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Volume 86, 2, 2015
Pp. 226


Stellar Populations 55 years after the Vatican conference. Roma, July 2 - 4, 2012. Editors: A. Omizzolo, M. Fabrizio, G. Bono. Index; Foreword; List of participants; The MilkyWay. C. Chiosi, E. Merlin, Formation and evolution of early-type galaxies; B. Barbuy, S. Ortolani, E. Bica. The Galactic bulge; N. Matsunaga. Cepheids and stellar populations in the Galactic bulge; Stellar variability. M. Marconi. Variables as stellar tracers and distance indicators; G. Fiorentino. Variable stars in dwarf galaxies: key tools to constrain the stellar population; A. Kunder, M. Salaris, S. Cassisi, R. de Propris, A. Walker, P. B. Stetson, M. Catelan, P. Amigo, Theoretical modeling of the RR Lyrae variables in NGC1851; J. Alonso-Garcia, M. Catelan, P. Amigo, C. Cortes, C. A. Kuehn, F. Grundahl, G. Lopez, R. Salinas, H. A. Smith, P. B. Stetson, A. V. Sweigart, A. A. R. Valcarce, M. Zoccali, Disentangling multiple stellar populations in globular clusters using the Stromgren system; C. Cacciari, L. Pasquini, E. Valenti, H.U. Kaufl, P. Mauas, Helium abundance difference within globular clusters: NGC2808; B. Dias, I. Saviane, B. Barbuy, E. Held, G. Da Costa, S. Ortolani, Metallicities and alpha-to-iron ratios in globular clusters stars in a homogeneous scale - Search for Multiple Populations; E. P. Lagioia, A. P. Milone, G. Bono, P. B. Stetson, A. Aparicio, R. Buonanno, A. Calamida, M. Dall'ora, I. Ferraro, R. Gilmozzi, G. Iannicola, N. Matsunaga, M. Monelli, P. G. Prada Moroni, A. Walker, The globular cluster NGC6528 the ferrous side of the Galactic Bulge; M. Marengo, Mass loss in advanced evolutionary phases; P. G. Prada Moroni, G. Valle, M. Dell'Omodarme, S. Degl'Innocenti, Cumulative propagation of physical uncertainties in stellar models; Dwarf galaxies.F. Bresolin, Metallicity gradients in nearby galaxies; M. Fabrizio, A. Pietrinferni, G. Bono, P.B. Stetson, A.R. Walker, R. Buonanno, S. Cassisi, I. Ferraro, G. Iannicola, M. Monelli, M. Nonino, L. Pulone, F.Thevenin, On the He burning phases of the Carina dSph; A. del Pino Molina, S. L. Hidalgo, A. Aparicio, C. Gallart, R. Carrera, M. Monelli, Looking for the traces of the early Universe in the Fornax dSph galaxy; I. Musella, V. Ripepi, G. Clementini, M. Marconi, M. Dall'Ora, M.I. Moretti, A. Garofalo, F. Cusano, G. Coppola, L. Di Fabrizio, Variable stars and stellar populations in the new Milky Way ultra-faint dwarfs; M. Cignoni, G. Clementini, R. Contreras Ramos, L. Federici, V. Ripepi, M. Marconi, M. Tosi, I. Musella, A long history of star formation in a low mass stellar system, Leo T; A. Calamida, S. K. Randall, M. Monelli, G. Bono, R. Buonanno, G. Strampelli, M. Catelan, V. Van Grootel, M. L. Alonso, P. B. Stetson, R. F. Stellingwerf, The soundtrack of RR Lyrae in! Cen at high-frequency; Magellanic clouds. I. Soszynski, A. Udalski , M. K. Szymanski , M. Kubiak, G. Pietrzynski, L. Wyrzykowski, K. Ulaczyk, R. Poleski, S. Kozlowski, P. Pietrukowicz, J. Skowron, Variable stars from the OGLE Survey; L. Inno, G. Bono, N. Matsunaga, M. Romaniello, F. Primas, R. Buonanno, F. Caputo, K. Genovali, C. D. Laney, M. Marconi, A. Pietrinferni, On the relative distance of Magellanic Clouds using Cepheid NlR and Optical-NIR PW relations; M. Van der Swaelmen, V. Hill, F. Primas, Elemental abundances in RGB stars of the Large Magellanic Cloud; R. Sordo, A. Vallenari, R. Tantalo, Gaia & SSP libraries for Local Universe study; M31 and beyond. A. M. N. Ferguson, Unravelling the histories of M31 and M33; G. Coppola, F. Cusano, G. Clementini, V. Ripepi, I. Musella, L. Federici, M. Marconi, L. Di Fabrizio, A. Ferguson, M. Tosi, F. Fusi