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A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) - VI. Environmental quenching on HII-region scales L1

A. Boselli, M. Fossati, A. Longobardi, S. Boissier, M. Boquien, J. Braine, P. Côté, J. C. Cuillandre, B. Epinat, L. Ferrarese et al. (8 more)

Published online: 29 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937310

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Evidence for ≳4 Gyr timescales of neutron star mergers from Galactic archaeology L2

Á. Skúladóttir and S. Salvadori

Published online: 30 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937293

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First detection of the 448 GHz ortho-H₂O line at high redshift: probing the structure of a starburst nucleus at z = 3.63 L3

C. Yang, E. González-Alfonso, A. Omont, M. Pereira-Santaella, J. Fischer, A. Beelen and R. Gavazzi

Published online: 31 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937319

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The high-energy environment and atmospheric escape of the mini-Neptune K2-18 b L4

Leonardo A. dos Santos, David Ehrenreich, Vincent Bourrier, Nicola Astudillo-Defru, Xavier Bonfils, François Forget, Christophe Lovis, Francesco Pepe and Stéphane Udry

Published online: 31 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937327

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Successful application of PSF-R techniques to the case of the globular cluster NGC 6121 (M 4) L5

D. Massari, A. Marasco, O. Beltramo-Martin, J. Milli, G. Fiorentino, E. Tolstoy and F. Kerber

Published online: 31 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937359

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Searching for water ice in the coma of interstellar object 2I/Borisov L6

Bin Yang, Michael S. P. Kelley, Karen J. Meech, Jacqueline V. Keane, Silvia Protopapa and Schelte J. Bus

Published online: 31 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937129

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A detailed non-LTE analysis of LB-1: Revised parameters and surface abundances L7

S. Simón-Díaz, J. Maíz Apellániz, D. J. Lennon, J. I. González Hernández, C. Allende Prieto, N. Castro, A. de Burgos, P. L. Dufton, A. Herrero, B. Toledo-Padrón and S. J. Smartt

Published online: 31 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937318

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Hic sunt dracones: Cartography of the Milky Way spiral arms and bar resonances with Gaia Data Release 2 L8

S. Khoperskov, O. Gerhard, P. Di Matteo, M. Haywood, D. Katz, S. Khrapov, A. Khoperskov and M. Arnaboldi

Published online: 04 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936645

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Effect of metallicity on the detectability of rotational periods in solar-like stars L9

V. Witzke, T. Reinhold, A. I. Shapiro, N. A. Krivova and S. K. Solanki

Published online: 05 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936608

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Discovery of a Sirius-like binary system with a very strongly magnetic white dwarf - Binarity among magnetic white dwarfs L10

John D. Landstreet and Stefano Bagnulo

Published online: 10 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937301

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Spiral arms and instability within the AFGL 4176 mm1 disc L11

Katharine G. Johnston, Melvin G. Hoare, Henrik Beuther, Rolf Kuiper, Nathaniel Dylan Kee, Hendrik Linz, Paul Boley, Luke T. Maud, Aida Ahmadi and Thomas P. Robitaille

Published online: 10 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937154

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ALMA reveals a large structured disk and nested rotating outflows in DG Tauri B L12

A. de Valon, C. Dougados, S. Cabrit, F. Louvet, L. A. Zapata and D. Mardones

Published online: 12 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936950

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EXTraS discovery of an X-ray superflare from an L dwarf L13

Andrea De Luca, Beate Stelzer, Adam J. Burgasser, Daniele Pizzocaro, Piero Ranalli, Stefanie Raetz, Martino Marelli, Giovanni Novara, Cristian Vignali, Andrea Belfiore et al. (6 more)

Published online: 12 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937163

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Deceptively cold dust in the massive starburst galaxy GN20 at z ∼ 4 L14

Isabella Cortzen, Georgios E. Magdis, Francesco Valentino, Emanuele Daddi, Daizhong Liu, Dimitra Rigopoulou, Mark Sargent, Dominik Riechers, Diane Cormier, Jacqueline A. Hodge et al. (6 more)

Published online: 02 March 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937217

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Polarized emission by aligned grains in the Mie regime: Application to protoplanetary disks observed by ALMA L15

V. Guillet, J. M. Girart, A. J. Maury and F. O. Alves

Published online: 21 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937314

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Asteroseismology of evolved stars to constrain the internal transport of angular momentum - III. Using the rotation rates of intermediate-mass stars to test the Fuller-formalism L16

J. W. den Hartogh, P. Eggenberger and S. Deheuvels

Published online: 24 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202037568

Astrophysical processes

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Tracing shock type with chemical diagnostics - An application to L1157 A17

T. A. James, S. Viti, J. Holdship and I. Jiménez-Serra

Published online: 29 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936536

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Statistics of VHE γ-rays in temporal association with radio giant pulses from the Crab pulsar A25

MAGIC Collaboration:, M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli, C. Arcaro, A. Babić, B. Banerjee, P. Bangale, U. Barres de Almeida, J. A. Barrio et al. (138 more)

Published online: 30 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833555

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Solar photosphere magnetization A40

Véronique Bommier

Published online: 06 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935244

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Cosmic-ray acceleration and escape from post-adiabatic supernova remnants A59

R. Brose, M. Pohl, I. Sushch, O. Petruk and T. Kuzyo

Published online: 07 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936567

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The giant outburst of 4U 0115+634 in 2011 with Suzaku and RXTE - Minimizing cyclotron line biases A99

Matthias Bissinger né Kühnel, Ingo Kreykenbohm, Carlo Ferrigno, Katja Pottschmidt, Diana M. Marcu-Cheatham, Felix Fürst, Richard E. Rothschild, Peter Kretschmar, Dmitry Klochkov, Paul Hemphill et al. (12 more)

Published online: 13 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935666

Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

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Revived fossil plasma sources in galaxy clusters A4

S. Mandal, H. T. Intema, R. J. van Weeren, T. W. Shimwell, A. Botteon, G. Brunetti, F. de Gasperin, M. Brüggen, G. Di Gennaro, R. Kraft et al. (3 more)

