Invited Review

• Measuring the orbital periods of low mass X-ray binaries in the X-ray band

  Yi Chou

  

  1367-1382

Research Paper

• An interacting scenario for dark energy in a Bianchi type-I universe

  Hassan Amirhashchi, Syed Nasrullah Ali Qazi, Hishamuddin Zainuddin

  

  1383-1392

• Metallicity and star formation activities of the interacting system Arp 86 from observations with MOS on the Xinglong 2.16 m telescope

  Zhi-Min Zhou, Hong Wu, Lei Huang, Hong-Bin Li, Zhi-Zhong Zhou, Jun-Jun Jia, Man-I Lam, Yi-Nan Zhu

  

  1393-1405

• Numerical simulation of a possible origin of the positive radial metallicity gradient of the thick disk

  Awat Rahimi, Kenneth Carrell, Daisuke Kawata

  

  1406-1414

• Possibility of measuring spin precession of the nearest supermassive black hole by using S stars

  Wen-Biao Han

  

  1415-1422

• A search for strongly Mg-enhanced stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

  Xiang Li, Gang Zhao, Yu-Qin Chen, Hai-Ning Li

  

  1423-1437

• Near-infrared polarimetry of the GG Tauri A binary system

  Yoichi Itoh, Yumiko Oasa, Tomoyuki Kudo, Nobuhiko Kusakabe, Jun Hashimoto, Lyu Abe, Wolfgang Brandner, Timothy D. Brandt, Joseph C. Carson, Sebastian Egner, Markus Feldt, Carol A. Grady, Olivier Guyon, Yutaka Hayano, Masahiko Hayashi, Saeko S. Hayashi, Thomas Henning, Klaus W. Hodapp, Miki Ishii, Masanori Iye, Markus Janson, Ryo Kandori, Gillian R. Knapp, Masayuki Kuzuhara, Jungmi Kwon, Taro Matsuo, Michael W. McElwain, Shoken Miyama, Jun-Ichi Morino, Amaya Moro-Martin, Tetsuo Nishimura, Tae-Soo Pyo, Eugene Serabyn, Takuya Suenaga, Hiroshi Suto, Ryuji Suzuki, Yasuhiro H. Takahashi, Naruhisa Takato, Hiroshi Terada, Christian Thalmann, Daigo Tomono, Edwin L. Turner, Makoto Watanabe, John Wisniewski, Toru Yamada, Satoshi Mayama, Thayne Currie, Hideki Takami, Tomonori Usuda, Motohide Tamura

  

  1438-1446

• Precise determination of fundamental parameters of six exoplanet host stars and their planets

  Kang Liu, Shao-Lan Bi, Tan-Da Li, Zhi-E Liu, Zhi-Jia Tian, Zhi-Shuai Ge

  

  1447-1457

• A study of the relation between intensity oscillations and magnetic field parameters in a sunspot: Hinode observations

  A. Raja Bayanna, Shibu K. Mathew, Brajesh Kumar, Rohan E. Louis, P. Venkatakrishnan

  

  1458-1468

• Some tests and improvements to the VFISV: Very Fast Inversion of the Stokes Vector for the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager

  Fei Teng, Yuan-Yong Deng

  

  1469-1480

• Disappearance of a coronal hole induced by a filament activation

  Lin Ma, Zhong-Quan Qu, Xiao-Li Yan, Zhi-Ke Xue

  

  1481-1490

• Gamma/hadron segregation for a ground based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope using machine learning methods: Random Forest leads

  Mradul Sharma, Jitadeepa Nayak, Maharaj Krishna Koul, Smarajit Bose, Abhas Mitra

  

  1491-1503

• Numerical model of the influence function of deformable mirrors based on Bessel Fourier orthogonal functions

  Shun Li, Sijiong Zhang

  

  1504