J. M. Almenara, N. Astudillo-Defru, X. Bonfils, T. Forveille, A. Santerne, S. Albrecht, S. C. C. Barros, F. Bouchy, X. Delfosse, O. Demangeon et al. (7 more)

Published online: 22 September 2015

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Polarimetric imaging of NGC 1068 at high angular resolution in the near infrared - Direct evidence of an extended nuclear torus L8

D. Gratadour, D. Rouan, L. Grosset, A. Boccaletti and Y. Clénet

Published online: 23 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526554

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Correlated optical, X-ray, and γ-ray flaring activity seen with INTEGRAL during the 2015 outburst of V404 Cygni L9

J. Rodriguez, M. Cadolle Bel, J. Alfonso-Garzón, T. Siegert, X.-L. Zhang, V. Grinberg, V. Savchenko, J. A. Tomsick, J. Chenevez, M. Clavel et al. (13 more)

Published online: 23 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527043

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Re-evaluation of the central velocity-dispersion profile in NGC 6388 A1

Nora Lützgendorf, Karl Gebhardt, Holger Baumgardt, Eva Noyola, Nadine Neumayer, Markus Kissler-Patig and Tim de Zeeuw

Published online: 21 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425524

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Are the gyro-ages of field stars underestimated? A2

Géza Kovács

Published online: 21 August 2015

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Characterization of (357439) 2004 BL86 on its close approach to Earth in 2015 A3

M. Birlan, M. Popescu, D. A. Nedelcu, V. Turcu, A. Pop, B. Dumitru, F. Stevance, O. Vaduvescu, D. Moldovan, P. Rocher et al. (2 more)

Published online: 21 August 2015

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The structure of the Cepheus E protostellar outflow: The jet, the bowshock, and the cavity A4

B. Lefloch, A. Gusdorf, C. Codella, J. Eislöffel, R. Neri, A. I. Gómez-Ruiz, R. Güsten, S. Leurini, C. Risacher and M. Benedettini

Published online: 21 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425521

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Star formation in the filament of S254-S258 OB complex: a cluster in the process of being created A5

M. R. Samal, D. K. Ojha, J. Jose, A. Zavagno, S. Takahashi, B. Neichel, J. S. Kim, N. Chauhan, A. K. Pandey, I. Zinchenko et al. (2 more)

Published online: 21 August 2015

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Bipolar solar magnetic fields - Behaviors resulting from a nonlinear force-free equation A6

R. C. Tautz and I. Lerche

Published online: 24 August 2015

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Planetary candidates around the pulsating sdB star KIC 5807616 considered doubtful A7

J. Krzesinski

Published online: 25 August 2015

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A unified view of coronal loop contraction and oscillation in flares A8

A. J. B. Russell, P. J. A. Simões and L. Fletcher

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A new approach to the maser emission in the solar corona A9

S. Régnier

Published online: 24 August 2015

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VEGAS: A VST Early-type GAlaxy Survey - I. Presentation, wide-field surface photometry, and substructures in NGC 4472 A10

Massimo Capaccioli, Marilena Spavone, Aniello Grado, Enrichetta Iodice, Luca Limatola, Nicola R. Napolitano, Michele Cantiello, Maurizio Paolillo, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Duncan A. Forbes et al. (3 more)

Published online: 24 August 2015

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Galaxy luminosity functions in WINGS clusters A11

A. Moretti, D. Bettoni, B. M. Poggianti, G. Fasano, J. Varela, M. D’Onofrio, B. Vulcani, A. Cava, J. Fritz, W. J. Couch et al. (2 more)

Published online: 25 August 2015

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Var C: Long-term photometric and spectral variability of a luminous blue variable in M 33 A12

B. Burggraf, K. Weis, D. J. Bomans, M. Henze, H. Meusinger, O. Sholukhova, A. Zharova, A. Pellerin and A. Becker

Published online: 25 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201323308

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Ghosts of Milky Way’s past: the globular cluster ESO 37-1 (E 3) A13

R. de la Fuente Marcos, C. de la Fuente Marcos, C. Moni Bidin, S. Ortolani and G. Carraro

Published online: 25 August 2015

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Planck 2013 results. XXXII. The updated Planck catalogue of Sunyaev-Zeldovich sources A14

Planck Collaboration:, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim, C. Armitage-Caplan, M. Arnaud, M. Ashdown, F. Atrio-Barandela, J. Aumont, H. Aussel, C. Baccigalupi et al. (268 more)

