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The evolution of the X-ray afterglow emission of GW 170817/ GRB 170817A in XMM-Newton observations L1

P. D’Avanzo, S. Campana, O. S. Salafia, G. Ghirlanda, G. Ghisellini, A. Melandri, M. G. Bernardini, M. Branchesi, E. Chassande-Mottin, S. Covino et al. (5 more)

Published online: 18 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201832664

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Metals and dust in the neutral ISM: the Galaxy, Magellanic Clouds, and damped Lyman-α absorbers L2

Annalisa De Cia

Published online: 18 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833034

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Excitation of vertical coronal loop oscillations by impulsively driven flows L3

P. Kohutova and E. Verwichte

Published online: 23 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201832656

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Rotation of the asymptotic giant branch star R Doradus L4

W. H. T. Vlemmings, T. Khouri, E. De Beck, H. Olofsson, G. García-Segura, E. Villaver, A. Baudry, E. M. L. Humphreys, M. Maercker and S. Ramstedt

Published online: 23 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201832929

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Searching for H_α emitting sources around MWC 758 - SPHERE/ZIMPOL high-contrast imaging L5

N. Huélamo, G. Chauvin, H. M. Schmid, S. P. Quanz, E. Whelan, J. Lillo-Box, D. Barrado, B. Montesinos, J. M. Alcalá, M. Benisty et al. (7 more)

Published online: 23 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201832874

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New disk discovered with VLT/SPHERE around the M star GSC 07396−00759 L6

E. Sissa, J. Olofsson, A. Vigan, J. C. Augereau, V. D’Orazi, S. Desidera, R. Gratton, M. Langlois, E. Rigliaco, A. Boccaletti et al. (25 more)

Published online: 25 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201832740

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VLTI-GRAVITY measurements of cool evolved stars - I. Variable photosphere and extended atmosphere of the Mira star R Peg L7

M. Wittkowski, G. Rau, A. Chiavassa, S. Höfner, M. Scholz, P. R. Wood, W. J. de Wit, F. Eisenhauer, X. Haubois and T. Paumard

Published online: 01 June 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833029

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The VMC survey - XXX. Stellar proper motions in the central parts of the Small Magellanic Cloud L8

F. Niederhofer, M.-R. L. Cioni, S. Rubele, T. Schmidt, K. Bekki, R. de Grijs, J. Emerson, V. D. Ivanov, M. Marconi, J. M. Oliveira et al. (4 more)

Published online: 31 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833144

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UVIT observations of the star-forming ring in NGC 7252: Evidence of possible AGN feedback suppressing central star formation L9

K. George, P. Joseph, C. Mondal, A. Devaraj, A. Subramaniam, C. S. Stalin, P. Côté, S. K. Ghosh, J. B. Hutchings, R. Mohan et al. (4 more)

Published online: 31 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833232

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Infrared outbursts as potential tracers of common-envelope events in high-mass X-ray binary formation L10

Lidia M. Oskinova, Tomasz Bulik and Ada Nebot Gómez-Morán

Published online: 04 June 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201832925

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Consistency with synchrotron emission in the bright GRB 160625B observed by Fermi A16

M. E. Ravasio, G. Oganesyan, G. Ghirlanda, L. Nava, G. Ghisellini, A. Pescalli and A. Celotti

Published online: 25 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732245

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Orbit and intrinsic spin-up of the newly discovered transient X-ray pulsar Swift J0243.6+6124 A19

V. Doroshenko, S. Tsygankov and A. Santangelo

Published online: 25 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732208

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IGR J17329-2731: The birth of a symbiotic X-ray binary A22

E. Bozzo, A. Bahramian, C. Ferrigno, A. Sanna, J. Strader, F. Lewis, D. M. Russell, T. di Salvo, L. Burderi, A. Riggio et al. (3 more)

Published online: 25 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201832588

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Solar wind temperature anisotropy constraints from streaming instabilities A23

