Astrophysical: Stellar evolution

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    CO mapping of bipolar outflows
    The paper presents CO and (C-13)O J = 2-1 spectra and mapping of bipolar outflows, acquired with the 12-m NRAO antenna at Kitt Peak, for the following sources...
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    Constraints to the masses of brown dwarf candidates form the lithium test
    We present intermediate dispersion (0.7-2.2 A/pixel) optical spectroscopic observations aimed at applying the 'lithium test' to a sample of 10 brown dwarf...
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    Core─Envelope Coupling in Intermediate-mass Core-helium Burning Stars
    Stars between two and three solar masses rotate rapidly on the main sequence, and the detection of slow core and surface rotation in the core-helium burning...
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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...
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    Deep CCD photometry of stars in the globular cluster M3
    CCD photometry of faint stars in the globular cluster M3 is presented. The observations reach down to V equal to about 23 mag, with a sample of approximately...
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    Derivation of star formation histories through deep color-magnitude diagrams: the dependency on stellar evolution models.
    We review the state of the art of the derivation of star formation histories from color-magnitude diagrams reaching the oldest main sequence turnoffs. From the...
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    Detection of narrow C 4 and SI 4 absorption features in spectra of stars within 200 PC F the Sun
    Detection of narrow (δλ 0.5 Å) absorption features in C IV at λλ1548 and 1550 have been made in the spectra of 4 late B dwarfs within 200 pc of the sun; the Si...
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    Distances to galaxies from the brightest stars in the Universe
    Measuring distances to galaxies and determining their chemical compositions are two fundamental activities in modern extragalactic astronomy, in that they help...
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    DR. SANTI CASSISI (INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo, Italy)
    Dr. Santi Cassisi is a world-recognized expert in stellar evolution, and main creator and maintainer of the widely used BaSTI stellar evolution library. Stellar...