Published online: 25 August 2015

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Low-metallicity massive single stars with rotation - Evolutionary models applicable to I Zwicky 18 A15

Dorottya Szécsi, Norbert Langer, Sung-Chul Yoon, Debashis Sanyal, Selma de Mink, Christopher J. Evans and Tyl Dermine

Published online: 25 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526617

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Fossil group origins - V. The dependence of the luminosity function on the magnitude gap A16

S. Zarattini, J. A. L. Aguerri, R. Sánchez-Janssen, R. Barrena, W. Boschin, C. del Burgo, N. Castro-Rodriguez, E. M. Corsini, E. D’Onghia, M. Girardi et al. (4 more)

Published online: 26 August 2015

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Multiple tidal disruption flares in the active galaxy IC 3599 A17

S. Campana, D. Mainetti, M. Colpi, G. Lodato, P. D’Avanzo, P. A. Evans and A. Moretti

Published online: 26 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525965

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Variation of bulk Lorentz factor in AGN jets due to Compton rocket in a complex photon field A18

T. Vuillaume, G. Henri and P.-O. Petrucci

Published online: 26 August 2015

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A time-domain deconvolution technique for meteor photometry applied to double-station CCD image data A19

A. A. Christou, A. Margonis and J. Oberst

Published online: 26 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526391

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Evolution of circumbinary planets around eccentric binaries: The case of Kepler-34 A20

Wilhelm Kley and Nader Haghighipour

Published online: 26 August 2015

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Wolf-Rayet stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud - I. Analysis of the single WN stars A21

R. Hainich, D. Pasemann, H. Todt, T. Shenar, A. Sander and W.-R. Hamann

Published online: 26 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526241

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Carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars: a window on AGB nucleosynthesis and binary evolution - II. Statistical analysis of a sample of 67 CEMP-s stars A22

C. Abate, O. R. Pols, R. G. Izzard and A. I. Karakas

Published online: 26 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525876

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Brightest cluster galaxies in the extended GMRT radio halo cluster sample - Radio properties and cluster dynamics A23

R. Kale, T. Venturi, R. Cassano, S. Giacintucci, S. Bardelli, D. Dallacasa and E. Zucca

Published online: 26 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526341

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Improving signal-to-noise in the direct imaging of exoplanets and circumstellar disks with MLOCI A24

Zahed Wahhaj, Lucas A. Cieza, Dimitri Mawet, Bin Yang, Hector Canovas, Jozua de Boer, Simon Casassus, François Ménard, Matthias R. Schreiber, Michael C. Liu et al. (3 more)

Published online: 26 August 2015

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The EUV spectrum of the Sun: SOHO, SEM, and CDS irradiances A25

G. Del Zanna, S. R. Wieman, V. Andretta and L. Didkovsky

Published online: 26 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526227

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Hydrogen Ly-α and Ly-β full Sun line profiles observed with SUMER/SOHO (1996–2009) A26

P. Lemaire, J.-C. Vial, W. Curdt, U. Schühle and K. Wilhelm

Published online: 26 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526059

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Modelling the high-energy emission from gamma-ray binaries using numerical relativistic hydrodynamics A27

G. Dubus, A. Lamberts and S. Fromang

Published online: 27 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425394

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A survey of stellar X-ray flares from the XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue: HIPPARCOS-Tycho cool stars A28

J. P. Pye, S. Rosen, D. Fyfe and A. C. Schröder

Published online: 27 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526217

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Analysis of Fermi gamma-ray burst duration distribution A29

M. Tarnopolski

Published online: 27 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526415

Stellar structure and evolution

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Infrared study of transitional disks in Ophiuchus with Herschel A30

Isabel Rebollido, Bruno Merín, Álvaro Ribas, Ignacio Bustamante, Hervé Bouy, Pablo Riviere-Marichalar, Timo Prusti, Göran L. Pilbratt, Philippe André and Péter Ábrahám

Published online: 27 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425556

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The matter distribution in z ~ 0.5 redshift clusters of galaxies - II. The link between dark and visible matter A31

G. Soucail, G. Foëx, E. Pointecouteau, M. Arnaud and M. Limousin

Published online: 27 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322689

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First 230 GHz VLBI fringes on 3C 279 using the APEX Telescope A32