S. Vafin, M. Lazar, H. Fichtner, R. Schlickeiser and M. Drillisch

Published online: 25 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731852

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Evolution of relative magnetic helicity - New boundary conditions for the vector potential A27

Shangbin Yang, Jörg Büchner, Jan Skála and Hongqi Zhang

Published online: 25 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628108

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NGC 4051: Black hole mass and photon index-mass accretion rate correlation A48

Elena Seifina, Alexandre Chekhtman and Lev Titarchuk

Published online: 30 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732235

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Structure of the Balmer jump - The isolated hydrogen atom A55

F. Calvo, L. Belluzzi and O. Steiner

Published online: 01 June 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731974

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Generalised model-independent characterisation of strong gravitational lenses - II. Transformation matrix between multiple images A6

J. Wagner and N. Tessore

Published online: 15 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201730947

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Scale dependence of galaxy biasing investigated by weak gravitational lensing: An assessment using semi-analytic galaxies and simulated lensing data A15

Patrick Simon and Stefan Hilbert

Published online: 23 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732248

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The optical properties of galaxies in the Ophiuchus cluster A20

F. Durret, K. Wakamatsu, C. Adami, T. Nagayama and J. M. Omega Muleka Mwewa Mwaba

Published online: 25 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731371

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Evolution of the cluster optical galaxy luminosity function in the CFHTLS: breaking the degeneracy between mass and redshift A67

F. Sarron, N. Martinet, F. Durret and C. Adami

Published online: 01 June 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731981

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Validity of abundances derived from spaxel spectra of the MaNGA survey A1

L. S. Pilyugin, E. K. Grebel, I. A. Zinchenko, Y. A. Nefedyev, V. M. Shulga, H. Wei and P.P. Berczik

Published online: 15 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732185

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Caught in the rhythm - I. How satellites settle into a plane around their central galaxy A4

C. Welker, Y. Dubois, C. Pichon, J. Devriendt and N. E. Chisari

Published online: 15 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629007

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Spatially resolved star formation and dust attenuation in Mrk 848: Comparison of the integral field spectra and the UV-to-IR SED A13

Fang-Ting Yuan, María Argudo-Fernández, Shiyin Shen, Lei Hao, Chunyan Jiang, Jun Yin, Médéric Boquien and Lihwai Lin

Published online: 16 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731865

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A near-infrared, optical, and ultraviolet polarimetric and timing investigation of complex equatorial dusty structures A30

F. Marin, P. A. Rojas Lobos, J. M. Hameury and R. W. Goosmann

Published online: 28 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732464

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ALMA view of RX J1131-1231: Sub-kpc CO (2-1) mapping of a molecular disk in a lensed star-forming quasar host galaxy A34

D. Paraficz, M. Rybak, J. P. McKean, S. Vegetti, D. Sluse, F. Courbin, H. R. Stacey, S. H. Suyu, M. Dessauges-Zavadsky, C. D. Fassnacht and L. V. E. Koopmans

Published online: 28 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731250

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Constraints on core-collapse supernova progenitors from explosion site integral field spectroscopy A35

H. Kuncarayakti, J. P. Anderson, L. Galbany, K. Maeda, M. Hamuy, G. Aldering, N. Arimoto, M. Doi, T. Morokuma and T. Usuda

Published online: 28 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731923

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Properties of active galaxies at the extreme of Eigenvector 1 A38

M. Śniegowska, B. Czerny, B. You, S. Panda, J.-M. Wang, K. Hryniewicz and C. Wildy

Published online: 28 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201730433

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Spatially resolving the dust properties and submillimetre excess in M 33 A43

M. Relaño, I. De Looze, R. C. Kennicutt, U. Lisenfeld, A. Dariush, S. Verley, J. Braine, F. Tabatabaei, C. Kramer, M. Boquien et al. (2 more)

Published online: 30 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732347

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The contribution of faint AGNs to the ionizing background at z ~ 4 A44

