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Eckart, A.; García-Marín, M.; Vogel, S. N.; Teuben, P.; Morris, M. R.; Baganoff, F.; Dexter, J.; Schödel, R.; Witzel, G.; Valencia-S., M.; Karas, V.; Kunneriath, D.; Straubmeier, C.; Moser, L.; Sabha, N.; Buchholz, R.; Zamaninasab, M.; Mužić, K.; Moultaka, J.; Zensus, J. A.   2012
Millimeter to X-ray flares from Sagittarius A*
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 537, id.A52

Scholz, Alexander; Muzic, Koraljka; Geers, Vincent; Bonavita, Mariangela; Jayawardhana, Ray; Tamura, Motohide   2012
Substellar Objects in Nearby Young Clusters (SONYC). IV. A Census of Very Low Mass Objects in NGC 1333
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 744, Issue 1, article id. 6

Mužić, Koraljka; Scholz, Alexander; Geers, Vincent; Jayawardhana, Ray; Tamura, Motohide   2012
Substellar Objects in Nearby Young Clusters (SONYC). V. New Brown Dwarfs in ρ Ophiuchi
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 744, Issue 2, article id. 134

Scholz, Alexander; Jayawardhana, Ray; Muzic, Koraljka; Geers, Vincent; Tamura, Motohide; Tanaka, Ichi    2012
Substellar Objects in Nearby Young Clusters (SONYC). VI. The Planetary-mass Domain of NGC 1333
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 756, Issue 1, article id. 24 (2012)

Lada, Charles J.; Forbrich, Jan; Lombardi, Marco; Alves, João F.   2012
Star Formation Rates in Molecular Clouds and the Nature of the Extragalactic Scaling Relations
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 745, Issue 2, article id. 190

Sánchez, S. F.; Kennicutt, R. C.; Gil de Paz, A.; van de Ven, G.; Vílchez, J. M.; Wisotzki, L.; Walcher, C. J.; Mast, D.; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Albiol-Pérez, S.; Alonso-Herrero, A.; Alves, J.; Bakos, J.; Bartáková, T.; Bland-Hawthorn, J.; Boselli, A.; Bomans, D. J.; Castillo-Morales, A.; Cortijo-Ferrero, C.; de Lorenzo-Cáceres, A.; Del Olmo, A.; Dettmar, R.-J.; Díaz, A.; Ellis, S.; Falcón-Barroso, J.; Flores, H.; Gallazzi, A.; García-Lorenzo, B.; González Delgado, R.; Gruel, N.; Haines, T.; Hao, C.; Husemann, B.; Iglésias-Páramo, J.; Jahnke, K.; Johnson, B.; Jungwiert, B.; Kalinova, V.; Kehrig, C.; Kupko, D.; López-Sánchez, Á. R.; Lyubenova, M.; Marino, R. A.; Mármol-Queraltó, E.; Márquez, I.; Masegosa, J.; Meidt, S.; Mendez-Abreu, J.; Monreal-Ibero, A.; Montijo, C.; Mourão, A. M.; Palacios-Navarro, G.; Papaderos, P.; Pasquali, A.; Peletier, R.; Pérez, E.; Pérez, I.; Quirrenbach, A.; Relaño, M.; Rosales-Ortega, F. F.; Roth, M. M.; Ruiz-Lara, T.; Sánchez-Blázquez, P.; Sengupta, C.; Singh, R.; Stanishev, V.; Trager, S. C.; Vazdekis, A.; Viironen, K.; Wild, V.; Zibetti, S.; Ziegler, B.    2012
CALIFA, the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area survey. I. Survey presentation
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 538, id.A8

Rest, A.; Prieto, J. L.; Walborn, N. R.; Smith, N.; Bianco, F. B.; Chornock, R.; Welch, D. L.; Howell, D. A.; Huber, M. E.; Foley, R. J.; Fong, W.; Sinnott, B.; Bond, H. E.; Smith, R. C.; Toledo, I.; Minniti, D.; Mandel, K.   2012
Light echoes reveal an unexpectedly cool ɛCarinae during its nineteenth-century Great Eruption
Nature, Volume 482, Issue 7385, pp. 375-378 (2012)

Kunneriath, D.; Eckart, A.; Vogel, S. N.; Teuben, P.; Mužić, K.; Schödel, R.; García-Marín, M.; Moultaka, J.; Staguhn, J.; Straubmeier, C.; Zensus, J. A.; Valencia-S., M.; Karas, V.   2012
The Galactic centre mini-spiral in the mm-regime
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 538, id.A127

Beaumont, Christopher N.; Goodman, Alyssa A.; Alves, João. F.; Lombardi, Marco; Román-Zúñiga, Carlos G.; Kauffmann, Jens; Lada, Charles J.   2012
A simple perspective on the mass-area relationship in molecular clouds
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 423, Issue 3, pp. 2579-2586.

