Astrophysical: Techniques

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    Orbital parameters, masses and distance to β Centauri determined with the Sydney University Stellar Interferometer and high-resolution spectroscopy
    The bright southern binary star β Centauri (HR5267) has been observed with the Sydney University Stellar Interferometer (SUSI) and spectroscopically with the...
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    Origin of the near-Earth asteroid Phaethon and the Geminids meteor shower
    Aims: In this paper we establish a compositional and dynamical connection between two B-type objects: main belt asteroid (2) Pallas and near-Earth asteroid...
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    Osiris at GTC
    The hardware of the OSIRIS instrument is nearly complete. The instrument commissioning will continue with the validation of the remaining observing modes that...
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    Outcome of Six Candidate Transiting Planets from a TrES Field in Andromeda
    Driven by the incomplete understanding of the formation of gas giant extrasolar planets and of their mass-radius relationship, several ground-based, wide-field...
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    Outer density profiles of 19 Galactic globular clusters from deep and wide-field imaging
    Using deep photometric data from Wide Field Camera at the Isaac Newton Telescope and Wide Field Imager at the ESO 2.2-m telescope we measure the outer number...
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    Overview of the SDSS-IV MaNGA Survey: Mapping nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory
    We present an overview of a new integral field spectroscopic survey called MaNGA (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory), one of three core...
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    Parsec-scale Dust Emission from the Polar Region in the Type 2 Nucleus of NGC 424
    Advancements in infrared (IR) interferometry open up the possibility to spatially resolve active galactic nuclei (AGNs) on the parsec-scale level and study the...
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    PASS: An All Sky Survey for the Detection of Transiting Extrasolar Planets and for Permanent Variable Star Tracking
    An overview is given of the Permanent All Sky Survey (PASS) project. The primary goal of PASS is the detection of all transiting giant planets in the entire sky...
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    Period, epoch, and prediction errors of ephemerides from continuous sets of timing measurements
    Space missions such as Kepler and CoRoT have led to large numbers of eclipse or transit measurements in nearly continuous time series. This paper shows how to...