Pecci, R. Contreras, M. Dall'Ora, A. Garofalo, Ultra-faint dwarfs and dwarf-spheroidal galaxies: the Andromeda satellites; M. Monelli, Isolated galaxies in the Local Group; S. L. Hidalgo, the LCID group, Footprints of the early Universe in the SFHs of dwarf galaxies; F. Annibali, M. Cignoni, M. Tosi, R. P. van der Marel, A. Aloisi, G. Fiorentino, The star formation history of the BCD I Zw 18; E.J. Bernard, A.M.N. Ferguson, M.K. Barker, M.J. Irwin, P. Jablonka, N. Arimoto, A wide-field study of HolmbergII and evidence for ram pressure stripping; D. Crnojevic, E.K. Grebel, A.M.N. Ferguson, A. Koch, M. Rejkuba, G. Da Costa, H. Jerjen, M.J. Irwin, E.J. Bernard, N. Arimoto, P. Jablonka, C. Kobayashi, Galaxy evolution through resolved stellar populations in the nearby Centaurus A group; Nearby cosmology. M. Salaris, Uncertainties in determining the evolutionary status of unresolved old populations; E. L. Lokas, K. Kowalczyk, S. Kazantzidis, Stellar populations in tidally stirred dwarf galaxies; B. Davies, R. P. Kudritzki, B. Plez, M. Bergemann, Z. Gazak, C. Evans, Red supergiants as cosmic abundance probes; S. Pasetto, G. Bertelli, E. K. Grebel, C. Chiosi, Y. Fujita, Dissipative phenomena in Local Group dwarf galaxies evolution; C. Chiosi, Concluding remarks; Poster session. D. Crnojevic, A. M. N. Ferguson, M. J. Irwin, A WFCAM near-infrared survey of M31 dwarf elliptical satellites; C.B. Pereira, E.G. Jilinski, N.A. Drake, D.B. de Castro, V.G. Ortega, C. Chavero, F. Roig, Abundance and kinematic analysis of the CH star CD-62º1346. The first hypervelocity red giant?; P. Drazinos, E. Kontizas, A. Karampelas, M. Kontizas, A. Dapergolas, I. Bellas-Velidis, Star forming regions with indication of hierarchical structure in a sample of spiral galaxies; F. Fusco, R. Buonanno, G. Bono, S. Cassisi, M. Monelli, A. Pietrinferni, S. L. Hidalgo, A. Aparicio, The Local Group Dwarf Irregular Galaxy NGC 6822: new insight on its star formation history; A. Garofalo, F. Cusano, G. Clementini, V. Ripepi, L. Federici, G. Beccari, C. Cacciari, R. Contreras, G. Coppola, F. Fusi Pecci, M. Marconi, I. Musella, M. Tosi, Stellar archaeology in the M31 halo: variable stars and stellar populations in the And XIX dwarf spheroidal galaxy; K. Genovali, M. Romaniello, B. Lemasle, N. Matsunaga, G. Bono, F. Primas, R. Buonanno, F. Thevenin, Metallicity estimates of Galactic Cepheids in the Inner Disk; C. Guede, Y. Lebreton, C. Babusiaux, M. Haywood, Stellar age-dating for different Gaia simulated catalogs; N. Kaltcheva, V. Golev, Improved distances and structure of several Galactic star-forming fields; M. Mapelli, A. Bressan, Young star cluster evolution and metallicity; B. Pila-Diez, J.T.A. de Jong, K. Kuijken, H. Hoekstra, Stellar populations in the Sagittarius stream; N. Podorvanyuk, I. Chilingarian, I. Katkov, The new technique for the determination of the stellar initial mass function of unresolved stellar populations; A. F. ,Punanova, V. V. ,Krushinsky, A. V. ,Loktin, A. Y. ,Burdanov, A. A. ,Popov, E. A. ,Avvakumova, I S. Zalozhnih, CCD BVRI photometry of the open clusters NGC 7142 and NGC 2281; O. Sholukhova, D. Bizyaev, S. Fabrika, A. Sarkisian, V. Malanushenko, A. Valeev, New Luminous Blue Variables in M31; E. Tognelli, S. Degl'Innocenti, P.G. Prada Moroni, Li in young open clusters and binary systems; G. Valle, E. Tognelli, M. Dell'Omodarme, S. Degl'Innocenti, P.G. Prada Moroni, The updated Pisa evolutionary model database; J. Veljanoski, A.M.N. Ferguson, M. Irwin, D. Mackey, A. Huxor, P. Cote, E.Bernard, Kinematic analysis of the M31 halo globular clusters; R. Zenoviene, G. Tautvaisiene, B. Nordstrom, E. Stonkute, Chemical analysis of a new kinematically identified stellar group.

