The Total Eclipse

Total eclipse in the heart

For this new section, authors are invited to submit images of cardiovascular conditions that can be of value to our readers because the images are interesting, intriguing, rare and illustrative, thought-provoking, relevant to recent discussions or guidelines, entertaining, or all of the above. We do require them to be educational and/or of scientific interest. Except ECGs, which are captured in...

Solar radiation during a total solar eclipse

The Total Solar Eclipse of March 2006: overview

This paper provides the overview of an integrated, multi-disciplinary effort to study the effects of the 29 March 2006 total solar eclipse on the environment, with special focus on the atmosphere. The eclipse has been visible over the Eastern Mediterranean, and on this occasion several research and academic institutes organised co-ordinated experimental campaigns, at different distances from ec...

Search for neutrino radiative decays during a total solar eclipse

We present the results of the measurements performed in the occasion of the 2001 total solar eclipse, looking for visible photons emitted through a possible radiative decay of solar neutrinos. We establish lower limits for the ν2 and ν3 proper lifetimes above 10 s/eV, for neutrino masses larger than 10 eV.

Total eclipse of the heart: The AM CVn Gaia14aae / ASSASN-14cn

We report the discovery and characterisation of a deeply eclipsing AM CVn-system, Gaia14aae (= ASSASN-14cn). Gaia14aae was identified independently by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN; Shappee et al. 2014) and by the Gaia Science Alerts project, during two separate outbursts. A third outburst is seen in archival PanSTARRS-1 (PS1; Schlafly et al. 2012; Tonry et al. 2012; Magn...