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most citedThe Sixteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra

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astro-ph.SR2013★ 34 cited

Deriving Metallicities from Calcium Triplet Spectroscopy in combination with Near Infrared Photometry

F. Mauro, C. Moni Bidin, D. Geisler +7

Context. [...] One of the most efficient methods is the measurement of the equivalent width (EW) of the Calcium II Triplet (CaT), corrected for the luminosity and temperature effec…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 17 cited

Investigating potential planetary nebula/cluster pairs

Christian Moni Bidin, Daniel Majaess, Charles Bonatto +10

Fundamental parameters characterizing the end-state of intermediate-mass stars may be constrained by discovering planetary nebulae (PNe) in open clusters (OCs). Cluster membership…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 109 cited

Upgrading electron temperature and electron density diagnostic diagrams of forbidden line emission

Bastian Proxauf, Silvia Oettl, Stefan Kimeswenger

Diagnostic diagrams of forbidden lines have been a useful tool for observers in astrophysics for many decades now. They are used to obtain information on the basic physical propert…

math.CO2013★ 3 cited

Spectral results for the dominating induced matching problem

Domingos M. Cardoso, Enide A. Martins, Luís Medina +1

A matching M is a dominating induced matching of a graph, if every edge of the graph is either in or has a common end-vertex with exactly one edge in . The concept of comple…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 19 cited

Anchors for the Cosmic Distance Scale: the Cepheids U Sgr, CF Cas and CEab Cas

D. Majaess, G. Carraro, C. Moni Bidin +11

New and existing X-ray, UBVJHKsW(1-4), and spectroscopic observations were analyzed to constrain fundamental parameters for M25, NGC 7790, and dust along their sight-lines. The sta…

math.DS2013★ 3 cited

Topological Conjugacy of Real Projective Flows

Victor Ayala, Christoph Kawan

In this paper we prove the following topological classification result for flows on real projective space induced by linear flows on Euclidean space: Two flows on the projective sp…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 206 cited

An advanced scattered moonlight model for Cerro Paranal

Amy Jones, Stefan Noll, Wolfgang Kausch +2

The largest natural source of light at night is the Moon, and it is the major contributor to the astronomical sky background. Being able to accurately predict the sky background, i…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 142 cited

Ruprecht 106: the first single population Globular Cluster?

S. Villanova, D. Geisler, G. Carraro +2

All old Galactic Globular Clusters studied in detail to date host at least two generations of stars, where the second is formed from gas polluted by processed material produced by…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 20 cited

New visual companions of solar-type stars within 25 pc

R. Chini, K. Fuhrmann, A. Barr Domínguez +3

We report the discovery of faint common-proper-motion companions to the nearby southern solar-type stars HD43162, HD67199, HD114837, HD114853, HD129502, HD165185, HD197214, and HD2…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 9 cited

The Berlin Exoplanet Search Telescope II. Catalog of Variable Stars. I. Characterization of Three Southern Target Fields

T. Fruth, J. Cabrera, R. Chini +11

A photometric survey of three Southern target fields with BEST II yielded the detection of 2,406 previously unknown variable stars and an additional 617 stars with suspected variab…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 22 cited

Hubble Space Telescope and Ground-Based Observations of V455 Andromedae Post-Outburst

Paula Szkody, Anjum S. Mukadam, Boris T. Gaensicke +8

Hubble Space Telescope spectra obtained in 2010 and 2011, three and four years after the large amplitude dwarf nova outburst of V455 And, were combined with optical photometry and…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 24 cited

Modelling photometric reverberation data -- a disk-like broad-line region and a potentially larger black hole mass for 3C120

F. Pozo Nuñez, M. Haas, M. Ramolla +7

We consider photometric reverberation mapping, where the nuclear continuum variations are monitored via a broad-band filter and the echo of emission line clouds of the broad line r…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 12 cited