Published online: 28 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936560

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Toward the low-scatter selection of X-ray clusters - Galaxy cluster detection with eROSITA through cluster outskirts A8

Florian Käfer, Alexis Finoguenov, Dominique Eckert, Nicolas Clerc, Miriam E. Ramos-Ceja, Jeremy S. Sanders and Vittorio Ghirardini

Published online: 28 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936131

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Measuring galaxy-galaxy-galaxy-lensing with higher precision and accuracy A13

Laila Linke, Patrick Simon, Peter Schneider and Stefan Hilbert

Published online: 29 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936693

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Like a spider in its web: a study of the large-scale structure around the Coma cluster A30

Nicola Malavasi, Nabila Aghanim, Hideki Tanimura, Victor Bonjean and Marian Douspis

Published online: 31 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936629

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Shock acceleration efficiency in radio relics A64

A. Botteon, G. Brunetti, D. Ryu and S. Roh

Published online: 10 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936216

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The impact of braiding covariance and in-survey covariance on next-generation galaxy surveys A74

Fabien Lacasa

Published online: 11 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936683

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Deep learning for Sunyaev–Zel’dovich detection in Planck A81

V. Bonjean

Published online: 11 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936919

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Absolute calibration of the polarisation angle for future CMB B-mode experiments from current and future measurements of the Crab nebula A100

J. Aumont, J. F. Macías-Pérez, A. Ritacco, N. Ponthieu and A. Mangilli

Published online: 17 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833504

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The effects of varying depth in cosmic shear surveys A104

Sven Heydenreich, Peter Schneider, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Marika Asgari, Catherine Heymans, Benjamin Joachimi, Konrad Kuijken, Chieh-An Lin, Tilman Tröster and Jan Luca van den Busch

Published online: 17 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936966

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Hot WHIM counterparts of FUV O VI absorbers: Evidence in the line-of-sight towards quasar 3C 273 A106

Jussi Ahoranta, Jukka Nevalainen, Nastasha Wijers, Alexis Finoguenov, Massimiliano Bonamente, Elmo Tempel, Evan Tilton, Joop Schaye, Jelle Kaastra and Ghassem Gozaliasl

Published online: 18 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935846

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The Three Hundred Project: Correcting for the hydrostatic-equilibrium mass bias in X-ray and SZ surveys A113

S. Ansarifard, E. Rasia, V. Biffi, S. Borgani, W. Cui, M. De Petris, K. Dolag, S. Ettori, S. M. S. Movahed, G. Murante and G. Yepes

Published online: 19 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936742

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Close galaxy pairs with accurate photometric redshifts A123

Facundo Rodriguez, Elizabeth Johana Gonzalez, Ana Laura O’Mill, Enrique Gaztañaga, Pablo Fosalba, Diego García Lambas, Mar Mezcua and Małgorzata Siudek

Published online: 21 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937215

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KiDS+VIKING-450 and DES-Y1 combined: Mitigating baryon feedback uncertainty with COSEBIs A127

Marika Asgari, Tilman Tröster, Catherine Heymans, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Jan Luca van den Busch, Angus H. Wright, Ami Choi, Thomas Erben, Benjamin Joachimi, Shahab Joudaki et al. (5 more)

Published online: 24 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936512

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Contribution from stars stripped in binaries to cosmic reionization of hydrogen and helium A134

Y. Götberg, S. E. de Mink, M. McQuinn, E. Zapartas, J. H. Groh and C. Norman

Published online: 25 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936669

Extragalactic astronomy

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An image of the dust sublimation region in the nucleus of NGC 1068 A1

GRAVITY Collaboration, O. Pfuhl, R. Davies, J. Dexter, H. Netzer, S. Hönig, D. Lutz, M. Schartmann, E. Sturm, A. Amorim et al. (33 more)

Published online: 28 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936255

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The flickering nuclear activity of Fornax A A9

F. M. Maccagni, M. Murgia, P. Serra, F. Govoni, K. Morokuma-Matsui, D. Kleiner, S. Buchner, G. I. G. Józsa, P. Kamphuis, S. Makhathini et al. (6 more)

Published online: 28 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936867

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Kinematic and metallicity properties of the Aquarius dwarf galaxy from FORS2 MXU spectroscopy A10

L. Hermosa Muñoz, S. Taibi, G. Battaglia, G. Iorio, M. Rejkuba, R. Leaman, A. A. Cole, M. Irwin, P. Jablonka, N. Kacharov et al. (3 more)

Published online: 28 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936136

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Structural analysis of massive galaxies using HST deep imaging at z < 0.5 A11

Sandra N. dos Reis, Fernando Buitrago, Polychronis Papaderos, Israel Matute, José Afonso, Stergios Amarantidis, Iris Breda, Jean M. Gomes, Andrew Humphrey, Catarina Lobo et al. (4 more)

Published online: 28 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936276

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The Carnegie Supernova Project II - Early observations and progenitor constraints of the Type Ib supernova LSQ13abf A21

M. D. Stritzinger, F. Taddia, S. Holmbo, E. Baron, C. Contreras, E. Karamehmetoglu, M. M. Phillips, J. Sollerman, N. B. Suntzeff, J. Vinko et al. (12 more)

Published online: 30 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936619

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The effect of diffuse background on the spatially-resolved Schmidt relation in nearby spiral galaxies A24

Nimisha Kumari, Mike J. Irwin and Bethan L. James

Published online: 30 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732467

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Properties of galaxies with an offset between the position angles of the major kinematic and photometric axes A26

L. S. Pilyugin, E. K. Grebel, I. A. Zinchenko, J. M. Vílchez, F. Sakhibov, Y. A. Nefedyev and P. P. Berczik

Published online: 30 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936357

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Spectroscopy and polarimetry of the gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J1004+4112 with the 6m SAO RAS telescope A27

L. Č. Popović, V. L. Afanasiev, A. Moiseev, A. Smirnova, S. Simić, Dj. Savić, E. G. Mediavilla and C. Fian

Published online: 30 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936088

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Orientation of the crescent image of M 87* A38

