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Annual Report Publications 2012 Publications Publications in refereed journals based on ESO data (2012) The ESO Library maintains the ESO Telescope Bibliography (telbib) and is responsible for providing paper-based statistics. Access to the database for the years 1996 to present as well as information on basic publication statistics are available through the public interface of telbib (http://telbib.eso.org) and from the “Basic ESO Publication Statistics” document (http://www.eso.org/sci/libraries/edocs/ESO/ESOstats.pdf), respectively. In the list below, only those papers are included that are based on data from ESO facilities for which observing time is evaluated by the Observing Programmes Committee (OPC). Publications that use data from non-ESO telescopes or observations obtained during ‘private’ observing time are not listed here. Acharova, I.A., Mishurov, Y.N. & Kovtyukh, V.V. 2012, Alaghband-Zadeh, S., Chapman, S.C., Swinbank, A.M., Galactic restrictions on iron production by various Smail, I., Harrison, C.M., Alexander, D.M., Casey, types of supernovae, MNRAS, 420, 1590 C.M., Davé, R., Narayanan, D., Tamura, Y. & Umehata, Adami, C., Jouvel, S., Guennou, L., Le Brun, V., Durret, H. 2012, Integral field spectroscopy of 2.0< z<2.7 F., Clement, B., Clerc, N., Comerón, S., Ilbert, O., Lin, submillimetre galaxies: gas morphologies and Y., Russeil, D. & Seemann, U. 2012, Comparison of kinematics, MNRAS, 424, 2232 the properties of two fossil groups of galaxies with the Albrecht, S., Winn, J.N., Butler, R.P., Crane, J.D., normal group NGC 6034 based on multiband imaging Shectman, S.A., Thompson, I.B., Hirano, T. & and optical spectroscopy, A&A, 540, 105 Wittenmyer, R.A. 2012, A High Stellar Obliquity in the Adams, J.D., Herter, T.L., Osorio, M., Macias, E., WASP-7 Exoplanetary System, ApJ, 744, 189 Megeath, S.T., Fischer, W.J., Ali, B., Calvet, N., Alencar, S.H.P., Bouvier, J., Walter, F.M., Dougados, C., D'Alessio, P., De Buizer, J.M., Gull, G.E., Henderson, Donati, J.-F., Kurosawa, R., Romanova, M., Bonfils, X., C.P., Keller, L.D., Morris, M.R., Remming, I.S., Lima, G.H.R.A., Massaro, S., Ibrahimov, M., Poretti, E., Schoenwald, J., Shuping, R.Y., Stacey, G., Stanke, T., 2012, Accretion dynamics in the classical T Tauri star Stutz, A. & Vacca, W. 2012, First Science V2129 Ophiuchi, A&A, 541, 116 Observations with SOFIA/FORCAST: Properties of Alentiev, D., Kochukhov, O., Ryabchikova, T., Cunha, M., Intermediate-luminosity Protostars and Circumstellar Tsymbal, V. & Weiss, W. 2012, Discovery of the Disks in OMC-2, ApJ, 749, L24 longest period rapidly oscillating Ap star HD 177765, Adibekyan, V.Z., Sousa, S.G., Santos, N.C., Delgado MNRAS, 421, L82 Mena, E., González Hernández, J.I., Israelian, G., Allen, D.M., Ryan, S.G., Rossi, S., Beers, T.C. & Mayor, M. & Khachatryan, G. 2012, Chemical Tsangarides, S.A. 2012, Elemental abundances and abundances of 1111 FGK stars from the HARPS GTO classification of carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars, planet search program. Galactic stellar populations A&A, 548, 34 and planets, A&A, 545, 32 Alonso-Herrero, A., Sánchez-Portal, M., Ramos Almeida, Adibekyan, V.Z., Delgado Mena, E., Sousa, S.G., Santos, C., Pereira-Santaella, M., Esquej, P., García-Burillo, S., N.C., Israelian, G., González Hernández, J.I., Mayor, Castillo, M., González-Martín, O., Levenson, N., M. & Hakobyan, A.A. 2012, Exploring the α- Hatziminaoglou, E., Acosta-Pulido, J.A., González- enhancement of metal-poor planet-hosting stars. The Serrano, J.I., Pović, M., Packham, C. & Pérez-García, Kepler and HARPS samples, A&A, 547, 36 A.M. 2012, Probing