptune WASP-166b

The ablation of gas clouds by blazar jets

The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey - XV. The mean rest-UV spectra of Lyα emitters at z > 3

Relations among structural parameters in barred galaxies with a direct measurement of bar pattern speed

Statistical deprojection of intervelocities, interdistances, and masses in the Isolated Galaxy Pair Catalog

Nonparametric galaxy morphology from UV to submm wavelengths

Etching glass in the early Universe: Luminous HF and H₂O emission in a QSO-SMG pair at z = 4.7

Long, depolarising Hα-filament towards the Monogem ring

GREGOR: Optics redesign and updates from 2018–2020

The Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey - XVIII. Star-forming dwarf galaxies in a cluster environment

Planck 2018 results

Radial metal abundance profiles in the intra-cluster medium of cool-core galaxy clusters, groups, and ellipticals

Planck 2018 results - I. Overview and the cosmological legacy of Planck

GREGOR: Optics redesign and updates from 2018–2020

The far-infrared/radio correlation and radio spectral index of galaxies in the SFR–M_∗ plane up to z~2

The FORS1 catalogue of stellar magnetic field measurements

High-precision density measurements in the solar corona - I. Analysis methods and results for Fe XII and Fe XIII

A unifying theory of dark energy and dark matter: Negative masses and matter creation within a modified ΛCDM framework

The far-infrared/radio correlation and radio spectral index of galaxies in the SFR–M_∗ plane up to z~2

The FORS1 catalogue of stellar magnetic field measurements

Open clusters - I. Fundamental parameters of B stars in NGC 3766 and NGC 4755

The Kepler characterization of the variability among A- and F-type stars - I. General overview

Multi-wavelength study of 14 000 star-forming galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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