Invited Review

• Atmospheric regimes and trends on exoplanets and brown dwarfs

  Xi Zhang

  

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Research Papers

• Automatic removal of false image stars in disk-resolved images of the Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem

  Qing-Feng Zhang, Zhi-Cong Lu, Xiao-Mei Zhou, Yang Zheng, Zhan Li, Qing-Yu Peng, Shun Long, Wei-Heng Zhu

  

  100

• Disk evolution of the M87’s nucleus observed in 2008

  Fei Xiang, Cheng Cheng

  

  101

• Preliminarily study of Saturn’s upper atmosphere density by observing Cassini plunging via China’s deep space station

  Lue Chen, Jin-Song Ping, Xiang Liu, Na Wang, Jian-Feng Cao, Guang-Ming Chen, Ming-Yuan Wang, Wen-Xiao Li, Jian-Hui Zhang, Yong-Qiang Chen, Shi-Lei Yue, Song-Tao Han, Jing Sun

  

  102

• A coarse-to-fine strategy for the registration of the multi-wavelength high-resolution solar images

  Rui Wang, Zhi Xu

  

  103

• Can active late-type stars contribute to the Galactic lithium abundance?

  Darnell E. Kelly, Damian J. Christian, Mihalis Mathioudakis, Darko Jevremović

  

  104

• New CCD photometric investigation of high amplitude δ Scuti star V2455 Cyg

  Ghasem Forozani, Setareh Ostadnezhad, Mohammad Ghanaatian

  

  105

• Local galaxies with compact cores as the possible descendants of massive compact quiescent galaxies at high redshift

  Ying Gao, Lu-Lu Fan

  

  106

• Discovery of extended structures around two evolved planetary nebulae M 2–55 and Abell 2

  Chih-Hao Hsia, Yong Zhang, Xi-Liang Zhang, Tao Luo

  

  107

• Analysis of the X-ray emission from OB stars III: low-resolution spectra of OB stars

  Elizaveta Ryspaeva, Alexander Kholtygin

  

  108

• Alternative kind of hydrogen atoms as a possible explanation for the latest puzzling observation of the 21 cm radio line from the early Universe

  Eugene Oks

  

  109

• Chaos and Periodicities in Solar Flare Index from Kandilli Observatory during 1976–2014

  Soumya Roy, Amrita Prasad, Koushik Ghosh, Subhash Chandra Panja, Sankar Narayan Patra

  

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• Pulsar timing observations with Haoping Radio Telescope

  Jin-Tao Luo, Yu-Ping Gao, Ting-Gao Yang, Cheng-Shi Zhao, Ming-Lei Tong, Yong-Nan Rao, Yi-Feng Li, Bian Li, Xing-Zhi Zhu, Hai-Hua Qiao, Xiao-Chun Lu

  

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• Are collisions with electrons important for modeling the polarization of the lines of the C2 solar molecule?

  Moncef Derouich, Badruddin Zaheer Badruddin, Aied Alruhaili, Salah Qutub

  

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