A. Grazian, E. Giallongo, K. Boutsia, S. Cristiani, E. Vanzella, C. Scarlata, P. Santini, L. Pentericci, E. Merlin, N. Menci et al. (14 more)

Published online: 30 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732385

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Detailed abundance analysis of globular clusters in the Local Group - NGC 147, NGC 6822, and Messier 33 A56

S. S. Larsen, J. P. Brodie, A. Wasserman and J. Strader

Published online: 01 June 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731909

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Coherent curvature radiation and fast radio bursts A61

Gabriele Ghisellini and Nicola Locatelli

Published online: 01 June 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731820

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KMOS LENsing Survey (KLENS): Morpho-kinematic analysis of star-forming galaxies at z ~ 2 A72

M. Girard, M. Dessauges-Zavadsky, D. Schaerer, M. Cirasuolo, O. J. Turner, A. Cava, L. Rodríguez-Muñoz, J. Richard and P. G. Pérez-González

Published online: 04 June 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731988

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Broadband radio spectro-polarimetric observations of high-Faraday-rotation-measure AGN A74

Alice Pasetto, Carlos Carrasco-González, Shane O’Sullivan, Aritra Basu, Gabriele Bruni, Alex Kraus, Salvador Curiel and Karl-Heinz Mack

Published online: 04 June 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731804

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Subarcsecond international LOFAR radio images of Arp 220 at 150 MHz - A kpc-scale star forming disk surrounding nuclei with shocked outflows (Corrigendum) C3

E. Varenius, J. E. Conway, I. Martí-Vidal, S. Aalto, L. Barcos-Muñoz, S. König, M. A. Pérez-Torres, A. T. Deller, J. Moldón, J. S. Gallagher et al. (9 more)

Published online: 31 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628702e

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Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations

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A high-resolution VLT/FLAMES study of individual stars in the centre of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Corrigendum) C1

B. Letarte, V. Hill, E. Tolstoy, P. Jablonka, M. Shetrone, K. A. Venn, M. Spite, M. J. Irwin, G. Battaglia, A. Helmi et al. (6 more)

Published online: 25 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913413e

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Interstellar and circumstellar matter

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Optical-NIR dust extinction towards Galactic O stars A9

J. Maíz Apellániz and R. H. Barbá

Published online: 16 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732050

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Gravity drives the evolution of infrared dark hubs: JVLA observations of SDC13 A11

G. M. Williams, N. Peretto, A. Avison, A. Duarte-Cabral and G. A. Fuller

Published online: 16 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731587

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Knotty protostellar jets as a signature of episodic protostellar accretion? A18

Eduard I. Vorobyov, Vardan G. Elbakyan, Adele L. Plunkett, Michael M. Dunham, Marc Audard, Manuel Guedel and Odysseas Dionatos

Published online: 25 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732253

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Imaging the water snowline in a protostellar envelope with H¹³CO⁺ A29

Merel L. R. van ’t Hoff, Magnus V. Persson, Daniel Harsono, Vianney Taquet, Jes K. Jørgensen, Ruud Visser, Edwin A. Bergin and Ewine F. van Dishoeck

Published online: 28 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731656

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Footpoints of the giant molecular loops in the Galactic center region A42

D. Riquelme, M. A. Amo-Baladrón, J. Martín-Pintado, R. Mauersberger, S. Martín, M. Burton, M. Cunningham, P. A. Jones, K. M. Menten, L. Bronfman and R. Güsten

Published online: 30 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629065

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Widespread HCN maser emission in carbon-rich evolved stars A49

K. M. Menten, F. Wyrowski, D. Keller and T. Kamiński

Published online: 30 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732296

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Solid H₂ in the interstellar medium A64

A. Füglistaler and D. Pfenniger

Published online: 01 June 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731739

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Stellar structure and evolution

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Super-luminous Type II supernovae powered by magnetars A5

