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astro-ph.SR2011★ 73 cited

Detection of warm water vapour in Taurus protoplanetary discs by Herschel

P. Riviere-Marichalar, F. Ménard, W. F. Thi +12

Line spectra of 68 Taurus T Tauri stars were obtained with the Herschel-PACS (Photodetector Array Camera & Spectrometer) instrument as part of the GASPS (Gas Evolution in Protoplan…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 45 cited

Environmental effects in the interaction and merging of galaxies in zCOSMOS

P. Kampczyk, S. J. Lilly, L. de Ravel +56

(Abridged) We analyze the environments and galactic properties (morphologies and star-formation histories) of a sample of 153 close kinematic pairs in the redshift range 0.2 < z <…

astro-ph.SR2011

Two Remarkable Spectroscopic Categories of Young O Stars from the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey

Nolan R. Walborn, Hugues Sana, William D. Taylor +2

The spectral and spatial characteristics of two special categories of O stars found in the VFTS dataset are presented. One of them comprises very rapid rotators, including several…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 109 cited

NIR Spectroscopy of Star-Forming Galaxies at z~1.4 with Subaru/FMOS: The Mass-Metallicity Relation

Kiyoto Yabe, Kouji Ohta, Fumihide Iwamuro +16

We present near-infrared spectroscopic observations of star-forming galaxies at z~1.4 with FMOS on the Subaru Telescope. We observed K-band selected galaxies in the SXDS/UDS fields…

astro-ph.EP2011★ 123 cited

An icy Kuiper-Belt around the young solar-type star HD 181327

J. Lebreton, J. -C. Augereau, W. -F. Thi +18

HD 181327 is a young F5/F6V star belonging to the Beta Pictoris moving group (12 Myr). It harbors an optically thin belt of circumstellar material at 90 AU. We aim to study the dus…

astro-ph.EP2011★ 116 cited

EChO - Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory

G. Tinetti, J. P. Beaulieu, T. Henning +131

A dedicated mission to investigate exoplanetary atmospheres represents a major milestone in our quest to understand our place in the universe by placing our Solar System in context…