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Volume 86, 1, 2015
Pp. 140


High Energy Astrophysics in Southern Africa 2014: A multi-frequency perspective of new frontiers in High Energy Astrophysics in Southern Africa. Boyden Observatory, April 24-25, 2014. Editors: B. van Soelen and P.J. Meintjes. Index; Foreword; List of participants; Session I: Extra-galactic: review. C. D. Dermer, The blazar paradigm and its discontents; Session II: Extra-galactic. R. J. Britto, S. Razzaque and B. Lott on behalf of the Fermi-LAT Collaboration, Spectral studies of FSRQs: constraining absorption models in the BLR at GeV energies; L. Klindt, B. van Soelen, P.J. Meintjes, Unidentified Active Galactic Nuclei in the Fermi 2LAC catalogue: identification of candidate sources; P. V. van Zyl and M. J. Gaylard, Examining the radio to gamma-ray correlation of the blazar PKS 1424-418 during its flaring state; N. Oozeer, T. Mauch and R. Booth, Blazar monitoring with KAT-7: PKS1510-089 a test case; Session III: Transients and surveys. M. J. Gaylard, Opportunities for radio observations of southern sources; D. A. H. Buckley and Kulinder Pal Singh, Multi-wavelength studies of accretion phenomena with SALT and ASTROSAT; Session IV: Galactic. C. Venter, The expected very-high-energy flux from a population of globular clusters; B. van Soelen, R.P. Armstrong, P. Väis Änen, I. Sushch, A. Odendaal and P.J. Meintjes, Multi-wavelength observations of PSR B1259-63 during the 2014 periastron passage; J. M. Maritz, P. J. Meintjes and S.J. Buchner, Multi-wavelength analysis of young pulsars: an overview; P. J. Meintjes and E. Breedt, Magnetic viscosity: outbursts and outflows in accretion driven systems; Session V: Galactic/LMC/SMC. R. N. C. Eze, Suzaku observations of Fe Kα line in some hard X-ray emitting symbiotic stars and magnetic cataclysmic variables; A. Odendaal and P. J. Meintjes, Multiwavelength variability in CAL 83; Session VI: Galactic/LMC/SMC. B. Warner and P. A. Woudt, V842 Cen: high energy modulations hidden by a false negative; H. J. van Heerden and P. J. Meintjes, Fermi-LAT analysis and upper-limit calculations for AE Aquarii; A. F. Rajoelimanana and P. A. Charles, Multi-wavelength study of X-ray binaries in the Magellanic clouds; B. van Soelen and P. J. Meintjes, The GeV flare in PSR B1259-63 during the 2010/2011 periastron passage; B. Warner, Aspects of observations and evolution of AM CVn stars.

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Volume 85, 4, 2014
Pp. 216


Gaia and the unseen. The brown dwarf question. Torino University Rettorato, March 24-26, 2014. Editors: Richard L. Smart, David Barrado y Navascues and Jacqueline K. Faherty. Index; Foreword; List of Participants; Gaia. J.H.J. de Bruijne, Astrometry of brown dwarfs with Gaia; L. M. Sarro, D. Barrado, C. Carriòn, J.A Caballero, Gaia limits for brown dwarf studies; A. Sozzetti, Gaia, non-single stars, brown dwarfs, and exoplanets; R. L. Smart, L/T dwarfs that Gaia will see; Brown dwarf pushing the envelope 1. J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Outstanding brown dwarf questions; Richard J. Parker, Probing brown dwarf formation mechanisms with Gaia; F. Bouchy, Follow-up of transiting brown dwarf companions identified with Gaia; Y. Dzigan, S. Zucker, Finding hot-jupiters by Gaia photometry using the directed follow-up strategy; J. Sahlmann, P. F. Lazorenko, D. Segransan, E. L. Martin, M. Mayor, D. Queloz, S. Udry, Astrometric planet search around M8-L2 dwarfs from the ground and with Gaia; V. Joergens, S. Reffert, Gaia detection capabilities of spectroscopic brown dwarf binaries; Brown dwarf models. E. Manjavacas, M. Bonnefoy, J. E. Schlieder, F. Allard, P. Rojo, B. Goldman, G. Chauvin, D. Homeier, N. Lodieu, T. Henning, New