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astro-ph.GA2012★ 1 cited

A characterization of the diffuse Galactic emissions in the anti-center of the Galaxy

L. Fauvet, J. F. Macias-Perez, S. R. Hildebrandt +1

Using the Archeops and WMAP data we perform a study of the anti-center Galactic diffuse emissions - thermal dust, synchrotron, free-free and anomalous emission - at degree scales.…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 46 cited

The Abundance, Ortho/Para Ratio, and Deuteration of Water in the High-Mass Star Forming Region NGC 6334 I

M. Emprechtinger, D. C. Lis, R. Rolffs +6

We present Herschel/HIFI observations of 30 transitions of water isotopologues toward the high-mass star forming region NGC 6334 I. The line profiles of H_2^{16}O, H_2^{17}O, H_2^{…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 10 cited

GRAVITY: beam stabilization and light injection subsystems

O. Pfuhl, M. Haug, F. Eisenhauer +9

We present design results of the 2nd generation VLTI instrument GRAVITY beam stabilization and light injection subsystems. Designed to deliver micro-arcsecond astrometry, GRAVITY r…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 88 cited

The outflow history of two Herbig-Haro jets in RCW 36: HH 1042 and HH 1043

L. E. Ellerbroek, L. Podio, L. Kaper +4

Jets around low- and intermediate-mass young stellar objects (YSOs) contain a fossil record of the recent accretion and outflow activity of their parent star-forming systems. We ai…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 2 cited

Colliding wind binaries and gamma-ray binaries : relativistic version of the RAMSES code

Astrid Lamberts, Guillaume Dubus, Sebastien Fromang +1

Gamma-ray binaries are colliding wind binaries (CWB) composed of a massive star a non-accreting pulsar with a highly relativistic wind. Particle acceleration at the shocks results…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 31 cited

Centauri A in the far infrared

R. Liseau, B. Montesinos, G. Olofsson +15

Chromospheres and coronae are common phenomena on solar-type stars. Understanding the energy transfer to these heated atmospheric layers requires direct access to the relevant empi…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 200 cited

Measurement of the extragalactic background light imprint on the spectra of the brightest blazars observed with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +195

The extragalactic background light (EBL) is the diffuse radiation with the second highest energy density in the Universe after the cosmic microwave background. The aim of this stud…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 127 cited

Metallicity of M dwarfs III. Planet-metallicity and planet-stellar mass correlations of the HARPS GTO M dwarf sample

V. Neves, X. Bonfils, N. C. Santos +4

Aims. The aim of this work is the study of the planet-metallicity and the planet-stellar mass correlations for M dwarfs from the HARPS GTO M dwarf subsample Methods. We use a new m…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 94 cited

Water ice deuteration: a tracer of the chemical history of protostars

Vianney Taquet, Phillip Peters, Claudine Kahane +5

Context. Millimetric observations have measured high degrees of molecular deuteration in several species seen around low-mass protostars. The Herschel Space Telescope, launched in…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 254 cited

Spiral Arms in the Asymmetrically Illuminated Disk of MWC 758 and Constraints on Giant Planets

C. A. Grady, T. Muto, J. Hashimoto +71

We present the first near-IR scattered light detection of the transitional disk associated with the Herbig Ae star MWC 758 using data obtained as part of the Strategic Exploration…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 138 cited

On the function describing the stellar initial mass function

Thomas Maschberger

We propose a functional form for the IMF, the L_3 IMF, which is a natural heavy-tailed approximation to the log-normal distribution. It is composed of a low-mass power law and a hi…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 32 cited

SiO collimated outflows driven by high-mass YSOs in G24.78+0.08

C. Codella, M. T. Beltran, R. Cesaroni +4

We imaged the molecular outflows towards the cluster of high-mass young stellar objects G24.78+0.08 at high-angular resolution using SiO emission, which is considered the classical…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 53 cited

An interferometric study of the Fomalhaut inner debris disk II. Keck Nuller mid-infrared observations

B. Mennesson, O. Absil, J. Lebreton +7

We report on high contrast mid-infrared observations of Fomalhaut obtained with the Keck Interferometer Nuller (KIN) showing a small resolved excess over the level expected from th…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 20 cited

Herschel CHESS discovery of the fossil cloud that gave birth to the Trapezium and Orion KL

Ana López-Sepulcre, Mihkel Kama, Cecilia Ceccarelli +4

As part of the Herschel Guaranteed Time Key Programme CHESS, we present the discovery of a diffuse gas component in the foreground of the intermediate-mass protostar OMC-2 FIR 4, l…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 88 cited

A DEBRIS Disk Around The Planet Hosting M-star GJ581 Spatially Resolved with Herschel

J. -F. Lestrade, B. C. Matthews, B. Sibthorpe +17

Debris disks have been found primarily around intermediate and solar mass stars (spectral types A-K) but rarely around low mass M-type stars. We have spatially resolved a debris di…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 231 cited

MHD simulations of accretion onto a dipolar magnetosphere. II. Magnetospheric ejections and stellar spin-down

Claudio Zanni, Jonathan Ferreira

This paper examines the outflows associated with the interaction of a stellar magnetosphere with an accretion disk. In particular, we investigate the magnetospheric ejections (MEs)…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 143 cited

SOPHIE+: First results of an octagonal-section fiber for high-precision radial velocity measurements

F. Bouchy, R. F. Diaz, G. Hébrard +5

High-precision spectrographs play a key role in exoplanet searches and Doppler asteroseismology using the radial velocity technique. The 1 m/s level of precision requires very high…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 55 cited

The Herschel DIGIT Survey of Weak-line T Tauri Stars: implications for disk evolution and dissipation

Lucas A. Cieza, Johan Olofsson, Paul M. Harvey +8

As part of the "Dust, Ice, and Gas In Time (DIGIT)" Herschel Open Time Key Program, we present Herschel photometry (at 70, 160, 250, 350 and 500 micron) of 31 Weak-Line T Tauri sta…

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★ 93 cited

Herschel/PACS Spectroscopic Survey of Protostars in Orion: The Origin of Far-Infrared CO Emission

P. Manoj, D. M. Watson, D. A. Neufeld +14

We present far-IR (57-196 mu) spectra of 21 protostars in the Orion molecular clouds, obtained with the Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) onboard the Herschel Spac…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 70 cited

SOAP-T: A tool to study the light-curve and radial velocity of a system with a transiting planet and a rotating spotted star

M. Oshagh, I. Boisse, G. Boué +4

We present an improved version of SOAP (Boisse et al. 2012) named "SOAP-T", which can generate the radial velocity variations and light-curves for systems consisting of a rotating…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 41 cited

High SiO abundance in the HH212 protostellar jet

Sylvie Cabrit, Claudio Codella, Frédéric Gueth +1

Previous SiO maps of the innermost regions of HH212 set strong constraints on the structure and origin of this jet. They rule out a fast wide-angle wind, and tentatively favor a ma…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 5 cited

M dwarf stars in the light of (future) exoplanet searches

B. Rojas-Ayala, E. J. Hilton, A. W. Mann +8

We present a brief overview of a splinter session on M dwarf stars as planet hosts that was organized as part of the Cool Stars 17 conference. The session was devoted to reviewing…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 78 cited

Radiation thermo-chemical models of protoplanetary discs. IV Modelling CO ro-vibrational emission from Herbig Ae discs

Wing-Fai Thi, Inga Kamp, Peter Woitke +3

The carbon monoxide rovibrational emission from discs around Herbig Ae stars and T Tauri stars with strong ultraviolet emissions suggests that fluorescence pumping from the ground…