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Cassiopeia A interacts with a circumstellar shell (Orlando, S., et al., 2022, A&A, 666, A2)

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Gaia Data Release 3 (in progress)
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The chemical signature of the Galactic spiral arms revealed by Gaia DR3

E. Poggio, A. Recio-Blanco, P. A. Palicio, P. Re Fiorentin, P. de Laverny, R. Drimmel, G. Kordopatis, M. G. Lattanzi, M. Schultheis, A. Spagna and E. Spitoni

A&A, 666 (2022) L4

Published online: 30 September 2022
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A high angular resolution view of the PAH emission in Seyfert galaxies using JWST/MRS data

I. García-Bernete, D. Rigopoulou, A. Alonso-Herrero, F. R. Donnan, P. F. Roche, M. Pereira-Santaella, A. Labiano, L. Peralta de Arriba, T. Izumi, C. Ramos Almeida et al. (9 more)

A&A, 666 (2022) L5

Published online: 30 September 2022
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Radio interferometric imaging of RS Oph bipolar ejecta for the 2021 nova outburst

U. Munari, M. Giroletti, B. Marcote, T. J. O’Brien, P. Veres, J. Yang, D. R. A. Williams and P. Woudt

A&A, 666 (2022) L6

Published online: 30 September 2022
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Fast methods for tracking grain coagulation and ionization - II. Extension to thermal ionization

P. Marchand, V. Guillet, U. Lebreuilly and M.-M. Mac Low

A&A, 666 (2022) A27

Published online: 30 September 2022
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Cluster counts - III. ΛCDM extensions and the cluster tension

Ziad Sakr, Stéphane Ilić and Alain Blanchard

A&A, 666 (2022) A34

Published online: 30 September 2022
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Stellar feedback in M 83 as observed with MUSE - II. Analysis of the H II region population: Ionisation budget and pre-SN feedback

Lorenza Della Bruna, Angela Adamo, Anna F. McLeod, Linda J. Smith, Gabriel Savard, Carmelle Robert, Jiayi Sun, Philippe Amram, Arjan Bik, William P. Blair et al. (4 more)

A&A, 666 (2022) A29

Published online: 30 September 2022
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SN 2018bsz: A Type I superluminous supernova with aspherical circumstellar material

M. Pursiainen, G. Leloudas, E. Paraskeva, A. Cikota, J. P. Anderson, C. R. Angus, S. Brennan, M. Bulla, E. Camacho-Iñiguez, P. Charalampopoulos et al. (19 more)

A&A, 666 (2022) A30

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The hunt for extraterrestrial high-energy neutrino counterparts

I. Liodakis, T. Hovatta, V. Pavlidou, A.C.S. Readhead, R. D. Blandford, S. Kiehlmann, E. Lindfors, W. Max-Moerbeck, T. J. Pearson and M. Petropoulou

A&A, 666 (2022) A36

Published online: 30 September 2022

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2763	Press Release Highlight Open Access Orbital motion near Sagittarius A^* - Constraints from polarimetric ALMA observations M. Wielgus, M. Moscibrodzka, J. Vos, Z. Gelles, I. Martí-Vidal, J. Farah, N. Marchili, C. Goddi and H. Messias A&A, 665 (2022) L6 Published online: 22 September 2022
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238	Highlight Open Access The past and future obliquity of Saturn as Titan migrates Melaine Saillenfest, Giacomo Lari, Gwenaël Boué and Ariane Courtot A&A, 647 (2021) A92 Published online: 12 March 2021

2763	Press Release Highlight Open Access Orbital motion near Sagittarius A^* - Constraints from polarimetric ALMA observations M. Wielgus, M. Moscibrodzka, J. Vos, Z. Gelles, I. Martí-Vidal, J. Farah, N. Marchili, C. Goddi and H. Messias A&A, 665 (2022) L6 Published online: 22 September 2022
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940	Press Release Free Access Two temperate super-Earths transiting a nearby late-type M dwarf L. Delrez, C.A. Murray, F.J. Pozuelos, N. Narita, E. Ducrot, M. Timmermans, N. Watanabe, A.J. Burgasser, T. Hirano, B.V. Rackham, K.G. Stassun, V. Van Grootel, C. Aganze, M. Cointepas, S. Howell, L. Kaltenegger, P. Niraula, D. Sebastian, et al. A&A, Forthcoming article Received: 17 May 2022 / Accepted: 22 August 2022
920	Press Release Open Access Solar inertial modes: Observations, identification, and diagnostic promise Laurent Gizon, Robert H. Cameron, Yuto Bekki, Aaron C. Birch, Richard S. Bogart, Allan Sacha Brun, Cilia Damiani, Damien Fournier, Laura Hyest, Kiran Jain et al. (3 more) A&A, 652 (2021) L6 Published online: 06 August 2021

