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Fundamental parameters and evolutionary state of the Herbig Ae star candidate HD 35929
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20041618 Bibcode: 2004A&A...427..937M

Miroshnichenko, A. S.; Bjorkman, K. S.; Gray, R. O. +2 more

HD 35929 is a pre-main-sequence Herbig Ae star candidate that exhibits emission in the Hα line and a weak IR excess. Although its luminosity type was estimated as IV from low-resolution spectroscopy, the insignificant HIPPARCOS parallax (0.88±0.93 mas) contradicted the low luminosity. To resolve this discrepancy, we took 3 high-resolution optical …

2004 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Hipparcos IUE 9
Photoionization model analysis of the planetary nebula Hu1-2
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20041005 Bibcode: 2004A&A...425..143H

Pottasch, S. R.; Feibelman, W. A.; Hyung, S.

We have obtained high resolution optical spectra of the planetary nebula Hu 1-2 in the wavelength region of 3700 Å-10 050 Å, with the Hamilton Echelle Spectrograph (HES) at Lick Observatory. Diagnostic analysis indicates that the nebular gas can be represented by inhomogeneous shells of electron density Nɛ ≃ 4000-10 0…

2004 Astronomy and Astrophysics
ISO 9
Multicolour CCD measurements of nearby visual double stars. II
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20047172 Bibcode: 2004A&A...422.1023S

Strigachev, A.; Lampens, P.

We present accurate CCD astrometric and photometric data for 31 nearby visual double stars in the standard filters BVRI. The observations were collected with a 1.3-m telescope in 2001-2002 The results consist of relative astrometric positions (epoch, angular separation and position angle) and differential BVRI photometry of the components. Mean er…

2004 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Hipparcos 8
ISOCAM observations of the L1551 star formation region
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20035758 Bibcode: 2004A&A...420..945G

Prusti, T.; Perault, M.; Olofsson, G. +17 more

The results of a deep mid-IR ISOCAM survey of the L1551 dark molecular cloud are presented. The aim of this survey is a search for new YSO (Young Stellar Object) candidates, using two broad-band filters centred at 6.7 and 14.3 µm. Although two regions close to the centre of L1551 had to be avoided due to…

2004 Astronomy and Astrophysics
ISO 8
Magnetic activity in HD 111456, a young F5-6 main-sequence star
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20031565 Bibcode: 2004A&A...413..657F

Freire Ferrero, R.; Frasca, A.; Catalano, S. +1 more

We present spectroscopic and photometric observations of the young F5-6 V field star HD 111456 which exhibits emission cores in the Ca Ii H and K lines and a filling in the H\alpha line. Absorption lines of He I D_3 and Li I are clearly detected and we give a new value of v\sin i=41.5 km s-1. Although the limit of mag…

2004 Astronomy and Astrophysics
IUE 8
Celestial position of the companion of PSR J1740-5340
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20041270 Bibcode: 2004A&A...425.1143B

Bassa, C. G.; Stappers, B. W.

We present optical astrometry of archival ground and space based imaging of the companion to PSR J1740-5340. The optical position of the companion is significantly offset from the timing position of the pulsar. We briefly investigate the effects of this inconsistency on other timing parameters and compare our position with an improved position of …

2004 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 8
The Pul-3 catalogue of 58483 stars in the Tycho-2 system
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20034232 Bibcode: 2004A&A...418..357K

Bronnikova, N. M.; Khrutskaya, E. V.; Khovritchev, M. Yu.

A catalogue of positions and proper motions of 58483 stars (Pul-3) has been constructed at the Pulkovo observatory. The Pul-3 is based on the results of measurements of photographic plates with galaxies (Deutsch's plan). All plates were taken using the Pulkovo Normal Astrograph (the first epoch is in the 1950s and the second epoch is in the 1970s)…

2004 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Hipparcos 8
Tentative detection of micron-sized forsterite grains in the proto-planetary disk surrounding HD 100453
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20040420 Bibcode: 2004A&A...427..519V

Waters, L. B. F. M.; Dominik, C.; van Boekel, R. +4 more

We have re-analyzed the ISO-SWS spectrum of the intermediate mass pre-main-sequence star HD 100453. We confirm the weakness of the 10 µm amorphous silicate band. We have found strong indications of the presence of a crystalline silicate emission at 34 µm, which had escaped detection so far due to severe glitches in the data. The 23.5 a…

2004 Astronomy and Astrophysics
ISO 8
The double radio source 3C 343.1: A galaxy-QSO pair with very different redshifts
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20031745 Bibcode: 2004A&A...414L..37A

Burbidge, E. M.; Arp, H.; Burbidge, G.

The strong radio source 3C 343.1 consists of a galaxy and a QSO separated by no more than about 0.25''. The chance of this being an accidental superposition is conservatively ∼1×10-8. The z=0.344 galaxy is connected to the z=0.750 QSO by a radio bridge. The numerical relation between the two redshifts is that predicted from p…

2004 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 8
Dark baryons not in ancient halo white dwarfs
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20040491 Bibcode: 2004A&A...426...65C

McCracken, H. J.; Reylé, C.; Robin, A. C. +5 more

Having ruled out the possibility that stellar objects are the main contributor of the dark matter embedding galaxies, microlensing experiments cannot exclude the hypothesis that a significant fraction of the Milky Way dark halo might be made of MACHOs with masses in the range 0.5-0.8 M. Ancient white dwarfs are generally considered the…

2004 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 8