Astrophysical: Galaxies

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    The Westerbork HI survey of spiral and irregular galaxies. II. R-band surface photometry of late-type dwarf galaxies
    R-band surface photometry is presented for 171 late-type dwarf and irregular galaxies. For a subsample of 46 galaxies B-band photometry is presented as well. We...
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    The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation
    WEAVE, the new wide-field, massively multiplexed spectroscopic survey facility for the William Herschel Telescope, saw first light in late 2022. WEAVE comprises...
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    The wind momentum-luminosity relationship of galactic A- and B-supergiants
    The Balmer lines of four A Ia-supergiants (spectral type A0 to A3) and fourteen B Ia and Ib-supergiants (spectral type B0 to B3) in the solar neighbourhood are...
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    The WIRCam Ultra Deep Survey (WUDS). I. Survey overview and UV luminosity functions at z ˜ 5 and z ˜ 6
    The aim of this paper is to introduce the WIRCam Ultra Deep Survey (WUDS), a near-IR photometric survey carried out at the CFH Telescope in the field of the...
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    The Wolf-Rayet star population in the dwarf galaxy NGC 625
    Context. Quantifying the number, type, and distribution of Wolf-Rayet (W-R) stars is a key component in the context of galaxy evolution, since they put...
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    The X-SHOOTER Lyman α survey at z = 2 (XLS-z2) I: what makes a galaxy a Lyman α emitter?
    We present the first results from the X-SHOOTER Lyman α survey at z = 2 (XLS-z2). XLS-z2 is a deep spectroscopic survey of 35 Lyman α emitters (LAEs) utilizing...
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    The X-shooter Spectral Library (XSL). I. DR1: Near-ultraviolet through optical spectra from the first year of the survey
    We present the first release of the X-shooter Spectral Library (XSL). This release contains 237 stars. The spectra in this release span a wavelength range of...
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    The XMM Cluster Survey: the halo occupation number of BOSS galaxies in X-ray clusters
    We present a direct measurement of the mean halo occupation distribution (HOD) of galaxies taken from the eleventh data release (DR11) of the Sloan Digital Sky...
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    The XMM-Newton serendipitous survey . II. First results from the AXIS high galactic latitude medium sensitivity survey
    We present the first results on the identifications of a medium sensitivity survey (X-ray flux limit 2x 10-14 erg cm-2 s-1 in the 0.5-4.5 keV band) at high...