Journal: Astronomy and Astrophysics

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    The VLT/NaCo large program to probe the occurrence of exoplanets and brown dwarfs in wide orbits. I. Sample definition and characterization
    Context. Young, close stars are ideal targets for searching planets using the direct imaging technique. The determination of stellar parameters is crucial for...
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    The VLT/VISIR mid-IR view of 47 Tucanae. A further step in solving the puzzle of RGB mass loss
    There is an ongoing debate regarding the onset luminosity of dusty mass loss in population-II red giant stars. We present VLT/VISIR mid-infrared (MIR) 8.6 μm...
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    The VVV Templates Project Towards an automated classification of VVV light-curves. I. Building a database of stellar variability in the near-infrared
    Context. The Vista Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) ESO Public Survey is a variability survey of the Milky Way bulge and an adjacent section of the disk...
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    The water ice rich surface of (145453) 2005 RR43: a case for a carbon-depleted population of TNOs?
    Context: Recent results suggest that there is a group of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) (2003 EL{61} being the biggest member), with surfaces composed of almost...
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    The WEBT BL Lacertae Campaign 2000
    We present UBVRI light curves of BL Lacertae from May 2000 to January 2001, obtained by 24 telescopes in 11 countries. More than 15 000 observations were...
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    The WEBT BL Lacertae Campaign 2001 and its extension. Optical light curves and colour analysis 1994-2002
    BL Lacertae has been the target of four observing campaigns by the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT) collaboration. In this paper we present UBVRI light...
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    The Wendelstein Calar Alto Pixellensing Project (WeCAPP): the M 31 nova catalogue
    We present light curves from the novae detected in the long-term, M 31-monitoring WeCAPP project. The goal of WeCAPP is to constrain the compact dark matter...
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    The Wendelstein Calar Alto Pixellensing Project (WeCAPP): the M 31 variable star catalogue
    In this paper we present the WeCAPP catalogue of variable stars found in the bulge of M 31. Observations in the WeCAPP microlensing survey (optical R and I...
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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...