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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Volume 646 (February 2021)
The Solar Orbiter mission
Letters to the Editor
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Magnetic-buoyancy-induced mixing in AGB stars: a theoretical explanation of the non-universal relation of [Y/Mg] to age L2
Published online: 02 February 2021
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Surface effects and turbulent pressure - Assessing the Gas-Γ1 and Reduced-Γ1 empirical models L5
Published online: 05 February 2021
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Discovery of the acetyl cation, CH3CO+, in space and in the laboratory L7
Published online: 05 February 2021
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Predicted spatial and velocity distributions of ejected companion stars of helium accretion-induced thermonuclear supernovae L8
Published online: 10 February 2021
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A study of C4H3N isomers in TMC-1: Line by line detection of HCCCH2CN L9
Published online: 12 February 2021
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Distinguishing AGN from starbursts as the origin of double-peaked Lyman-alpha emitters in the reionization era L10
Published online: 12 February 2021
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Steady state by recycling prevents premature collapse of protoplanetary atmospheres L11
Published online: 12 February 2021
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Low surface brightness galaxies in z > 1 galaxy clusters: HST approaching the progenitors of local ultra diffuse galaxies L12
Published online: 16 February 2021
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A cautionary tale in fitting galaxy rotation curves with Bayesian techniques - Does Newton’s constant vary from galaxy to galaxy? L13
Published online: 17 February 2021
Astrophysical processes
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Geometric modeling of M87* as a Kerr black hole or a non-Kerr compact object A37
Published online: 02 February 2021
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Relativistic fluid modelling of gamma-ray binaries - I. The model A91
Published online: 12 February 2021
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Wind mass transfer in S-type symbiotic binaries - III. Confirmation of a wind focusing in EG Andromedae from the nebular [O III] λ5007 line A116
Published online: 17 February 2021
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Evidence of a non-conservative mass transfer in the ultra-compact X-ray source XB 1916-053 A120
Published online: 17 February 2021
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A variable magnetic disc wind in the black hole X-ray binary GRS 1915+105? A154
Published online: 19 February 2021
Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
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Very Large Array observations of the mini-halo and AGN feedback in the Phoenix cluster A38
Published online: 02 February 2021
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Fast analytical calculation of the random pair counts for realistic survey geometry A40
Published online: 04 February 2021
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Primordial nucleosynthesis with varying fundamental constants - Degeneracies with cosmological parameters A47
Published online: 04 February 2021
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Probing dark energy with tomographic weak-lensing aperture mass statistics A62
Published online: 05 February 2021
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Velocity correction for Hubble constant measurements from standard sirens A65
Published online: 08 February 2021
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Constraints on the spectral index of polarized synchrotron emission from WMAP and Faraday-corrected S-PASS data A69
Published online: 09 February 2021
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CFHTLenS: Galaxy bias as function of scale, stellar mass, and colour - Conflicts with predictions by semi-analytic models A71
Published online: 10 February 2021
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Tightening weak lensing constraints on the ellipticity of galaxy-scale dark matter haloes A73
Published online: 10 February 2021
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Effects of observer peculiar motion on the isotropic background frequency spectrum: From the monopole to higher multipoles A75
Published online: 10 February 2021
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Iron in X-COP: Tracing enrichment in cluster outskirts with high accuracy abundance profiles A92
Published online: 12 February 2021
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Mass accretion rates of clusters of galaxies: CIRS and HeCS A105
Published online: 16 February 2021
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High-resolution tomography for galaxy spectroscopic surveys with angular redshift fluctuations A109
Published online: 16 February 2021
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HOLISMOKES - III. Achromatic phase of strongly lensed Type Ia supernovae A110
Published online: 16 February 2021
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Accounting for object detection bias in weak gravitational lensing studies A124
Published online: 18 February 2021
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HOLISMOKES - IV. Efficient mass modeling of strong lenses through deep learning A126
Published online: 18 February 2021
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KiDS-1000 methodology: Modelling and inference for joint weak gravitational lensing and spectroscopic galaxy clustering analysis A129
Published online: 18 February 2021
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Physical insights from the spectrum of the radio halo in MACS J0717.5+3745 A135
Published online: 18 February 2021
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KiDS-1000 Cosmology: Multi-probe weak gravitational lensing and spectroscopic galaxy clustering constraints A140
Published online: 19 February 2021
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The PAU Survey: Intrinsic alignments and clustering of narrow-band photometric galaxies A147
Published online: 19 February 2021