J. Wagner, A. L. Roy, T. P. Krichbaum, W. Alef, A. Bansod, A. Bertarini, R. Güsten, D. Graham, J. Hodgson, R. Märtens et al. (45 more)

Published online: 27 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201423613

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Far-UV to mid-IR properties of nearby radio galaxies A33

H. R. de Ruiter, P. Parma, R. Fanti and C. Fanti

Published online: 28 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424079

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The Solar Twin Planet Search - II. A Jupiter twin around a solar twin A34

M. Bedell, J. Meléndez, J. L. Bean, I. Ramírez, M. Asplund, A. Alves-Brito, L. Casagrande, S. Dreizler, T. Monroe, L. Spina and M. Tucci Maia

Published online: 28 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525748

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Twin peak high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations as a spectral imprint of dual oscillation modes of accretion tori A35

P. Bakala, K. Goluchová, G. Török, E. Šrámková, M. A. Abramowicz, F. H. Vincent and G. P. Mazur

Published online: 28 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525867

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The flux-weighted gravity-luminosity relationship of blue supergiant stars as a constraint for stellar evolution A36

Georges Meynet, Rolf-Peter Kudritzki and Cyril Georgy

Published online: 28 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526035

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Period change of massive binaries from combined photometric and spectroscopic data in Cygnus OB2 A37

Jaan Laur, Elmo Tempel, Taavi Tuvikene, Tõnis Eenmäe and Indrek Kolka

Published online: 31 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526520

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The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets - VII. A warm Neptune orbiting HD 164595 A38

B. Courcol, F. Bouchy, F. Pepe, A. Santerne, X. Delfosse, L. Arnold, N. Astudillo-Defru, I. Boisse, X. Bonfils, S. Borgniet et al. (16 more)

Published online: 28 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526329

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Global survey of star clusters in the Milky Way - IV. 63 new open clusters detected by proper motions A39

R.-D. Scholz, N. V. Kharchenko, A. E. Piskunov, S. Röser and E. Schilbach

Published online: 28 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526312

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Supernova 1987A: neutrino-driven explosions in three dimensions and light curves A40

V. P. Utrobin, A. Wongwathanarat, H.-Th. Janka and E. Müller

Published online: 28 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425513

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OmegaWINGS: OmegaCAM-VST observations of WINGS galaxy clusters A41

M. Gullieuszik, B. Poggianti, G. Fasano, S. Zaggia, A. Paccagnella, A. Moretti, D. Bettoni, M. D’Onofrio, W. J. Couch, B. Vulcani et al. (6 more)

Published online: 28 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526061

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Three-dimensional simulations of near-surface convection in main-sequence stars - III. The structure of small-scale magnetic flux concentrations A42

B. Beeck, M. Schüssler, R. H. Cameron and A. Reiners

Published online: 31 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525788

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Three-dimensional simulations of near-surface convection in main-sequence stars - IV. Effect of small-scale magnetic flux concentrations on centre-to-limb variation and spectral lines A43

B. Beeck, M. Schüssler, R. H. Cameron and A. Reiners

Published online: 31 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525874

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Galactic cosmic rays on extrasolar Earth-like planets - I. Cosmic ray flux A44

J.–M. Grießmeier, F. Tabataba-Vakili, A. Stadelmann, J. L. Grenfell and D. Atri

Published online: 31 August 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425451

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The DICE calibration project Design, characterization, and first results A45

N. Regnault, A. Guyonnet, K. Schahmanèche, L. Le Guillou, P. Antilogus, P. Astier, E. Barrelet, M. Betoule, S. Bongard, J.-C. Cuillandre et al. (5 more)

Published online: 01 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424471

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Asteroid flux towards circumprimary habitable zones in binary star systems - I. Statistical overview A46

D. Bancelin, E. Pilat-Lohinger, S. Eggl, T. I. Maindl, C. Schäfer, R. Speith and R. Dvorak

Published online: 01 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526430

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Lines and continuum sky emission in the near infrared: observational constraints from deep high spectral resolution spectra with GIANO-TNG A47

E. Oliva, L. Origlia, S. Scuderi, S. Benatti, I. Carleo, E. Lapenna, A. Mucciarelli, C. Baffa, V. Biliotti, L. Carbonaro et al. (12 more)

Published online: 01 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526291

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A 1.3 cm line survey toward Orion KL A48