Krzysztof Nalewajko, Marek Sikora and Agata Różańska

Published online: 03 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936586

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Metal-poor nuclear star clusters in two dwarf galaxies near Centaurus A suggesting formation from the in-spiraling of globular clusters A53

Katja Fahrion, Oliver Müller, Marina Rejkuba, Michael Hilker, Mariya Lyubenova, Glenn van de Ven, Iskren Y. Georgiev, Federico Lelli, Marcel S. Pawlowski and Helmut Jerjen

Published online: 06 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937120

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Predicting the global far-infrared SED of galaxies via machine learning techniques A57

W. Dobbels, M. Baes, S. Viaene, S. Bianchi, J. I. Davies, V. Casasola, C. J. R. Clark, J. Fritz, M. Galametz, F. Galliano et al. (3 more)

Published online: 07 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936695

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Incoherent fast variability of X-ray obscurers - The case of NGC 3783 A65

B. De Marco, T. P. Adhikari, G. Ponti, S. Bianchi, G. A. Kriss, N. Arav, E. Behar, G. Branduardi-Raymont, M. Cappi, E. Costantini et al. (15 more)

Published online: 10 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936470

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NGC 4993, the shell galaxy host of GW170817: constraints on the recent galactic merger A73

I. Ebrová, M. Bílek, M. K. Yıldız and J. Eliášek

Published online: 11 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935219

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Long term γ-ray variability of blazars A80

Bhoomika Rajput, C. S. Stalin and Suvendu Rakshit

Published online: 11 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936769

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Radiation spectra of warm and optically thick coronae in AGNs A85

P.-O. Petrucci, D. Gronkiewicz, A. Rozanska, R. Belmont, S. Bianchi, B. Czerny, G. Matt, J. Malzac, R. Middei, A. De Rosa et al. (2 more)

Published online: 11 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937011

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A parsec-scale wobbling jet in the high-synchrotron peaked blazar PG 1553+113 A87

R. Lico, J. Liu, M. Giroletti, M. Orienti, J. L. Gómez, B. G. Piner, N. R. MacDonald, F. D’Ammando and A. Fuentes

Published online: 12 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936564

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NuSTAR/XMM–Newton monitoring of the Seyfert 1 galaxy HE 1143-1810 - Testing the two-corona scenario A92

F. Ursini, P.-O. Petrucci, S. Bianchi, G. Matt, R. Middei, G. Marcel, J. Ferreira, M. Cappi, B. De Marco, A. De Rosa et al. (4 more)

Published online: 12 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936486

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Understanding star formation and feedback in small galaxies - The case of the blue compact dwarf Mrk 900 A95

L. M. Cairós and J. N. González-Pérez

Published online: 13 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936174

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UV and Lyα luminosity functions of galaxies and star formation rate density at the end of HI reionization from the VIMOS UltraDeep Survey (VUDS) A97

Y. Khusanova, O. Le Fèvre, P. Cassata, O. Cucciati, B. C. Lemaux, L. A. M. Tasca, R. Thomas, B. Garilli, V. Le Brun, D. Maccagni et al. (18 more)

Published online: 13 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935400

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Multiple black hole system in 4C31.61 (2201+315) A101

J. Roland, C. Gattano, S. B. Lambert and F. Taris

Published online: 17 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834740

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Star formation in outer rings of S0 galaxies - II. NGC 4513 – a multi-spin ringed S0 galaxy A102

I. Proshina, O. Sil’chenko and A. Moiseev

Published online: 17 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936912

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Present-day mass-metallicity relation for galaxies using a new electron temperature method A107

R. M. Yates, P. Schady, T.-W. Chen, T. Schweyer and P. Wiseman

Published online: 18 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936506

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LOFAR view of NGC 3998, a sputtering AGN A108

Sarrvesh S. Sridhar, Raffaella Morganti, Kristina Nyland, Bradley S. Frank, Jeremy Harwood and Tom Oosterloo

Published online: 18 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936796

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The Nuker model for galactic nuclei A109

Maarten Baes

Published online: 19 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937209

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The intergalactic medium transmission towards z ≳ 4 galaxies with VANDELS and the impact of dust attenuation A110

R. Thomas, L. Pentericci, O. Le Fevre, G. Zamorani, D. Schaerer, R. Amorin, M. Castellano, A. C. Carnall, S. Cristiani, F. Cullen et al. (15 more)

Published online: 19 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935925

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Gaia-assisted discovery of a detached low-ionisation BAL quasar with very large ejection velocities A111

J. P. U. Fynbo, P. Møller, K. E. Heintz, J. N. Burchett, L. Christensen, S. J. Geier, P. Jakobsson, J.-K. Krogager, C. Ledoux, B. Milvang-Jensen et al. (3 more)

Published online: 19 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936957

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Localizing the γ-ray emitting region in the blazar TXS 2013+370 A112

E. Traianou, T. P. Krichbaum, B. Boccardi, R. Angioni, B. Rani, J. Liu, E. Ros, U. Bach, K. V. Sokolovsky, M. M. Lisakov et al. (3 more)

Published online: 19 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935756

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LLAMA: The M_BH–σ_⋆ relation of the most luminous local AGNs A114

Turgay Caglar, Leonard Burtscher, Bernhard Brandl, Jarle Brinchmann, Richard I. Davies, Erin K. S. Hicks, Michael Koss, Ming-Yi Lin, Witold Maciejewski, Francisco Müller-Sánchez et al. (10 more)

Published online: 19 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936321

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Peculiar emission line spectra of core extremely red BOSS quasars at z∼2–3: orientation and/or evolution? A116

M. Villar Martín, M. Perna, A. Humphrey, N. Castro Rodríguez, L. Binette, P. G. Pérez González, S. Mateos and A. Cabrera Lavers

Published online: 19 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937086

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Evaluating quasi-periodic variations in the γ-ray light curves of Fermi-LAT blazars A120

F. Ait Benkhali, W. Hofmann, F. M. Rieger and N. Chakraborty

Published online: 20 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935117

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The headlight cloud in NGC 628: An extreme giant molecular cloud in a typical galaxy disk A121