constraints on the formation and settling of dust in the atmospheres of young M and L dwarfs; E. Buenzli, M. S. Marley, D. Apai, R. E. Lupu, Cloud structure of brown dwarfs from spectroscopic variability observations; Ch. Helling, Expect the unexpected: non-equilibrium processes in brown dwarf atmospheres; Brown dwarf pushing the envelope 2. J. Bochanski, Gaia & Ultra-Cool Dwarfs: a high-definition picture of the Milky Way; N. W. Evans, Microlensing, brown dwarfs and Gaia; Brown dwarf and moving groups. A. R. Riedel, Kinematics and luminosities of brown dwarfs with the BDNYC group; L. Malo, J. Gagne, R. Doyon, D. Lafreniere, E. Artigau, G. Feiden, L. Albert, Prospects for the BANYAN search of low-mass moving group members with Gaia, and the importance of magnetic fields for isochronal age; H. Bouy, E. Bertin, L. M. Sarro, E. Moraux, D. Barrado, J.C. Cuillandre, J. Bouvier, A. Berihuete, N. Wright, Y. Beletsky, W. Brandner, J. Olivares, Complementing Gaia from the ground; Ages of brown dwarf. Jacqueline. K. Faherty, Age determination for Ultracool Dwarfs; S. L. Casewell, Gaia and white dwarf - brown dwarf binaries; Z. H. Zhang, D. J. Pinfield, B. Burningham, M. C. Gálvez–Ortiz, H. R. A. Jones, F. Marocco, R. L. Smart, N. Lodieu, Halo brown dwarf and Gaia potential; S.J. Schmidt, Examining the age/activity relationship of Ultracool Dwarfs with Gaia; Brown dwarf pushing the envelope 3. B. Burningham, Who wants a million brown dwarfs?; C. Reylé, Gaia and the luminosity and mass functions of field brown dwarfs; J.A. Caballero, Gaia and brown dwarfs from Spain; J. C. Beamin, V. D. Ivanov, R. Kurtev, M. Gromadzki, K. Peña Ramirez, D. Minniti, Proper motions and brown dwarfs with the VVV survey; F.J. Galindo-Guil,D. Barrado, H. Bouy, Towards an unbiased stellar census in open clusters using multi-wavelength photometry; F. Marocco, R. L. Smart, H. R. A. Jones, A. C. Day-Jones, B. Burningham, D. J. Pinfield, A spectroscopic census of brown dwarfs observed by Gaia - completing the 3D picture; A. Bayo, C. Rodrigo, D. Barrado, F. Allard, Physical parameter determinations of young Ms; Ipercool. C.A. Beichman , C.R. Gelino, J. Kirkpatrick, J. Davy, Distances to WISE Y Dwarfs; A.H. Andrei, Parsec's astrometry direct approaches; N.J. Cook, D. J. Pinfield, B. Burningham, H. R. A. Jones, A. C. Day-Jones, Confirming Ultra-Cool companions to Mdwarfs using low-resolution nearinfrared- spectra; R. Teixeira, C. Ducourant, A. Krone-Martins, S. Scarano, A. Moitinho, Ph. Galli, Parallaxes of ultra cool brown dwarf calibrators; Y. Wang, R. L. Smart, H.R.A. Jones, Z. Shao, Gaia colors of brown dwarfs; P.W. Leigh Smith, R. Lucas, B. Bunce, H.R.A. Burningham, R.L. Jones, R.L. Smart, N. Skrzypek, D.R. Rodriguez, J. Faherty, A search for high proper motion objects in the UKIDSS Galactic plane survey; Z. Qi, B. Bucciarelli, R.L. Smart, A. Spagna, Validation of the Absolute Proper Motions Outside the Plane catalog (APOP); L. Nicastro, D. Ricci, P. G. Sprimont, Web applications meet astronomical archives; H.R.A. Jones, D. Henry, R. Thomson, D.T. Reid, E. Oliva, A. Reiners, G. Anglada-Escude, R. Mendez, J.S. Jenkins, J.R. Barnes, M. Tuomi, C.J. Evans, W. Taylor, M. Riva, L. Origlia, R. Smart, L. Nicastro, A. Sozetti, R. Nelson, R. Saglia, C. Haswell, A. Holland, Z. Zhang, W. Chaplin, Y. Elsworth, A. Miglio, P. Hauschildt, M. Burleigh, D. Pollaco, K. Rice, M.Konacki, A. Niedzi, Photonic Spectrograph for new Technology Telescope (PSTT); Tang Zheng-Hong, Mao Yin-Dun, Li Yan, Yu Yong, Oleksandr Shulga, Yevgen Kozyryev, Yevgeniya Sybiryakova, Precise astrometry of Near-Earth-Object with Rotating-Drift-Scan CCD; J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Summary of the workshop "Gaia and the unseen: the brown dwarf question".