Y. Gong, C. Henkel, S. Thorwirth, S. Spezzano, K. M. Menten, C. M. Walmsley, F. Wyrowski, R. Q. Mao and B. Klein

Published online: 02 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526275

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A new massive double-lined spectroscopic binary system: The Wolf-Rayet star WR 68a A49

A. Collado, R. Gamen, R. H. Barbá and N. Morrell

Published online: 01 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424863

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A study on the multicolour evolution of red-sequence galaxy populations: insights from hydrodynamical simulations and semi-analytical models A50

A. D. Romeo, Xi Kang, E. Contini, J. Sommer-Larsen, R. Fassbender, N. R. Napolitano, V. Antonuccio-Delogu and I. Gavignaud

Published online: 02 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526226

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Solar extreme ultraviolet variability of the quiet Sun A51

F. Shakeri, L. Teriaca and S. K. Solanki

Published online: 01 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424491

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The Gaia-ESO Survey: Catalogue of Hα emission stars A52

G. Traven, T. Zwitter, S. Van Eck, A. Klutsch, R. Bonito, A. C. Lanzafame, E. J. Alfaro, A. Bayo, A. Bragaglia, M. T. Costado et al. (11 more)

Published online: 01 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525857

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Field equation of the correlation function of mass-density fluctuations for self-gravitating systems A53

Yang Zhang and Qing Chen

Published online: 01 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425431

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The evolving star formation rate: M_⋆ relation and sSFR since z ≃ 5 from the VUDS spectroscopic survey A54

L. A. M. Tasca, O. Le Fèvre, N. P. Hathi, D. Schaerer, O. Ilbert, G. Zamorani, B. C. Lemaux, P. Cassata, B. Garilli, V. Le Brun et al. (36 more)

Published online: 01 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425379

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Photometric analysis for the spin and shape parameters of the C-type main-belt asteroids (171) Ophelia and (360) Carlova A55

Xiaobin Wang, Karri Muinonen, Yibo Wang, Raoul Behrend, Rui Goncalves, Julian Oey, Pierre Antonini, Christophe Demeautis, Federico Manzini, Jacques Damerdji et al. (4 more)

Published online: 01 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526523

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Satellite content and quenching of star formation in galaxy groups at z ~ 1.8 A56

R. Gobat, E. Daddi, M. Béthermin, M. Pannella, A. Finoguenov, G. Gozaliasl, E. Le Floc’h, C. Schreiber, V. Strazzullo, M. Sargent et al. (6 more)

Published online: 01 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526274

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Swift/XRT counterparts to unassociated Fermi high-energy LAT sources A57

R. Landi, L. Bassani, J. B. Stephen, N. Masetti, A. Malizia and P. Ubertini

Published online: 01 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526221

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A note on the use of surface offset corrections in asteroseismic model fitting A58

Ian W. Roxburgh

Published online: 02 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526177

Numerical methods and codes

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A new approach to multifrequency synthesis in radio interferometry A59

H. Junklewitz, M. R. Bell and T. Enßlin

Published online: 02 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201423465

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New observations and models of circumstellar CO line emission of AGB stars in the Herschel SUCCESS programme A60

T. Danilovich, D. Teyssier, K. Justtanont, H. Olofsson, L. Cerrigone, V. Bujarrabal, J. Alcolea, J. Cernicharo, A. Castro-Carrizo, P. García-Lario and A. Marston

Published online: 02 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526705

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Energy and helicity injection in solar quiet regions A61

K. Tziotziou, S.-H. Park, G. Tsiropoula and I. Kontogiannis

Published online: 02 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526389

Stellar structure and evolution

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Modelling the observed properties of carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars using binary population synthesis A62

C. Abate, O. R. Pols, R. J. Stancliffe, R. G. Izzard, A. I. Karakas, T. C. Beers and Y. S. Lee

Published online: 02 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526200

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On the line shift and oscillator strength of Xe ii lines in the spectra of HnMn stars A63

H. O. Di Rocco, A. Cruzado and P. E. Marchiano

Published online: 03 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526301

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X-ray observations of the hot phase in Sagittarius A* A64

A. Różańska, P. Mróz, M. Mościbrodzka, M. Sobolewska and T. P. Adhikari

Published online: 03 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424386

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Properties and formation mechanism of the stellar counter-rotating components in NGC 4191 A65

L. Coccato, M. Fabricius, L. Morelli, E. M. Corsini, A. Pizzella, P. Erwin, E. Dalla Bontà, R. Saglia, R. Bender and M. Williams

