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