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most citedThe Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

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astro-ph.EP2012★ 25 cited

The most common habitable planets - atmospheric characterization of the subgroup of fast rotators

R. Pinotti

The current search for habitable planets has focused on Earth-like conditions of mass, volatile content and orbit. However, rocky planets following eccentric orbits, and drier than…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 62 cited

A new Milky Way halo star cluster in the Southern Galactic Sky

Eduardo Balbinot, B. X. Santiago, L. da Costa +7

We report on the discovery of a new Milky Way companion stellar system located at (RA, Dec) = (22h10m43.15s, +14:56:58.8). The discovery was made using the eighth data release of S…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 13 cited

Very Low-mass Stellar and Substellar Companions to Solar-like Stars from Marvels III: A Short-Period Brown Dwarf Candidate Around An Active G0Iv Subgiant

Bo Ma, Jian Ge, Rory Barnes +45

We present an eccentric, short-period brown dwarf candidate orbiting the active, slightly evolved subgiant star TYC 2087-00255-1, which has effective temperature T_eff = 5903+/-42…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 40 cited

Molecular emission from GG Car's circumbinary disk

Michaela Kraus, Mary Oksala, Dieter Nickeler +5

The appearance of the B[e] phenomenon in evolved massive stars such as B[e] supergiants is still a mystery. While these stars are generally found to have disks that are cool and de…

astro-ph.SR2012

Development and first year of results from the heliometer of Observatorio Nacional

Alexandre H. Andrei, Victor A. D'Avila, Eugenio Reis Neto +5

Recent research on global climate changes points to three distinct sources of climate disturbance: anthropogenic; natural changes in the oceans and atmosphere; and irregularities i…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 15 cited

The SOAR Gravitational Arc Survey - I: Survey overview and photometric catalogs

Cristina Furlanetto, Basilio X. Santiago, Martin Makler +10

We present the first results of the SOAR (Southern Astrophysical Research) Gravitational Arc Survey (SOGRAS). The survey imaged 47 clusters in two redshift intervals centered at $z…