Astrophysical: Milky Way Galaxy

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    10-GHz Tenerife cosmic microwave background observations at 8 deg resolution and their analysis using a new maximum entropy method

    The complete set of data from the Tenerife 10-GHz (8-deg FWHM) twin-horn, drift scan experiment is described. These data are affected by both long-term...

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    A search for new objects in the transition phase between AGB-stars and planetary nebulae

    Preliminary results are presented from a spectroscopy survey of IRAS sources with colors similar to those of planetary nebulae. Two new planetary nebulae, some...

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    Abundance gradient for 13 planetary nebulae in the Galaxy

    Via optical low-resolution long slit spectroscopy conducted at the 2.5 m INT in La Palma, He, O, N, Ne, A, and S abundances in 13 extended PN were calculated...

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    Anisotropy measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation at intermediate angular scales

    Galaxy formation by gravitational instability implies the presence of temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background. New observations at 10.45 and...

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    Astronomers detect large amounts of oxygen in the atmosphere of a primitive star

    Scientists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), in collaboration with the University of Cambridge and the University of California San Diego...

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    Chemical abundances in the young galaxy at Z = 2.309 towards PHL 957

    We present high-resolution Utrecht Echelle Spectrograph spectra of the quasar PHL 957, obtained in order to study the foreground damped Ly-alpha (DLA) galaxy at...

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    CO /J = 2-1/ observations of southern H II regions

    Maps in the CO (J = 2-1) line of the southern H II region complexes Carina Nebula and G333.6-0.2/RCW 106 are presented and discussed. Results for the Carina...

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    Corrugations in the discs of spiral galaxies - NGC 4244 and 5023

    The morphological characteristics of corrugations in the disk shapes of the edge-on galaxies NGC 4244 and 5023 are described to determine some of the properties...

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    CS J = 5 - 4 observations of galactic molecular clouds

    Observations from a sample of six regions of star formation in the 244 GHz, J = 5-4 rotational transition of CS, together with previous results for lower...