Luc Dessart and Edouard Audit

Published online: 15 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732229

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Three-dimensional simulations of the interaction between the nova ejecta, accretion disk, and companion star A8

Joana Figueira, Jordi José, Enrique García-Berro, Simon W. Campbell, Domingo García-Senz and Shazrene Mohamed

Published online: 17 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731545

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New nearby white dwarfs from Gaia DR1 TGAS and UCAC5/URAT A26

R.-D. Scholz, H. Meusinger and H. Jahreiß

Published online: 25 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731753

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Detection of new eruptions in the Magellanic Clouds luminous blue variables R 40 and R 110 A33

J. C. N. Campagnolo, M. Borges Fernandes, N. A. Drake, M. Kraus, C. A. Guerrero and C. B. Pereira

Published online: 28 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731785

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Asteroseismology of ZZ Ceti stars with full evolutionary white dwarf models - II. The impact of AGB thermal pulses on the asteroseismic inferences of ZZ Ceti stars A46

F. C. De Gerónimo, L. G. Althaus, A. H. Córsico, A. D. Romero and S. O. Kepler

Published online: 30 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731982

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Discovery of X-ray pulsations in the Be/X-ray binary IGR J06074+2205 A52

P. Reig and A. Zezas

Published online: 31 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732533

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The mass and age of the first SONG target: the red giant 46 LMi A53

S. Frandsen, M. Fredslund Andersen, K. Brogaard, C. Jiang, T. Arentoft, F. Grundahl, H. Kjeldsen, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, E. Weiss, P. Pallé et al. (5 more)

Published online: 31 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201730816

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Magnetic field topology of the cool, active, short-period binary system σ² Coronae Borealis A60

L. Rosén, O. Kochukhov, E. Alecian, C. Neiner, J. Morin, G. A. Wade and the BinaMIcS collaboration

Published online: 01 June 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731706

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The lithium-rotation connection in the 125 Myr-old Pleiades cluster A63

J. Bouvier, D. Barrado, E. Moraux, J. Stauffer, L. Rebull, L. Hillenbrand, A. Bayo, I. Boisse, H. Bouy, E. DiFolco et al. (2 more)

Published online: 01 June 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731881

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Rotational broadening and conservation of angular momentum in post-extreme horizontal branch stars A66

G. Fontaine and M. Latour

Published online: 04 June 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732287

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Study of a sample of faint Be stars in the exofield of CoRoT - II. Pulsation and outburst events: Time series analysis of photometric variations A70

T. Semaan, A. M. Hubert, J. Zorec, J. Gutiérrez-Soto, Y. Frémat, C. Martayan, J. Fabregat and P. Eggenberger

Published online: 01 June 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629243

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Two-dimensional modeling of density and thermal structure of dense circumstellar outflowing disks A75

P. Kurfürst, A. Feldmeier and J. Krtička

Published online: 05 June 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731300

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Scattering linear polarization of late-type active stars A7

T. M. Yakobchuk and S. V. Berdyugina

Published online: 15 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201730513

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Spectroscopic and physical parameters of Galactic O-type stars - III. Mass discrepancy and rotational mixing A12

N. Markova, J. Puls and N. Langer

Published online: 16 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731361

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Using the CIFIST grid of CO⁵BOLD 3D model atmospheres to study the effects of stellar granulation on photometric colours - II. The role of convection across the H–R diagram A24

A. Kučinskas, J. Klevas, H.-G. Ludwig, P. Bonifacio, M. Steffen and E. Caffau

Published online: 25 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732447

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Timescales of starspot variability in slow rotators A31

O. V. Arkhypov, M. L. Khodachenko, M. Güdel, C. Johnstone, T. Lüftinger and H. Lammer

Published online: 25 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732032

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The IACOB project - V. Spectroscopic parameters of the O-type stars in the modern grid of standards for spectral classification A65

