Astrophysics in 2006

Abstract

The fastest pulsar and the slowest nova; the oldest galaxies and the youngest stars; the weirdest life forms and the commonest dwarfs; the highest energy particles and the lowest energy photons. These were some of the extremes of Astrophysics 2006. We attempt also to bring you updates on things of which there is currently only one (habitable planets, the Sun, and the universe) and others of which there are always many, like meteors and molecules, black holes and binaries.

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• Magnetic Fields in the Formation of Sun-Like Stars
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• Magnetic field generation in fully convective rotating spheres
• Rubidium-Rich Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars
• A new definition of the intermediate group of gamma-ray bursts
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• Weak lensing study of dark matter filaments and application to the binary cluster A 222 and A 223
• Could the 47 UMa Planetary System be a Second Solar System: predicting the Earth-like planets
• Dynamics and evolution of an eruptive flare
• Solar Wind Forecasting with Coronal Holes
• MACHOs in M31? Absence of evidence but not evidence of absence
• Nonlinear force-free magnetic field extrapolations: comparison of the Grad-Rubin and Wheatland-Sturrock-Roumeliotis algorithm
• Magnetohydrodynamics wave propagation in the neighbourhood of two dipoles
• Scattering of acoustic waves by a magnetic cylinder
• Magnetic Stereoscopy
• Data Analysis on the Extra-solar Planets Using Robust Clustering
• Testing non-linear force-free coronal magnetic field extrapolations with the Titov-Demoulin equilibrium
• Sensitivity of solar off-limb line profiles to electron density stratification and the velocity distribution anisotropy
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