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Anthony G. A. Brown
Researcher at Leiden University
Publications - 243
Citations - 32567
Anthony G. A. Brown is an academic researcher from Leiden University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Stars & Astrometry. The author has an hindex of 50, co-authored 234 publications receiving 25984 citations. Previous affiliations of Anthony G. A. Brown include University of Manchester & Australia Telescope National Facility.
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OB Associations, Open Clusters, and the Luminosity Calibration of the Nearer Stars
TL;DR: In this article, the Hipparcos results on distances to nearby OB associations and open clusters are discussed and the shortcomings and assumptions in the analyses used to derive these results are pointed out and compared with results obtained from main sequence fitting.
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Gaia, counting down to launch
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of the European Space Agency's Gaia mission just ahead of its launch scheduled for November 2013, and present the main challenges of the Gaia mission.
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Structure and Evolution of Nearby OB Associations
P. T. de Zeeuw,Anthony G. A. Brown,J. H. J. de Bruijne,R. Hoogerwerf,J. Lub,R. S. Le Poole,A. Blaauw +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the first results of a comprehensive census of the stellar content of the nearby OB associations based on Hipparcos positions, proper motions and parallaxes for 12842 candidate member stars distributed over 21 fields on the sky.
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The peculiar nebula Simeis 57 - II. Distance, nature and excitation
L. H. T. Oudshoorn,Frank P. Israel,Jarle Brinchmann,M. B. C. Kloppenburg,Anthony G. A. Brown,John Bally,T. R. Gull,P. T. Boyd +7 more
TL;DR: Simeis 57 (HS 191) is an optically bright nebula in the Cygnus X region with a peculiar appearance that suggests an outflow from a rotating source as discussed by the authors.