G. Holgado, S. Simón-Díaz, R. H. Barbá, J. Puls, A. Herrero, N. Castro, M. Garcia, J. Maíz Apellániz, I. Negueruela and C. Sabín-Sanjulián

Published online: 01 June 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731543

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Generation and evolution of anisotropic turbulence and related energy transfer in drifting proton-alpha plasmas A10

Y. G. Maneva and S. Poedts

Published online: 16 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731204

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First analysis of solar structures in 1.21 mm full-disc ALMA image of the Sun A17

R. Brajša, D. Sudar, A. O. Benz, I. Skokić, M. Bárta, B. De Pontieu, S. Kim, A. Kobelski, M. Kuhar, M. Shimojo et al. (4 more)

Published online: 23 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201730656

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Long-lasting injection of solar energetic electrons into the heliosphere A21

N. Dresing, R. Gómez-Herrero, B. Heber, A. Klassen, M. Temmer and A. Veronig

Published online: 25 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731573

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Jovian electrons in the inner heliosphere - Proposing a new source spectrum based on 30 years of measurements A28

A. Vogt, B. Heber, A. Kopp, M. S. Potgieter and R. D. Strauss

Published online: 25 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731736

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Horizontal flow below solar filaments A39

P. Ambrož and W. Pötzi

Published online: 29 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731162

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Number density structures in the inner heliosphere A62

D. Stansby and T. S. Horbury

Published online: 01 June 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732567

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Observations of white-light flares in NOAA active region 11515: high occurrence rate and relationship with magnetic transients A69

Y. L. Song, H. Tian, M. Zhang and M. D. Ding

Published online: 01 June 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731817

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Probing sunspots with two-skip time–distance helioseismology A73

Thomas L. Duvall Jr., Paul S. Cally, Damien Przybylski, Kaori Nagashima and Laurent Gizon

Published online: 04 June 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732424

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Molecular abundances and C/O ratios in chemically evolving planet-forming disk midplanes A14

Christian Eistrup, Catherine Walsh and Ewine F. van Dishoeck

Published online: 21 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731302

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A temperate exo-Earth around a quiet M dwarf at 3.4 parsec A25

X. Bonfils, N. Astudillo-Defru, R. Díaz, J.-M. Almenara, T. Forveille, F. Bouchy, X. Delfosse, C. Lovis, M. Mayor, F. Murgas et al. (5 more)

Published online: 28 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731973

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Empirical models of Jupiter’s interior from Juno data - Moment of inertia and tidal Love number k₂ A32

Dongdong Ni

Published online: 28 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732183

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Exposed bright features on the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko: distribution and evolution A36

J. D. P. Deshapriya, M. A. Barucci, S. Fornasier, P. H. Hasselmann, C. Feller, H. Sierks, A. Lucchetti, M. Pajola, N. Oklay, S. Mottola et al. (39 more)

Published online: 28 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732112

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Interior structures and tidal heating in the TRAPPIST-1 planets A37

Amy C. Barr, Vera Dobos and László L. Kiss

Published online: 29 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731992

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The GAPS programme with HARPS-N at TNG - XVI. Measurement of the Rossiter–McLaughlin effect of transiting planetary systems HAT-P-3, HAT-P-12, HAT-P-22, WASP-39, and WASP-60 A41

L. Mancini, M. Esposito, E. Covino, J. Southworth, K. Biazzo, I. Bruni, S. Ciceri, D. Evans, A. F. Lanza, E. Poretti et al. (36 more)

Published online: 29 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732234

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Semidiurnal thermal tides in asynchronously rotating hot Jupiters A45

P. Auclair-Desrotour and J. Leconte

Published online: 31 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731683

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Tracking Advanced Planetary Systems (TAPAS) with HARPS-N - VI. HD 238914 and TYC 3318-01333-1: two more Li-rich giants with planets A47

M. Adamów, A. Niedzielski, K. Kowalik, E. Villaver, A. Wolszczan, G. Maciejewski and M. Gromadzki

Published online: 30 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732161

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Multi-band high resolution spectroscopy rules out the hot Jupiter BD+20 1790b - First data from the GIARPS Commissioning A50

I. Carleo, S. Benatti, A. F. Lanza, R. Gratton, R. Claudi, S. Desidera, G. N. Mace, S. Messina, N. Sanna, E. Sissa et al. (44 more)

Published online: 30 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732350

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Probing the use of spectroscopy to determine the meteoritic analogues of meteors A54

A. Drouard, P. Vernazza, S. Loehle, J. Gattacceca, J. Vaubaillon, B. Zanda, M. Birlan, S. Bouley, F. Colas, M. Eberhart et al. (7 more)

Published online: 31 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732225

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Cometary ion dynamics observed in the close vicinity of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko during the intermediate activity period A57

L. Berčič, E. Behar, H. Nilsson, G. Nicolaou, G. Stenberg Wieser, M. Wieser and C. Goetz

Published online: 01 June 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732082

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Formation of terrestrial planets in eccentric and inclined giant planet systems A59

Sotiris Sotiriadis, Anne-Sophie Libert and Sean N. Raymond

Published online: 01 June 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731260

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The nature of the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets A68

Simon L. Grimm, Brice-Olivier Demory, Michaël Gillon, Caroline Dorn, Eric Agol, Artem Burdanov, Laetitia Delrez, Marko Sestovic, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud, Martin Turbet et al. (16 more)

Published online: 04 June 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732233

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A hot Saturn on an eccentric orbit around the giant star K2-132 A76

M. I. Jones, R. Brahm, N. Espinoza, A. Jordán, F. Rojas, M. Rabus, H. Drass, A. Zapata, M. G. Soto, J. S. Jenkins et al. (3 more)

Published online: 04 June 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731478

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MASCARA-1 b - A hot Jupiter transiting a bright m_V = 8.3 A-star in a misaligned orbit (Corrigendum) C2

G. J. J. Talens, S. Albrecht, J. F. P. Spronck, A.-L. Lesage, G. P. P. L. Otten, R. Stuik, V. Van Eylen, H. Van Winckel, D. Pollacco, J. McCormac et al. (4 more)

Published online: 30 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731282e

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Herschel-PACS photometry of faint stars for sensitivity performance assessment and establishment of faint FIR primary photometric standards A40

U. Klaas, Z. Balog, M. Nielbock, T.G. Müller, H. Linz and Cs. Kiss

Published online: 29 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731812

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Deep millimeter spectroscopy observations toward NGC 1068 A3

Jianjie Qiu, Junzhi Wang, Yong Shi, Jiangshui Zhang, Min Fang and Fei Li

Published online: 15 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731035

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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Fourteenth data release A51

Isabelle Pâris, Patrick Petitjean, Éric Aubourg, Adam D. Myers, Alina Streblyanska, Brad W. Lyke, Scott F. Anderson, Éric Armengaud, Julian Bautista, Michael R. Blanton et al. (31 more)

Published online: 30 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732445

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Polarized point sources in the LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey: A preliminary catalog A58

C. L. Van Eck, M. Haverkorn, M. I. R. Alves, R. Beck, P. Best, E. Carretti, K. T. Chyży, J. S. Farnes, K. Ferrière, M. J. Hardcastle et al. (15 more)

Published online: 01 June 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732228

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RAPTOR - I. Time-dependent radiative transfer in arbitrary spacetimes A2

T. Bronzwaer, J. Davelaar, Z. Younsi, M. Mościbrodzka, H. Falcke, M. Kramer and L. Rezzolla

Published online: 15 May 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732149

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Supervised detection of exoplanets in high-contrast imaging sequences A71

C. A. Gomez Gonzalez, O. Absil and M. Van Droogenbroeck

Published online: 01 June 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731961

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