Cinthya N. Herrera, Jérôme Pety, Annie Hughes, Sharon E. Meidt, Kathryn Kreckel, Miguel Querejeta, Toshiki Saito, Philipp Lang, María Jesús Jiménez-Donaire, Ismael Pessa et al. (18 more)

Published online: 21 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936060

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The stellar-to-halo mass relation over the past 12 Gyr - I. Standard ΛCDM model A135

G. Girelli, L. Pozzetti, M. Bolzonella, C. Giocoli, F. Marulli and M. Baldi

Published online: 25 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936329

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Triggering nuclear and galaxy activity in the Bullet cluster A137

S. Puccetti, F. Fiore, A. Bongiorno, K. Boutsia, R. Fassbender and M. Verdugo

Published online: 25 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833601

Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations

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High reddening patches in Gaia DR2 - Possible artifacts or indication of star formation at the edge of the Galactic disk A33

Leire Beitia-Antero, Ana Inés Gómez de Castro and Raúl de la Fuente Marcos

Published online: 31 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936881

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Monitoring dusty sources in the vicinity of Sagittarius A* A35

F. Peißker, S. E. Hosseini, M. Zajaček, A. Eckart, R. Saalfeld, M. Valencia-S., M. Parsa and V. Karas

Published online: 04 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935953

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The young massive SMC cluster NGC 330 seen by MUSE - I. Observations and stellar content A51

J. Bodensteiner, H. Sana, L. Mahy, L. R. Patrick, A. de Koter, S. E. de Mink, C. J. Evans, Y. Götberg, N. Langer, D. J. Lennon et al. (2 more)

Published online: 05 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936743

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Gaia-DR2 extended kinematical maps - II. Dynamics in the Galactic disk explaining radial and vertical velocities A66

M. López-Corredoira, F. Garzón, H.-F. Wang, F. Sylos Labini, R. Nagy, Ž. Chrobáková, J. Chang and B. Villarroel

Published online: 10 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936711

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New constraints on the structure of the nuclear stellar cluster of the Milky Way from star counts and MIR imaging A71

E. Gallego-Cano, R. Schödel, F. Nogueras-Lara, H. Dong, B. Shahzamanian, T. K. Fritz, A. T. Gallego-Calvente and N. Neumayer

Published online: 11 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935303

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Neutron-capture elements in dwarf galaxies - II. Challenges for the s- and i-processes at low metallicity A84

Á. Skúladóttir, C. J. Hansen, A. Choplin, S. Salvadori, M. Hampel and S. W. Campbell

Published online: 11 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937075

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Signatures of the Galactic bar in high-order moments of proper motions measured by Gaia A90

Pedro A. Palicio, Inma Martinez-Valpuesta, Carlos Allende Prieto and Claudio Dalla Vecchia

Published online: 12 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834042

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Corona-Australis DANCe - I. Revisiting the census of stars with Gaia-DR2 data A98

P. A. B. Galli, H. Bouy, J. Olivares, N. Miret-Roig, L. M. Sarro, D. Barrado, A. Berihuete and W. Brandner

Published online: 13 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936708

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The effect of warm gas on the buckling instability in galactic bars A122

Ewa L. Łokas

Published online: 20 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937165

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The strange case of the peculiar spiral galaxy NGC 5474 - New pieces of a galactic puzzle A124

M. Bellazzini, F. Annibali, M. Tosi, A. Mucciarelli, M. Cignoni, G. Beccari, C. Nipoti and R. Pascale

Published online: 20 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937284

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Chemical evolution of the Galactic bulge as traced by microlensed dwarf and subgiant stars - VII. Lithium A130

T. Bensby, S. Feltzing, J. C. Yee, J. A. Johnson, A. Gould, M. Asplund, J. Meléndez and S. Lucatello

Published online: 25 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937401

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Long-term multi-frequency maser observations of the intermediate-mass young stellar object G107.298+5.639 A41

M. Olech, M. Szymczak, P. Wolak, E. Gérard and A. Bartkiewicz

Published online: 04 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936943

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Warm dust surface chemistry - H₂ and HD formation A42

W. F. Thi, S. Hocuk, I. Kamp, P. Woitke, Ch. Rab, S. Cazaux and P. Caselli

Published online: 05 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731746

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The MUSE view of the planetary nebula NGC 3132 A47

Ana Monreal-Ibero and Jeremy R. Walsh

Published online: 04 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936845

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Formation of COMs through CO hydrogenation on interstellar grains A52

M. A. J. Simons, T. Lamberts and H. M. Cuppen

Published online: 07 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936522

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Quantum modeling of the optical spectra of carbon cluster structural families and relation to the interstellar extinction UV bump A62

C. Dubosq, F. Calvo, M. Rapacioli, E. Dartois, T. Pino, C. Falvo and A. Simon

Published online: 11 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937090

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Skymaps of observables of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic astrosphere models A67

L. R. Baalmann, K. Scherer, H. Fichtner, J. Kleimann, D. J. Bomans and K. Weis

Published online: 11 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937017

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Assessing the viability of silicate nanoclusters as carriers of the anomalous microwave emission: a quantum mechanical study A77

A. Macià Escatllar and S. T. Bromley

Published online: 11 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936419

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The HI/OH/Recombination line survey of the inner Milky Way (THOR): data release 2 and H I overview A83

Y. Wang, H. Beuther, M. R. Rugel, J. D. Soler, J. M. Stil, J. Ott, S. Bihr, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, L. D. Anderson, R. S. Klessen et al. (10 more)

Published online: 12 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937095

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Mass constraints for 15 protoplanetary discs from HD 1–0 A88

M. Kama, L. Trapman, D. Fedele, S. Bruderer, M. R. Hogerheijde, A. Miotello, E. F. van Dishoeck, C. Clarke and E. A. Bergin

Published online: 13 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937124

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A dispersion excess from pulsar wind nebulae and supernova remnants: Implications for pulsars and FRBs A105

