Journal: Astronomy and Astrophysics

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    The Herschel Space Observatory view of dust in M81
    We use Herschel Space Observatory data to place observational constraints on the peak and Rayleigh-Jeans slope of dust emission observed at 70-500 μm in the...
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    The Herschel-SPIRE instrument and its in-flight performance
    The Spectral and Photometric Imaging REceiver (SPIRE), is the Herschel Space Observatory`s submillimetre camera and spectrometer. It contains a three-band...
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    The High AV Quasar Survey: A z = 2.027 metal-rich damped Lyman-α absorber towards a red quasar at z = 3.21
    It is important to understand the selection effects behind the quasar samples to fully exploit the potential of quasars as probes of cosmic chemical evolution...
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    The high-velocity outflow in the proto-planetary nebula Hen 3-1475
    The proto-planetary nebula Hen 3-1475 shows a remarkable highly collimated optical jet with an S-shaped string of three pairs of knots and extremely high...
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    The highly inflated giant planet WASP-174b
    Context. The transiting exoplanetary system WASP-174 was reported to be composed by a main-sequence F star (V = 11.8 mag) and a giant planet, WASP-174b (orbital...
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    The host galaxies of BL Lac objects in the near-infrared
    We present the results of near-infrared H band (1.65 μm) imaging of 11 BL Lac objects with redshifts ranging from z = 0.05 to 0.9. We are able to clearly detect...
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    The host in blue compact galaxies.. Structural properties and scaling relations
    Aims: We characterise the underlying stellar host in a sample of 20 blue compact galaxies (BCGs), by fitting their two-dimensional light distributions. Their...
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    The hot dayside and asymmetric transit of WASP-189 b seen by CHEOPS
    The CHEOPS space mission dedicated to exoplanet follow-up was launched in December 2019, equipped with the capacity to perform photometric measurements at the...
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    The hottest horizontal-branch stars in ω Centauri. Late hot flasher vs. helium enrichment
    Context: UV observations of some massive globular clusters have revealed a significant population of very hot stars below the hot end of the horizontal branch...