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A novel black hole mass scaling relation
The confirmation of the existence of black holes is one of the most basic results in astrophysics. There is a wide range of masses of black holes, from those...
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NewsA Plague of Magnetic Spots Among the Hot Stars of Globular ClustersFor more than six decades, the quest to understand the formation of hot (about 20,000−30,000 K) extreme horizontal branch (EHB) stars in Galactic globular...
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NewsA planetesimal orbiting within the debris disc around a white dwarf starNumerous exoplanets have been detected around Sun-like stars. These stars end their lives as white dwarfs, which should inherit any surviving planetary systems...
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NewsA shared accretion instability for black holes and neutron starsAccretion disks around compact objects are expected to enter an unstable phase at high luminosity. One instability may occur when the radiation pressure...
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NewsA Short-duration Event as the Cause of Dust Ejection from Main-Belt Comet P/2012 F5 (Gibbs).We present observations and an interpretative model of the dust environment of the Main-Belt Comet P/2010 F5 (Gibbs). The narrow dust trails observed can be...
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NewsA spectrograph for exoplanet observations calibrated at the centimetre-per-second level.The best spectrographs are limited in stability by their calibration light source. Laser frequency combs are the ideal calibrators for astronomical...
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NewsA star six times larger than the Sun influenced on the "birth of the Solar System".Un equipo internacional liderado por astrofísicos españoles ha descubierto que el origen de algunos de los elementos radioactivos encontrados en los meteoritos...
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NewsA stellar stream remnant of a globular cluster below the metallicity floorStellar ejecta gradually enrich the gas out of which subsequent stars form, making the least chemically enriched stellar systems direct fossils of structures...
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NewsA Substantial Amount of Hidden Magnetic Energy in the Quiet SunAn investigation carried out at the IAC has demonstrated that the apparently non-magnetic regions of the solar photosphere (the innermost region of the...