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Tracking Advanced Planetary Systems (TAPAS) with HARPS-N - IV. TYC 3667-1280-1: The most massive red giant star hosting a warm Jupiter L1

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

Published online: 04 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628417

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Unveiling the origin of the radio emission in radio-quiet quasars L2

N. Herrera Ruiz, E. Middelberg, R. P. Norris and A. Maini

Published online: 05 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628302

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Compact radio cores in radio-quiet active galactic nuclei L3

A. Maini, I. Prandoni, R. P. Norris, G. Giovannini and L. R. Spitler

Published online: 05 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628305

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Tracing jet emission at the base of a high-mass YSO - First AMBER/VLTI observations of the Brγ emission in IRAS 13481-6124 L4

A. Caratti o Garatti, B. Stecklum, G. Weigelt, D. Schertl, K.-H. Hofmann, S. Kraus, R. D. Oudmaijer, W. J. de Wit, A. Sanna, R. Garcia Lopez et al. (2 more)

Published online: 06 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628203

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Detection of extragalactic CF⁺ toward PKS 1830−211 - Chemical differentiation in the absorbing gas L5

S. Muller, K. Kawaguchi, J. H. Black and T. Amano

Published online: 18 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628494

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Gray transits of WD 1145+017 over the visible band L6

R. Alonso, S. Rappaport, H. J. Deeg and E. Palle

Published online: 19 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628511

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Light walls around sunspots observed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph L7

Y. J. Hou, T. Li, S. H. Yang and J. Zhang

Published online: 20 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628216

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Conditions for electron-cyclotron maser emission in the solar corona L8

D. E. Morosan, P. Zucca, D. S. Bloomfield and P. T. Gallagher

Published online: 22 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628392

Astrophysical processes

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Spectra of accelerated particles at supernova shocks in the presence of neutral hydrogen: the case of Tycho A7

G. Morlino and P. Blasi

Published online: 04 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527761

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Spatial gradients of GCR protons in the inner heliosphere derived from Ulysses COSPIN/KET and PAMELA measurements A32

J. Gieseler and B. Heber

Published online: 11 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527972

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New orbital ephemerides for the dipping source 4U 1323-619: constraining the distance to the source A34

A. F. Gambino, R. Iaria, T. Di Salvo, M. Del Santo, L. Burderi, M. Matranga, F. Pintore, A. Riggio and A. Sanna

Published online: 11 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527512

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IGR J17451–3022: A dipping and eclipsing low mass X-ray binary A42

E. Bozzo, P. Pjanka, P. Romano, A. Papitto, C. Ferrigno, S. Motta, A. A. Zdziarski, F. Pintore, T. Di Salvo, L. Burderi et al. (3 more)

Published online: 12 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527501

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Debye screening under non-equilibrium plasma conditions A85

Hans J. Fahr and M. Heyl

Published online: 18 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628082

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Self-organisation in protoplanetary discs - Global, non-stratified Hall-MHD simulations A87

William Béthune, Geoffroy Lesur and Jonathan Ferreira

Published online: 18 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527874

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Correlation between peak energy and Fourier power density spectrum slope in gamma-ray bursts A97

S. Dichiara, C. Guidorzi, L. Amati, F. Frontera and R. Margutti

Published online: 19 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527635

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Clumpy wind accretion in supergiant neutron star high mass X-ray binaries A102

E. Bozzo, L. Oskinova, A. Feldmeier and M. Falanga

Published online: 20 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628341

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Reactions of N⁺ (³P) ions with H₂ and HD molecules at low temperatures A105

Tasko P. Grozdanov, Ronald McCarroll and Evelyne Roueff

Published online: 20 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628092

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Absorption lines from magnetically driven winds in X-ray binaries A119

S. Chakravorty, P.-O. Petrucci, J. Ferreira, G. Henri, R. Belmont, M. Clavel, S. Corbel, J. Rodriguez, M. Coriat, S. Drappeau and J. Malzac

Published online: 22 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527163

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Alfvén-dynamo balance and magnetic excess in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence A131

Roland Grappin, Wolf-Christian Müller and Andrea Verdini

Published online: 25 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628097

Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

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Deep observation of the NGC 1275 region with MAGIC: search of diffuse γ-ray emission from cosmic rays in the Perseus cluster A33

M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli, P. Antoranz, A. Babic, B. Banerjee, P. Bangale, U. Barres de Almeida, J. A. Barrio, J. Becerra González et al. (144 more)

Published online: 11 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527846

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The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Variability selection and quasar luminosity function (Corrigendum) C2

N. Palanque-Delabrouille, Ch. Magneville, Ch. Yèche, I. Pâris, P. Petitjean, E. Burtin, K. Dawson, I. McGreer, A. D. Myers, G. Rossi et al. (4 more)

Published online: 11 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527392e

Extragalactic astronomy

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The Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey - XIX. Physical properties of low luminosity FIR sources at z < 0.5 A11

Ciro Pappalardo, Luca Bizzocchi, Jacopo Fritz, Alessandro Boselli, Mederic Boquien, Samuel Boissier, Maarten Baes, Laure Ciesla, Simone Bianchi, Marcel Clemens et al. (5 more)

Published online: 05 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201528008

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Seeking large-scale magnetic fields in a pure-disk dwarf galaxy NGC 2976 A12

