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The Vela pulsar in the near-infrared
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030652 Bibcode: 2003A&A...406..645S

Sollerman, J.; Lundqvist, P.; Shibanov, Yu. A. +1 more

We report on the first detection of the Vela pulsar in the near-infrared with the VLT/ISAAC in the Js and H bands. The pulsar magnitudes are Js=22.71+/-0.10 and H=22.04+/-0.16. We compare our results with the available multiwavelength data and show that the dereddened phase-averaged optical spectrum of the pulsar can be fitte…

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 40
L183 (L134N) Revisited. I. The very cold core and the ridge
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030903 Bibcode: 2003A&A...406L..59P

Miville-Deschênes, M. -A.; Lagache, G.; Teyssier, D. +8 more

We report new 1.2 mm continuum observations of the L183 (=L134N) dark cloud with the MAMBO bolometer array at IRAM. Combined with ISOCAM and ISOPHOT data at 7 and 200 mu m, this new observation is not compatible with the results found by Ward-Thompson et al. (\cite{Ward94}) with SCUBA and further analysed by L…

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
ISO 40
An XMM-Newton-based X-ray survey of pre-main sequence stellar emission in the L1551 star-forming complex
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030305 Bibcode: 2003A&A...403..187F

Micela, G.; Favata, F.; Giardino, G. +2 more

We present a study of the X-ray sources present in the nearby L1551 star forming region, based on a deep XMM-Newton observation complemented with Chandra data for the brightest sources. Most known pre-main sequence stars in the region have been detected, most of them with sufficient statistics to allow a detailed study of the temporal and spectral…

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 39
V, J, H and K imaging of the metal rich globular cluster NGC 6528. Reddening, metallicity, and distance based on cleaned colour-magnitude diagrams
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030295 Bibcode: 2003A&A...402..607M

Momany, Y.; Bedin, L. R.; Held, E. V. +6 more

New near-infrared observations of NGC 6528 are presented. The JHKs observations complement a previous HST/NICMOS data set by Ortolani et al. (\cite{ortolani01}), in that they sample a larger area, contain a more numerous sample of red giant stars, and include the K band. Also, archival HST data sets (separated by 6.093 years) were used …

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 39
Extragalactic globular clusters in the near infrared III. NGC 5846 and NGC 7192. Quantifying the age distribution of sub-populations
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030598 Bibcode: 2003A&A...405..487H

Minniti, D.; Hilker, M.; Kissler-Patig, M. +3 more

In this third paper of our series on near-IR and optical photometry of globular cluster systems in early-type galaxies we concentrate on the photometric results for NGC 5846 and NGC 7192, two group ellipticals, and on a first comparison between the globular cluster systems investigated so far. In NGC 5846 the colour-colour diagram shows clear bi-m…

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 39
The blue host galaxy of the red GRB 000418
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20031047 Bibcode: 2003A&A...409..123G

Pian, E.; Palazzi, E.; Greiner, J. +25 more

We report on multi-band (UBVRIZJsKs) observations of the host galaxy of the April 18, 2000 gamma-ray burst. The Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) is analysed by fitting empirical and synthetic spectral templates. We find that: (i) the best SED fit is obtained with a starburst template, (ii) the photometric redshift is consis…

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 39
Abundances of Planetary Nebulae BD+30 3639 and NGC 6543
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030777 Bibcode: 2003A&A...406..165B

Pottasch, S. R.; Feibelman, W. A.; Bernard-Salas, J. +1 more

Infrared spectra taken with the Short Wavelength Spectrometer on board ISO and UV observations with IUE of planetary nebulae BD+30 3639 and NGC 6543 are presented. The extinction derived using infrared lines for BD+30 3639 is EB-V= 0.34, slightly higher than previous determination…

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
ISO IUE 39
Solar active regions: The footpoints of 1 MK loops
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030818 Bibcode: 2003A&A...406L...5D

Del Zanna, G.

On-disc SOHO and TRACE observations of the footpoints of 1 MK quiescent loops in a solar active region are presented. These types of loops are long-lived and high-lying features that are best seen in the TRACE 173 Å passband, sensitive to 1 MK temperatures. SOHO/CDS data are used to show the clear association between the high-lying 1 MK coronal em…

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SOHO 39
Simultaneous observations of solar transition region blinkers and explosive events by SUMER, CDS and BBSO. Are blinkers, explosive events and spicules the same phenomenon?
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030397 Bibcode: 2003A&A...403..731M

Doyle, J. G.; Madjarska, M. S.

The SoHO discovery of the new ``blinker'' phenomena focused our study on the search of its relation to already known phenomena such as explosive events and spicules. The study was performed using a specially planned joint observing program involving the Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (CDS), Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of Emitted Radiation spec…

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SOHO 39
Investigating the role of plasma topography on chromospheric oscillations observed by TRACE
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030627 Bibcode: 2003A&A...405..769M

Judge, P. G.; McIntosh, S. W.; Fleck, B.

We present the results of an investigation into the interaction of the topographic structure of the solar chromospheric plasma with the wave modes manifesting themselves in the UV continua formed there. We show that there is a distinct correlation between the inferred plasma topography, the phase-differences between and suppression of oscillations…

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SOHO 38