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Volume 85, 3, 2014
Pp. 168


Local Group, Local Cosmology. Symposium V of EWASS 2013. Turku, July 08-09, 2013. Editors: M. Monelli and S. Salvadori. Index; Foreword; List of Participants; Session I: The Local Group. M. Monelli, Local Group; S. Salvadori, Local Cosmology; G. Battaglia, The internal kinematics and mass content of Local Group dwarfs from extensive spectroscopic surveys; D. Crnojevic and the PAndAS collaboration, A PAndAS view of the resolved stellar populations in M31 dwarf elliptical satellites; Session II: SF through Cosmic Time. C. Gallart, Gas-rich vs. gas-poor: LCID insights on the origin of different dwarf galaxy types; M. Ricotti, O. Parry, E. Polisensky and M. Bovill, The Living Fossils of the First Galaxies; T.M. Brown, J. Tumlinson, M. Geha, E. Kirby, D.A. VandenBerg, J.S. Kalirai, J.D. Simon, R.J. Avila, R.R. Munoz, P. Guhathakurta, A. Renzini, H.C. Ferguson, L.C. Vargas and M. Gennaro, The Formation History of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies; S. Cassisi, Stellar evolution models: current uncertainties and their impact on population synthesis tools; R. Leaman, K. Venn, A. Brooks, G. Battaglia, A. Cole, R. Ibata, M. Irwin, A. McConnachie, T. Mendel, E. Tolstoy and E. Starkenburg, Using Radial Metallicity Gradients in Dwarf Galaxies to Study Environmental Processing; E. Sobacchi, A. Mesinger, How does inhomogeneous reionization impact the gas content of galaxies?; E.R. Fernandez, S. Zaroubi, I.T. Iliev and B. Rabbit, Cumulative Light from the Epoch of Reionization - the Near Infrared Background and the 21cm Line; Session III: Chemical Evolution. K.A. Venn, Chemical Substructure and Inhomogeneous Mixing In Local Group Dwarf Galaxies; T.C. Beers, Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars: Probes of Nucleosynthesis from the First Generation of Stars in the Universe; Y. Komiya, T. Suda and M. Fujimoto, Current signatures and search for Pop. III stars in the Local Universe; B. Lanzoni and the Cosmic-Lab Team, TERZAN 5: the remnant of a pristine fragment of the Galactic Bulge?; M. Pettini and R.J. Cooke, Metal-Poor Damped Lyalpha Systems: High-Redshift Analogues of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies?; J.H. Wise, M.J. Turk, M.L. Norman and T. Abel, Primordial Enrichment of the First Galaxies; Session IV: The Future. G. Bono, V.F. Braga, M. Fabrizio, R. Gilmozzi, R. Buonanno, I. Ferraro, G. Iannicola, M. Monelli, A. Milone, M. Nonino, L. Pulone, P.B. Stetson, F. Thevenin, A.R. Walker, Stellar populations in the ELT perspective; A.C. Robin, C. Reylé and X. Luri, Gaia: a new vision of our Galaxy and our neighbours; A.H. Pawlik, V. Bromm, and M. Milosavljevic, Assembly of the first disk galaxies under radiative feedback from the first stars; Session V: Posters. A. del Pino Molina, S.L. Hidalgo and A. Aparicio, Unravelling a complex system: The Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy; A. Di Cecco, G. Bono, P.G. Prada Moroni, E. Tognelli, M. Monelli, R. Buonanno, I. Ferraro, G. Iannicola, M. Nonino and P.B. Stetson, On the absolute age of the globular cluster M71; M. Di Criscienzo, F. Dell'Agli, P. Ventura, R. Schneider, R. Valiante, F. La Franca, C. Rossi, S. Gallerani and R. Maiolino, Dust formation in the winds of low metallities AGBs and implications for cosmic dust enrichment; M. Di Criscienzo, M. Marconi, I. Musella, M. Dall'Ora, M. Cignoni and STREGA Collaborators, The stellar survey STREGA@VST; P. Drazinos, E. Kontizas, M. Kontizas, A. Karampelas, A. Dapergolas, I. Bellas-Velidis and E. Livanou, Star forming regions in nearby galaxies: a potential application for Gaia's observations; M. G. Lee, H.S. Park and H.S. Hwang, Formation of M31 revealed from globular clusters; V. Golev and N. Kaltcheva, Star-Formation in the Coalsack Loop; T. Nykytyuk, A chemical evolution of Local dwarf galaxies: LeoI; T. Suda, J. Hidaka, M. Ishigaki, Y. Katsuta, S. Yamada, Y. Komiya, M.Y. Fujimoto and W. Aoki, Stellar Abundances for Galactic Archaeology Database for Stars in Dwarf Galaxies; P. Tenjes, T. Tuvikene, R. Kipper, A. Tamm and E. Tempel, Structure of spiral arms in M31; R. Zenoviene, E. Stonkute, G. Tautvaisiene and B. Nordstrom, Abundances of heavy elements in the kinematic stellar substructures.