S. M. Straal, L. Connor and J. van Leeuwen

Published online: 18 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833376

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APEX observations of ortho-H₂D⁺ towards dense cores in the Orion B9 filament A115

O. Miettinen

Published online: 19 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936730

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Sporadic and intense accretion in a 1 Myr-old brown dwarf candidate A128

D. Nguyen-Thanh, N. Phan-Bao, S. J. Murphy and M. S. Bessell

Published online: 27 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936810

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Characterization of mid-infrared polarization due to scattering in protoplanetary disks A129

S. Heese, S. Wolf and R. Brauer

Published online: 27 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935377

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Cloud formation in the atomic and molecular phase: H I self absorption (HISA) towards a giant molecular filament A139

Y. Wang, S. Bihr, H. Beuther, M. R. Rugel, J. D. Soler, J. Ott, J. Kainulainen, N. Schneider, R. S. Klessen, S. C. O. Glover et al. (13 more)

Published online: 27 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935866

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Erratum

Determining the effects of clumping and porosity on the chemistry in a non-uniform AGB outflow (Corrigendum) C1

M. Van de Sande, J. O. Sundqvist, T. J. Millar, D. Keller, W. Homan, A. de Koter, L. Decin and F. De Ceuster

Published online: 29 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732276e

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LOFAR radio search for single and periodic pulses from M 31 A3

Joeri van Leeuwen, Klim Mikhailov, Evan Keane, Thijs Coenen, Liam Connor, Vlad Kondratiev, Daniele Michilli and Sotiris Sanidas

Published online: 28 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937065

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123–321 models of classical novae A5

Jordi José, Steven N. Shore and Jordi Casanova

Published online: 28 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936893

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The NGC 346 massive star census - Nitrogen abundances for apparently single, narrow lined, hydrogen core burning B-type stars A6

P. L. Dufton, C. J. Evans, D. J. Lennon and I. Hunter

Published online: 28 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936921

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Determining the ⁵⁶Ni distribution of type Ia supernovae from observations within days of explosion A37

M. R. Magee, K. Maguire, R. Kotak, S. A. Sim, J. H. Gillanders, S. J. Prentice and K. Skillen

Published online: 03 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936684

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Burst-induced coronal cooling in GS 1826–24 - The clock wagging its tail A58

C. Sánchez-Fernández, J. J. E. Kajava, J. Poutanen, E. Kuulkers and V. F. Suleimanov

Published online: 07 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936599

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Probing the mid-layer structure of red giants - I. Mixed-mode coupling factor as a seismic diagnosis A68

C. Pinçon, M. J. Goupil and K. Belkacem

Published online: 10 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936864

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First characterization of Swift J1845.7–0037 with NuSTAR A89

V. Doroshenko, S. Tsygankov, J. Long, A. Santangelo, S. Molkov, A. Lutovinov, L. D. Kong and S. Zhang

Published online: 12 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937036

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Neglected X-ray discovered polars - II. The peculiar eclipsing binary HY Eridani A91

K. Beuermann, V. Burwitz, K. Reinsch, A. Schwope and H.-C. Thomas

Published online: 12 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936626

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Rapid spectral transition of the black hole binary V404 Cygni A94

J. J. E. Kajava, C. Sánchez-Fernández, J. Alfonso-Garzón, S. E. Motta and A. Veledina

Published online: 13 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937191

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The Tarantula Massive Binary Monitoring - III. Atmosphere analysis of double-lined spectroscopic systems A118

L. Mahy, H. Sana, M. Abdul-Masih, L. A. Almeida, N. Langer, T. Shenar, A. de Koter, S. E. de Mink, S. de Wit, N. J. Grin et al. (10 more)

Published online: 19 February 2020

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The Tarantula Massive Binary Monitoring - IV. Double-lined photometric binaries A119

L. Mahy, L. A. Almeida, H. Sana, J. S. Clark, A. de Koter, S. E. de Mink, C. J. Evans, N. J. Grin, N. Langer, A. F. J. Moffat et al. (3 more)

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936152

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Hot subdwarf B stars with neutron star components - II. Binary population synthesis A126

You Wu, Xuefei Chen, Hailiang Chen, Zhenwei Li and Zhanwen Han

Published online: 20 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935792

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The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey - XXXII. Low-luminosity late O-type stars: classification, main physical parameters, and silicon abundances A16

N. Markova, J. Puls, P. L. Dufton, D. J. Lennon, C. J. Evans, A. de Koter, O. H. Ramírez-Agudelo, H. Sana and J. S. Vink

Published online: 31 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937082

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Be and Bn stars: Balmer discontinuity and stellar-class relationship A18

Y. R. Cochetti, J. Zorec, L. S. Cidale, M. L. Arias, Y. Aidelman, A. F. Torres, Y. Frémat and A. Granada

Published online: 30 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936444

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The Gaia-ESO Survey: a new approach to chemically characterising young open clusters - I. Stellar parameters, and iron-peak, α-, and proton-capture elements A34

M. Baratella, V. D’Orazi, G. Carraro, S. Desidera, S. Randich, L. Magrini, V. Adibekyan, R. Smiljanic, L. Spina, M. Tsantaki et al. (26 more)

Published online: 31 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937055

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The stellar and wind parameters of six prototypical HMXBs and their evolutionary status A49

R. Hainich, L. M. Oskinova, J. M. Torrejón, F. Fuerst, A. Bodaghee, T. Shenar, A. A. C. Sander, H. Todt, K. Spetzer and W.-R. Hamann

Published online: 06 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935498

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Observational constraints on the origin of the elements - II. 3D non-LTE formation of Ba II lines in the solar atmosphere A55

A. J. Gallagher, M. Bergemann, R. Collet, B. Plez, J. Leenaarts, M. Carlsson, S. A. Yakovleva and A. K. Belyaev

Published online: 07 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936104

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An empirical metallicity tracer in CEMP and C-normal stars A72

D. Singh, C. J. Hansen, J. S. Byrgesen, M. Reichert and H. M. Reggiani

Published online: 12 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936305

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Why binary interaction does not necessarily dominate the formation of Wolf-Rayet stars at low metallicity A79

