Context. Ambipolar diffusion is a physical mechanism related to the drift between charged and neutral particles in a partially ionized plasma that is key to...
Ambipolar diffusion: Self-similar solutions and MHD code testing. Cylindrical symmetry
Context. Ambipolar diffusion is a process occurring in partially ionised astrophysical systems that imparts a complicated mathematical and physical nature to...
Ambipolar filamentation of turbulent magnetic fields: a numerical simulation
We present the results of a 2-D, two fluid (ions and neutrals) simulation of the ambipolar filamentation process, in which a magnetized, weakly ionized plasma...
Ammonia-methane ratios from H-band near-infrared spectra of late-T and Y dwarfs
Aims: Our goals are to investigate the relative absorption strengths of ammonia and methane using low-resolution H-band (1.5−1.7 microns) spectra obtained in...
An active region filament studied simultaneously in the chromosphere and photosphere. I. Magnetic structure
Aims: A thorough multiwavelength, multiheight study of the vector magnetic field in a compact active region filament (NOAA 10781) on 2005 July 3 and 5 is...
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Context. Paper I presents the magnetic structure, inferred for the photosphere and the chromosphere, of a filament that developed in active region (AR) NOAA...
An almost dark galaxy with the mass of the Small Magellanic Cloud
Almost dark galaxies are objects that have eluded detection by traditional surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The low surface brightness of...
An Alternative Procedure for Extracting IUE Low Resolution Spectra
This paper presents an alternative procedure which extracts spectra from IUE low resolution images. The -by-line image is scanned perpendicularly to the...
As a first step of a vigorous program to investigate the Wind Momentum - Luminosity Relationship (WLR) of Galactic O-stars by analyzing stars belonging to the...