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Cosmological constraints on the magnification bias on sub-millimetre galaxies after large-scale bias corrections A152
Published online: 19 February 2021
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KiDS+VIKING-450: An internal-consistency test for cosmic shear tomography with a colour-based split of source galaxies A175
Published online: 22 February 2021
Extragalactic astronomy
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A puzzling non-detection of [O III] and [C II] from a z ≈ 7.7 galaxy observed with ALMA A26
Published online: 03 February 2021
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INSPIRE: INvestigating Stellar Population In RElics - I. Survey presentation and pilot study A28
Published online: 02 February 2021
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X-ray flux in SED modelling: An application of X-CIGALE in the XMM-XXL field A29
Published online: 02 February 2021
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MIGHTEE-HI: The H I emission project of the MeerKAT MIGHTEE survey A35
Published online: 02 February 2021
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The VANDELS survey: The relation between the UV continuum slope and stellar metallicity in star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 3 A39
Published online: 04 February 2021
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Galaxies within galaxies in the TIMER survey: stellar populations of inner bars are scaled replicas of main bars A42
Published online: 04 February 2021
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10.4 m GTC observations of the nearby VHE-detected GRB 190829A/SN 2019oyw A50
Published online: 04 February 2021
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Evolution of galaxy scaling relations in clusters at 0.5 < z < 1.5 A53
Published online: 05 February 2021
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Two types of distribution of the gas velocity dispersion of MaNGA galaxies A54
Published online: 05 February 2021
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The MUSE Deep Lensed Field on the Hubble Frontier Field MACS J0416 - Star-forming complexes at cosmological distances A57
Published online: 05 February 2021
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A low [CII]/[NII] ratio in the center of a massive galaxy at z = 3.7: Evidence for a transition to quiescence at high redshift? A68
Published online: 09 February 2021
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The ALPINE–ALMA [C II] survey - Luminosity function of serendipitous [C II] line emitters at z ∼ 5 A76
Published online: 10 February 2021
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UV absorption lines and their potential for tracing the Lyman continuum escape fraction A80
Published online: 10 February 2021
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Populations of super-soft X-ray sources in galaxies of different morphological types A85
Published online: 12 February 2021
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SUPER - IV. CO(J = 3–2) properties of active galactic nucleus hosts at cosmic noon revealed by ALMA A96
Published online: 16 February 2021
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Physics of ULIRGs with MUSE and ALMA: The PUMA project - I. Properties of the survey and first MUSE data results A101
Published online: 16 February 2021
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Down-the-barrel observations of a multi-phase quasar outflow at high redshift - VLT/X-shooter spectroscopy of the proximate molecular absorber at z = 2.631 towards SDSS J001514+184212 A108
Published online: 16 February 2021
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Electron-beam interaction with emission-line clouds in blazars A115
Published online: 17 February 2021
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Close-up view of a luminous star-forming galaxy at z = 2.95 A122
Published online: 19 February 2021
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Multiwavelength dissection of a massive heavily dust-obscured galaxy and its blue companion at z∼2 A127
Published online: 17 February 2021
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Low-redshift compact star-forming galaxies as analogues of high-redshift star-forming galaxies A138
Published online: 19 February 2021
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A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) - IX. The effects of ram pressure stripping down to the scale of individual HII regions in the dwarf galaxy IC 3476 A139
Published online: 19 February 2021
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Overdensity of VVV galaxies behind the Galactic bulge A146
Published online: 19 February 2021
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Galaxy and Mass Assembly: Group and field galaxy morphologies in the star-formation rate – stellar mass plane A151
Published online: 19 February 2021
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A possible sub-kiloparsec dual AGN buried behind the galaxy curtain A153
Published online: 19 February 2021
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Resolving the inner accretion flow towards the central supermassive black hole in SDSS J1339+1310 A165
Published online: 22 February 2021
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Relation between AGN type and host galaxy properties A167
Published online: 22 February 2021
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Environments of a sample of AzTEC submillimetre galaxies in the COSMOS field A174
Published online: 22 February 2021
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Detection of H2O and OH+ in z > 3 hot dust-obscured galaxies A178
Published online: 23 February 2021
Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations
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Excess of Ca (and Sc) produced in globular cluster multiple populations: a first census in 77 Galactic globular clusters A9
Published online: 29 January 2021
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Discovery of O stars in the tidal Magellanic Bridge - Stellar parameters, abundances, and feedback of the nearest metal-poor massive stars and their implication for the Magellanic System ecology A16
Published online: 29 January 2021