Moreno, Fernando; Pozuelos, Francisco; Aceituno, Francisco; Casanova, Víctor; Sota, Alfredo; Castellano, Julio; Reina, Esteban   2012
Comet 22P/Kopff: Dust Environment and Grain Ejection Anisotropy from Visible and Infrared Observations
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 752, Issue 2, article id. 136 (2012).

Zheng, W.; Shen, R. F.; Sakamoto, T.; Beardmore, A. P.; De Pasquale, M.; Wu, X. F.; Gorosabel, J.; Urata, Y.; Sugita, S.; Zhang, B.; Pozanenko, A.; Nissinen, M.; Sahu, D. K.; Im, M.; Ukwatta, T. N.; Andreev, M.; Klunko, E.; Volnova, A.; Akerlof, C. W.; Anto, P.; Barthelmy, S. D.; Breeveld, A.; Carsenty, U.; Castillo-Carrión, S.; Castro-Tirado, A. J.; Chester, M. M.; Chuang, C. J.; Cunniffe, R.; De Ugarte Postigo, A.; Duffard, R.; Flewelling, H.; Gehrels, N.; Güver, T.; Guziy, S.; Hentunen, V. P.; Huang, K. Y.; Jelínek, M.; Koch, T. S.; Kubánek, P.; Kuin, P.; McKay, T. A.; Mottola, S.; Oates, S. R.; O'Brien, P.; Ohno, M.; Page, M. J.; Pandey, S. B.; Pérez del Pulgar, C.; Rujopakarn, W.; Rykoff, E.; Salmi, T.; Sánchez-Ramírez, R.; Schaefer, B. E.; Sergeev, A.; Sonbas, E.; Sota, A.; Tello, J. C.; Yamaoka, K.; Yost, S. A.; Yuan, F.  2012
Panchromatic Observations of the Textbook GRB 110205A: Constraining Physical Mechanisms of Prompt Emission and Afterglow
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 751, Issue 2, article id. 90 (2012).

Matute, I.; Márquez, I.; Masegosa, J.; Husillos, C.; del Olmo, A.; Perea, J.; Alfaro, E. J.; Fernández-Soto, A.; Moles, M.; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Aparicio-Villegas, T.; Benítez, N.; Broadhurst, T.; Cabrera-Cano, J.; Castander, F. J.; Cepa, J.; Cerviño, M.; Cristóbal-Hornillos, D.; Infante, L.; González Delgado, R. M.; Martínez, V. J.; Molino, A.; Prada, F.; Quintana, J. M.    2012
Quasi-stellar objects in the ALHAMBRA survey. I. Photometric redshift accuracy based on 23 optical-NIR filter photometry
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 542, id.A20

Schneider, N.; Güsten, R.; Tremblin, P.; Hennemann, M.; Minier, V.; Hill, T.; Comerón, F.; Requena-Torres, M. A.; Kraemer, K. E.; Simon, R.; Röllig, M.; Stutzki, J.; Djupvik, A. A.; Zinnecker, H.; Marston, A.; Csengeri, T.; Cormier, D.; Lebouteiller, V.; Audit, E.; Motte, F.; Bontemps, S.; Sandell, G.; Allen, L.; Megeath, T.; Gutermuth, R. A.    2012
Globules and pillars seen in the [CII] 158 μm line with SOFIA
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 542, id.L18

Pović, M.; Sánchez-Portal, M.; Pérez García, A. M.; Bongiovanni, A.; Cepa, J.; Huertas-Company, M.; Lara-López, M. A.; Fernández Lorenzo, M.; Ederoclite, A.; Alfaro, E.; Castañeda, H.; Gallego, J.; González-Serrano, J. I.; González, J. J.    2012
AGN-host galaxy connection: morphology and colours of X-ray selected AGN at z ≤ 2
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 541, id.A118

Marcolino, W. L. F.; Bouret, J.-C.; Walborn, N. R.; Howarth, I. D.; Nazé, Y.; Fullerton, A. W.; Wade, G. A.; Hillier, D. J.; Herrero, A.    2012
HST/STIS spectroscopy of the magnetic Of?p star HD 108: the low state at ultraviolet wavelengths
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 422, Issue 3, pp. 2314-2321.

