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A combinaison of different dark matter clumps describing the mass distribution of Abell 370 (Limousin, M., et al., 2024, A&A, 693, A33)

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The bulk metallicity of giant planets around M stars

Simon Müller and Ravit Helled

A&A, 693 (2025) L4

Published online: 25 December 2024
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Unveiling VVV/WISE Mira variables on the far side of the Galactic disk - Distances, kinematics, and a new extinction law

R. Albarracín, M. Zoccali, J. Olivares Carvajal, Á. Rojas-Arriagada, J. H. Minniti, M. Catelan, M. De Leo, F. Gran, R. Contreras Ramos, Á. Valenzuela Navarro and C. Salvo-Guajardo

A&A, 693 (2025) A28

Published online: 24 December 2024
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Tracing the Milky Way spiral arms with ²⁶Al - The role of nova systems in the 2D distribution of ²⁶Al

A. Vasini, E. Spitoni, F. Matteucci, G. Cescutti and M. Della Valle

A&A, 693 (2025) A37

Published online: 24 December 2024
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MOCCA: Global properties of tidally filling and underfilling globular star clusters with multiple stellar populations

A. Hypki, E. Vesperini, M. Giersz, J. Hong, A. Askar, M. Otulakowska-Hypka, L. Hellstrom and G. Wiktorowicz

A&A, 693 (2025) A41

Published online: 24 December 2024
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The e-TidalGCs project - Modeling the extra-tidal features generated by Galactic globular clusters (Corrigendum)

Salvatore Ferrone, Paola Di Matteo, Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti, Misha Haywood, Owain N. Snaith, Marco Montuori, Sergey Khoperskov and David Valls-Gabaud

A&A, 693 (2025) C2

Published online: 24 December 2024
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The ALPINE-ALMA [CII] Survey: Modelling ALMA and JWST lines to constrain the interstellar medium of z∼ 5 galaxies - Connecting UV, optical, and far-infrared line emission

E. Veraldi, L. Vallini, F. Pozzi, F. Esposito, M. Bethermin, M. Boquien, A. Faisst, M. Ginolfi, R. Gobat, C. Gruppioni et al. (6 more)

A&A, 693 (2025) A34

Published online: 24 December 2024
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How do supernova remnants cool? - II. Machine learning analysis of supernova remnant simulations

P. Smirnova, E. I. Makarenko, S. D. Clarke, E. Glukhov, S. Walch, I. Vaezzadeh and D. Seifried

A&A, 693 (2025) A38

Published online: 24 December 2024
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The GAPS Programme at TNG - LXV. Precise density measurement of TOI-1430 b, a young planet with an evaporating atmosphere

D. Nardiello, J. M. Akana Murphy, R. Spinelli, M. Baratella, S. Desidera, V. Nascimbeni, L. Malavolta, K. Biazzo, A. Maggio, D. Locci et al. (27 more)

A&A, 693 (2025) A32

Published online: 24 December 2024

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2939	Press Release Open Access Broadband multi-wavelength properties of M87 during the 2018 EHT campaign including a very high energy flaring episode J. C. Algaba, M. Baloković, S. Chandra, W.-Y. Cheong, Y.-Z. Cui, F. D’Ammando, A. D. Falcone, N. M. Ford, M. Giroletti, C. Goddi et al. (751 more) A&A, 692 (2024) A140 Published online: 13 December 2024
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Volume 693 (January 2025) (in progress)
1. A combinaison of different dark matter clumps describing the mass distribution of Abell 370 (Limousin, M., et al., 2024, A&A, 693, A33)
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Volume 692 (December 2024)
1. Euclid NISP view of the globular cluster NGC 6397 (Libralato, M., et al., 2024, A&A, 692, A96)
2. Distribution of supernova remnants in the LMC (Zangrandi, F., et al., 2024, A&A, 692, A237)
3. Origin of dark surface patch on cool giant star (Freytag, B., et al., 2024, A&A, 692, A223)
See the table of contents
Volume 691 (November 2024)
1. HST deep field images of Omega Centauri (Scalco, M., et al., 2024, A&A, 691, A96)
2. 3D retrieved structures of Jovian auroral emission (Benmahi, B., et al., 2024, A&A, 691, A91)
3. 5σ limiting magnitudes of F356+F444 stack mosaics (Merlin, E., et al., 2024, A&A, 691, A240)
4. Microstructure of deuterium-irradiated silicates (Zeng, X., et al., 2024, A&A, 691, A275)
5. The JWST/NIRCam images of 80 sub-millimetre galaxies (Gillman, S., et al., 2024, A&A, 691, A299)
6. Magnetic field of the core dynamo from an A-type star (Hidalgo, J. P., et al., 2024, A&A, 691, A326)
7. Extremely long gas filament discovered in X-rays (Dietl, J., et al., 2024, A&A, 691, A286)
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12259	Free Access A hydrodynamic mechanism of meteor ablation - The melt-spraying model Oleksandr G. Girin A&A, 606 (2017) A63 Published online: 12 October 2017
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3934	Press Release Open Access The SRG/eROSITA diffuse soft X-ray background - I. The local hot bubble in the western Galactic hemisphere Michael C. H. Yeung, Gabriele Ponti, Michael J. Freyberg, Konrad Dennerl, Teng Liu, Nicola Locatelli, Martin G. F. Mayer, Jeremy S. Sanders, Manami Sasaki, Andy Strong et al. (3 more) A&A, 690 (2024) A399 Published online: 29 October 2024
3898	Planck 2018 results Free Access Planck 2018 results - VI. Cosmological parameters Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, Y. Akrami, M. Ashdown, J. Aumont, C. Baccigalupi, M. Ballardini, A. J. Banday, R. B. Barreiro, N. Bartolo et al. (172 more) A&A, 641 (2020) A6 Published online: 11 September 2020
2939	Press Release Open Access Broadband multi-wavelength properties of M87 during the 2018 EHT campaign including a very high energy flaring episode J. C. Algaba, M. Baloković, S. Chandra, W.-Y. Cheong, Y.-Z. Cui, F. D’Ammando, A. D. Falcone, N. M. Ford, M. Giroletti, C. Goddi et al. (751 more) A&A, 692 (2024) A140 Published online: 13 December 2024