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Volume 85, 2, 2014
Pp. 272


Metal production and distribution in a hierarchical Universe. Paris, October 21-25, 2013. Eeditors: P. Bonifacio, I. Saviane, M. Spite, and L. Monaco. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Index; Foreword; List of Participants; Setting the stage Primordial nucleosynthesis. G. Steigman, K.M. Nollet, Light WIMPs, equivalent neutrinos, BBN, and the CMB; Y.I. Izotov, Primordial abundances of 4He and other light elements; R.J. Cooke, M. Pettini, R. A. Jorgenson, M. T. Murphy, C. C. Steidel, Precision measures of the primordial deuterium abundance; Sources of metals - stellar nuclosynthesis: P. Ventura, M. Limongi, Gas and dust from stars; V. Bromm, Metal production and dispersal from the first stars; C-E. Rydberg, Metal-free galaxy candidates discovered in CLASH; Life of metals in different ecosystems: T. Bensby, Abundances of stars in different Galactic subsystems; E. Caffau, L. Sbordone, P. Bonifacio, R. Cayrel, N. Christlieb, P. Clark, P. François, S. Glover, R. Klessen, A. Koch, H.-G. Ludwig, L. Monaco, B. Plez, F. Spite, M. Spite, M. Steffen, S. Zaggia TOPoS: chemical study of extremely metal-poor stars; H.R. Jacobson, M. Asplund, M.S. Bessell, A.R. Casey, G.R. Da Costa, A. Frebel, S.C. Keller, K. Lind, J.E. Norris, B.P. Schmidt, P. Tisserand, D. Yong, Detailed element abundances of SkyMapper EMP stars: first results of the highresolution spectroscopic follow up; C. Siqueira-Mello, B. Barbuy, M. Spite, F. Spite, E. Caffau, V. Hill, S. Wanajo, P. François, P. Bonifacio, R. Cayrel, r-process abundances in metal-poor Galactic halo stars; B. Nordström, J. Andersen, T. Hansen, Origin and distribution of the lightest and heaviest elements in the primitive halo; M. Ness, The Milky Way bulge: stellar abundances and formation in an hierarchical universe; D. Massari, F. R. Ferraro, A. Mucciarelli, L. Origlia, E. Dalessandro, B. Lanzoni, Terzan 5: a pristine fragment of the Galactic bulge?; M. Haywood, Galactic chemical evolution revisited; S. Bertran de Lis, G. Israelian, E. Delgado Mena, Oxygen abundances in thin and thick disk stars from HARPS; G. Israelian, S. Bertran de Lis, E. Delgado Mena, V. Zh. Adibekyan, Cu, Ba and Y in FGK main-sequence stars from the HARPS sample; N. Ryde, H. Jönsson, E. Matrozis, Is sulphur a typical alpha element; P. Di Matteo, The well-defined structure of boxy bulges. Implications for the Milky Way bulge formation; A. Mucciarelli, Globular clusters: a chemical roadmap between anomalies and homogeneity; L. Lovisi, Chemical abundances of blue straggler stars in Galactic globular clusters; J. Alonso-Garcia, M. Catelan, P. Amigo, C. Cortés, C. A. Kuehn, F. Grundahl, G. López, R. Salinas, H. A. Smith, P. B. Stetson, A. V. Sweigart, A. A. R. Valcarce, M. Zoccali, Multiple populations in Galactic globular clusters from a Strömgren perspective; A. Cerniauskas, A. Kucinskas, P. Bonifacio, S. M. Andrievsky, S. A. Korotin, V. Dobrovolskas, Light element abundances in