R. T. Drzazga, K. T. Chyży, G. H. Heald, D. Elstner and J. S. Gallagher III

Published online: 05 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527236

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Carbon gas in SMC low-metallicity star-forming regions A28

M. A. Requena-Torres, F. P. Israel, Y. Okada, R. Güsten, J. Stutzki, C. Risacher, R. Simon and H. Zinnecker

Published online: 08 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526244

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Observational evidence of a slow downfall of star formation efficiency in massive galaxies during the past 10 Gyr A35

C. Schreiber, D. Elbaz, M. Pannella, L. Ciesla, T. Wang, A. Koekemoer, M. Rafelski and E. Daddi

Published online: 11 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527200

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Microphysics and dynamics of the gamma-ray burst 121024A A37

K. Varela, H. van Eerten, J. Greiner, P. Schady, J. Elliott, V. Sudilovsky, T. Krühler, A. J. van der Horst, J. Bolmer, F. Knust et al. (21 more)

Published online: 11 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526260

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NuSTAR observations of water megamaser AGN A59

A. Masini, A. Comastri, M. Baloković, I. Zaw, S. Puccetti, D. R. Ballantyne, F. E. Bauer, S. E. Boggs, W. N. Brandt, M. Brightman et al. (11 more)

Published online: 13 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527689

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The thermal instability of the warm absorber in NGC 3783 A76

R. W. Goosmann, T. Holczer, M. Mouchet, A.-M. Dumont, E. Behar, O. Godet, A. C. Gonçalves and S. Kaspi

Published online: 15 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425199

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Disc colours in field and cluster spiral galaxies at 0.5 ≲z ≲ 0.8 A82

Nicolas Cantale, Pascale Jablonka, Frédéric Courbin, Gregory Rudnick, Dennis Zaritsky, Georges Meylan, Vandana Desai, Gabriella De Lucia, Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca, Bianca M. Poggianti et al. (2 more)

Published online: 18 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525801

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The BL-Lacertae gamma-ray blazar PKS 1424+240 associated with a group of galaxies at z = 0.6010 A92

A. C. Rovero, H. Muriel, C. Donzelli and A. Pichel

Published online: 19 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527778

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Shaping the GeV-spectra of bright blazars A96

L. Hunger and A. Reimer

Published online: 20 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424738

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Individual power density spectra of Swift gamma-ray bursts A98

C. Guidorzi, S. Dichiara and L. Amati

Published online: 19 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527642

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Recent SFR calibrations and the constant SFR approximation A108

M. Cerviño, A. Bongiovanni and S. Hidalgo

Published online: 20 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201528056

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Metal enrichment in a semi-analytical model, fundamental scaling relations, and the case of Milky Way galaxies A109

M. Cousin, V. Buat, S. Boissier, M. Bethermin, Y. Roehlly and M. Génois

Published online: 20 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527734

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Type II supernovae as probes of environment metallicity: observations of host H II regions A110

J. P. Anderson, C. P. Gutiérrez, L. Dessart, M. Hamuy, L. Galbany, N. I. Morrell, M. D. Stritzinger, M. M. Phillips, G. Folatelli, H. M. J. Boffin et al. (3 more)

Published online: 20 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527691

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The Hydra I cluster core - I. Stellar populations in the cD galaxy NGC 3311 A139

C. E. Barbosa, M. Arnaboldi, L. Coccato, M. Hilker, C. Mendes de Oliveira and T. Richtler

Published online: 26 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628137

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A new fitting-function to describe the time evolution of a galaxy’s gravitational potential (Corrigendum) C3

Hans J. T. Buist and Amina Helmi

Published online: 12 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201323059e

Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations

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Kinematics of symmetric Galactic longitudes to probe the spiral arms of the Milky Way with Gaia A13

T. Antoja, S. Roca-Fàbrega, J. de Bruijne and T. Prusti

Published online: 05 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628200

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The massive stellar population of W49: A spectroscopic survey A16

Shi-Wei Wu, Arjan Bik, Joachim M. Bestenlehner, Thomas Henning, Anna Pasquali, Wolfgang Brandner and Andrea Stolte

Published online: 06 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527823

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The extent of mixing in stellar interiors: the open clusters Collinder 261 and Melotte 66 A50

Arnas Drazdauskas, Gražina Tautvaišienė, Sofia Randich, Angela Bragaglia, Šarūnas Mikolaitis and Rimvydas Janulis

Published online: 12 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628138

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When the Milky Way turned off the lights: APOGEE provides evidence of star formation quenching in our Galaxy A66

M. Haywood, M. D. Lehnert, P. Di Matteo, O. Snaith, M. Schultheis, D. Katz and A. Gómez

Published online: 14 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527567

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Probing the Dragonfish star-forming complex: the ionizing population of the young massive cluster Mercer 30 A69

D. de la Fuente, F. Najarro, J. Borissova, S. Ramírez Alegría, M. M. Hanson, C. Trombley, D. F. Figer, B. Davies, M. Garcia, R. Kurtev et al. (4 more)

Published online: 14 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201528004

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The Gaia-ESO Survey: membership and initial mass function of the γ Velorum cluster A70

L. Prisinzano, F. Damiani, G. Micela, R. D. Jeffries, E. Franciosini, G. G. Sacco, A. Frasca, A. Klutsch, A. Lanzafame, E. J. Alfaro et al. (16 more)

Published online: 14 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527875

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MILES extended: Stellar population synthesis models from the optical to the infrared A73