the nuclear and circumnuclear Adibekyan, V.Z., Santos, N.C., Sousa, S.G., Israelian, G., activity of NGC 1365 in the infrared, MNRAS, 425, 311 Delgado Mena, E., González Hernández, J.I., Mayor, Alves de Oliveira, C., Moraux, E., Bouvier, J. & Bouy, H. M., Lovis, C. & Udry, S. 2012, Overabundance of α- 2012, Spectroscopy of new brown dwarf members of elements in exoplanet-hosting stars, A&A, 543, 89 ρ Ophiuchi and an updated initial mass function, A&A, Aird, J., Coil, A.L., Moustakas, J., Blanton, M.R., Burles, 539, 151 S.M., Cool, R.J., Eisenstein, D.J., Smith, M.S.M., Ammler-von Eiff, M. & Reiners, A. 2012, New Wong, K.C. & Zhu, G. 2012, PRIMUS: The measurements of rotation and differential rotation in A- Dependence of AGN Accretion on Host Stellar Mass F stars: are there two populations of differentially and Color, ApJ, 746, 90 rotating stars?, A&A, 542, 116 Amôres, E.B., Sodré, L., Minniti, D., Alonso, M.V., Padilla, García-Burillo, S. & Rodríguez-Zaurín, J. 2012, Integral N., Gurovich, S., Arsenijevic, V., Tollerud, E.J., field spectroscopy based Hα sizes of local luminous Rodríguez-Ardila, A., Díaz Tello, J. & Lucas, P.W. and ultraluminous infrared galaxies. A direct 2012, Galaxies behind the Galactic Plane: First Results comparison with high-z massive star-forming galaxies, and Perspectives from the VVV Survey, AJ, 144, 127 A&A, 541, 20 Anderson, J.P., Habergham, S.M., James, P.A. & Hamuy, Ascenso, J., Lombardi, M., Lada, C.J. & Alves, J. 2012, M. 2012, Progenitor mass constraints for core- The extinction law from photometric data: linear collapse supernovae from correlations with host galaxy regression methods, A&A, 540, 139 star formation, MNRAS, 424, 1372 Assafin, M., Camargo, J.I.B., Vieira Martins, R., Braga- Anderson, L.D., Zavagno, A., Deharveng, L., Abergel, A., Ribas, F., Sicardy, B., Andrei, A.H. & da Silva Neto, Motte, F., André, P., Bernard, J.-P., Bontemps, S., D.N. 2012, Candidate stellar occultations by large Hennemann, M., Hill, T., Rodón, J.A., Roussel, H., trans-Neptunian objects up to 2015, A&A, 541, 142 Russeil, D., 2012, The dust properties of bubble H II Bagdonaite, J., Murphy, M.T., Kaper, L. & Ubachs, W. regions as seen by Herschel, A&A, 542, 10 2012, Constraint on a variation of the proton-to- Anglada-Escudé, G. & Tuomi, M. 2012, A planetary electron mass ratio from H2 absorption towards system with gas giants and super-Earths around the quasar Q2348-011, MNRAS, 421, 419 nearby M dwarf GJ 676A. Optimizing data analysis Bagnulo, S., Landstreet, J.D., Fossati, L. & Kochukhov, O. techniques for the detection of multi-planetary 2012, Magnetic field measurements and their systems, A&A, 548, 58 uncertainties: the FORS1 legacy, A&A, 538, 129 Anglada-Escudé, G., Arriagada, P., Vogt, S.S., Rivera, Bailey, J.D., Grunhut, J., Shultz, M., Wade, G., E.J., Butler, R.P., Crane, J.D., Shectman, S.A., Landstreet, J.D., Bohlender, D., Lim, J., Wong, K., Thompson, I.B., Minniti, D., Haghighipour, N., Carter, Drake, S. & Linsky, J. 2012, An analysis of the rapidly B.D., Tinney, C.G., Wittenmyer, R.A., Bailey, J.A., rotating Bp star HD 133880, MNRAS, 423, 328 O'Toole, S.J., Jones, H.R.A. & Jenkins, J.S. 2012, A Balaguera-Antolínez, A., Sánchez, A.G., Böhringer, H. & Planetary System around the nearby M Dwarf GJ Collins, C. 2012, Constructing mock catalogues for the 667C with At Least One Super-Earth in Its Habitable REFLEX II galaxy cluster sample, MNRAS, 425, 2244 Zone, ApJ, 751, L16 Baldovin-Saavedra, C., Audard, M., Carmona, A., Güdel, Anglada-Escudé, G. & Butler, R.P. 2012, The HARPS- M., Briggs, K., Rebull, L.M., Skinner, S.L. & Ercolano, TERRA Project. 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