13492	Press Release Open Access A sub-Earth-mass planet orbiting Barnard’s star J. I. González Hernández, A. Suárez Mascareño, A. M. Silva, A. K. Stefanov, J. P. Faria, H. M. Tabernero, A. Sozzetti, R. Rebolo, F. Pepe, N. C. Santos et al. (30 more) A&A, 690 (2024) A79 Published online: 01 October 2024
12475	Free Access A hydrodynamic mechanism of meteor ablation - The melt-spraying model Oleksandr G. Girin A&A, 606 (2017) A63 Published online: 12 October 2017
11478	Press Release Highlight Open Access The VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea extended (VVVX) ESO public survey: Completion of the observations and legacy R. K. Saito, M. Hempel, J. Alonso-García, P. W. Lucas, D. Minniti, S. Alonso, L. Baravalle, J. Borissova, C. Caceres, A. N. Chené et al. (136 more) A&A, 689 (2024) A148 Published online: 26 September 2024
10452	Planck 2018 results Free Access Planck 2018 results - VI. Cosmological parameters Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, Y. Akrami, M. Ashdown, J. Aumont, C. Baccigalupi, M. Ballardini, A. J. Banday, R. B. Barreiro, N. Bartolo et al. (172 more) A&A, 641 (2020) A6 Published online: 11 September 2020
9568	Press Release Open Access The SRG/eROSITA diffuse soft X-ray background - I. The local hot bubble in the western Galactic hemisphere Michael C. H. Yeung, Gabriele Ponti, Michael J. Freyberg, Konrad Dennerl, Teng Liu, Nicola Locatelli, Martin G. F. Mayer, Jeremy S. Sanders, Manami Sasaki, Andy Strong et al. (3 more) A&A, 690 (2024) A399 Published online: 29 October 2024

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The bulk metallicity of giant planets around M stars

Unveiling VVV/WISE Mira variables on the far side of the Galactic disk - Distances, kinematics, and a new extinction law

Tracing the Milky Way spiral arms with ²⁶Al - The role of nova systems in the 2D distribution of ²⁶Al

MOCCA: Global properties of tidally filling and underfilling globular star clusters with multiple stellar populations

The e-TidalGCs project - Modeling the extra-tidal features generated by Galactic globular clusters (Corrigendum)

The ALPINE-ALMA [CII] Survey: Modelling ALMA and JWST lines to constrain the interstellar medium of z∼ 5 galaxies - Connecting UV, optical, and far-infrared line emission

How do supernova remnants cool? - II. Machine learning analysis of supernova remnant simulations

The GAPS Programme at TNG - LXV. Precise density measurement of TOI-1430 b, a young planet with an evaporating atmosphere

Broadband multi-wavelength properties of M87 during the 2018 EHT campaign including a very high energy flaring episode

The SRG/eROSITA diffuse soft X-ray background - I. The local hot bubble in the western Galactic hemisphere

Planck 2018 results - VI. Cosmological parameters

The eROSITA X-ray telescope on SRG

The putative center in NGC 1052

A hydrodynamic mechanism of meteor ablation - The melt-spraying model

Imaging the innermost circumstellar environment of the red supergiant WOH G64 in the Large Magellanic Cloud

The SRG/eROSITA diffuse soft X-ray background - I. The local hot bubble in the western Galactic hemisphere

Planck 2018 results - VI. Cosmological parameters

Broadband multi-wavelength properties of M87 during the 2018 EHT campaign including a very high energy flaring episode

A sub-Earth-mass planet orbiting Barnard’s star

A hydrodynamic mechanism of meteor ablation - The melt-spraying model

The VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea extended (VVVX) ESO public survey: Completion of the observations and legacy

Planck 2018 results - VI. Cosmological parameters

The SRG/eROSITA diffuse soft X-ray background - I. The local hot bubble in the western Galactic hemisphere

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