We investigated the meridional circulation of photospheric faculae throughout cycle 19. Together with the rotation observed in a companion paper (Meunier et al. 1996), we were able to address the problem of the existence of the observed differential rotation. Themeridional circulation is characterized by a strong north-south asymmetry. The distribution of meridional circulation around the mean ...

Context. This study follows a recent analysis of the galaxy luminosity functions and colour-magnitude red sequences in the Coma cluster (Adami et al. 2007). Aims. We analyze here the distribution of very faint galaxies and globular clusters in an east-west strip of ∼ 42 × 7 arcmin 2 crossing the Coma cluster center (hereafter the CS strip) down to the unprecedented faint absolute magnitude of M...

Results We found that c-diversity decreases from south to north whereas a-diversity increases along the same latitudinal gradient. Communities in formerly glaciated regions are composed of smaller, more mobile species and show trait and taxonomical aggregation. In more southerly populations, which did not experience glaciation, earthworm species are larger, have smaller geographical ranges, and...

Results from an analysis of the intrinsic UV absorption in the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 3783 are presented. We focus on two new results that demonstrate techniques for deriving important constraints on the physical conditions and geometry of the absorbers. First, using variability in the spectrum, the emission-line profile is separated into distinct kinematic components and the effect on the interp...

introduction: tt virus (ttv) is an unenveloped single-stranded circular dna virus. sensitive pcr (polymerase chain reaction) methods with primers designed for very conserved regions of the viral genome (utr) indicate high prevalence (> 90%) of ttv infection in general population of many countries world-wide. although there has been no evidence of its relation to any liver or other specific dise...