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astro-ph.GA2012★ 76 cited

Spectroscopy of brown dwarf candidates in IC 348 and the determination of its substellar IMF down to planetary masses

C. Alves de Oliveira, E. Moraux, J. Bouvier +4

Context. Brown dwarfs represent a sizable fraction of the stellar content of our Galaxy and populate the transition between the stellar and planetary mass regime. There is however…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 60 cited

Three dimensional interstellar extinction map towards the Galactic Bulge

B. Q. Chen, M. Schultheis, B. W. Jiang +4

Studies of the properties of the inner Galactic Bulge depend strongly on the assumptions about the interstellar extinction. Most of the extinction maps available in the literature…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 40 cited

Constraining the distribution of dark matter at the Galactic centre using the high-resolution Event Horizon Telescope

Thomas Lacroix, Joseph Silk

We investigate constraints on the distribution of dark matter in the neighbourhood of the Galactic centre that may eventually be attained with the high-resolution Event Horizon Tel…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 46 cited

Superbubble dynamics in globular cluster infancy I. How do globular clusters first lose their cold gas?

Martin Krause, Corinne Charbonnel, Thibaut Decressin +3

The picture of the early evolution of globular clusters has been significantly revised in recent years. Current scenarios require at least two generations of stars of which the fir…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 89 cited

Interstellar matter and star formation in W5-E - A Herschel view

L. Deharveng, A. Zavagno, L. D. Anderson +7

W5-E has been observed with the Herschel-PACS and -SPIRE photometers, at 100, 160, 250, 350, and 500 microns. The dust temperature map shows a rather uniform temperature, in the ra…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 25 cited

Capture of non-relativistic particles in eccentric orbits by a Kerr black hole

Clifford M. Will

We obtain approximate analytic expressions for the critical value of the total angular momentum of a non-relativistic test particle moving in the Kerr geometry, such that it will b…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 226 cited

The spine of the swan: A Herschel study of the DR21 ridge and filaments in Cygnus X

M. Hennemann, F. Motte, N. Schneider +31

In order to characterise the cloud structures responsible for the formation of high-mass stars, we present Herschel observations of the DR21 environment. Maps of the column density…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 96 cited

Constraining the structure and formation of the Galactic bulge from a field in its outskirts. FLAMES-GIRAFFE spectra of about 400 red giants around (l,b)=(0°,-10°)

Stefan Uttenthaler, Mathias Schultheis, David. M. Nataf +3

The presence of two stellar populations in the Milky Way bulge has been reported recently. We aim at studying the abundances and kinematics of stars in the outer bulge, thereby pro…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 545 cited

The relativistic pulsar-white dwarf binary PSR J1738+0333 II. The most stringent test of scalar-tensor gravity

Paulo C. C. Freire, Norbert Wex, Gilles Esposito-Farèse +7

(abridged) We report the results of a 10-year timing campaign on PSR J1738+0333, a 5.85-ms pulsar in a low-eccentricity 8.5-hour orbit with a low-mass white dwarf companion (...) T…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 174 cited

Production and evolution of Li, Be and B isotopes in the Galaxy

N. Prantzos

We reassess the problem of the production and evolution of the light elements Li, Be and B and of their isotopes in the Milky Way, in the light of new observational and theoretical…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 40 cited

A Study of Heating and Cooling of the ISM in NGC 1097 with Herschel-PACS and Spitzer-IRS

P. Beirao, L. Armus, G. Helou +38

NGC 1097 is a nearby Seyfert 1 galaxy with a bright circumnuclear starburst ring, a strong large-scale bar and an active nucleus. We present a detailed study of the spatial variati…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 358 cited

Cluster-formation in the Rosette molecular cloud at the junctions of filaments

N. Schneider, T. Csengeri, M. Hennemann +31

For many years feedback processes generated by OB-stars in molecular clouds, including expanding ionization fronts, stellar winds, or UV-radiation, have been proposed to trigger su…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 120 cited

The Dust Properties of Bubble HII Regions as seen by Herschel

L. D. Anderson, A. Zavagno, L. Deharveng +10

Because of their relatively simple morphology, "bubble" HII regions have been instrumental to our understanding of star formation triggered by HII regions. With the far-infrared (F…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 134 cited

The Pipe Nebula as seen with Herschel: Formation of filamentary structures by large-scale compression ?

N. Peretto, Ph. Andre, V. Konyves +20

A growing body of evidence indicates that the formation of filaments in interstellar clouds is a key component of the star formation process. In this paper, we present new Herschel…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 204 cited

Gaia Universe Model Snapshot : A statistical analysis of the expected contents of the Gaia catalogue

A. C. Robin, X. Luri, C. Reylé +17

Context. This study has been developed in the framework of the computational simulations executed for the preparation of the ESA Gaia astrometric mission. Aims. We focus on describ…