the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tuc; T. V. Mishenina, V. V. Kovtyukh, I. A. Yegorova, S. A. Korotin, G. Carraro, Y, Ba, and La abundance in the stars of open clusters and Galactic field; M. Spite, F. Spite, Stars with a low Sr/Ba ratio; P. Francois, Chemical composition of stars in Ruprecht 106; M. G. Richer, L. Georgiev, A. Arrieta, S. Torres Peimbert, The discrepant kinematics of ORLs and CELs in NGC 7009 as a function of ionization structure; G. Battaglia, Chemical properties of Local Group dwarf galaxies; H. Homma, T. Murayama, Chemical evolution of dwarf spheroidal galaxies based on model calculations incorporating observed star formation histories; N. Jimenez, P.B. Tissera, F. Matteucci, Chemical feedback from SNIa in isolated galaxies; F. Hammer, Formation of galactic disks through gas-rich mergers; E.O. Vasiliev, M.V. Ryabova, Yu.A. Shchekinov, Ionized oxygen around starforming galaxies; R. Lallement, J.-L. Vergely, L. Puspitarini, ISM abundances and history: a 3D, solar neighborhood view; Transfer of metals to ISM and IGM, both in galaxies, groups, and clusters: M. Ricotti, O. Parry, E. Polisensky, M. Bovill, Star formation and multi-phase interstellar medium in the first galaxies; M. Fumagalli, Metal abundances in the high-redshift intergalactic medium; T. Zafar, M. Centurión, P. Molaro, C. Péroux, V. D'Odorico, G. Vladilo, Nitrogen abundances in damped Lyalpha absorbers; M. Rauch, Identifying physical processes of metal-enrichment in the intergalactic medium at z=3; E. Scannapieco, The exchange of metals between galaxies and the intergalactic medium at high redshift; M. Sparre, The metallicity of high-z GRBs: the case of GRB 111008A; P.-A. Duc, The role of colliding galaxies and tidal dwarf galaxies in the ISM/IGM enrichment; I. Mitsuishi, S. Sasaki, K. Hayashi, N. Iijima, M. Sato, T. Ohashi, Fe abundance distribution in the nearby merging groups NGC 7618 & UGC 12; studied with Suzaku; N. Iijima, I. Mitsuishi, T. Ohashi, K. Matsushita, K. Sato, Metal distribution in the center of the Virgo cluster; H. Bohringer, X-ray observations of the chemical abundances in the Intra-Cluster Medium; M. Rodrigues, M. Puech, F. Hammer, B. Rothberg, H. Flores, Gas exchanges between local spirals ancestor and the intergalactic medium in the past 6 Gyrs; S. M. Sweet, M. J. Drinkwater, G. Meurer, K. Bekki, M. A. Dopita, V. Kilborn, D. Nicholls, Tidal dwarf galaxies and the luminosity-metallicity relation; F. Cullen, M. Cirasuolo, R.J. McLure, J.S. Dunlop, A.A. Bowler, Mass-metallicity relation and fundamental metallicity relation at z & 2; Models: I. Saviane, I. Yegorova, D. Proust, F. Bresolin, V. Ivanov, E.V. Held, J. Salzer, R.M. Rich, Themassmetallicityrelationof galaxiesuptoredshift0.35; Y. Wang, G. Zhao, The influence of radial stellar migration on the chemical evolution of the Milky Way; R.M. Yates, G. Kauffmann, Dilution in massive, elliptical galaxies; R. M. Yates, B. Henriques, P. A. Thomas, G. Kauffmann, J. Johansson, S. D. M. White, Reconciling the chemical properties of star-forming galaxies, the Milky Way, and local ellipticals; Summary: I. Saviane, P. Bonifacio, Conference summary.