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Gravitational Brownian motion as inhomogeneous diffusion: Black hole populations in globular clusters A20
Published online: 29 January 2021
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Chamaeleon DANCe - Revisiting the stellar populations of Chamaeleon I and Chamaeleon II with Gaia-DR2 data A46
Published online: 04 February 2021
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Does NGC 6397 contain an intermediate-mass black hole or a more diffuse inner subcluster? A63
Published online: 11 February 2021
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Weighing the Galactic disk in sub-regions of the solar neighbourhood using Gaia DR2 A67
Published online: 09 February 2021
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Inhomogeneity in the early Galactic chemical enrichment exposed by beryllium abundances in extremely metal-poor stars A70
Published online: 09 February 2021
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The outer disc in shambles: Blind detection of Monoceros and the ACS with Gaia’s astrometric sample A99
Published online: 15 February 2021
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Improving the open cluster census - I. Comparison of clustering algorithms applied to Gaia DR2 data A104
Published online: 16 February 2021
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The Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters - XXII. Relative ages of multiple populations in five globular clusters A125
Published online: 17 February 2021
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Signatures of tidal disruption in the Milky Way globular cluster NGC 6981 (M72) A176
Published online: 23 February 2021
Interstellar and circumstellar matter
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Molecular remnant of Nova 1670 (CK Vulpeculae) - II. A three-dimensional view of the gas distribution and velocity field A1
Published online: 01 February 2021
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Chemically tracing the water snowline in protoplanetary disks with HCO+ A3
Published online: 02 February 2021
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Gas phase Elemental abundances in Molecular cloudS (GEMS) - III. Unlocking the CS chemistry: the CS+O reaction A5
Published online: 02 February 2021
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Pebbles in an embedded protostellar disk: the case of CB 26 A18
Published online: 02 February 2021
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H II regions and high-mass starless clump candidates - II. Fragmentation and induced star formation at ~0.025 pc scale: an ALMA continuum study A25
Published online: 05 February 2021
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Tracing molecular stratification within an edge-on protoplanetary disk A59
Published online: 05 February 2021
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The Galactic center chimneys: the base of the multiphase outflow of the Milky Way A66
Published online: 09 February 2021
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Resolved molecular line observations reveal an inherited molecular layer in the young disk around TMC1A A72
Published online: 12 February 2021
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Three-dimensional morphological asymmetries in the ejecta of Cassiopeia A using a component separation method in X-rays A82
Published online: 12 February 2021
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Effects of anisotropy on absorption cross-section spectra of medium-sized spheroidal corundum particles A87
Published online: 11 February 2021
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Characterizing the line emission from molecular clouds - Stratified random sampling of the Perseus cloud A97
Published online: 12 February 2021
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Viscous heating in the disk of the outbursting star FU Orionis A102
Published online: 15 February 2021
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Physical characterization of S169: a prototypical IR bubble associated with the massive star-forming region IRAS 12326-6245 A103
Published online: 15 February 2021
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HESS J1858+020: A GeV-TeV source possibly powered by cosmic rays from SNR G35.6-0.4 A114
Published online: 19 February 2021
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Kinematics and star formation toward W33: a central hub as a hub–filament system A137
Published online: 19 February 2021
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Nuclear de-excitation lines as a probe of low-energy cosmic rays A149
Published online: 19 February 2021
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Infrared observations of the flaring maser source G358.93−0.03 - SOFIA confirms an accretion burst from a massive young stellar object A161
Published online: 25 February 2021
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Revisiting the OH + H2 → H2O + H reaction at the molecular level: the plausible catalytic role of ice in its own reconstruction A163
Published online: 23 February 2021
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Physical and chemical structure of the Serpens filament: Fast formation and gravity-driven accretion A170
Published online: 23 February 2021
Stellar structure and evolution
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Reinvestigating α Centauri AB in light of asteroseismic forward and inverse methods A7
Published online: 29 January 2021
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ALMA observations of the early stages of substellar formation in the Lupus 1 and 3 molecular clouds A10
Published online: 29 January 2021
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Neutron star parameter constraints for accretion-powered millisecond pulsars from the simulated IXPE data A23
Published online: 02 February 2021
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The formation of ultra-massive carbon-oxygen core white dwarfs and their evolutionary and pulsational properties A30
Published online: 03 February 2021
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BAT99 126: A multiple Wolf-Rayet system in the Large Magellanic Cloud with a massive near-contact binary A33
Published online: 02 February 2021