Volume 666 (October 2022) (in progress)
1. Cassiopeia A interacts with a circumstellar shell (Orlando, S., et al., 2022, A&A, 666, A2)
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Volume 665 (September 2022)
1. Test particles trace mass flows in the chromosphere (Druett, M. K., et al., 2022, A&A, 665, A6)
2. NOEMA mosaics overlaid on Herschel Cygnus X data (Beuther, H., et al., 2022, A&A, 665, A63)
3. On-sky correction of static speckles with VLT/SPHERE (Potier, A., et al., 2022, A&A, 665, A136)
4. Magnification map around a microlens near a caustic (Diego, J. M., 2022, A&A, 665, A127)
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Volume 664 (August 2022)
1. Artist's view of the BINGO telescope site (Abdalla, E., et al., 2022, A&A, 664, A14)
2. LOFAR view of ionized gas structures in Cygnus X (Emig, K. L., et al., 2022, A&A, 664, A88)
3. The Herbig star HD 163296 observed by ALMA and VLA (Guidi, G., et al., 2022, A&A, 664, A137)
4. The Radcliffe Wave offset from the blue Orion arm (Swiggum, C., et al., 2022, A&A, 664, L13)
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The chemical signature of the Galactic spiral arms revealed by Gaia DR3

A high angular resolution view of the PAH emission in Seyfert galaxies using JWST/MRS data

Radio interferometric imaging of RS Oph bipolar ejecta for the 2021 nova outburst

Fast methods for tracking grain coagulation and ionization - II. Extension to thermal ionization

Cluster counts - III. ΛCDM extensions and the cluster tension

Stellar feedback in M 83 as observed with MUSE - II. Analysis of the H II region population: Ionisation budget and pre-SN feedback

SN 2018bsz: A Type I superluminous supernova with aspherical circumstellar material

The hunt for extraterrestrial high-energy neutrino counterparts

Orbital motion near Sagittarius A^* - Constraints from polarimetric ALMA observations

Planck 2018 results - VI. Cosmological parameters

The new A&A Letters: Short, unlimited, and free for all

Solar inertial modes: Observations, identification, and diagnostic promise

The past and future obliquity of Saturn as Titan migrates

Orbital motion near Sagittarius A^* - Constraints from polarimetric ALMA observations

Planck 2018 results - VI. Cosmological parameters

The new A&A Letters: Short, unlimited, and free for all

Two temperate super-Earths transiting a nearby late-type M dwarf

Solar inertial modes: Observations, identification, and diagnostic promise

Planck 2018 results - VI. Cosmological parameters

The new A&A Letters: Short, unlimited, and free for all

Orbital motion near Sagittarius A^* - Constraints from polarimetric ALMA observations

Solar inertial modes: Observations, identification, and diagnostic promise

Jupiter’s inhomogeneous envelope

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4579	Planck 2018 results Free Access Planck 2018 results - VI. Cosmological parameters Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, Y. Akrami, M. Ashdown, J. Aumont, C. Baccigalupi, M. Ballardini, A. J. Banday, R. B. Barreiro, N. Bartolo et al. (172 more) A&A, 641 (2020) A6 Published online: 11 September 2020
3746	Free Access Editorial The new A&A Letters: Short, unlimited, and free for all João Alves and Thierry Forveille A&A, 607 (2017) E1 Published online: 27 November 2017
2763	Press Release Highlight Open Access Orbital motion near Sagittarius A^* - Constraints from polarimetric ALMA observations M. Wielgus, M. Moscibrodzka, J. Vos, Z. Gelles, I. Martí-Vidal, J. Farah, N. Marchili, C. Goddi and H. Messias A&A, 665 (2022) L6 Published online: 22 September 2022
2721	Press Release Open Access Solar inertial modes: Observations, identification, and diagnostic promise Laurent Gizon, Robert H. Cameron, Yuto Bekki, Aaron C. Birch, Richard S. Bogart, Allan Sacha Brun, Cilia Damiani, Damien Fournier, Laura Hyest, Kiran Jain et al. (3 more) A&A, 652 (2021) L6 Published online: 06 August 2021
2325	Press Release Highlight Free Access Jupiter’s inhomogeneous envelope Y. Miguel, M. Bazot, T. Guillot, S. Howard, E. Galanti, Y. Kaspi, W. B. Hubbard, B. Militzer, R. Helled, S. K. Atreya et al. (6 more) A&A, 662 (2022) A18 Published online: 08 June 2022