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Volume 85, 1, 2014
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Varying fundamental constants and dynamical dark energy. Sesto, Val Pusteria (BZ), 8-13th July 2013. Editors: Carlos Martins and Paolo Molaro. Index, Foreword, List of Participants; C. J. A. P. Martins, M. C. Ferreira, M. D. Juliao, A. C. O. Leite, A. M. R. V. L., Monteiro, P. O. J. Pedrosa and P. E. Vielzeuf, Fundamental cosmology in the E-ELT era; R. I. Thompson, Confronting cosmology and new physics with fundamental constants; P. Brax, A gentle introduction to modified gravity; L. Kraiselburd, S. Landau, M. Salgado and D. Sudarsky, Equivalence principle in Chameleon models; G. Gubitosi, Disformal coupling, CMB spectral distortion and distance duality relation; M.P. Dabrowski, K. Marosek, and A. Balcerzak, Standard and exotic singularities regularized by varying constants; S. Bonometto, Fluctuations in strongly coupled cosmologies & fundamental constant variations; J. K. Webb, A. Wright, F. E. Koch and M. T. Murphy, Enhanced heavy magnesium isotopes in quasar absorption systems and varying, alpha; J. B. Whitmore, P. Molaro, M. Centurion, H. Rahmani, T. M. Evans, M. T. Murphy, I. I. Agafonova, P. Bonifacio, S. D'Odorico, S. A. Levshakov, S. Lopez, C. J. A. P., Martins, P. Petitjean, D. Reimers, R. Srianand, G. Vladilo and M. Wendt, Bounds on a change in alpha towards quasar HE 2217-2818; H. Rahmani, M. Wendt, R. Srianand, P. Noterdaeme, P. Petitjean, P. Molaro, J. B., Whitmore, M. T. Murphy, M. Centurion, H. Fathivavsari, S. D'Odorico, T.M., Evans, S. A. Levshakov, S. Lopez, C. J. A. P. Martins, D. Reimers and G. Vladilo, The UVES Large Program for testing fundamental physics II: constraints Dmu/mu, towards quasar HE 0027-1836; M. Wendt and P. Molaro, Constraints of Dmu/mu based on H2 observations in QSO spectra; H. Rahmani, D. Albornoz Vásquez, R. Srianand, P. Petitjean, P. Noterdaeme and C., Ledoux, Probing u with H2 absorption lines at zabs 2.66 toward Q J 0643-5041 with VLTUVES; S. A. Levshakov, C. Henkel, D. Reimers and P. Molaro, Limits on the space-time variations of fundamental constants; E. Cameron and A. N. Pettitt, A bayesian reanalaysis of the quasar dataset; L. Kraiselburd, A statistical analysis of varying alpha data; M. D. Juliao, M. C. Ferreira, C. J. A. P. Martins and A. M. R. V. L. Monteiro, Probing unification scenarios with atomic clocks; A. M. R. V. L. Monteiro, M. C. Ferreira, M. D. Juliao and C. J. A. P. Martins, Constraining fundamental physics with combined variations of fundamental constants,; E. Garcia-Berro, S. Torres, L. G. Althaus, A. H. Córsico, P. Lorén-Aguilar, A. D., Romero and J. Isern, White dwarf constraints on a varying G; A. Coc and E. Vangioni, The triple-alpha reaction and the A=8 gap in BBN and Population III stars; S, Galli, Clusters of galaxies and variation of the fine structure constant; E. Menegoni, M. Martinelli, S. Galli and A. Melchiorri, Constraints on fundamental constants with galaxy surveys; M. Martinelli, S. Pandolfi, E. Calabrese, V. F. Cardone, C. J. A. P. Martins, S. Spiro, and P. E. Vielzeuf, Constraints on varying alpha with future low-medium redshift probes; P. O. J. Pedrosa, A. C. O. Leite and C. J. A. P. Martins, Observational strategies for varying constants with ESPRESSO and ELT-HIRES; P. Vielzeu and C. J. A. P. Martins, Varying constants and dark energy with the E-ELT.

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Volume 84, 4, 2013
Pp. 340


Brown dwarfs come of age. Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, May 20-24, 2013. Editors: Antonio Magazzù and Eduardo L. Martin. Index; Foreword; List of Participants; Session I: Formation, Disks, and Outflows. F. Palla, Births and infancy of brown dwarfs: an introduction; E. I. Vorobyov and S. Basu, Formation of free-floating and companion brown dwarfs; R. Garcia Lopez, A. Caratti o Garatti, G. Weigelt, B. Nisini and S. Antoniucci, Spatially resolved atomic and molecular emission from the very low-mass star IRS54 875, O. V. Zakhozhay, E. I. Vorobyov and M. M. Dunham, Observational signatures of proto brown dwarf formation in protostellar disks; L. Ricci, L. Testi, A. Natta, A. Scholz, I. de Gregorio-Monsalvo, A. Isella and J. M. Carpenter, ALMA and CARMA observations of brown dwarfs disks: testing the models of dust evolution; A. Scholz, Angular momentum and disk evolution in very low mass systems; A. Yip, D. Pinfield and B. Burningham, Identifying the ejected population from disintegrating multiple systems; H. Drass, R. Chini, D. Nürnberger, A. Bayo, M. Haas, M. Hackstein, M. Morales-Calderon and V. Hoffmeister, The substellar content of the Orion Nebula Cluster; Session IIa: Brown Dwarfs in Clusters and the IMF. C. Alves de Oliveira, The low mass end of the IMF; I. Thies, J. Pflamm-Altenburg and P. Kroupa, Why brown dwarfs are special; J. Gagne, D. Lafreniere, R. Doyon, L. Malo, J. Faherty and E. Artigau, Bayesian analysis to identify very low-mass members of nearby young stellar kinematic groups; B. Goldman, S. Röser, E. Schilbach, E. A. Magn