B. Röck, A. Vazdekis, E. Ricciardelli, R. F. Peletier, J. H. Knapen and J. Falcón-Barroso

Published online: 14 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527570

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APOGEE strings: A fossil record of the gas kinematic structure A80

A. Hacar, J. Alves, J. Forbrich, S. Meingast, K. Kubiak and J. Großschedl

Published online: 15 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527805

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Multiwavelength study of the flaring activity of Sagittarius A in 2014 February−April A116

E. Mossoux, N. Grosso, H. Bushouse, A. Eckart, F. Yusef-Zadeh, R. L. Plambeck, F. Peissker, M. Valencia-S., D. Porquet, W. D. Cotton and D. A. Roberts

Published online: 21 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527554

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A survey of HI gas toward the Andromeda galaxy A120

J. Kerp, P. M. W. Kalberla, N. Ben Bekhti, L. Flöer, D. Lenz and B. Winkel

Published online: 22 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526395

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A new look at the kinematics of the bulge from an N-body model A122

A. Gómez, P. Di Matteo, N. Stefanovitch, M. Haywood, F. Combes, D. Katz and C. Babusiaux

Published online: 25 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527606

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

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Physical vapor deposition synthesis of amorphous silicate layers and nanostructures as cosmic dust analogs A4

A. De Sio, L. Tozzetti, Ziyu Wu, A. Marcelli, M. Cestelli Guidi, G. Della Ventura, Haifeng Zhao, Zhiyun Pan, Wenjie Li, Yong Guan and E. Pace

Published online: 04 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527222

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A search for hydrogenated fullerenes in fullerene-containing planetary nebulae A5

J. J. Díaz-Luis, D. A. García-Hernández, A. Manchado and F. Cataldo

Published online: 04 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527727

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Dynamical friction for supersonic motion in a homogeneous gaseous medium A10

Daniel Thun, Rolf Kuiper, Franziska Schmidt and Wilhelm Kley

Published online: 05 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527629

Highlight

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About the detection of urea in the interstellar medium: the energetic aspect A18

I. Fourré, L. Rosset, H. Chevreau and Y. Ellinger

Published online: 06 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527537

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Photodesorption and physical properties of CO ice as a function of temperature A19

G. M. Muñoz Caro, Y.-J. Chen, S. Aparicio, A. Jiménez-Escobar, A. Rosu-Finsen, J. Lasne and M. R. S. McCoustra

Published online: 06 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628121

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The effect of ambipolar diffusion on low-density molecular ISM filaments A24

Evangelia Ntormousi, Patrick Hennebelle, Philippe André and Jacques Masson

Published online: 07 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527400

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Hot ammonia around young O-type stars - III. High-mass star formation and hot core activity in W51 Main A44

C. Goddi, A. Ginsburg and Q. Zhang

Published online: 12 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527855

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The environment of the γ-ray emitting SNR G338.3−0.0: a hadronic interpretation for HESS J1640−465 A51

L. Supan, A. D. Supanitsky and G. Castelletti

Published online: 12 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527962

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High spatial resolution imaging of SO and H₂CO in AB Auriga: The first SO image in a transitional disk A60

S. Pacheco-Vázquez, A. Fuente, C. Baruteau, O. Berné, M. Agúndez, R. Neri, J. R. Goicoechea, J. Cernicharo and R. Bachiller

Published online: 13 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527089

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²⁸SiO v = 0 J = 1–0 emission from evolved stars A74

P. de Vicente, V. Bujarrabal, A. Díaz-Pulido, C. Albo, J. Alcolea, A. Barcia, L. Barbas, R. Bolaño, F. Colomer, M. C. Diez et al. (11 more)

Published online: 14 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527174

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Probing the clumping structure of giant molecular clouds through the spectrum, polarisation and morphology of X-ray reflection nebulae A88

Margherita Molaro, Rishi Khatri and Rashid A. Sunyaev

Published online: 18 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527760

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Clumpy dust clouds and extended atmosphere of the AGB star W Hydrae revealed with VLT/SPHERE-ZIMPOL and VLTI/AMBER A91

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

Published online: 19 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628229

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Study of the photon-induced formation and subsequent desorption of CH₃OH and H₂CO in interstellar ice analogs A107

R. Martín-Doménech, G. M. Muñoz Caro and G. A. Cruz-Díaz

Published online: 20 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201528025

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On the GeV excess in the diffuse γ-ray emission towards the Galactic centre A117

Rui-zhi Yang and Felix Aharonian

Published online: 22 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527550

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Star formation in a diffuse high-altitude cloud? A123

J. Kerp, D. Lenz and T. Röhser

Published online: 25 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526984

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Molecules and dust in Cassiopeia A - II. Dust sputtering and diagnosis of supernova dust survival in remnants A132

Chiara Biscaro and Isabelle Cherchneff

Published online: 25 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527769

Stellar structure and evolution

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Pulsating hot O subdwarfs in ω Centauri: mapping a unique instability strip on the extreme horizontal branch A1

S. K. Randall, A. Calamida, G. Fontaine, M. Monelli, G. Bono, M. L. Alonso, V. Van Grootel, P. Brassard, P. Chayer, M. Catelan et al. (3 more)

Published online: 04 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201528006

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Activity from the Be/X-ray binary system V0332+53 during its intermediate-luminosity outburst in 2008 A9