Ascenso, J.; Lombardi, M.; Lada, C. J.; Alves, J.   2012
The extinction law from photometric data: linear regression methods
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 540, id.A139

Román-Zúñiga, C. G.; Frau, P.; Girart, J. M.; Alves, João F.   2012
Barnard 59: No Evidence for Further Fragmentation
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 747, Issue 2, article id. 149 (2012).

Sabbi, E.; Lennon, D. J.; Gieles, M.; de Mink, S. E.; Walborn, N. R.; Anderson, J.; Bellini, A.; Panagia, N.; van der Marel, R.; Maíz Apellániz, J.  2012
A Double Cluster at the Core of 30 Doradus
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 754, Issue 2, article id. L37 (2012).

Parravano, Antonio; Sánchez, Néstor; Alfaro, Emilio J.   2012
The Dependence of Prestellar Core Mass Distributions on the Structure of the Parental Cloud
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 754, Issue 2, article id. 150 (2012).

Olofsson, G.; Nilsson, R.; Florén, H.-G.; Djupvik, A.; Aberasturi, M.    2012
Polarimetric coronagraphy of BD + 31°643
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 544, id.A43

Wade, G. A.; Apellániz, J. Maíz.; Martins, F.; Petit, V.; Grunhut, J.; Walborn, N. R.; Barbá, R. H.; Gagné, M.; García-Melendo, E.; Jose, J.; Moffat, A. F. J.; Nazé, Y.; Neiner, C.; Pellerin, A.; Ordaz, M. Penadés.; Shultz, M.; Simón-Díaz, S.; Sota, A.   2012
NGC 1624-2: a slowly rotating, X-ray luminous Of?cp star with an extraordinarily strong magnetic field
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 425, Issue 2, pp. 1278-1293.

Meyer, L.; Ghez, A. M.; Schoedel, R.; Yelda, S.; Boehle, A.; Lu, J. R.; Do, T.; Morris, M. R.; Becklin, E. E.; Matthews, K.    2012
The Shortest Known Period Star Orbiting our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole
Science, Volume 338, Issue 6103, pp. 84- (2012)

Gamen, R.; Arias, J. I.; Barbá, R. H.; Morrell, N. I.; Walborn, N. R.; Sota, A.; Maíz Apellániz, J.; Alfaro, E. J.    2012
The discovery of a shell-like event in the O-type star HD 120678
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 546, id.A92

Howarth, Ian D.; Walborn, Nolan R.   2012
Two new Wolf-Rayet stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 426, Issue 3, pp. 1867-1869

Longmore, Steven N.; Rathborne, Jill; Bastian, Nate; Alves, Joao; Ascenso, Joana; Bally, John; Testi, Leonardo; Longmore, Andy; Battersby, Cara; Bressert, Eli; Purcell, Cormac; Walsh, Andrew; Jackson, James; Foster, Jonathan; Molinari, Sergio; Meingast, Stefan; Amorim, A.; Lima, J.; Marques, R.; Moitinho, A.; Pinhao, J.; Rebordao, J.; Santos, F. D.    2012
G0.253+0.016: a molecular cloud progenitor of an Arches-like cluster
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 746, Issue 2, article id. 117 (2012)

Naze, Y.; Zhekov, S. A.; Walborn, N. R.   2011
High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy of the magnetic Of?p star HD148937
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 746, Issue 2, article id. 142 (2012)

Koposov, Sergey E.; Belokurov, V.; Evans, N. W.; Gilmore, G.; Gieles, M.; Irwin, M. J.; Lewis, G. F.; Niederste-Ostholt, M.; Peñarrubia, J.; Smith, M. C.; Bizyaev, D.; Malanushenko, E.; Malanushenko, V.; Schneider, D. P.; Wyse, R. F. G.    2011
The Sagittarius Streams in the Southern Galactic Hemisphere
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 750, Issue 1, article id. 80 (2012)

Hénault-Brunet, V.; Evans, C. J.; Sana, H.; Gieles, M.; Bastian, N.; Maíz Apellániz, J.; Markova, N.; Taylor, W. D.; Bressert, E.; Crowther, P. A.; van Loon, J. Th.   2012
The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. VII. A low velocity dispersion for the young massive cluster R136
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 546, id.A73

Hénault-Brunet, V.; Gieles, M.; Evans, C. J.; Sana, H.; Bastian, N.; Maíz Apellániz, J.; Taylor, W. D.; Markova, N.; Bressert, E.; de Koter, A.; van Loon, J. Th.    2012
The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. VI. Evidence for rotation of the young massive cluster R136
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 545, id.L1

