NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS
PUBLICATIONS

2009

1. Akylas, A. and Georgantopoulos, I., XMM-Newton observations of Seyfert galaxies from the Palomar spectroscopic survey: the X-ray absorption distribution. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2009. 500(3): p. 999.

2. Altadill, D., Boska, J., Cander, L.R., Gulyaeva, T., Reinisch, B.W., Romano, V., Krankowski, A., Bremer, J., Belehaki, A., Stanislawska, I., Jakowski, N., and Scotto, C., Near Earth space plasma monitoring under COST 296. Annals of Geophysics, 2009. 52(3-4): p. 221.

3. Amiridis, V., Balis, D.S., Giannakaki, E., Stohl, A., Kazadzis, S., Koukouli, M.E., and Zanis, P., Optical characteristics of biomass burning aerosols over Southeastern Europe determined from UV-Raman lidar measurements. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2009. 9(7): p. 2431.

4. Amiridis, V., Kafatos, M., Perez, C., Kazadzis, S., Gerasopoulos, E., Mamouri, R.E., Papayannis, A., Kokkalis, P., Giannakaki, E., Basart, S., Daglis, I., and Zerefos, C., The potential of the synergistic use of passive and active remote sensing measurements for the validation of a regional dust model. Annales Geophysicae, 2009. 27(8): p. 3155.

5. Balasis, G., Daglis, I.A., Papadimitriou, C., Kalimeri, M., Anastasiadis, A., and Eftaxias, K., Investigating dynamical complexity in the magnetosphere using various entropy measures. Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics, 2009. 114.

6. Balasis, G. and Eftaxias, K., A study of non-extensivity in the Earth’s magnetosphere. European Physical Journal-Special Topics, 2009. 174: p. 219.

7. Belehaki, A., Stanislawska, I., and Lilensten, J., An Overview of Ionosphere-Thermosphere Models Available for Space Weather Purposes. Space Science Reviews, 2009. 147(3-4): p. 271.

8. Belehaki, A., Watermann, J., Lilensten, J., Glover, A., Hapgood, M., Messerotti, M., van der Linden, R., and Lundstedt, H., Renewed Support Dawns in Europe: An Action to Develop Space Weather Products and Services. Space Weather-the International Journal of Research and Applications, 2009. 7.

9. Bithas, P.S. and Mathiopoulos, P.T., Capacity of Correlated Generalized Gamma Fading With Dual-Branch Selection Diversity. Ieee Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2009. 58(9): p. 5258.

10. Bithas, P.S., Sagias, N.C., and Mathiopoulos, P.T., The Bivariate Generalized-K (K(G)) Distribution and its Application to Diversity Receivers. Ieee Transactions on Communications, 2009. 57(9): p. 2655.

11. Bonanos, A.Z., Toward An Accurate Determination Of Parameters For Very Massive Stars: The Eclipsing Binary LMC-SC1-105. Astrophysical Journal, 2009. 691(1): p. 407.

12. Bonanos, A.Z., Massa, D.L., Sewilo, M., Lennon, D.J., Panagia, N., Smith, L.J., Meixner, M., Babler, B.L., Bracker, S., Meade, M.R., Gordon, K.D., Hora, J.L., Indebetouw, R., and Whitney, B.A., Spitzer Sage Infrared Photometry Of Massive Stars In The Large Magellanic Cloud. Astronomical Journal, 2009. 138(4): p. 1003.

13. Bond, H.E., Bedin, L.R., Bonanos, A.Z., Humphreys, R.M., Monard, L.A.G.B., Prieto, J.E.L., and Walter, F.M., The 2008 Luminous Optical Transient In The Nearby Galaxy NGC 300. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2009. 695(2): p. L154.

14. Boumis, P., Meaburn, J., Lloyd, M., and Akras, S., A long trail behind the planetary nebula HFG1 (PK 136+05) and its pre-cataclysmic binary central star V664 Cas. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2009. 396(2): p. 1186.