Published online: 03 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526560

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UV variability and accretion dynamics in the young open cluster NGC 2264 A66

L. Venuti, J. Bouvier, J. Irwin, J. R. Stauffer, L. A. Hillenbrand, L. M. Rebull, A. M. Cody, S. H. P. Alencar, G. Micela, E. Flaccomio and G. Peres

Published online: 03 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526164

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Spatially resolved vertical vorticity in solar supergranulation using helioseismology and local correlation tracking A67

J. Langfellner, L. Gizon and A. C. Birch

Published online: 03 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526024

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Stellar parameters for stars of the CoRoT exoplanet field A68

C. Cortés, S. C. Maciel, S. Vieira, C. E. Ferreira Lopes, I. C. Leão, G. P. de Oliveira, C. Correia, B. L. Canto Martins, M. Catelan and J. R. De Medeiros

Published online: 04 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424155

Stellar atmospheres

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Doppler imaging of LQ Hydrae for 1998–2002 A69

E. M. Cole, T. Hackman, M. J. Käpylä, I. Ilyin, O. Kochukhov and N. Piskunov

Published online: 03 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425440

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Grid of theoretical NLTE equivalent widths of four Ba ii lines and barium abundance in cool stars A70

S. A. Korotin, S. M. Andrievsky, C. J. Hansen, E. Caffau, P. Bonifacio, M. Spite, F. Spite and P. François

Published online: 03 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526558

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Resolving the chemical substructure of Orion-KL A71

S. Feng, H. Beuther, Th. Henning, D. Semenov, A. Palau and E. A. C. Mills

Published online: 04 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322725

Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations

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Strömgren uvby photometry of the peculiar globular cluster NGC 2419 A72

Matthias J. Frank, Andreas Koch, Sofia Feltzing, Nikolay Kacharov, Mark I. Wilkinson and Mike Irwin

Published online: 07 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526555

Stellar structure and evolution

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VLT X-Shooter spectroscopy of the nearest brown dwarf binary A73

N. Lodieu, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, R. Rebolo, V. J. S. Béjar, Y. Pavlenko and A. Pérez-Garrido

Published online: 07 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424933

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Relationship between the column density distribution and evolutionary class of molecular clouds as viewed by ATLASGAL A74

J. Abreu-Vicente, J. Kainulainen, A. Stutz, Th. Henning and H. Beuther

Published online: 07 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424959

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Interplay between pulsations and mass loss in the blue supergiant 55 Cygnus = HD 198 478 A75

M. Kraus, M. Haucke, L. S. Cidale, R. O. J. Venero, D. H. Nickeler, P. Németh, E. Niemczura, S. Tomić, A. Aret, J. Kubát et al. (7 more)

Published online: 07 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425383

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The naked nuclei of low ionization nuclear emission line regions A76

Barbara Balmaverde and Alessandro Capetti

Published online: 07 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526496

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KIC 9533489: a genuine γ Doradus – δ Scuti Kepler hybrid pulsator with transit events A77

Zs. Bognár, P. Lampens, Y. Frémat, J. Southworth, Á. Sódor, P. De Cat, H. T. Isaacson, G. W. Marcy, D. R. Ciardi, R. L. Gilliland and P. Martín-Fernández

Published online: 07 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526154

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Coexisting fast and slow propagating waves of the extreme-UV intensity in solar coronal plasma structures A78

Yuzong Zhang, Jun Zhang, Jingxiu Wang and Valery M. Nakariakov

Published online: 07 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525621

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Anatomy of the AGN in NGC 5548 - V. A clear view of the X-ray narrow emission lines A79

M. Whewell, G. Branduardi-Raymont, J. S. Kaastra, M. Mehdipour, K. C. Steenbrugge, S. Bianchi, E. Behar, J. Ebrero, M. Cappi, E. Costantini et al. (8 more)

Published online: 07 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526742

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Detection limits with spectral differential imaging data A80

J. Rameau, G. Chauvin, A.-M. Lagrange, A.-L. Maire, A. Boccaletti and M. Bonnefoy

Published online: 08 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525879

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B fields in OB stars (BOB) - Detection of a strong magnetic field in the O9.7 V star HD 54879 A81

N. Castro, L. Fossati, S. Hubrig, S. Simón-Díaz, M. Schöller, I. Ilyin, T. A. Carrol, N. Langer, T. Morel, F. R. N. Schneider et al. (7 more)

Published online: 08 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425354

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6-m telescope observations of three dwarf spheroidal galaxies with very low surface brightness A82

D. I. Makarov, M. E. Sharina, V. E. Karachentseva and I. D. Karachentsev

Published online: 08 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526947

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Models of neutron star atmospheres enriched with nuclear burning ashes A83

J. Nättilä, V. F. Suleimanov, J. J. E. Kajava and J. Poutanen

Published online: 08 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526512

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Optical-near-IR analysis of globular clusters in the IKN dwarf spheroidal: a complex star formation history A84

A. Tudorica, I. Y. Georgiev and A. L. Chies-Santos

Published online: 09 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525615

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The jet and the disk of the HH 212 low-mass protostar imaged by ALMA: SO and SO₂ emission A85

L. Podio, C. Codella, F. Gueth, S. Cabrit, R. Bachiller, A. Gusdorf, C. -F. Lee, B. Lefloch, S. Leurini, B. Nisini and M. Tafalla

Published online: 09 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525778

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The high-redshift gamma-ray burst GRB 140515A - A comprehensive X-ray and optical study A86

A. Melandri, M. G. Bernardini, P. D’Avanzo, R. Sánchez-Ramírez, F. Nappo, L. Nava, J. Japelj, A. de Ugarte Postigo, S. Oates, S. Campana et al. (15 more)

Published online: 09 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526660

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AGN feedback in action: a new powerful wind in 1SXPS J050819.8+172149? A87

L. Ballo, P. Severgnini, V. Braito, S. Campana, R. Della Ceca, A. Moretti and C. Vignali

Published online: 10 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526571

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The origin of fluorine: abundances in AGB carbon stars revisited A88

C. Abia, K. Cunha, S. Cristallo and P. de Laverny

Published online: 10 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526586

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Limits in the application of harmonic analysis to pulsating stars A89

J. Pascual-Granado, R. Garrido and J. C. Suárez

Published online: 10 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425596

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The white dwarf population of NGC 6397 A90

Santiago Torres, Enrique García-Berro, Leandro G. Althaus and María E. Camisassa

Published online: 10 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526157

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Disentangling the jet emission from protostellar systems - The ALMA view of VLA1623 A91

G. Santangelo, N. M. Murillo, B. Nisini, C. Codella, S. Bruderer, S.-P. Lai and E. F. van Dishoeck

Published online: 11 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526428

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H₂ formation via the UV photo-processing of a-C:H nano-particles A92

A. P. Jones and E. Habart

Published online: 11 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526487

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The stability of the optical flux variation gradient for 3C 120 A93

Michael Ramolla, Francisco Pozo Nuñez, Christian Westhues, Martin Haas and Rolf Chini

Published online: 11 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526846

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Tracking Advanced Planetary Systems (TAPAS) with HARPS-N - II. Super Li-rich giant HD 107028 A94

M. Adamów, A. Niedzielski, E. Villaver, A. Wolszczan, K. Kowalik, G. Nowak, M. Adamczyk and B. Deka-Szymankiewicz

Published online: 11 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526582

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The Maunder minimum (1645–1715) was indeed a grand minimum: A reassessment of multiple datasets A95

Ilya G. Usoskin, Rainer Arlt, Eleanna Asvestari, Ed Hawkins, Maarit Käpylä, Gennady A. Kovaltsov, Natalie Krivova, Michael Lockwood, Kalevi Mursula, Jezebel O’Reilly et al. (6 more)

Published online: 10 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526652

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Cosmic downsizing of powerful radio galaxies to low radio luminosities A96

E. E. Rigby, J. Argyle, P. N. Best, D. Rosario and H. J. A. Röttgering

Published online: 11 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526475

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Collisional modelling of the AU Microscopii debris disc A97

Ch. Schüppler, T. Löhne, A. V. Krivov, S. Ertel, J. P. Marshall, S. Wolf, M. C. Wyatt, J.-C. Augereau and S. A. Metchev

Published online: 14 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525664

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The H I Tully-Fisher relation of early-type galaxies A98

Milan den Heijer, Tom A. Oosterloo, Paolo Serra, Gyula I. G. Józsa, Jürgen Kerp, Raffaella Morganti, Michele Cappellari, Timothy A. Davis, Pierre-Alain Duc, Eric Emsellem et al. (5 more)

Published online: 11 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526879

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Spectroscopic identification of 25 disk galaxy candidate gravitational lenses in the SDSS A99

P. Focardi and E. Rossetti

Published online: 11 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526364

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Low frequency radio observations of bi-directional electron beams in the solar corona A100

Eoin P. Carley, Hamish Reid, Nicole Vilmer and Peter T. Gallagher

Published online: 15 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526251

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Constraining cosmology with shear peak statistics: tomographic analysis A101

Nicolas Martinet, James G. Bartlett, Alina Kiessling and Barbara Sartoris

Published online: 14 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425164

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Are long gamma-ray bursts biased tracers of star formation? Clues from the host galaxies of the Swift/BAT6 complete sample of LGRBs - I. Stellar mass at z < 1 A102

S. D. Vergani, R. Salvaterra, J. Japelj, E. Le Floc’h, P. D’Avanzo, A. Fernandez-Soto, T. Krühler, A. Melandri, S. Boissier, S. Covino et al. (13 more)

Published online: 14 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425013

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The CALIFA survey across the Hubble sequence - Spatially resolved stellar population properties in galaxies A103

R. M. González Delgado, R. García-Benito, E. Pérez, R. Cid Fernandes, A. L. de Amorim, C. Cortijo-Ferrero, E. A. D. Lacerda, R. López Fernández, N. Vale-Asari, S. F. Sánchez et al. (25 more)

Published online: 15 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525938

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When is pile-up important in the XMM-Newton EPIC cameras? A104

P. Jethwa, R. Saxton, M. Guainazzi, P. Rodriguez-Pascual and M. Stuhlinger

Published online: 15 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425579

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Planck’s dusty GEMS: The brightest gravitationally lensed galaxies discovered with the Planck all-sky survey A105

R. Cañameras, N. P. H. Nesvadba, D. Guery, T. McKenzie, S. König, G. Petitpas, H. Dole, B. Frye, I. Flores-Cacho, L. Montier et al. (23 more)

Published online: 16 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425128

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The Araucaria project. Precise physical parameters of the eclipsing binary IO Aquarii A106

D. Graczyk, P. F. L. Maxted, G. Pietrzyński, B. Pilecki, P. Konorski, W. Gieren, J. Storm, A. Gallenne, R. I. Anderson, K. Suchomska et al. (4 more)

Published online: 16 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526211

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The structure of disks around intermediate-mass young stars from mid-infrared interferometry - Evidence for a population of group II disks with gaps A107

J. Menu, R. van Boekel, Th. Henning, Ch. Leinert, C. Waelkens and L. B. F. M. Waters

Published online: 16 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525654

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Revisiting the luminosity function of single halo white dwarfs A108

Ruxandra Cojocaru, Santiago Torres, Leandro G. Althaus, Jordi Isern and Enrique García-Berro

Published online: 16 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526550

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Time variations of narrow absorption lines in high resolution quasar spectra A109

P. Boissé, J. Bergeron, J. X. Prochaska, C. Péroux and D. G. York

Published online: 16 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526289

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Massive stars on the verge of exploding: the properties of oxygen sequence Wolf-Rayet stars A110

F. Tramper, S. M. Straal, D. Sanyal, H. Sana, A. de Koter, G. Gräfener, N. Langer, J. S. Vink, S. E. de Mink and L. Kaper

Published online: 17 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425390

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Deriving physical parameters of unresolved star clusters - IV. The M 33 star cluster system A111

P. de Meulenaer, D. Narbutis, T. Mineikis and V. Vansevičius

Published online: 16 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526544

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Characterizing the propagation of gravity waves in 3D nonlinear simulations of solar-like stars A112

L. Alvan, A. Strugarek, A. S. Brun, S. Mathis and R. A. Garcia

Published online: 16 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526250

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Sparsely sampling the sky: Regular vs. random sampling A113

P. Paykari, S. Pires, J.-L. Starck and A. H. Jaffe

Published online: 17 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526236

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Environmental dependence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emission at z ~ 0.8 - Investigation by observing RX J0152.7-1357 with AKARI A114

Kazumi Murata, Yusei Koyama, Masayuki Tanaka, Hideo Matsuhara and Tadayuki Kodama

Published online: 17 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526276

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Determination of plasma parameters in solar zebra radio sources A115

M. Karlický and L. V. Yasnov

Published online: 18 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526785

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The role of the Fraunhofer lines in solar brightness variability A116

