Astrophysical: Techniques

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    Radial velocity follow-up of GJ1132 with HARPS. A precise mass for planet b and the discovery of a second planet
    The source GJ1132 is a nearby red dwarf known to host a transiting Earth-size planet. After its initial detection, we pursued an intense follow-up with the...
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    Radiative Transfer tools for the GTC
    We present very fast radiative transfer tools of interest for the interpretation of future spectroscopic observations taken with the GTC and its post-focus...
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    Radio emission in a nearby, ultra-cool dwarf binary: A multifrequency study
    Context. The substellar triple system VHS J125601.92−125723.9 (hereafter VHS 1256−1257) is composed of an equal-mass M7.5 brown dwarf binary and an L7 low-mass...
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    Radio emission in ultracool dwarfs: The nearby substellar triple system VHS 1256-1257
    Aim. With the purpose of investigating the radio emission of new ultracool objects, we carried out a targeted search in the recently discovered system VHS...
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    Radio source calibration for the Very Small Array and other cosmic microwave background instruments at around 30 GHz
    Accurate calibration of data is essential for the current generation of cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. Using data from the Very Small Array (VSA...
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    Radiometric Validation of the Midcourse Space Experiment's (MSX) Point Source Catalogs and the MSX Properties of Normal Stars
    We describe our methods to validate the absolute calibration of the infrared (IR) radiometry of the Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) Point Source Catalog...
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    Rate and nature of false positives in the CoRoT exoplanet search
    Context: The CoRoT satellite searches for planets by applying the transit method, monitoring up to 12 000 stars in the galactic plane for 150 days in each...
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    Real-time, multiframe, blind deconvolution of solar images
    The quality of images of the Sun obtained from the ground are severely limited by the perturbing effect of the Earth's turbulent atmosphere. The post-facto...
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    Recovering star formation histories: Integrated-light analyses vs. stellar colour-magnitude diagrams
    Context. Accurate star formation histories (SFHs) of galaxies are fundamental for understanding the build-up of their stellar content. However, the most...