M. D. Caballero-García, A. Camero-Arranz, M. Özbey Arabacı, C. Zurita, J. Suso, J. Gutiérrez-Soto, E. Beklen, F. Kiaeerad, R. Garrido and R. Hudec

Published online: 05 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526849

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Revealing the broad iron Kα line in Cygnus X-1 through simultaneous XMM-Newton, RXTE, and INTEGRAL observations A14

Refiz Duro, Thomas Dauser, Victoria Grinberg, Ivica Miškovičová, Jérôme Rodriguez, John Tomsick, Manfred Hanke, Katja Pottschmidt, Michael A. Nowak, Sonja Kreykenbohm et al. (8 more)

Published online: 05 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424740

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Angular momentum transport efficiency in post-main sequence low-mass stars A23

F. Spada, M. Gellert, R. Arlt and S. Deheuvels

Published online: 07 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527591

Press Release

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A non-uniform distribution of the nearest brown dwarfs A26

G. Bihain and R.-D. Scholz

Published online: 08 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201528007

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SiO: Not the perfect outflow tracer - Outflow studies of the massive star formation region IRAS 19410+2336 A29

F. Widmann, H. Beuther, P. Schilke and T. Stanke

Published online: 08 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526533

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Explosion of white dwarfs harboring hybrid CONe cores A38

E. Bravo, P. Gil-Pons, J. L. Gutiérrez and C. L. Doherty

Published online: 12 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527861

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Asteroseismology of the GW Virginis stars SDSS J0349−0059 and VV 47 A40

Leila M. Calcaferro, Alejandro H. Córsico and Leandro G. Althaus

Published online: 12 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527996

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Models for the evolution of close binaries with He-star and white dwarf components towards Type Ia supernova explosions A43

P. Neunteufel, S.-C. Yoon and N. Langer

Published online: 12 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527845

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The magnetic field of the double-lined spectroscopic binary system HD 5550 A47

E. Alecian, A. Tkachenko, C. Neiner, C. P. Folsom, B. Leroy and Collaboration the BinaMIcS

Published online: 12 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527355

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Atomic diffusion and mixing in old stars - VI. The lithium content of M30 A61

Pieter Gruyters, Karin Lind, Olivier Richard, Frank Grundahl, Martin Asplund, Luca Casagrande, Corinne Charbonnel, Antonino Milone, Francesca Primas and Andreas J. Korn

Published online: 13 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527948

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The delay time distribution of massive double compact star mergers A64

N. Mennekens and D. Vanbeveren

Published online: 14 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628193

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Orbital parameters of V 0332+53 from 2015 giant outburst data A72

V. Doroshenko, S. Tsygankov and A. Santangelo

Published online: 14 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527756

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The type Iax supernova, SN 2015H - A white dwarf deflagration candidate A89

M. R. Magee, R. Kotak, S. A. Sim, M. Kromer, D. Rabinowitz, S. J. Smartt, C. Baltay, H. C. Campbell, T.-W. Chen, M. Fink et al. (15 more)

Published online: 19 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201528036

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Measuring the extent of convective cores in low-mass stars using Kepler data: toward a calibration of core overshooting A93

S. Deheuvels, I. Brandão, V. Silva Aguirre, J. Ballot, E. Michel, M. S. Cunha, Y. Lebreton and T. Appourchaux

Published online: 19 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527967

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New analysis of the light time effect in TU Ursae Majoris A94

J. Liška, M. Skarka, Z. Mikulášek, M. Zejda and M. Chrastina

Published online: 19 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525870

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Magnetic activity cycles in solar-like stars: The cross-correlation technique of p-mode frequency shifts A103

C. Régulo, R. A. García and J. Ballot

Published online: 20 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425408

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Kepler and Hale observations of V523 Lyrae A106

E. Mason and S. B. Howell

Published online: 20 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628245

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Pseudomagnitudes and differential surface brightness: Application to the apparent diameter of stars A112

Alain Chelli, Gilles Duvert, Laurent Bourgès, Guillaume Mella, Sylvain Lafrasse, Daniel Bonneau and Olivier Chesneau

Published online: 20 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527484

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Magnetic variability in the young solar analog KIC 10644253 - Observations from the Kepler satellite and the HERMES spectrograph A118

D. Salabert, C. Régulo, R. A. García, P. G. Beck, J. Ballot, O. L. Creevey, F. Pérez Hernández, J.-D. do Nascimento Jr., E. Corsaro, R. Egeland et al. (5 more)

Published online: 22 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527978

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Level of helium enhancement among M3’s horizontal branch stars A126

A. A. R. Valcarce, M. Catelan, J. Alonso-García, R. Contreras Ramos and S. Alves

Published online: 25 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526387

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Discovery of an activity cycle in the solar analog HD 45184 - Exploring Balmer and metallic lines as activity proxy candidates A135

M. Flores, J. F. González, M. Jaque Arancibia, A. Buccino and C. Saffe

Published online: 26 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628145

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Hydrodynamical instabilities induced by atomic diffusion in A stars and their consequences A140

Morgan Deal, Olivier Richard and Sylvie Vauclair

Published online: 26 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628180

Stellar atmospheres

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High-precision analysis of the solar twin HIP 100963 A17

Jhon Yana Galarza, Jorge Meléndez, Ivan Ramírez, David Yong, Amanda I. Karakas, Martin Asplund and Fan Liu