A. I. Shapiro, S. K. Solanki, N. A. Krivova, R. V. Tagirov and W. K. Schmutz

Published online: 18 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526483

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Calibrating echelle spectrographs with Fabry-Pérot etalons A117

F. F. Bauer, M. Zechmeister and A. Reiners

Published online: 18 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526462

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Scaling laws to understand tidal dissipation in fluid planetary regions and stars I. Rotation, stratification and thermal diffusivity A118

P. Auclair Desrotour, S. Mathis and C. Le Poncin-Lafitte

Published online: 18 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526246

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Hierarchical fragmentation and collapse signatures in a high-mass starless region A119

H. Beuther, Th. Henning, H. Linz, S. Feng, S. E. Ragan, R. J. Smith, S. Bihr, T. Sakai and R. Kuiper

Published online: 18 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526759

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Hundreds of new cluster candidates in the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea survey DR1 A120

R. H. Barbá, A. Roman-Lopes, J. L. Nilo Castellón, V. Firpo, D. Minniti, P. Lucas, J. P. Emerson, M. Hempel, M. Soto and R. K. Saito

Published online: 18 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424048

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Luminosity-dependent spectral and timing properties of the accreting pulsar GX 304−1 measured with INTEGRAL A121

C. Malacaria, D. Klochkov, A. Santangelo and R. Staubert

Published online: 21 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526417

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Spin-state chemistry of deuterated ammonia A122

O. Sipilä, J. Harju, P. Caselli and S. Schlemmer

Published online: 21 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526468

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Quasi integral of motion for axisymmetric potentials A123

O. Bienaymé, A. C. Robin and B. Famaey

Published online: 21 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526516

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Star and jet multiplicity in the high-mass star forming region IRAS 05137+3919 A124

R. Cesaroni, F. Massi, C. Arcidiacono, M. T. Beltrán, P. Persi, M. Tapia, S. Molinari, L. Testi, L. Busoni, A. Riccardi et al. (4 more)

Published online: 21 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526199

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GRB hosts through cosmic time - VLT/X-Shooter emission-line spectroscopy of 96 γ-ray-burst-selected galaxies at 0.1 <z < 3.6 A125

T. Krühler, D. Malesani, J. P. U. Fynbo, O. E. Hartoog, J. Hjorth, P. Jakobsson, D. A. Perley, A. Rossi, P. Schady, S. Schulze et al. (34 more)

Published online: 21 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425561

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The denoised, deconvolved, and decomposed Fermi γ-ray sky - An application of the D³PO algorithm A126

Marco Selig, Valentina Vacca, Niels Oppermann and Torsten A. Enßlin

Published online: 18 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425172

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AMBER-NACO aperture-synthesis imaging of the half-obscured central star and the edge-on disk of the red giant L₂ Puppis A127

K. Ohnaka, D. Schertl, K.-H. Hofmann and G. Weigelt

Published online: 22 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526338

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Detectability of quasi-circular co-orbital planets. Application to the radial velocity technique A128

Adrien Leleu, Philippe Robutel and Alexandre C. M. Correia

Published online: 22 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526175

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Grid search in stellar parameters: a software for spectrum analysis of single stars and binary systems A129

A. Tkachenko

Published online: 22 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526513

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Spatial damping of propagating sausage waves in coronal cylinders A130

Ming-Zhe Guo, Shao-Xia Chen, Bo Li, Li-Dong Xia and Hui Yu

Published online: 22 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526640

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Spectroscopic observations and modelling of impulsive Alfvén waves along a polar coronal jet A131

P. Jelínek, A. K. Srivastava, K. Murawski, P. Kayshap and B. N. Dwivedi

Published online: 22 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424234

Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

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What powers Lyα blobs? A132

Y. Ao, Y. Matsuda, A. Beelen, C. Henkel, R. Cen, C. De Breuck, P. J. Francis, A. Kovács, G. Lagache, M. Lehnert et al. (7 more)

Published online: 22 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424165

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Using the Sun to estimate Earth-like planets detection capabilities - V. Parameterizing the impact of solar activity components on radial velocities A133

S. Borgniet, N. Meunier and A.-M. Lagrange

Published online: 22 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425007

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High spectral resolution monitoring of Nova V339 Delphini with TIGRE A134

I. De Gennaro Aquino, K.-P. Schröder, M. Mittag, U. Wolter, D. Jack, P. Eenens, J. N. González-Pérez, A. Hempelmann, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, P. H. Hauschildt and G. Rauw

Published online: 22 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525810