Bressert, E.; Bastian, N.; Evans, C. J.; Sana, H.; Hénault-Brunet, V.; Goodwin, S. P.; Parker, R. J.; Gieles, M.; Bestenlehner, J. M.; Vink, J. S.; Taylor, W. D.; Crowther, P. A.; Longmore, S. N.; Gräfener, G.; Maíz Apellániz, J.; de Koter, A.; Cantiello, M.; Kruijssen, J. M. D.   2012
The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. IV. Candidates for isolated high-mass star formation in 30 Doradus
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 542, id.A49

Gilmore, G.; Randich, S.; Asplund, M.; Binney, J.; Bonifacio, P.; Drew, J.; Feltzing, S.; Ferguson, A.; Jeffries, R.; Micela, G.; Negueruela, I.; Prusti, T.; Rix, H.-W.; Vallenari, A.; Alfaro, E.; Allende-Prieto, C.; Babusiaux, C.; Bensby, T.; Blomme, R.; Bragaglia, A.; Flaccomio, E.; Francois, P.; Irwin, M.; Koposov, S.; Korn, A.; Lanzafame, A.; Pancino, E.; Paunzen, E.; Recio-Blanco, A.; Sacco, G.; Smiljanic, R.; van Eck, S.; Walton, N.    2012
The Gaia-ESO public spectroscopic survey
The Messenger, 147, 25-31 (2012)

Maíz Apellániz, J.; Rubio, M.   2012
Ultraviolet extinction toward a quiescent molecular cloud in the Small Magellanic Cloud
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 541, id.A54

Witzel, G.; Eckart, A.; Bremer, M.; Zamaninasab, M.; Shahzamanian, B.; Valencia-S., M.; Schödel, R.; Karas, V.; Lenzen, R.; Marchili, N.; Sabha, N.; Garcia-Marin, M.; Buchholz, R. M.; Kunneriath, D.; Straubmeier, C.   2012
Source-intrinsic Near-infrared Properties of Sgr A*: Total Intensity Measurements
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, Volume 203, Issue 2, article id. 18, 36pp, (2012).

Resmi, L.; Misra, K.; Jóhannesson, G.; Castro Tirado, A. J.; Gorosabel, J.; Jelínek, M.; Bhattacharya, D.; Kubánek, P.; Anupama, G. C.; Sota, A.; Sahu, D. K.; de Ugarte Postigo, A.; Pandey, S. B.; Sánchez Ramírez, R.; Bremer, M.; Sagar, R.    2012
Comprehensive multiwavelength modelling of the afterglow of GRB 050525A
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 427, Issue 1, pp. 288-297.

Alves, J.; Bouy, H.    2012
Orion revisited. I. The massive cluster in front of the Orion nebula cluster<xref ref-type="fn" rid="FN1">
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 547, id.A97, 14 pp.

Mužić, Koraljka; Radigan, Jacqueline; Jayawardhana, Ray; Ivanov, Valentin D.; Faherty, Jacqueline K.; Kurtev, Radostin G.; Núñez, Alejandro; Boffin, Henri M. J.; Hainaut, Olivier; Cruz, Kelle; Jones, David; Metchev, Stanimir; Tyndall, Amy; Borissova, Jura    2012
Discovery of Two Very Wide Binaries with Ultracool Companions and a New Brown Dwarf at the L/T Transition
The Astronomical Journal, Volume 144, Issue 6, article id. 180, 11 pp. (2012).

