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A combinaison of different dark matter clumps describing the mass distribution of Abell 370 (Limousin, M., et al., 2024, A&A, 693, A33)

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The third known triple white dwarf: The close double white dwarf SDSS J125733.63+542850.5 hosts a white dwarf tertiary

Camila Aros-Bunster, Matthias R. Schreiber, Odette Toloza, Mercedes S. Hernandez, Diogo Belloni, Kareem El-Badry, Zach Vanderbosch, Felipe Lagos-Vilches, Boris T. Gänsicke and Detlev Koester

A&A, 693 (2025) L11

Published online: 10 January 2025
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Magnetic seed generation by plasma heat flux in accretion disks

N. Villarroel-Sepúlveda, F. A. Asenjo and P. S. Moya

A&A, 693 (2025) A134

Published online: 10 January 2025
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Discovery of a Lyα blob photo-ionised by a super-cluster of massive stars associated with a z = 3.49 galaxy

S. Zarattini, J. M. Rodríguez-Espinosa, C. Muñoz-Tuñón, J. M. Mas-Hesse and P. Arrabal Haro

A&A, 693 (2025) A133

Published online: 10 January 2025
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Optically active and optically inactive radio galaxies as sub-populations of the main galaxy sample of the SDSS

G. Stasińska, N. Vale Asari, A. Wójtowicz and D. Kozieł-Wierzbowska

A&A, 693 (2025) A135

Published online: 10 January 2025
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3D projection analysis: Characterizing the morphological stability of nearby open clusters

Qingshun Hu, Songmei Qin, Yangping Luo and Yuting Li

A&A, 693 (2025) A125

Published online: 10 January 2025
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Asymmetry in the tidal tails of open star clusters from direct N-body integrations in Milgrom-law dynamics

J. Pflamm-Altenburg

A&A, 693 (2025) A127

Published online: 10 January 2025
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Dynamical confirmation of a black hole in the X-ray transient Swift J1727.8−1613

D. Mata Sánchez, M. A. P. Torres, J. Casares, T. Muñoz-Darias, M. Armas Padilla and I. V. Yanes-Rizo

A&A, 693 (2025) A129

Published online: 10 January 2025
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Development of convective envelopes in massive stars - Implications for gravitational wave sources

A. Romagnolo, J. Klencki, A. Vigna-Gómez and K. Belczynski

A&A, 693 (2025) A137

Published online: 10 January 2025

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Volume 693 (January 2025) (in progress)
1. A combinaison of different dark matter clumps describing the mass distribution of Abell 370 (Limousin, M., et al., 2024, A&A, 693, A33)
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Volume 692 (December 2024)
1. Euclid NISP view of the globular cluster NGC 6397 (Libralato, M., et al., 2024, A&A, 692, A96)
2. Distribution of supernova remnants in the LMC (Zangrandi, F., et al., 2024, A&A, 692, A237)
3. Origin of dark surface patch on cool giant star (Freytag, B., et al., 2024, A&A, 692, A223)
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Volume 691 (November 2024)
1. HST deep field images of Omega Centauri (Scalco, M., et al., 2024, A&A, 691, A96)
2. 3D retrieved structures of Jovian auroral emission (Benmahi, B., et al., 2024, A&A, 691, A91)
3. 5σ limiting magnitudes of F356+F444 stack mosaics (Merlin, E., et al., 2024, A&A, 691, A240)
4. Microstructure of deuterium-irradiated silicates (Zeng, X., et al., 2024, A&A, 691, A275)
5. The JWST/NIRCam images of 80 sub-millimetre galaxies (Gillman, S., et al., 2024, A&A, 691, A299)
6. Magnetic field of the core dynamo from an A-type star (Hidalgo, J. P., et al., 2024, A&A, 691, A326)
7. Extremely long gas filament discovered in X-rays (Dietl, J., et al., 2024, A&A, 691, A286)
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The third known triple white dwarf: The close double white dwarf SDSS J125733.63+542850.5 hosts a white dwarf tertiary

Magnetic seed generation by plasma heat flux in accretion disks

Discovery of a Lyα blob photo-ionised by a super-cluster of massive stars associated with a z = 3.49 galaxy

Optically active and optically inactive radio galaxies as sub-populations of the main galaxy sample of the SDSS

3D projection analysis: Characterizing the morphological stability of nearby open clusters

Asymmetry in the tidal tails of open star clusters from direct N-body integrations in Milgrom-law dynamics

Dynamical confirmation of a black hole in the X-ray transient Swift J1727.8−1613

Development of convective envelopes in massive stars - Implications for gravitational wave sources

Unveiling the ice and gas nature of active centaur (2060) Chiron using the James Webb Space Telescope

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

Planck 2018 results - VI. Cosmological parameters

The true age of multi-planet host star HD 110067 - Or: Don’t be fooled by K0V-type stars

Cosmic voids and the kinetic analysis - II. Link to Hubble tension

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

Broadband multi-wavelength properties of M87 during the 2018 EHT campaign including a very high energy flaring episode

Unveiling the ice and gas nature of active centaur (2060) Chiron using the James Webb Space Telescope

Planck 2018 results - VI. Cosmological parameters

An impact-free mechanism to deliver water to terrestrial planets and exoplanets

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

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

Planck 2018 results - VI. Cosmological parameters

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

Isles of regularity in a sea of chaos amid the gravitational three-body problem

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