Published online: 06 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527912

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Are solar brightness variations faculae- or spot-dominated? A46

A. I. Shapiro, S. K. Solanki, N. A. Krivova, K. L. Yeo and W. K. Schmutz

Published online: 12 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527527

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Optical microflaring on the nearby flare star binary UV Ceti A48

J. H. M. M. Schmitt, G. Kanbach, A. Rau and H. Steinle

Published online: 12 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628199

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HD 16771: A lithium-rich giant in the red-clump stage A57

Arumalla B. S. Reddy and David L. Lambert

Published online: 13 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628323

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Serendipitous discovery of the faint solar twin Inti 1 A65

Jhon Yana Galarza, Jorge Meléndez and Judith G. Cohen

Published online: 14 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527477

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Supersaturation and activity-rotation relation in PMS stars: the young cluster h Persei A113

C. Argiroffi, M. Caramazza, G. Micela, S. Sciortino, E. Moraux, J. Bouvier and E. Flaccomio

Published online: 21 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526539

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The Gaia-ESO Survey: Sodium and aluminium abundances in giants and dwarfs - Implications for stellar and Galactic chemical evolution A115

R. Smiljanic, D. Romano, A. Bragaglia, P. Donati, L. Magrini, E. Friel, H. Jacobson, S. Randich, P. Ventura, K. Lind et al. (33 more)

Published online: 21 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201528014

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Testing the theory of colliding winds: the periastron passage of 9 Sagittarii - I. X-ray and optical spectroscopy A121

G. Rauw, R. Blomme, Y. Nazé, M. Spano, L. Mahy, E. Gosset, D. Volpi, H. van Winckel, G. Raskin and C. Waelkens

Published online: 22 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526871

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Dust-driven winds of AGB stars: The critical interplay of atmospheric shocks and luminosity variations A130

S. Liljegren, S. Höfner, W. Nowotny and K. Eriksson

Published online: 25 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527885

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Erratum

The Penn State – Toruń Centre for Astronomy Planet Search stars (Corrigendum) - III. The sample of evolved stars C1

A. Niedzielski, B. Deka-Szymankiewicz, M. Adamczyk, M. Adamów, G. Nowak and A. Wolszczan

Published online: 05 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527362e

The Sun

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High-cadence observations of spicular-type events on the Sun A3

J. Shetye, J. G. Doyle, E. Scullion, C. J. Nelson, D. Kuridze, V. Henriques, F. Woeger and T. Ray

Published online: 04 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527505

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The possible origin of facular brightness in the solar atmosphere A6

R. Kostik and E. Khomenko

Published online: 04 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527419

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Formation of a solar Hα filament from orphan penumbrae A31

D. Buehler, A. Lagg, M. van Noort and S. K. Solanki

Published online: 08 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527571

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On the interpretation and applicability of κ-distributions A39

M. Lazar, H. Fichtner and P. H. Yoon

Published online: 12 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527593

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Multiple dynamo modes as a mechanism for long-term solar activity variations A56

M. J. Käpylä, P. J. Käpylä, N. Olspert, A. Brandenburg, J. Warnecke, B. B. Karak and J. Pelt

Published online: 13 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527002

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Non-equilibrium ionization by a periodic electron beam - I. Synthetic coronal spectra and implications for interpretation of observations A68

E. Dzifčáková, J. Dudík and Š. Mackovjak

Published online: 14 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527557

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Multiwavelength study of 20 jets that emanate from the periphery of active regions A79

Sargam M. Mulay, Durgesh Tripathi, Giulio Del Zanna and Helen Mason

Published online: 15 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527473

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Giant quiescent solar filament observed with high-resolution spectroscopy A84

C. Kuckein, M. Verma and C. Denker

Published online: 18 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526636

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Scaling laws of coronal loops compared to a 3D MHD model of an active region A86

Ph.-A. Bourdin, S. Bingert and H. Peter

Published online: 18 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525840

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Electron trapping and acceleration by kinetic Alfvén waves in solar flares A101

A. V. Artemyev, I. V. Zimovets and R. Rankin

Published online: 20 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527617

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Plasma motions and non-thermal line broadening in flaring twisted coronal loops A104

M. Gordovskyy, E. P. Kontar and P. K. Browning

Published online: 20 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527249

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Subarcsecond bright points and quasi-periodic upflows below a quiescent filament observed by IRIS A114

T. Li and J. Zhang

Published online: 21 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527091

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Bipolar region formation in stratified two-layer turbulence A125

J. Warnecke, I. R. Losada, A. Brandenburg, N. Kleeorin and I. Rogachevskii

Published online: 25 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525880

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Hot prominence detected in the core of a coronal mass ejection: Analysis of SOHO/UVCS Lα and SOHO/LASCO visible-light observations A128

P. Heinzel, R. Susino, S. Jejčič, A. Bemporad and U. Anzer

Published online: 25 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527421

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Coronal loop seismology using damping of standing kink oscillations by mode coupling A136

D. J. Pascoe, C. R. Goddard, G. Nisticò, S. Anfinogentov and V. M. Nakariakov

Published online: 26 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628255

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Iron-rich solar particle events measured by SOHO/ERNE during two solar cycles A138

O. Raukunen, E. Valtonen and R. Vainio

Published online: 26 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527462

Planets and planetary systems

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Long-term activity and outburst of comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) from narrow-band photometry and long-slit spectroscopy A8

