We describe results of a planetary defense exercise conducted during the close approach to Earth by the near-Earth asteroid (99942) Apophis during 2020 December...
Apostle-Auriga: effects of different subgrid models on the baryon cycle around Milky Way-mass galaxies
Modern hydrodynamical simulations reproduce many properties of the real Universe. These simulations model various physical processes, but many of these are...
Apparent correlation between extrinsic and intrinsic flux variations in the first gravitationally lensed quasar
To better understand which sources contribute to optical passband fluxes of Q0957+561, we present and analyse light curves of the doubly imaged gravitationally...
Appearance of Nuclear Shell Effects and Initial Charge (mass) Asymmetry in the Formation of Products of Heavy Ion Collisions
The role of the entrance channel in the formation of the reaction products is discussed. The excitation functions of evaporation residues for the 50Ti+249Cf and...
Appearances can be deceiving: clear signs of accretion in the seemingly ordinary Sextans dSph
We report the discovery of clear observational signs of past accretion/merger events in one of the Milky Way satellite galaxies, the Sextans dwarf spheroidal...
Applicability of Milne-Eddington inversions to high spatial resolution observations of the quiet Sun
Context. The physical conditions of the solar photosphere change on very small spatial scales both horizontally and vertically. Such a complexity may pose a...
Application of speckle and (multi-object) multi-frame blind deconvolution techniques on imaging and imaging spectropolarimetric data
Context. Ground-based imaging and imaging spectropolarimetric data are often subjected to post-facto reconstruction techniques to improve the spatial resolution...
Application of the Eddington inversion method to constrain the dark matter halo of galaxies using only observed surface brightness profiles
Context. The halos of low-mass galaxies may allow us to constrain the nature of dark matter (DM), but the kinematic measurements needed to diagnose the required...
Application of the infrared flux method to globular cluster stars. The M 3 giant branch
The authors present optical and near infrared photometry, covering from 0.36 to 2.3 microns, for a wide sample of red giant stars in the globular cluster M3...