Astrophysical: Methods

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    The occultation of HIP 107302 by Jupiter
    Aims: Occultations of bright stars by planets provide information on the state of their atmospheres. An occultation of the bright star 45 Capricornii (HIP...
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    The OmegaWhite Survey for short period variable stars - II. An overview of results from the first four years
    OmegaWhite is a wide-field, high cadence, synoptic survey targeting fields in the southern Galactic plane, with the aim of discovering short period variable...
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    The onset of solar cycle 24. What global acoustic modes are telling us
    We study the response of the low-degree, solar p-mode frequencies to the unusually extended minimum of solar surface activity since 2007. A total of 4768 days...
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    The orientation of galaxy dark matter haloes around cosmic voids
    Using the Millennium N-body Simulation we explore how the shape and angular momentum of galaxy dark matter haloes surrounding the largest cosmological voids are...
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    The origin of stars in the inner 500 parsecs in TNG50 galaxies
    We investigate the origin of stars in the innermost 500 pc of galaxies spanning stellar masses of $5\times 10^{8-12}\, \mathrm{M}_{\odot }$ at z = 0 using the...
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    The origin of the light distribution in spiral galaxies
    We analyse a high-resolution, fully cosmological, hydrodynamical disc galaxy simulation, to study the source of the double-exponential light profiles seen in...
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    The origin of the mid-infrared nuclear polarization of active galactic nuclei
    We combine new (NGC 1275, NGC 4151, and NGC 5506) and previously published (Cygnus A, Mrk 231, and NGC 1068) sub-arcsecond resolution mid-infrared (MIR; 8-13 μm...
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    The Osiris Tunable Imager and Spectrograph: a 2004 Status Report
    OSIRIS (Optical System for Imaging and low Resolution Integrated Spectroscopy) is the optical Day one instrument for the GTC and the only Spanish Day One...
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    The OTELO Project
    The OTELO Project is an extragalactic survey under way using the tunable filters of the instrument OSIRIS at the GTC. OTELO is already providing the deepest...