A photometric and spectroscopic study of the new dwarf spheroidal galaxy in Hercules – Metallicity, velocities, and a clean list of RGB members

Authors: D. Adén, S. Feltzing, A. Koch, M. I. Wilkinson, E. K. Grebel, I. Lundström, G. F. Gilmore, D. B. Zucker, V. Belokurov, N. W. Evans and D. Faria
A&A 506, 1147 (2009) Received 18 June 2009 / Accepted 13 August 2009
Keywords: galaxies: dwarf, galaxies: fundamental parameters, galaxies: individual: Hercules, galaxies: kinematics and dynamics, galaxies: photometry

Candidate free-floating super-Jupiters in the young \sigma Orionis open cluster

Authors: G. Bihain, R. Rebolo, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, V. J. S. Béjar, I. Villó-Pérez, A. Díaz-Sánchez, A. Pérez-Garrido, J. A. Caballero, C. A. L. Bailer-Jones, D. Barrado y Navascués, J. Eislöffel, T. Forveille, B. Goldman, T. Henning, E. L. Martín and R. Mundt
A&A 506, 1169 (2009) Received 26 March 2009 / Accepted 31 July 2009
Keywords: stars: luminosity function, mass function, Galaxy: open clusters and associations: individual: \sigma Orionis, stars: low-mass, brown dwarfs

Properties and nature of Be stars – 26. Long-term and orbital changes of \zeta Tauri

Authors: D. Ruždjak, H. Boži?, P. Harmanec, R. Fi?t, P. Chadima, K. Bjorkman, D. R. Gies, A. B. Kaye, P. Koubský, D. McDavid, N. Richardson, D. Sudar, M. Šlechta, M. Wolf and S. Yang
A&A 506, 1319 (2009) Received 4 July 2008 / Accepted 24 August 2009
Keywords: stars: early-type, binaries: spectroscopic, stars: emission-line, Be, stars: individual: \zeta Tauri

XMMSL1 J060636.2-694933: an XMM-Newton slew discovery and Swift/Magellan follow up of a new classical nova in the LMC

Authors: A. M. Read, R. D. Saxton, P. G. Jonker, E. Kuulkers, P. Esquej, G. Pojmanski, M. A. P. Torres, M. R. Goad, M. J. Freyberg and M. Modjaz
A&A 506, 1309 (2009) Received 16 March 2009 / Accepted 24 August 2009
Keywords: stars: novae, cataclysmic variables, stars: individual: XMMSL1 J060636.2-694933, surveys, X-rays: general