T. Shenar, A. Gilkis, J. S. Vink, H. Sana and A. A. C. Sander

Published online: 11 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936948

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Gravity and limb-darkening coefficients for compact stars: DA, DB, and DBA eclipsing white dwarfs A93

A. Claret, E. Cukanovaite, K. Burdge, P.-E. Tremblay, S. Parsons and T. R. Marsh

Published online: 14 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937326

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Chemical abundances of 1111 FGK stars from the HARPS-GTO planet search sample - III. Sulfur A136

A. R. Costa Silva, E. Delgado Mena and M. Tsantaki

Published online: 26 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936523

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The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs - Photospheric parameters of target stars from high-resolution spectroscopy. II. Simultaneous multi-wavelength range modeling of activity insensitive lines (Corrigendum) C2

V. M. Passegger, A. Schweitzer, D. Shulyak, E. Nagel, P. H. Hauschildt, A. Reiners, P. J. Amado, J. A. Caballero, M. Cortés-Contreras, A. J. Domínguez-Fernández et al. (18 more)

Published online: 04 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935679e

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Capabilities of bisector analysis of the Si I 10 827 Å line for estimating line-of-sight velocities in the quiet Sun A19

S. J. González Manrique, C. Quintero Noda, C. Kuckein, B. Ruiz Cobo and M. Carlsson

Published online: 29 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937274

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Toward a realistic macroscopic parametrization of space plasmas with regularized κ-distributions A20

M. Lazar, K. Scherer, H. Fichtner and V. Pierrard

Published online: 30 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936861

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Two-dimensional simulations of coronal rain dynamics - I. Model consisting of a vertical magnetic field and an unbounded atmosphere A36

D. Martínez-Gómez, R. Oliver, E. Khomenko and M. Collados

Published online: 03 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937078

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Exploring the latitude and depth dependence of solar Rossby waves using ring-diagram analysis A44

B. Proxauf, L. Gizon, B. Löptien, J. Schou, A. C. Birch and R. S. Bogart

Published online: 04 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937007

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Spectroscopic detection of coronal plasma flows in loops undergoing thermal non-equilibrium cycles A54

Gabriel Pelouze, Frédéric Auchère, Karine Bocchialini, Clara Froment, Susanna Parenti and Elie Soubrié

Published online: 06 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935872

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The multi-thermal chromosphere - Inversions of ALMA and IRIS data A56

J. M. da Silva Santos, J. de la Cruz Rodríguez, J. Leenaarts, G. Chintzoglou, B. De Pontieu, S. Wedemeyer and M. Szydlarski

Published online: 07 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937117

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Propagation of waves above a plage as observed by IRIS and SDO A63

P. Kayshap, A. K. Srivastava, S. K. Tiwari, P. Jelínek and M. Mathioudakis

Published online: 10 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936070

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The effect of drifts on the decay phase of SEP events A82

N. Wijsen, A. Aran, B. Sanahuja, J. Pomoell and S. Poedts

Published online: 11 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937026

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Observations of solar chromospheric oscillations at 3 mm with ALMA A86

S. Patsourakos, C. E. Alissandrakis, A. Nindos and T. S. Bastian

Published online: 12 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936618

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Magnetic Rayleigh–Taylor instability at a contact discontinuity with an oblique magnetic field A96

E. Vickers, I. Ballai and R. Erdélyi

Published online: 13 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936490

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Evolution of Stokes V area asymmetry related to a quiet Sun cancellation observed with GRIS/IFU A131

A. J. Kaithakkal, J. M. Borrero, C. E. Fischer, C. Dominguez-Tagle and M. Collados

Published online: 25 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936941

Planets and planetary systems

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Tidal evolution of circumbinary systems with arbitrary eccentricities: applications for Kepler systems A12

F. A. Zoppetti, A. M. Leiva and C. Beaugé

Published online: 28 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937248

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A search for the origin of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov A14

Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones, Davide Farnocchia, Quanzhi Ye, Karen J. Meech and Marco Micheli

Published online: 31 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937231

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How planets grow by pebble accretion - II. Analytical calculations on the evolution of polluted envelopes A15

M. G. Brouwers and C. W. Ormel

Published online: 30 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936480

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Dust in brown dwarfs and extra-solar planets - VII. Cloud formation in diffusive atmospheres A23

Peter Woitke, Christiane Helling and Ophelia Gunn

Published online: 31 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936281

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Gemini-GRACES high-quality spectra of Kepler evolved stars with transiting planets - I. Detailed characterization of multi-planet systems Kepler-278 and Kepler-391 A29

E. Jofré, J. M. Almenara, R. Petrucci, R. F. Díaz, Y. Gómez Maqueo Chew, E. Martioli, I. Ramírez, L. García, C. Saffe, E. F. Canul et al. (3 more)

Published online: 31 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936446

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Jupiter’s heavy-element enrichment expected from formation models A31

Julia Venturini and Ravit Helled

Published online: 03 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936591

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Ceres observed at low phase angles by VIR-Dawn A39

M. Ciarniello, M. C. De Sanctis, A. Raponi, B. Rousseau, A. Longobardo, J.-Y. Li, S. E. Schröder, F. Tosi, F. Zambon, E. Ammannito et al. (5 more)

Published online: 04 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936492

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Revisited mass-radius relations for exoplanets below 120 M_⊕ A43

J. F. Otegi, F. Bouchy and R. Helled

Published online: 04 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936482

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Orbit classification in exoplanetary systems A60

Euaggelos E. Zotos, Bálint Érdi, Tareq Saeed and Mohammed Sh. Alhodaly

Published online: 07 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937224

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RefPlanets: Search for reflected light from extrasolar planets with SPHERE/ZIMPOL A69

S. Hunziker, H. M. Schmid, D. Mouillet, J. Milli, A. Zurlo, P. Delorme, L. Abe, H. Avenhaus, A. Baruffolo, A. Bazzon et al. (48 more)

Published online: 12 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936641

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Improving transit characterisation with Gaussian process modelling of stellar variability A75

