Astrophysics in 2005

Abstract

We bring you, as usual, the Sun and Moon and stars, plus some galaxies and a new section on astrobiology. Some highlights are short (the newly identified class of gamma-ray bursts, and the Deep Impact on Comet 9P/ Tempel 1), some long (the age of the universe, which will be found to have the Earth at its center), and a few metonymic, for instance the term "down-sizing" to describe the evolution of star formation rates with redshift.

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• The ATNF Pulsar Catalogue
• Detection of Thermal Emission from an Extrasolar Planet
• TrES-1: The Transiting Planet of a Bright K0V Star
• Revised equipartition & minimum energy formula for magnetic field strength estimates from radio synchrotron observations
• The case for a distributed solar dynamo shaped by near-surface shear
• Polarization Observations with the Cosmic Background Imager
• Getting Its Kicks: A VLBA Parallax for the Hyperfast Pulsar B1508+55
• The spectral evolution of impulsive solar X-ray flares
• Self-gravitating accretion disk in Sgr A* few million years ago: was Sgr A* a failed quasar?
• A black hole mass threshold from non-singular quantum gravitational collapse
• The first observed stellar X-ray flare oscillation: Constraints on the flare loop length and the magnetic field
• Comparing magnetic field extrapolations with measurements of magnetic loops
• DOT tomography of the solar atmosphere. IV. Magnetic patches in internetwork areas
• Far-infrared and sub-mm observations of the Crab nebula
• T Tauri stellar magnetic fields: He I measurements
• Inclusion of Binaries in Evolutionary Population Synthesis
• Can Dark Matter Annihilation Dominate the Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Background?
• Strong mean field dynamos require supercritical helicity fluxes
• The 1st INTEGRAL SPI-ACS Gamma-Ray Burst Catalogue
• The age of the Galactic thin disk from Th/Eu nucleocosmochronology III. Extended sample
• What a Local Sample of Spectroscopic Binaries can tell us about the Field-Binary Population
• Links between magnetic fields and plasma flows in a coronal hole
• MHD Wave Propagation in the Neighbourhood of Two Null Points
• Screening of the Magnetic Field of Disk Accreting Stars
• Probing Multiple Sight Lines through the SN 1006 Remnant by UV Absorption Spectroscopy
• How to use magnetic field information for coronal loop identification?
• Giant pulses in Pulsar PSR B0031-07
• The spectral evolution of impulsive solar X-ray flares. II.Comparison of observations with models
• Further evidence for the presence of a neutron star in 4U 2206+54. INTEGRAL and VLA observations
• Supernova light curve models for the bump in the Optical Counterpart of X-Ray Flash 030723
• Prompt and afterglow X-ray emission from the X-Ray Flash of 2002 April 27
• Effect of the radiative background flux in convection
• Geometrical Constraints on Dark Energy
• The age of the Galactic thin disk from Th/Eu nucleocosmochronology I. Determination of [Th/Eu] abundance ratios
• Formation and Evolution of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies
• Do weak magnetic fields prevent hydrogen from accreting onto metal-line white dwarf stars?
• Stellar Structure of Irregular Galaxies. I. Face-on Galaxies
• Molecular abundance ratios as a tracer of accelerated collapse in regions of high mass star formation?
• The age of the Galactic thin disk from Th/Eu nucleocosmochronology II. Chronological analysis
• Dynamics of the solar chromosphere. V. High-frequency modulation in ultraviolet image sequences from TRACE
• On the globular cluster formation history of NGC 5128
• Quasi-periodic oscillations: Resonant shear Alfv`en waves in neutron star magnetospheres
• The Equivalence between Different Dark (Matter) Energy Scenarios
• Identification of 13 DB + dM and 2 DC + dM binaries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• ISO observations of the Wolf-Rayet galaxies NGC 5430, NGC 6764, Mrk 309 and VII Zw 19
• Spallation dominated propagation of Heavy Cosmic Rays and the Local Interstellar Medium (LISM)
• A Detailed Spectroscopic and Photometric Analysis of DQ White Dwarfs
• $C^{\infty }$ perturbations of FRW models with a cosmological constant