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The spiral galaxy M 33 mapped in the FIR by ISOPHOT. A spatially resolved study of the warm and cold dust
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030769 Bibcode: 2003A&A...407..137H

Lemke, D.; Völk, H. J.; Klaas, U. +4 more

The Sc galaxy M 33 has been mapped with ISOPHOT in the far-infrared, at 60, 100, and 170 mu m. The spatial resolution of these FIR maps allows the separation of spiral arms and interarm regions and the isolation of a large number of star-forming regions. The spectral energy distribution in the FIR indicates a superposition of two components, a war…

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
ISO 85
Rotation and magnetic field in the Be star omega Orionis
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20031086 Bibcode: 2003A&A...409..275N

Frémat, Y.; Zorec, J.; Neiner, C. +5 more

omega Ori is a B2IIIe star for which rotational modulation and non-radial pulsations (NRP) have been recently investigated from two independent observational campaigns in 1998 and 1999. Putting the data of these 2 campaigns together, and adding data obtained in 2001, we search for multiperiodicity in the line profile variations …

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
IUE 84
On the outflow in an equatorial coronal hole
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030016 Bibcode: 2003A&A...399L...5X

Marsch, E.; Curdt, W.; Xia, L. D.

We report new observations concerning the source of the fast solar wind by directly comparing Doppler-shift maps of Ne7+ with charts of the photospheric magnetic field in an equatorial coronal hole, which was observed by SUMER/SOHO and NSO/Kitt Peak on November 5, 1999. The relationship between the velocity field, line intensity and mag…

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SOHO 82
Rotation, pulsations and magnetic field in V 2052 Ophiuchi: A new He-strong star
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20031342 Bibcode: 2003A&A...411..565N

Frémat, Y.; Neiner, C.; Jankov, S. +7 more

V 2052 Oph is a beta Cep star with v sin i ~ 60 km s-1. The behavior of its stellar wind was studied in the ultraviolet wavelength region with the IUE satellite. It revealed periodic variations in the equivalent widths (EW) of the resonance lines of wind-sensitive ions with a period of 3.638833 d, which is identified …

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
IUE 82
Three years in the coronal life of AB Dor. I. Plasma emission measure distributions and abundances at different activity levels
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20031025 Bibcode: 2003A&A...408.1087S

Sanz-Forcada, J.; Micela, G.; Maggio, A.

The young active star AB Dor (K1 IV-V) has been observed 16 times in the last three years with the XMM-Newton and Chandra observatories, totalling 650 ks of high-resolution X-ray spectra. The XMM/RGS observations with the highest and lowest average emission levels have been selected to study the coronal properties of AB Dor in two different activi…

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 82
Nearby young stars
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20021867 Bibcode: 2003A&A...399..983W

Schmitt, J. H. M. M.; Hubrig, S.; Wichmann, R.

We present the results of an extensive all-sky survey of nearby stars of spectral type F8 or later in a systematic search of young (zero-age main sequence) objects. Our sample has been derived by cross-correlating the ROSAT All-Sky Survey and the TYCHO catalogue, yielding a total of 754 candidates distributed more or less randomly over the sky. Fo…

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Hipparcos 79
The mass and energy budget of Cassiopeia A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20021554 Bibcode: 2003A&A...398.1021W

Kaastra, J. S.; Bleeker, J. A. M.; Willingale, R. +1 more

Further analysis of X-ray spectroscopy results (Willingale et al. \cite{Wil02}) recently obtained from the MOS CCD cameras on-board XMM-Newton provides a detailed description of the hot and cool X-ray emitting plasma in Cas A. Measurement of the Doppler broadening of the X-ray emission lines is consistent with the expected ion velocities, ~ 1500 k…

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 79
Discovery of a quiescent neutron star binary in the globular cluster M 13
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030423 Bibcode: 2003A&A...403L..11G

Barret, D.; Webb, N.; Gendre, B.

We have discovered with XMM-Newton an X-ray source in the core of the globular cluster M 13, whose X-ray spectral properties suggest that it is a quiescent neutron star X-ray binary. The spectrum can be well fitted with a pure hydrogen atmosphere model, with Tinfty =76+/-3 eV, Rinfty =12.8+/-0.4 km and an X-ray luminosity of …

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 78
VLBI astrometry of circumstellar OH masers: Proper motions and parallaxes of four AGB stars
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030766 Bibcode: 2003A&A...407..213V

Schilizzi, R. T.; Habing, H. J.; Vlemmings, W. H. T. +2 more

The main-line OH masers around 4 AGB stars have been observed with the NRAO Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) at 8 epochs over a period of 2.5 yrs. Using a phase referencing technique, the position of the most compact maser spot of each star was monitored with respect to two extragalactic reference sources. For U Her and W Hya, we observe the most b…

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Hipparcos 77
The radiative response of solar loop plasma subject to transient heating
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030986 Bibcode: 2003A&A...407.1127B

Mason, H. E.; Bradshaw, S. J.

In Bradshaw & Mason (\cite{Bradshaw2003}) we carried out a hydrodynamic simulation of a cooling solar loop and investigated the nonequilibrium response of the population of C VII ions to the changing conditions in the plasma. We also compared equilibrium and nonequilibrium calculations of the total plasma emissivity. In this paper we present t…

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
SOHO 77