C. Opitom, A. Guilbert-Lepoutre, E. Jehin, J. Manfroid, D. Hutsemékers, M. Gillon, P. Magain, G. Roberts-Borsani and O. Witasse

Published online: 04 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527628

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On the water delivery to terrestrial embryos by ice pebble accretion A15

Takao Sato, Satoshi Okuzumi and Shigeru Ida

Published online: 05 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527069

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Tidal inertial waves in differentially rotating convective envelopes of low-mass stars - I. Free oscillation modes A22

M. Guenel, C. Baruteau, S. Mathis and M. Rieutord

Published online: 07 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527621

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The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets - XL. Searching for Neptunes around metal-poor stars A25

J. P. Faria, N. C. Santos, P. Figueira, A. Mortier, X. Dumusque, I. Boisse, G. Lo Curto, C. Lovis, M. Mayor, C. Melo et al. (7 more)

Published online: 07 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527522

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Influence of porosity on collisions between dust aggregates A30

Nina Gunkelmann, Christian Ringl and Herbert M. Urbassek

Published online: 08 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628081

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Thermal evolution and sintering of chondritic planetesimals - III. Modelling the heat conductivity of porous chondrite material A41

Stephan Henke, Hans-Peter Gail and Mario Trieloff

Published online: 12 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527687

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Water and carbon dioxide distribution in the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko coma from VIRTIS-M infrared observations A45

A. Migliorini, G. Piccioni, F. Capaccioni, G. Filacchione, D. Bockelée-Morvan, S. Erard, C. Leyrat, M. R. Combi, N. Fougere, J. Crovisier et al. (7 more)

Published online: 12 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527661

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Inferring asymmetric limb cloudiness on exoplanets from transit light curves A52

P. von Paris, P. Gratier, P. Bordé, J. Leconte and F. Selsis

Published online: 13 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527894

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Low-rank plus sparse decomposition for exoplanet detection in direct-imaging ADI sequences - The LLSG algorithm A54

C. A. Gomez Gonzalez, O. Absil, P.-A. Absil, M. Van Droogenbroeck, D. Mawet and J. Surdej

Published online: 13 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527387

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Can brown dwarfs survive on close orbits around convective stars? A55

C. Damiani and R. F. Díaz

Published online: 13 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527100

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High-resolution Imaging of Transiting Extrasolar Planetary systems (HITEP) - I. Lucky imaging observations of 101 systems in the southern hemisphere A58

D. F. Evans, J. Southworth, P. F. L. Maxted, J. Skottfelt, M. Hundertmark, U. G. Jørgensen, M. Dominik, K. A. Alsubai, M. I. Andersen, V. Bozza et al. (26 more)

Published online: 13 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527970

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The GTC exoplanet transit spectroscopy survey - III. No asymmetries in the transit of CoRoT-29b A62

E. Pallé, G. Chen, R. Alonso, G. Nowak, H. Deeg, J. Cabrera, F. Murgas, H. Parviainen, L. Nortmann, S. Hoyer et al. (4 more)

Published online: 13 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527881

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Sedna and the cloud of comets surrounding the solar system in Milgromian dynamics A63

R. Paučo and J. Klačka

Published online: 14 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527713

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Detection of H₃⁺ auroral emission in Jupiter’s 5-micron window A67

R. S. Giles, L. N. Fletcher, P. G. J. Irwin, H. Melin and T. S. Stallard

Published online: 14 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628170

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Dearth of short-period Neptunian exoplanets: A desert in period-mass and period-radius planes A75

T. Mazeh, T. Holczer and S. Faigler

Published online: 15 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201528065

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Isotopic ratios of H, C, N, O, and S in comets C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) and C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) A78

N. Biver, R. Moreno, D. Bockelée-Morvan, Aa. Sandqvist, P. Colom, J. Crovisier, D. C. Lis, J. Boissier, V. Debout, G. Paubert et al. (8 more)

Published online: 15 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201528041

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Modelling observations of the inner gas and dust coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko using ROSINA/COPS and OSIRIS data: First results A90

R. Marschall, C. C. Su, Y. Liao, N. Thomas, K. Altwegg, H. Sierks, W.-H. Ip, H. U. Keller, J. Knollenberg, E. Kührt et al. (12 more)

Published online: 19 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628085

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A CRIRES-search for H₃⁺ emission from the hot Jupiter atmosphere of HD 209458 b A99

L. F. Lenz, A. Reiners, A. Seifahrt and H. U. Käufl

Published online: 20 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525675

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A study to improve the past orbit of comet C/1917 F1 (Mellish) on the basis of its observed meteor showers A100

L. Neslušan, J. Vaubaillon, M. Hajduková Jr and jr.

Published online: 20 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527526

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Why are Jupiter-family comets active and asteroids in cometary-like orbits inactive? - How hydrostatic compression leads to inactivity A111

B. Gundlach and J. Blum

Published online: 20 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527260

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Close-in planets around giant stars - Lack of hot-Jupiters and prevalence of multiplanetary systems A124

J. Lillo-Box, D. Barrado and A. C. M. Correia

Published online: 25 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527683

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Effect of turbulence on collisions of dust particles with planetesimals in protoplanetary disks A129

H. Homann, T. Guillot, J. Bec, C. W. Ormel, S. Ida and P. Tanga

Published online: 26 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527344

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Pericenter precession induced by a circumstellar disk on the orbit of massive bodies: comparison between analytical predictions and numerical results A133