S. C. C. Barros, O. Demangeon, R. F. Díaz, J. Cabrera, N. C. Santos, J. P. Faria and F. Pereira

Published online: 11 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936086

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Realistic collisional water transport during terrestrial planet formation - Self-consistent modeling by an N-body–SPH hybrid code A76

C. Burger, Á. Bazsó and C. M. Schäfer

Published online: 12 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936366

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New chemical scheme for giant planet thermochemistry - Update of the methanol chemistry and new reduced chemical scheme A78

O. Venot, T. Cavalié, R. Bounaceur, P. Tremblin, L. Brouillard and R. Lhoussaine Ben Brahim

Published online: 12 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936697

Celestial mechanics and astrometry

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Systematics and accuracy of VLBI astrometry: A comparison with Gaia Data Release 2 A28

N. Liu, S. B. Lambert, Z. Zhu and J.-C. Liu

Published online: 30 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936996

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Nonsingular recursion formulas for third-body perturbations in mean vectorial elements A61

M. Lara, A. J. Rosengren and E. Fantino

Published online: 10 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937106

Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data

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R-matrix electron-impact excitation data for the C-like iso-electronic sequence A7

J. Mao, N. R. Badnell and G. Del Zanna

Published online: 28 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936931

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Non-thermal desorption of complex organic molecules - Cosmic-ray sputtering of CH₃OH embedded in CO₂ ice A103

E. Dartois, M. Chabot, A. Bacmann, P. Boduch, A. Domaracka and H. Rothard

Published online: 17 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936934

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Screening potential and continuum lowering in a dense plasma under solar-interior conditions A117

Jiaolong Zeng, Yongjun Li, Cheng Gao and Jianmin Yuan

Published online: 19 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937235

Astronomical instrumentation

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First detection of the Crab Nebula at TeV energies with a Cherenkov telescope in a dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Couder configuration: the ASTRI-Horn telescope A22

S. Lombardi, O. Catalano, S. Scuderi, L. A. Antonelli, G. Pareschi, E. Antolini, L. Arrabito, G. Bellassai, K. Bernlöhr, C. Bigongiari et al. (83 more)

Published online: 30 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936791

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Wideband 67−116 GHz receiver development for ALMA Band 2 A46

P. Yagoubov, T. Mroczkowski, V. Belitsky, D. Cuadrado-Calle, F. Cuttaia, G. A. Fuller, J.-D. Gallego, A. Gonzalez, K. Kaneko, P. Mena et al. (36 more)

Published online: 04 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936777

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Tips and tricks in linear imaging polarimetry of extended sources with FORS2 at the VLT A70

S. González-Gaitán, A. M. Mourão, F. Patat, J. P. Anderson, A. Cikota, K. Wiersema, A. B. Higgins and K. Silva

Published online: 11 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936379

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Searching for the largest bound atoms in space A138

K. L. Emig, P. Salas, F. de Gasperin, J. B. R. Oonk, M. C. Toribio, A. P. Mechev, H. J. A. Röttgering and A. G. G. M. Tielens

Published online: 26 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936562

Catalogs and data

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Extending the variability selection of active galactic nuclei in the W-CDF-S and SERVS/SWIRE region A50

M. Poulain, M. Paolillo, D. De Cicco, W. N. Brandt, F. E. Bauer, S. Falocco, F. Vagnetti, A. Grado, F. Ragosta, M. T. Botticella et al. (7 more)

Published online: 05 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937108

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λ = 2 mm spectroscopy observations toward the circumnuclear disk of NGC 1068 A125

Jianjie Qiu, Jiangshui Zhang, Yong Zhang, Lanwei Jia and Xindi Tang

Published online: 21 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935800

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Near-ultraviolet detections of four dwarf nova candidates in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae A132

David Modiano, Aastha S. Parikh and Rudy Wijnands

Published online: 25 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937043

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The X-shooter Spectral Library (XSL): Data release 2 A133

A. Gonneau, M. Lyubenova, A. Lançon, S. C. Trager, R. F. Peletier, A. Arentsen, Y.-P. Chen, P. R. T. Coelho, M. Dries, J. Falcón-Barroso et al. (4 more)

Published online: 25 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936825

Numerical methods and codes

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Robustness to bad frames in angular differential imaging: a local weighting approach A2

Olivier Flasseur, Loïc Denis, Éric Thiébaut and Maud Langlois

Published online: 28 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935859

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Web application for galaxy-targeted follow-up of electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave sources A32

L. Salmon, L. Hanlon, R. M. Jeffrey and A. Martin-Carrillo

Published online: 31 January 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936573

Press Release

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Identifying Earth-impacting asteroids using an artificial neural network A45

John D. Hefele, Francesco Bortolussi and Simon Portegies Zwart

Published online: 04 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935983

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MAXIMASK and MAXITRACK: Two new tools for identifying contaminants in astronomical images using convolutional neural networks A48

M. Paillassa, E. Bertin and H. Bouy

Published online: 05 February 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936345

Astronomy & Astrophysics

Volume 634 (February 2020)

Letters to the Editor

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) - VI. Environmental quenching on HII-region scales L1

Evidence for ≳4 Gyr timescales of neutron star mergers from Galactic archaeology L2

First detection of the 448 GHz ortho-H2O line at high redshift: probing the structure of a starburst nucleus at z = 3.63 L3

The high-energy environment and atmospheric escape of the mini-Neptune K2-18 b L4

Successful application of PSF-R techniques to the case of the globular cluster NGC 6121 (M 4) L5

Searching for water ice in the coma of interstellar object 2I/Borisov L6

A detailed non-LTE analysis of LB-1: Revised parameters and surface abundances L7

Hic sunt dracones: Cartography of the Milky Way spiral arms and bar resonances with Gaia Data Release 2 L8

Effect of metallicity on the detectability of rotational periods in solar-like stars L9

Discovery of a Sirius-like binary system with a very strongly magnetic white dwarf - Binarity among magnetic white dwarfs L10

Spiral arms and instability within the AFGL 4176 mm1 disc L11

ALMA reveals a large structured disk and nested rotating outflows in DG Tauri B L12

