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most citedThe Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package

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astro-ph2006★ 22 cited

G315.1+2.7: a new Galactic SNR from the AAO/UKST HAlpha survey

M. Stupar, Q. A. Parker, M. D. Filipovic

New narrow-band HAlpha imaging and subsequent optical spectra confirm G315.1+2.7, a previously identified candidate supernova remnant (SNR), as a bona-fide Galactic SNR. Present ob…

astro-ph2006★ 1 cited

Flaring Activity of Sgr A*: Expanding Hot Blobs

F. Yusef-Zadeh, M. Wardle, D. A. Roberts +5

Sgr A* is considered to be a massive black hole at the Galactic center and is known to be variable in radio, millimeter, near-IR and X-rays. Recent multi-wavelength observing campa…

astro-ph2006★ 3 cited

Confirmation of New Planetary Nebulae in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Richard A. Shaw, WArren A. Reid, Quentin A. Parker

We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images of new planetary nebulae (PNe) that were discovered in the Reid-Parker AAO/UKST H-alpha survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud. These s…

gr-qc2006★ 26 cited

Quantum causal histories in the light of quantum information

Etera R. Livine, Daniel R. Terno

We use techniques of quantum information theory to analyze the quantum causal histories approach to quantum gravity. We show that while it is consistent to introduce closed timelik…

astro-ph2006★ 53 cited

Angular momentum transport in protostellar discs

Raquel Salmeron, Arieh Konigl, Mark Wardle

Angular momentum transport in protostellar discs can take place either radially, through turbulence induced by the magnetorotational instability (MRI), or vertically, through the t…

astro-ph2006★ 641 cited

The RAVE Survey: Constraining the Local Galactic Escape Speed

M. C. Smith, G. R. Ruchti, A. Helmi +20

We report new constraints on the local escape speed of our Galaxy. Our analysis is based on a sample of high velocity stars from the RAVE survey and two previously published datase…