A. Fontana and F. Marzari

Published online: 26 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527610

Press Release

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Evolution and magnitudes of candidate Planet Nine A134

Esther F. Linder and Christoph Mordasini

Published online: 25 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628350

Celestial mechanics and astrometry

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Gaia reference frame amid quasar variability and proper motion patterns in the data A71

R. K. Bachchan, D. Hobbs and L. Lindegren

Published online: 14 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527935

Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data

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K–H₂ line shapes for the spectra of cool brown dwarfs A21

N. F. Allard, F. Spiegelman and J. F. Kielkopf

Published online: 07 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628270

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Laboratory microwave, millimeter wave and far-infrared spectra of dimethyl sulfide A127

A. Jabri, V. Van, H. V. L. Nguyen, H. Mouhib, F. Kwabia Tchana, L. Manceron, W. Stahl and I. Kleiner

Published online: 25 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628074

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K-shell photoabsorption and photoionisation of trace elements - I. Isoelectronic sequences with electron number 3 ≤N ≤ 11 A137

P. Palmeri, P. Quinet, C. Mendoza, M. A. Bautista, M. C. Witthoeft and T. R. Kallman

Published online: 26 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628457

Astronomical instrumentation

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Characterization of a dense aperture array for radio astronomy A77

S. A. Torchinsky, A. O. H. Olofsson, B. Censier, A. Karastergiou, M. Serylak, P. Picard, P. Renaud and C. Taffoureau

Published online: 15 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526706

Catalogs and data

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The HERMES solar atlas and the spectroscopic analysis of the seismic solar analogue KIC 3241581 A27

P. G. Beck, C. Allende Prieto, T. Van Reeth, A. Tkachenko, G. Raskin, H. van Winckel, J.-D. do Nascimento Jr., D. Salabert, E. Corsaro and R. A. García

Published online: 08 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425423

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Carbon stars in the X-Shooter Spectral Library A36

A. Gonneau, A. Lançon, S. C. Trager, B. Aringer, M. Lyubenova, W. Nowotny, R. F. Peletier, P. Prugniel, Y.-P. Chen, M. Dries et al. (6 more)

Published online: 11 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526292

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Photometric brown-dwarf classification - II. A homogeneous sample of 1361 L and T dwarfs brighter than J = 17.5 with accurate spectral types A49

N. Skrzypek, S. J. Warren and J. K. Faherty

Published online: 12 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527359

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Erratum

High spectral resolution monitoring of Nova V339 Delphini with TIGRE (Corrigendum) C4

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: 19 April 2016

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

Numerical methods and codes

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Multi-band morpho-Spectral Component Analysis Deblending Tool (MuSCADeT): Deblending colourful objects A2

R. Joseph, F. Courbin and J.-L. Starck

Published online: 04 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527923

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The correct estimate of the probability of false detection of the matched filter in weak-signal detection problems A20

R. Vio and P. Andreani

Published online: 06 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527463

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A two-component model for fitting light curves of core-collapse supernovae A53

A. P. Nagy and J. Vinkó

Published online: 13 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527931

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Firedec: a two-channel finite-resolution image deconvolution algorithm A81

N. Cantale, F. Courbin, M. Tewes, P. Jablonka and G. Meylan

Published online: 18 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424003

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A new method for the inversion of atmospheric parameters of A/Am stars A83

M. Gebran, W. Farah, F. Paletou, R. Monier and V. Watson

Published online: 18 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201528052

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Merged or monolithic? Using machine-learning to reconstruct the dynamical history of simulated star clusters A95

Mario Pasquato and Chul Chung

Published online: 19 April 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425181

Astronomy & Astrophysics

Volume 589 (May 2016)

Letters

Tracking Advanced Planetary Systems (TAPAS) with HARPS-N - IV. TYC 3667-1280-1: The most massive red giant star hosting a warm Jupiter L1

Unveiling the origin of the radio emission in radio-quiet quasars L2

Compact radio cores in radio-quiet active galactic nuclei L3

Tracing jet emission at the base of a high-mass YSO - First AMBER/VLTI observations of the Brγ emission in IRAS 13481-6124 L4

Detection of extragalactic CF+ toward PKS 1830−211 - Chemical differentiation in the absorbing gas L5

Gray transits of WD 1145+017 over the visible band L6

Light walls around sunspots observed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph L7

Conditions for electron-cyclotron maser emission in the solar corona L8

Astrophysical processes

Spectra of accelerated particles at supernova shocks in the presence of neutral hydrogen: the case of Tycho A7

Spatial gradients of GCR protons in the inner heliosphere derived from Ulysses COSPIN/KET and PAMELA measurements A32

New orbital ephemerides for the dipping source 4U 1323-619: constraining the distance to the source A34

IGR J17451–3022: A dipping and eclipsing low mass X-ray binary A42

Debye screening under non-equilibrium plasma conditions A85

Self-organisation in protoplanetary discs - Global, non-stratified Hall-MHD simulations A87

Correlation between peak energy and Fourier power density spectrum slope in gamma-ray bursts A97

Clumpy wind accretion in supergiant neutron star high mass X-ray binaries A102

Reactions of N+ (3P) ions with H2 and HD molecules at low temperatures A105

Absorption lines from magnetically driven winds in X-ray binaries A119

Alfvén-dynamo balance and magnetic excess in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence A131

Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

Deep observation of the NGC 1275 region with MAGIC: search of diffuse γ-ray emission from cosmic rays in the Perseus cluster A33

The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Variability selection and quasar luminosity function (Corrigendum) C2

Extragalactic astronomy

The Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey - XIX. Physical properties of low luminosity FIR sources at z < 0.5 A11

Seeking large-scale magnetic fields in a pure-disk dwarf galaxy NGC 2976 A12

Carbon gas in SMC low-metallicity star-forming regions A28

Observational evidence of a slow downfall of star formation efficiency in massive galaxies during the past 10 Gyr A35

Microphysics and dynamics of the gamma-ray burst 121024A A37

NuSTAR observations of water megamaser AGN A59

The thermal instability of the warm absorber in NGC 3783 A76

Disc colours in field and cluster spiral galaxies at 0.5 ≲z ≲ 0.8 A82

The BL-Lacertae gamma-ray blazar PKS 1424+240 associated with a group of galaxies at z = 0.6010 A92

Shaping the GeV-spectra of bright blazars A96

Individual power density spectra of Swift gamma-ray bursts A98

Recent SFR calibrations and the constant SFR approximation A108

Metal enrichment in a semi-analytical model, fundamental scaling relations, and the case of Milky Way galaxies A109

Type II supernovae as probes of environment metallicity: observations of host H II regions A110

The Hydra I cluster core - I. Stellar populations in the cD galaxy NGC 3311 A139

A new fitting-function to describe the time evolution of a galaxy’s gravitational potential (Corrigendum) C3

Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations

Kinematics of symmetric Galactic longitudes to probe the spiral arms of the Milky Way with Gaia A13

The massive stellar population of W49: A spectroscopic survey A16

The extent of mixing in stellar interiors: the open clusters Collinder 261 and Melotte 66 A50

When the Milky Way turned off the lights: APOGEE provides evidence of star formation quenching in our Galaxy A66

Probing the Dragonfish star-forming complex: the ionizing population of the young massive cluster Mercer 30 A69

The Gaia-ESO Survey: membership and initial mass function of the γ Velorum cluster A70

MILES extended: Stellar population synthesis models from the optical to the infrared A73

APOGEE strings: A fossil record of the gas kinematic structure A80

Multiwavelength study of the flaring activity of Sagittarius A in 2014 February−April A116

A survey of HI gas toward the Andromeda galaxy A120

A new look at the kinematics of the bulge from an N-body model A122

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

Physical vapor deposition synthesis of amorphous silicate layers and nanostructures as cosmic dust analogs A4

A search for hydrogenated fullerenes in fullerene-containing planetary nebulae A5

Dynamical friction for supersonic motion in a homogeneous gaseous medium A10

About the detection of urea in the interstellar medium: the energetic aspect A18

Photodesorption and physical properties of CO ice as a function of temperature A19

The effect of ambipolar diffusion on low-density molecular ISM filaments A24

Hot ammonia around young O-type stars - III. High-mass star formation and hot core activity in W51 Main A44

The environment of the γ-ray emitting SNR G338.3−0.0: a hadronic interpretation for HESS J1640−465 A51

High spatial resolution imaging of SO and H2CO in AB Auriga: The first SO image in a transitional disk A60

28SiO v = 0 J = 1–0 emission from evolved stars A74

Probing the clumping structure of giant molecular clouds through the spectrum, polarisation and morphology of X-ray reflection nebulae A88

Clumpy dust clouds and extended atmosphere of the AGB star W Hydrae revealed with VLT/SPHERE-ZIMPOL and VLTI/AMBER A91

Study of the photon-induced formation and subsequent desorption of CH3OH and H2CO in interstellar ice analogs A107

On the GeV excess in the diffuse γ-ray emission towards the Galactic centre A117

Star formation in a diffuse high-altitude cloud? A123

Molecules and dust in Cassiopeia A - II. Dust sputtering and diagnosis of supernova dust survival in remnants A132

Stellar structure and evolution

Pulsating hot O subdwarfs in ω Centauri: mapping a unique instability strip on the extreme horizontal branch A1

Activity from the Be/X-ray binary system V0332+53 during its intermediate-luminosity outburst in 2008 A9

Revealing the broad iron Kα line in Cygnus X-1 through simultaneous XMM-Newton, RXTE, and INTEGRAL observations A14

Angular momentum transport efficiency in post-main sequence low-mass stars A23

A non-uniform distribution of the nearest brown dwarfs A26

SiO: Not the perfect outflow tracer - Outflow studies of the massive star formation region IRAS 19410+2336 A29

Explosion of white dwarfs harboring hybrid CONe cores A38

Detection of extragalactic CF⁺ toward PKS 1830−211 - Chemical differentiation in the absorbing gas L5

Reactions of N⁺ (³P) ions with H₂ and HD molecules at low temperatures A105

High spatial resolution imaging of SO and H₂CO in AB Auriga: The first SO image in a transitional disk A60

²⁸SiO v = 0 J = 1–0 emission from evolved stars A74

Study of the photon-induced formation and subsequent desorption of CH₃OH and H₂CO in interstellar ice analogs A107

Detection of H₃⁺ auroral emission in Jupiter’s 5-micron window A67

A CRIRES-search for H₃⁺ emission from the hot Jupiter atmosphere of HD 209458 b A99