EXTraS discovery of an X-ray superflare from an L dwarf L13

Deceptively cold dust in the massive starburst galaxy GN20 at z ∼ 4 L14

Polarized emission by aligned grains in the Mie regime: Application to protoplanetary disks observed by ALMA L15

Asteroseismology of evolved stars to constrain the internal transport of angular momentum - III. Using the rotation rates of intermediate-mass stars to test the Fuller-formalism L16

Astrophysical processes

Tracing shock type with chemical diagnostics - An application to L1157 A17

Statistics of VHE γ-rays in temporal association with radio giant pulses from the Crab pulsar A25

Solar photosphere magnetization A40

Cosmic-ray acceleration and escape from post-adiabatic supernova remnants A59

The giant outburst of 4U 0115+634 in 2011 with Suzaku and RXTE - Minimizing cyclotron line biases A99

Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

Revived fossil plasma sources in galaxy clusters A4

Toward the low-scatter selection of X-ray clusters - Galaxy cluster detection with eROSITA through cluster outskirts A8

Measuring galaxy-galaxy-galaxy-lensing with higher precision and accuracy A13

Like a spider in its web: a study of the large-scale structure around the Coma cluster A30

Shock acceleration efficiency in radio relics A64

The impact of braiding covariance and in-survey covariance on next-generation galaxy surveys A74

Deep learning for Sunyaev–Zel’dovich detection in Planck A81

Absolute calibration of the polarisation angle for future CMB B-mode experiments from current and future measurements of the Crab nebula A100

The effects of varying depth in cosmic shear surveys A104

Hot WHIM counterparts of FUV O VI absorbers: Evidence in the line-of-sight towards quasar 3C 273 A106

The Three Hundred Project: Correcting for the hydrostatic-equilibrium mass bias in X-ray and SZ surveys A113

Close galaxy pairs with accurate photometric redshifts A123

KiDS+VIKING-450 and DES-Y1 combined: Mitigating baryon feedback uncertainty with COSEBIs A127

Contribution from stars stripped in binaries to cosmic reionization of hydrogen and helium A134

Extragalactic astronomy

An image of the dust sublimation region in the nucleus of NGC 1068 A1

The flickering nuclear activity of Fornax A A9

Kinematic and metallicity properties of the Aquarius dwarf galaxy from FORS2 MXU spectroscopy A10

Structural analysis of massive galaxies using HST deep imaging at z < 0.5 A11

The Carnegie Supernova Project II - Early observations and progenitor constraints of the Type Ib supernova LSQ13abf A21

The effect of diffuse background on the spatially-resolved Schmidt relation in nearby spiral galaxies A24

Properties of galaxies with an offset between the position angles of the major kinematic and photometric axes A26

Spectroscopy and polarimetry of the gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J1004+4112 with the 6m SAO RAS telescope A27

Orientation of the crescent image of M 87* A38

Metal-poor nuclear star clusters in two dwarf galaxies near Centaurus A suggesting formation from the in-spiraling of globular clusters A53

Predicting the global far-infrared SED of galaxies via machine learning techniques A57

Incoherent fast variability of X-ray obscurers - The case of NGC 3783 A65

NGC 4993, the shell galaxy host of GW170817: constraints on the recent galactic merger A73

Long term γ-ray variability of blazars A80

Radiation spectra of warm and optically thick coronae in AGNs A85

A parsec-scale wobbling jet in the high-synchrotron peaked blazar PG 1553+113 A87

NuSTAR/XMM–Newton monitoring of the Seyfert 1 galaxy HE 1143-1810 - Testing the two-corona scenario A92

Understanding star formation and feedback in small galaxies - The case of the blue compact dwarf Mrk 900 A95

UV and Lyα luminosity functions of galaxies and star formation rate density at the end of HI reionization from the VIMOS UltraDeep Survey (VUDS) A97

Multiple black hole system in 4C31.61 (2201+315) A101

Star formation in outer rings of S0 galaxies - II. NGC 4513 – a multi-spin ringed S0 galaxy A102

Present-day mass-metallicity relation for galaxies using a new electron temperature method A107

LOFAR view of NGC 3998, a sputtering AGN A108

The Nuker model for galactic nuclei A109

The intergalactic medium transmission towards z ≳ 4 galaxies with VANDELS and the impact of dust attenuation A110

Gaia-assisted discovery of a detached low-ionisation BAL quasar with very large ejection velocities A111

Localizing the γ-ray emitting region in the blazar TXS 2013+370 A112

LLAMA: The MBH–σ⋆ relation of the most luminous local AGNs A114

Peculiar emission line spectra of core extremely red BOSS quasars at z∼2–3: orientation and/or evolution? A116

Evaluating quasi-periodic variations in the γ-ray light curves of Fermi-LAT blazars A120

The headlight cloud in NGC 628: An extreme giant molecular cloud in a typical galaxy disk A121

The stellar-to-halo mass relation over the past 12 Gyr - I. Standard ΛCDM model A135

Triggering nuclear and galaxy activity in the Bullet cluster A137

Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations

High reddening patches in Gaia DR2 - Possible artifacts or indication of star formation at the edge of the Galactic disk A33

Monitoring dusty sources in the vicinity of Sagittarius A* A35

The young massive SMC cluster NGC 330 seen by MUSE - I. Observations and stellar content A51

Gaia-DR2 extended kinematical maps - II. Dynamics in the Galactic disk explaining radial and vertical velocities A66

New constraints on the structure of the nuclear stellar cluster of the Milky Way from star counts and MIR imaging A71

First detection of the 448 GHz ortho-H₂O line at high redshift: probing the structure of a starburst nucleus at z = 3.63 L3

LLAMA: The M_BH–σ_⋆ relation of the most luminous local AGNs A114

Warm dust surface chemistry - H₂ and HD formation A42

APEX observations of ortho-H₂D⁺ towards dense cores in the Orion B9 filament A115

Determining the ⁵⁶Ni distribution of type Ia supernovae from observations within days of explosion A37

Revisited mass-radius relations for exoplanets below 120 M_⊕ A43