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The Geneva-Copenhagen survey of the Solar neighbourhood. Ages, metallicities, and kinematic properties of ∼14 000 F and G dwarfs
Pont, F.; Holmberg, J.; Nordström, B. +6 more
We present and discuss new determinations of metallicity, rotation, age, kinematics, and Galactic orbits for a complete, magnitude-limited, and kinematically unbiased sample of 16 682 nearby F and G dwarf stars. Our ∼63 000 new, accurate radial-velocity observations for nearly 13 500 stars allow identification of most of the binary stars in the sa…
Spectroscopic [Fe/H] for 98 extra-solar planet-host stars. Exploring the probability of planet formation
Santos, N. C.; Mayor, M.; Israelian, G.
We present stellar parameters and metallicities, obtained from a detailed spectroscopic analysis, for a large sample of 98 stars known to be orbited by planetary mass companions (almost all known targets), as well as for a volume-limited sample of 41 stars not known to host any planet. For most of the stars the stellar parameters are revised versi…
The 2-8 keV cosmic X-ray background spectrum as observed with XMM-Newton
Molendi, S.; De Luca, A.
We have measured the spectrum of the Cosmic X-ray Background (CXB) in the 2-8 keV range with the high throughput EPIC/MOS instrument onboard XMM-Newton. A large sample of high galactic latitude observations was used, covering a total solid angle of 5.5 square degrees. Our study is based on a very careful characterization and subtraction of the ins…
S4N: A spectroscopic survey of stars in the solar neighborhood. The Nearest 15 pc
Allende Prieto, C.; Lambert, D. L.; Barklem, P. S. +1 more
We report the results of a high-resolution spectroscopic survey of all the stars more luminous than M_V = 6.5 mag within 14.5 pc from the Sun. The Hipparcos catalog's completeness limits guarantee that our survey is comprehensive and free from some of the selection effects in other samples of nearby stars. The resulting spectroscopic database, whi…
The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey. Public release of 1599 redshifts to IAB≤24 across the Chandra Deep Field South
Bondi, M.; Maccagni, D.; Ilbert, O. +47 more
This paper presents the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey around the Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS). We have measured 1599 new redshifts with VIMOS on the European Observatory Very Large Telescope - UT3, in an area 21 × 21.6 arcmin2, including 784 redshifts in the Hubble Space Telescope - Advanced Camera for Surveys GOODS area. 30% of all objects …
On the three-dimensional configuration of coronal mass ejections
Bothmer, V.; Cremades, H.
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are a direct consequence of the dynamic nature of the solar atmosphere. They represent fundamental processes in which energy is transferred from the Sun into interplanetary space, including geospace. Their origin, 3D structure and internal magnetic field configuration are to date not well understood. The SOHO spacecra…
UV star-formation rates of GRB host galaxies
Christensen, L.; Gorosabel, J.; Hjorth, J.
We study a magnitude-limited sample of 10 gamma-ray burst (GRB) host galaxies with known spectroscopic redshifts (0.43 < z < 2.04). From an analysis of the spectral energy distributions (SEDs), based on published broad-band optical and near-infrared photometry, we derive photometric redshifts, galaxy types, ages of the dominant stellar popul…
The relation between AGN hard X-ray emission and mid-infrared continuum from ISO spectra: Scatter and unification aspects
Lutz, D.; Maiolino, R.; Moorwood, A. F. M. +1 more
We use mid-infrared spectral decomposition to separate the 6 µm mid-infrared AGN continuum from the host emission in the ISO low resolution spectra of 71 active galaxies and compare the results to observed and intrinsic 2-10 keV hard X-ray fluxes from the literature. We find a correlation between mid-infrared luminosity and absorption correc…
Kinetic parameters of interstellar neutral helium. Review of results obtained during one solar cycle with the Ulysses/GAS-instrument
Witte, M.
The GAS-instrument onboard the space probe Ulysses is designed to measure the local angular distribution of the flow of interstellar neutral He-atoms within ≈3 AU distance from the sun. It allows to infer the kinetic parameters (velocity vector, temperature and density) of these particles outside the heliosphere (``at infinity''). During three obs…
Probing turbulence in the Coma galaxy cluster
Finoguenov, A.; Böhringer, H.; Miniati, F. +2 more
Spatially-resolved gas pressure maps of the Coma galaxy cluster are obtained from a mosaic of XMM-Newton observations in the scale range between a resolution of 20 kpc and an extent of 2.8 Mpc. A Fourier analysis of the data reveals the presence of a scale-invariant pressure fluctuation spectrum in the range between 40 and 90 kpc and is found to b…