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Lithium depletion and angular momentum transport in solar-type stars A48
Published online: 04 February 2021
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Microscopic equation of state of hot nuclear matter for numerical relativity simulations A55
Published online: 05 February 2021
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The pulsational properties of ultra-massive DB white dwarfs with carbon-oxygen cores coming from single-star evolution A60
Published online: 05 February 2021
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Investigating three Sirius-like systems with SPHERE A61
Published online: 05 February 2021
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Testing abundance-age relations beyond solar analogues with Kepler LEGACY stars A78
Published online: 10 February 2021
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Increasing spin of a B-Star during the common envelope stage A90
Published online: 12 February 2021
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The nature of VX Sagitarii - Is it a TŻO, a RSG, or a high-mass AGB star? A98
Published online: 16 February 2021
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A dearth of young and bright massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud A106
Published online: 17 February 2021
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Illumination of the accretion disk in black hole binaries: An extended jet as the primary source of hard X-rays A112
Published online: 16 February 2021
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Strongly pulsed thermal X-rays from a single extended hot spot on PSR J2021+4026 A117
Published online: 17 February 2021
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Comparison between the first and second mass eruptions from progenitors of Type IIn supernovae A118
Published online: 17 February 2021
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Pollux: A weak dynamo-driven dipolar magnetic field and implications for its probable planet A130
Published online: 18 February 2021
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Calibrating core overshooting parameters with two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations A133
Published online: 18 February 2021
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Matter accretion in metal-poor stars down to extremely metal-poor stars and the lithium problem A160
Published online: 19 February 2021
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X-ray and ultraviolet observations of the eclipsing cataclysmic variables OV Bootis and SDSS J103533.02+055158.3 with degenerate donors A181
Published online: 23 February 2021
Stellar atmospheres
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Search for flares and associated CMEs on late-type main-sequence stars in optical SDSS spectra A34
Published online: 02 February 2021
The Sun and the Heliosphere
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Transverse oscillation of a coronal loop induced by a flare-related jet A12
Published online: 29 January 2021
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Infrared diagnostics of the solar magnetic field with Mg I 12 μm lines: forward-model results A79
Published online: 10 February 2021
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Solar activity and responses observed in Balmer lines A81
Published online: 10 February 2021
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Mixed properties of magnetohydrodynamic waves undergoing resonant absorption in the cusp continuum A86
Published online: 11 February 2021
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A magnetic reconnection model for hot explosions in the cool atmosphere of the Sun A88
Published online: 11 February 2021
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Two-fluid simulations of Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a magnetized solar prominence thread - I. Effects of prominence magnetization and mass loading A93
Published online: 12 February 2021
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The chromospheric component of coronal bright points - Coronal and chromospheric responses to magnetic-flux emergence A107
Published online: 16 February 2021
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Recurrence of galactic cosmic-ray intensity and anisotropy in solar minima 23/24 and 24/25 observed by ACE/CRIS, STEREO, SOHO/EPHIN and neutron monitors - Fourier and wavelet analysis A128
Published online: 18 February 2021
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Prominence formation by levitation-condensation at extreme resolutions A134
Published online: 24 February 2021
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Relationship between solar energetic particle intensities and coronal mass ejection kinematics using STEREO/SECCHI field of view A142
Published online: 19 February 2021
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The effect of the magnetic field on the damping of slow waves in the solar corona A155
Published online: 19 February 2021
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Spatial quasi-periodic variations of the plasma density and magnetic field in zebra radio sources A179
Published online: 23 February 2021
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Plasma flows and sound-speed perturbations in the average supergranule A184
Published online: 23 February 2021
Planets and planetary systems
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In situ lunar phase curves measured by Chang’E-4 in the Von Kármán Crater, South Pole-Aitken basin A2
Published online: 29 January 2021
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Planet cartography with neural learned regularization A4
Published online: 02 February 2021
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Planetesimal formation around the snow line - II. Dust or pebbles? A14
Published online: 02 February 2021
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1D atmospheric study of the temperate sub-Neptune K2-18b A15
Published online: 02 February 2021
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TRAP: a temporal systematics model for improved direct detection of exoplanets at small angular separations A24
Published online: 02 February 2021
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Coexistence of CH4, CO2, and H2O in exoplanet atmospheres A43