739 observed NEAs and new 2-4m survey statistics within the EURONEAR network

O. Vaduvescu, M. Birlan, A. Tudorica +36

We report follow-up observations of 477 program Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) using nine telescopes of the EURONEAR network having apertures between 0.3 and 4.2 m. Adding these NEAs…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 97 cited

RR Lyrae variables: visual and infrared luminosities, intrinsic colours, and kinematics

A. K. Dambis, L. N. Berdnikov, A. Y. Kniazev +4

We use UCAC4 proper motions and WISE W1-band apparent magnitudes intensity-mean for almost 400 field RR Lyrae variables to determine the parameters of the velocity distribution of…

math-ph2013★ 7 cited

Curvature of fluctuation geometry and its implications on Riemannian fluctuation theory

L. Velazquez

Fluctuation geometry was recently proposed as a counterpart approach of Riemannian geometry of inference theory. This theory describes the geometric features of the statistical man…

cond-mat.stat-mech2013★ 6 cited

Improving the efficiency of Monte Carlo simulations of systems that undergo temperature-driven phase transitions

L. Velazquez, J. C. Castro-Palacio

Recently, Velazquez and Curilef have proposed a methodology to extend Monte Carlo algorithms based on canonical ensemble, which is aimed to overcome slow sampling problems associat…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 11 cited

Spectroscopy of blue horizontal branch stars in NGC 6656 (M22)

C. Salgado, C. Moni Bidin, S. Villanova +2

Recent investigations revealed very peculiar properties of blue horizontal branch (HB) stars in ωCentauri, which show anomalously low surface gravity and mass compared to other clu…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 13 cited

CEN34 -- High-Mass YSO in M17 or Background Post-AGB Star?

Zhiwei Chen, Dieter Nuernberger, Rolf Chini +3

We investigate the proposed high-mass young stellar object (YSO) candidate CEN34, thought to be associated with the star forming region M17. Its optical to near-infrared (550-2500…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 12 cited

Electronic transport of folded graphene nanoribbons

Jhon W. González, Mónica Pacheco, Pedro Orellana +2

We investigate the electronic transport properties of a folded graphene nanoribbon with monolayer nanoribbon contacts. We consider two possible foldings: either the nanoribbon can…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 17 cited

Variability survey in the CoRoT SRa01 field: Implications of eclipsing binary distribution on cluster formation in NGC 2264

P. Klagyivik, Sz. Csizmadia, T. Pasternacki +11

Time-series photometry of the CoRoT field SRa01 was carried out with the Berlin Exoplanet Search Telescope II (BEST II) in 2008/2009. A total of 1,161 variable stars were detected,…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 9 cited

Eclipsing high-mass binaries I. Light curves and system parameters for CPD-518946, PISMIS24-1 and HD319702

A. Barr Domínguez, R. Chini, F. Pozo Nuñez +5

We present first results of a comprehensive photometric O-star survey performed with a robotic twin refractor at the Universitätssternwarte Bochum located near Cerro Armazones in C…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 2 cited

Unexpected radial trend of the iron abundance in a sample of monometallic Galactic globular clusters

Valery V. Kravtsov

We study the relationship between the iron abundance (IA) in red giant branch (RGB) stars and their radial distribution (RD) in Galactic globular clusters (GCs). We relied on publi…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 11 cited

NGC 1252: a high altitude, metal poor open cluster remnant

R. de la Fuente Marcos, C. de la Fuente Marcos, C. Moni Bidin +2

If stars form in clusters but most stars belong to the field, understanding the details of the transition from the former to the latter is imperative to explain the observational p…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 76 cited

Revealing the heavily obscured AGN population of High Redshift 3CRR Sources with Chandra X-ray Observations

Belinda J. Wilkes, Joanna Kuraszkiewicz, Martin Haas +12

Chandra observations of a complete, flux-limited sample of 38 high-redshift (1<z<2), low-frequency selected (and so unbiased in orientation) 3CRR radio sources are reported. The sa…