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Published on 02 November 2015

Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing a special feature of 46 articles that present the results obtained by the Rosetta mission before the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko reached its perihelion.

The articles published in this A&A special feature cover a variety of themes in cometary science and revolutionize the field in many ways.

More information in Press Release here

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Published on 17 September 2015

Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A) is pleased to announce that the journal will move to online-only publication from the beginning of 2016.

A&A is always considering ways to best serve their authors and readers. In recent years, it has become clear that demand is moving rapidly towards the electronic edition of the journal with the print version becoming less important.

Read more about this major change from Dr. Jan Lub, Chairman of the Board of A&A.

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Published on 13 April 2015

EDP Sciences is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with Portico to provide a permanent archive of the e-content for many of their key journals. Through this agreement, institutions participating in Portico’s E-Journal Preservation Service will be assured continued access to EDP Sciences content for generations of their scholars in the future.

Current data will be sent to Portico as soon as the e-journal is published, and a full list of the journals committed to the Portico archive is available at http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/who-participates-in-portico/participating-publishers/edp.

For more information read Press Release (PDF).

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Published on 19 March 2015

In October 2014, Astronomy & Astrophysics published a special feature of 31 articles describing the data gathered by the Planck satellite over its first 15 months of observations and released by ESA and the Planck Collaboration in March 2013.

This series of papers presented the initial scientific results extracted from this first Planck dataset which measures the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with the highest accuracy to date. It provides major new advances in different domains of cosmology and astrophysics.

Planck 2013 results

To date, this issue has received over 7000 citations demonstrating the importance and significant value of the results presented in this collection of articles.

We hope to further increase the visibility of this essential collection and ensure that it is discoverable and accessible to as many researchers around the world as possible, when it is fully indexed by Thomson Reuter in the Web of Science.

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Published on 09 March 2015

The Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A) journal is now hiring its Main Language Editor (MLE) to work in the A&A office in Paris. The MLE will edit papers and coordinate the work of the LE team. The long-term contract (CDI) will begin as soon as possible (with a trial period of up to 6 months) and includes full access to the French healthcare system (medical and dental, etc). The salary, indexed to CNRS contracts, will depend on diploma and past experience.

The MLE is a native English speaker. Some familiarity with technical or scientific language is a bonus. More important are

  1. a strong background in editing in English,
  2. reasonable knowledge of French,
  3. some experience in team work,
  4. familiarity with related computer software (Adobe Acrobat, Word or the equivalent, LaTex, basic spreadsheet and presentation).

The MLE edits A&A's publications according to the “Guide to English editing at Astronomy & Astrophysics” www.aanda.org/language-editing and the principles outlined in the editorial on language editing (A&A Nov. 2008). This includes stylistic editing (clarifying meaning, eliminating jargon, polishing language; not creating or recasting tables or figures), and some copy editing when it relates to language (editing for grammar and usage, spelling, punctuation, and other mechanics of style, figure and table captions; not providing or changing citations, or checking references).

Applications (in pdf format) including a CV, a letter of motivation (including related experience), and two reference letters at least should be sent by email attachment to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Published on 20 February 2015

EDP Sciences has innovated by adding dynamic links in the references of PDF files instead of the standard static links. This permits:

Adding links (or even correcting links). This may be relevant when

  • a cited article has not yet been published online and the PDF is produced (e.g., a citation of an article in the same volume),
  • a cited article is very old, not yet digitized, and indexed in the ADS,
  • the citation is a book or a report that may be linked in the future;

Adding new functions in the future for already published articles, such as providing links related to the authors of the cited references with ORCID.

This solution is flexible when dealing with changes and improvements in the ADS and other citation systems.

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Published on 07 January 2015

The new A&A class (macro package v8.3) includes

  • the “\eprint” command supported by BiBTeX. The references appear as links in your article, both in the PDF and HTML formats (specific instructions),
  • two new LaTeX commands: \LEm {note in the margin} and \LEt {note within the text}. They indicate suggestions from language editors (specific instructions).

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Published on 27 October 2014

Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing a special feature of 31 articles describing the data gathered by Planck over 15 months of observations and released by ESA and the Planck Collaboration in March 2013. This series of papers presents the initial scientific results extracted from this first Planck dataset.

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The Planck satellite was launched in May 2009. With the highest accuracy to date, it measures the remnants of the radiation that filled the Universe immediately after the Big Bang. It is the oldest light in the Universe, emitted when it was 380000 years old. This light is observed today as the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Its maximum intensity is about 150 GHz (2 mm), and its temperature about 3K. The study of the CMB is currently a very active field of research in cosmology because it provides strong constraints on the cosmological models. In particular, observations of the CMB confirm the key prediction of the Big Bang model and, more precisely, what cosmologists call the concordance model of cosmology.

Figure 1

Fig. 1. The stack of images in the figure shows: in the center, the nine all-sky images ranging from 30 GHz (left) to 857 GHz (right); at far left, a combined view of all frequencies; at far right, the all-sky image of the temperature anisotropies of the CMB derived by Planck.

With the 2013 release of the intensity signal measured during the first 15 months of observation, Planck data are providing major new advances in different domains of cosmology and astrophysics. In the very near future, the Planck Collaboration will release a new dataset that includes all of its observations in intensity and in polarization. This new dataset will be a lasting legacy for the community for many years to come.

For more information:

Dr. Jennifer Martin
Astronomy & Astrophysics
61, avenue de l'Observatoire
75014 Paris, France
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Phone: +33 (0)1 43 29 05 41

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Published on 23 September 2014

A&A organized the 3rd Scientific Writing for Young Astronomers from 24th to 28th August 2014, in Tihany (Hungary). 49 students and 12 lecturers participated in this 3rd school. The direct purpose was to teach new PhD Students how to express their scientific results through correct and efficient science writing and how to write scientific papers for different forums (journals, proceedings, thesis manuscripts, etc.).

Overall, both students and lecturers appreciated the 3rd SWYA. They obtained useful information and liked the friendly and professional approach.

We invite you to visit the SWYA website and see the different comments and pictures of SWYA 2014: http://www.swya.org/.

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Published on 18 June 2014

Rich-media is rapidly becoming an important tool for researchers – in documenting their experiments, in scientific publication, and in explaining their work to broad audiences. That’s the reason why A&A now provides the possibility to publish multimedia and 3D models. It is embedded within HTML and PDF versions of articles: these are displayed alongside the article’s text.

Multimedia

Videos and animations can now be fully embedded in the text, or linked to.

See for example the following article:

See also:

3D models

A&A can also publish 3D models. U3D or PRC files may be embedded directly into the PDF with the "media9" package.

See for example figure 15 in the PDF file of the following article:

The A&A team always strives to offer its authors and readers an ever-increasing range of services.