Published online: 05 February 2021
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(85989) 1999 JD6 : a first Barbarian asteroid detected by polarimetry in the NEA population A51
Published online: 04 February 2021
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A new approach to spectroscopic phase curves - The emission spectrum of WASP-12b observed in quadrature with HST/WFC3 A94
Published online: 12 February 2021
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Four Jovian planets around low-luminosity giant stars observed by the EXPRESS and PPPS A131
Published online: 19 February 2021
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Revealing peculiar exoplanetary shadows from transit light curves A136
Published online: 19 February 2021
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CHEOPS observations of the HD 108236 planetary system: a fifth planet, improved ephemerides, and planetary radii A157
Published online: 19 February 2021
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ESPRESSO high-resolution transmission spectroscopy of WASP-76 b A158
Published online: 19 February 2021
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The GAPS Programme at TNG - XXIX. No detection of reflected light from 51 Peg b using optical high-resolution spectroscopy A159
Published online: 19 February 2021
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BEAST begins: sample characteristics and survey performance of the B-star Exoplanet Abundance Study A164
Published online: 25 February 2021
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Migration of Jupiter-mass planets in low-viscosity discs A166
Published online: 26 February 2021
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Indications for very high metallicity and absence of methane in the eccentric exo-Saturn WASP-117b A168
Published online: 25 February 2021
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Giant planet migration during the disc dispersal phase A169
Published online: 25 February 2021
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Formation and dynamics of water clouds on temperate sub-Neptunes: the example of K2-18b A171
Published online: 23 February 2021
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Debris discs in binaries: morphology and photometric signatures A173
Published online: 23 February 2021
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NGTS-14Ab: a Neptune-sized transiting planet in the desert A183
Published online: 26 February 2021
Celestial mechanics and astrometry
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Impact of non-gravitational effects on chaotic properties of retrograde orbits A182
Published online: 26 February 2021
Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data
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The ExoMolOP database: Cross sections and k-tables for molecules of interest in high-temperature exoplanet atmospheres A21
Published online: 02 February 2021
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Vacuum ultraviolet photoabsorption spectroscopy of space-related ices: formation and destruction of solid carbonic acid upon 1 keV electron irradiation A172
Published online: 22 February 2021
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Erratum
Optical spectroscopic characterizations of laser irradiated olivine grains (Corrigendum) C1
Published online: 01 February 2021
Astronomical instrumentation
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Parameterized reconstruction with random scales for radio synthesis imaging A44
Published online: 04 February 2021
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Polarization calibration techniques for the new-generation VLBI A52
Published online: 05 February 2021
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Sensitivity of a low-frequency polarimetric radio interferometer A143
Published online: 19 February 2021
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Fundamental physics with ESPRESSO: Towards an accurate wavelength calibration for a precision test of the fine-structure constant A144
Published online: 19 February 2021
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Spatial linear dark field control on Subaru/SCExAO - Maintaining high contrast with a vAPP coronagraph A145
Published online: 19 February 2021
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Direct characterization of young giant exoplanets at high spectral resolution by coupling SPHERE and CRIRES+ A150
Published online: 19 February 2021
Catalogs and data
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Lucky spectroscopy, an equivalent technique to lucky imaging - II. Spatially resolved intermediate-resolution blue-violet spectroscopy of 19 close massive binaries using the William Herschel Telescope A11
Published online: 29 January 2021
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Stellar chromospheric activity of 1674 FGK stars from the AMBRE-HARPS sample - I. A catalogue of homogeneous chromospheric activity A77
Published online: 10 February 2021
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Evolved massive stars at low-metallicity - III. A source catalog for the Large Magellanic Cloud A141
Published online: 19 February 2021
Numerical methods and codes
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BAYES-LOSVD: A Bayesian framework for non-parametric extraction of the line-of-sight velocity distribution of galaxies A31
Published online: 02 February 2021
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Optimal extraction of echelle spectra: Getting the most out of observations A32
Published online: 02 February 2021
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Improving the RSM map exoplanet detection algorithm - PSF forward modelling and optimal selection of PSF subtraction techniques A49
Published online: 04 February 2021
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Efficient wide-field radio interferometry response A58
Published online: 05 February 2021
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Learning to do multiframe wavefront sensing unsupervised: Applications to blind deconvolution A100
Published online: 15 February 2021
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A high-performance and portable asymptotic preserving radiation hydrodynamics code with the M1 model A123
Published online: 22 February 2021