Quirrenbach, Andreas; Amado, Pedro J.; Seifert, Walter; Sánchez Carrasco, Miguel A.; Mandel, Holger; Caballero, Jose A.; Mundt, Reinhard; Ribas, Ignasi; Reiners, Ansgar; Abril, Miguel; Aceituno, Jesus; Alonso-Floriano, Javier; Ammler-von Eiff, Matthias; Anglada-Escude, Guillem; Antona Jiménez, Regina; Anwand-Heerwart, Heiko; Barrado y Navascués, David; Becerril, Santiago; Bejar, Victor; Benitez, Daniel; Cardenas, Concepcion; Claret, Antonio; Colome, Josep; Cortés-Contreras, Miriam; Czesla, Stefan; del Burgo, Carlos; Doellinger, Michaela; Dorda, R.; Dreizler, Stefan; Feiz, Carmen; Fernandez, Matilde; Galadi, David; Garrido, Rafael; González Hernández, Jonay; Guardia, Josep; Guenther, Eike; de Guindos, Enrique; Gutiérrez-Soto, Juan; Hagen, Hans J.; Hatzes, Artie; Hauschildt, Peter; Helmling, Jens; Henning, Thomas; Herrero, Enrique; Huber, Armin; Huber, Klaus; Jeffers, Sandra; Joergens, Viki; de Juan, Enrique; Kehr, M.; Klutsch, Alexis; Kürster, Martin; Lalitha, S.; Laun, Werner; Lemke, Ulrike; Lenzen, Rainer; Lizon, Jean-Louis; López del Fresno, Mauro; López-Morales, Mercedes; López-Santiago, Javier; Mall, Ulrich; Martin, Eduardo; Martín-Ruiz, Susana; Mirabet, Eduard; Montes, David; Morales, Juan Carlos; Morales Muñoz, Rafael; Moya, Andres; Naranjo, Vianak; Oreiro, Raquel; Pérez Medialdea, David; Pluto, Michael; Rabaza, Ovidio; Ramon, Alejandro; Rebolo, Rafael; Reffert, Sabine; Rhode, Petra; Rix, Hans-Walter; Rodler, Florian; Rodríguez, Eloy; Rodríguez López, Cristina; Rodríguez Pérez, Emilio; Rodriguez Trinidad, A.; Rohloff, Ralf-Reiner; Sánchez-Blanco, Ernesto; Sanz-Forcada, Jorge; Schäfer, Sebastian; Schiller, Jörg; Schmidt, Christof; Schmitt, Jürgen; Solano, Enrique; Stahl, Otmar; Storz, Clemens; Stürmer, Julian; Suarez, Juan Carlos; Thiele, Ulrich; Ulbrich, Rainer; Vidal-Dasilva, Manuela; Wagner, Karl; Winkler, Johannes; Xu, Wenli; Zapatero Osorio, Maria Rosa; Zechmeister, Mathias    2012
CARMENES. I: instrument and survey overview
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Ascenso, Joana; Alves, João  2012
Observations of the IMF in Clusters
Star Clusters in the Era of Large Surveys, Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, ISBN 978-3-642-22112-5. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2012, p. 231

Walborn, Nolan R.  2012
The Company Eta Carinae Keeps: Stellar and Interstellar Content of the Carina Nebula
Eta Carinae and the Supernova Impostors, Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Volume 384. ISBN 978-1-4614-2274-7. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2012, p. 25

Moitinho, André; Alves, João  2012
Star Clusters in the Era of Large Surveys
Star Clusters in the Era of Large Surveys: Proceedings of Symposium 5 of JENAM 2010, Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, ISBN 978-3-642-22112-5. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2012

Eckart, A.; García-Marín, M.; Vogel, S. N.; Teuben, P.; Morris, M. R.; Baganoff, F.; Dexter, J.; Schödel, R.; Witzel, G.; Valencia-S, M.; Karas, V.; Kunneriath, D.; Bremer, M.; Straubmeier, C.; Moser, L.; Sabha, N.; Buchholz, R.; Zamaninasab, M.; Mužić, K.; Moultaka, J.; Zensus, J. A.    2012
Flare emission from Sagittarius A*
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 372, Issue 1, pp. 012022 (2012)

Sanchez-Bermudez, J.; Schoedel, R.; Alberdi, A.; Pott, J. U.    2012
NACO/SAM observations of sources at the Galactic Center
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 372, Issue 1, pp. 012025 (2012)

Longmore, Steven N.; Rathborne, Jill; Bastian, Nate; Alves, Joao; Ascenso, Joana; Bally, John; Testi, Leonardo; Longmore, Andy; Battersby, Cara; Bressert, Eli; Purcell, Cormac; Walsh, Andrew; Jackson, James; Foster, Jonathan; Molinari, Sergio; Meingast, Stefan; Amorim, A.; Lima, J.; Marques, R.; Moitinho, A.; Pinhao, J.; Rebordao, J.; Santos, F. D.    2012
HOPS + MALT90 + Hi-GAL: Probing star formation on a Galactic scale through mm molecular line and far-IR continuum Galactic plane surveys
Proceedings of the symposium "From Atoms to Pebbles: Herschel's view of Star and Planet Formation", held in Grenoble, France, March 20-23 2012, Eds.: J.-C. Augereau

Martayan, C.; Lobel, A.; Baade, D.; Blomme, R.; Frémat, Y.; LeBouquin, J.-B.; Selman, F.; Girard, J.; Mérand, A.; Montagnier, G.; Patru, F.; Mawet, D.; Martins, F.; Rivinius, Th.; Štefl, S.; Zorec, J.; Semaan, T.; Mehner, A.; Kervella, P.; Sana, H.; Schödel, R.    2012
On the Binarity of LBV Stars
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