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Gaia Benchmark stars and their twins in the Gaia-ESO Survey

The Gaia benchmark stars are stars with very precise stellar parameters that cover a wide range in the HR diagram at various metallicities. They are meant to be good representative of typical FGK stars...

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Cosmology with all-sky surveys

Various aspects of cosmology require comprehensive all-sky mapping of the cosmic web to considerable depths. In order to probe the whole extragalactic sky beyond 100 Mpc, one must draw on...

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Revised calibration for near- and mid-infrared images from ~4000 pointed...

The Japanese infrared astronomical satellite AKARI performed ~4000 pointed observations for 16 months until the end of 2007 August, when the telescope and instruments were cooled by liquid Helium....

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Boltzmann electron PIC simulation of the E-sail effect [Replacement]

The solar wind electric sail (E-sail) is a planned in-space propulsion device that uses the natural solar wind momentum flux for spacecraft propulsion with the help of long, charged, centrifugally...

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The Theoretical Astrophysical Observatory: Cloud-Based Mock Galaxy Catalogues...

We introduce the Theoretical Astrophysical Observatory (TAO), an online virtual laboratory that houses mock observations of galaxy survey data. Such mocks have become an integral part of the modern...

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A simple way to improve AGN feedback prescription in SPH simulations

AGN feedback is an important ingredient in galaxy evolution, however its treatment in numerical simulations is necessarily approximate, requiring subgrid prescriptions due to the dynamical range...

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The 2-10 keV unabsorbed luminosity function of AGN from the XMM-Newton LSS,...

The XMM-LSS, XMM-COSMOS, and XMM-CDFS surveys are complementary in terms of sky coverage and depth. Together, they form a clean sample with the least possible variance in instrument effective areas and...

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The 2-10 keV unabsorbed luminosity function of AGN from the XMM-Newton LSS,...

The XMM-LSS, XMM-COSMOS, and XMM-CDFS surveys are complementary in terms of sky coverage and depth. Together, they form a clean sample with the least possible variance in instrument effective areas and...

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Catalogue of star positions and B-magnitudes in 60th declination zone based...

Catalogue of star positions and B-magnitudes based on UkrVO Joint Digital Archive has been created in 60-degree declination zone of FONAK(FON) observational program as the first attempt to use the...

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Multipole Traps as Tools in Environmental Studies [Cross-Listing]

Trapping of microparticles, nanoparticles and aerosols is an issue of major interest for physics and chemistry. We present a setup intended for microparticle trapping in multipole linear Paul trap...

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Multipole Electrodynamic Ion Trap Geometries for Microparticle Confinement...

Trapping of microparticles and aerosols is of great interest for physics and chemistry. We report microparticle trapping in multipole linear Paul trap geometries, operating under Standard Ambient...

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Apodization in high-contrast long-slit spectroscopy. II. Concept validation...

Spectral characterization of young, giant exoplanets detected by direct imaging is one of the tasks of the new generation of high-contrast imagers. For this purpose, the VLT/SPHERE instrument includes...

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The Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey: Milky Way gas. First data release

The Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey (EBHIS) is a new 21-cm survey performed with the 100-m telescope at Effelsberg. It covers the whole northern sky out to a redshift of z~0.07 and comprises HI line emission...

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The Segmented Beamformer for Electromagnetic Waves of the Terahertz Free...

The quasi-optical segmented mirror for a formation of the target irradiation field was manufactured and investigated. It was designed for the high power THz beam of the free electron laser (FEL) using...

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TARGET: toward a solution for the readout electronics of the Cherenkov...

TARGET is an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designed to read out signals recorded by the photosensors in cameras of very-high-energy gamma-ray telescopes exploiting the imaging of...

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Improved absolute calibration of LOPES measurements and its impact on the...

LOPES was a digital antenna array detecting the radio emission of cosmic-ray air showers. The calibration of the absolute amplitude scale of the measurements was done using an external, commercial...

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Reconstruction of air-shower parameters for large-scale radio detectors using...

We investigate features of the lateral distribution function (LDF) of the radio signal emitted by cosmic ray air-showers with primary energies $> 0.1$~EeV and its connection to air-shower parameters...

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Study of the characteristics of SiPMs matrix as a photosensor for the...

The matrices formed of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are very promising photosensors for the scintillation detectors. The use of SiPM matrices with appropriate optical collector gives, in principle,...

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Optical Gravitational Wave Antenna with Increased Power Handling Capability...

Fundamental sensitivity of an optical interferometric gravitational wave detector increases with increase of the optical power which, in turn, limited because of the opto-mechanical parametric...

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Optical Gravitational Wave Antenna with Increased Power Handling Capability

Fundamental sensitivity of an optical interferometric gravitational wave detector increases with increase of the optical power which, in turn, limited because of the opto-mechanical parametric...

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