15. Boumis, P., Xilouris, E.M., Alikakos, J., Christopoulou, P.E., Mavromatakis, F., Katsiyannis, A.C., and Goudis, C.D., Discovery of optical emission from the supernova remnant G 32.8-0.1 (Kes 78). Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2009. 499(3): p. 789.

16. Coil, A.L., Georgakakis, A., Newman, J.A., Cooper, M.C., Croton, D., Davis, M., Koo, D.C., Laird, E.S., Nandra, K., Weiner, B.J., Willmer, C.N.A., and Yan, R., AEGIS: The Clustering Of X-Ray Active Galactic Nucleus Relative To Galaxies At z similar to 1. Astrophysical Journal, 2009. 701(2): p. 1484.

17. Coustenis, A., Atreya, S.K., Balint, T., Brown, R.H., Dougherty, M.K., Ferri, F., Fulchignoni, M., Gautier, D., Gowen, R.A., Griffith, C.A., Gurvits, L.I., Jaumann, R., Langevin, Y., Leese, M.R., Lunine, J.I., McKay, C.P., Moussas, X., Mueller-Wodarg, I., Neubauer, F., Owen, T.C., Raulin, F., Sittler, E.C., Sohl, F., Sotin, C., Tobie, G., Tokano, T., Turtle, E.P., Wahlund, J.E., Waite, J.H., Baines, K.H., Blamont, J., Coates, A.J., Dandouras, I., Krimigis, T., Lellouch, E., Lorenz, R.D., Morse, A., Porco, C.C., Hirtzig, M., Saur, J., Spilker, T., Zarnecki, J.C., Choi, E., Achilleos, N., Amils, R., Annan, P., Atkinson, D.H., Benilan, Y., Bertucci, C., Bezard, B., Bjoraker, G.L., Blanc, M., Boireau, L., Bouman, J., Cabane, M., Capria, M.T., Chassefiere, E., Coll, P., Combes, M., Cooper, J.F., Coradini, A., Crary, F., Cravens, T., Daglis, I.A., de Angelis, E., de Bergh, C., de Pater, I., Dunford, C., Durry, G., Dutuit, O., Fairbrother, D., Flasar, F.M., Fortes, A.D., Frampton, R., Fujimoto, M., Galand, M., Grasset, O., Grott, M., Haltigin, T., Herique, A., Hersant, F., Hussmann, H., Ip, W., Johnson, R., Kallio, E., Kempf, S., Knapmeyer, M., Kofman, W., Koop, R., Kostiuk, T., Krupp, N., Kueppers, M., Lammer, H., Lara, L.M., Lavvas, P., Le Mouelic, S., Lebonnois, S., Ledvina, S., Li, J., Livengood, T.A., Lopes, R.M., Lopez-Moreno, J.J., Luz, D., Mahaffy, P.R., Mall, U., Martinez-Frias, J., Marty, B., McCord, T., Menor Salvan, C., Milillo, A., Mitchell, D.G., Modolo, R., Mousis, O., Nakamura, M., Neish, C.D., Nixon, C.A., Nna Mvondo, D., Orton, G., Paetzold, M., Pitman, J., Pogrebenko, S., Pollard, W., Prieto-Ballesteros, O., Rannou, P., Reh, K., Richter, L., Robb, F.T., Rodrigo, R., Rodriguez, S., Romani, P., Ruiz Bermejo, M., Sarris, E.T., Schenk, P., Schmitt, B., Schmitz, N., Schulze-Makuch, D., Schwingenschuh, K., Selig, A., Sicardy, B., Soderblom, L., Spilker, L.J., Stam, D., Steele, A., Stephan, K., Strobel, D.F., Szego, K., Szopa, C., Thissen, R., Tomasko, M.G., Toublanc, D., Vali, H., Vardavas, I., Vuitton, V., West, R.A., Yelle, R. and Young, E.F., TandEM: Titan and Enceladus mission. Experimental Astronomy, 2009. 23(3): p. 893.

18. Daglis, I.A., Balasis, G., Ganushkina, N., Metallinou, F.-A., Palmroth, M., