2014 Press releases

Spooky Alignment of Quasars Across Billions of Light-years

Based on the article "Alignment of quasar polarizations with large-scale structures⋆,⋆⋆",
by D. Hutsemékers et al.

Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2014, 572, A18

VLTI Detects Exozodiacal Light

Based on the articles :

• "A near-infrared interferometric survey of debris-disk stars
  IV. An unbiased sample of 92 southern stars observed in H band with VLTI/PIONIER*,** ", by S. Ertel et al.
  Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2014, 570, A128
• "Searching for faint companions with VLTI/PIONIER
  II. 92 main sequence stars from the Exozodi survey*,**", by L. Marion et al.
  Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2014, 570, A127

Catching the merger at work

Based on the article "V838 Monocerotis: the central star and its environment a decade after outburst", by O. Chesneau et al.

Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2014, 569, L3

Uncloaking the King of the Milky Way: The largest star in our home galaxy's largest stellar nursery

Based on the article "The discovery of a very massive star in W49 *,**", by Wu et al.

Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2014, 568, L13

Best View Yet of Merging Galaxies in Distant Universe

Based on the article "Herschel-ATLAS and ALMA: HATLAS J142935.3-002836, a lensed major merger at redshift 1.027", by Messias et al.

Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2014, 568, A92

Swirling Electrons in the Whirlpool Galaxy

Based on the article "The nature of the low-frequency emission of M51: First observations of a nearby galaxy with LOFAR", by D.D. Mulcahy et al.

Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2014, 568, A74

Herschel Uncovers a Dearth of Oxygen near a New Star

Based on the article "Deep observations of O2 toward a low-mass protostar with Herschel-HIFI*,**,***", by Umut A. Yıldız et al.

Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2014, 558, A58

3D modeling of the Sun: from the core to the surface

Based on the article "Theoretical seismology in 3D: nonlinear simulations of internal gravity waves in solar-like stars", by L. Alvan et al.

Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2014, 565, A42

IAC Researchers explain the “excess” of Rubidium observed in dying stars

Based on the article "Circumstellar effects on the Rb abundances in O-rich AGB stars*", by O. Zamora et al.

Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2014, 564, L4

The future of the Sun observed through the nearest old star

Based on the article "An edge-on translucent dust disk around the nearest AGB star, L2 Puppis*,**", by P. Kervella et al.

VLT Spots Largest Yellow Hypergiant Star

Based on the article "The yellow hypergiant HR 5171 A: Resolving a massive interacting binary in the common envelope phase", by O. Chesneau et al.

Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2014, 563, A71

NASA's Chandra Sees Runaway Pulsar Firing an Extraordinary Jet

Based on the article "The long helical jet of the Lighthouse nebula, IGR J11014-6103", by L. Pavan et al.

Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2014, 562, A122

Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes Find One of the Youngest Galaxies in the Universe

Based on the article "The first Frontier Fields cluster: 4.5mum excess in a z-8 galaxy candidate in Abell 2744 by N. Laporte et al.

Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2014, 562, L8

The Anatomy of an Asteroid

Based on the article "The internal structure of asteroid (25143) Itokawa as revealed by detection of YORP spin-up *,** by Lowry et al.

Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2014, 562, A48

First Planet Found Around Solar Twin in Star Cluster

Based on the article "Three planetary companions around M 67 stars *,** by Brucalassi et al.

Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2014, 561, L9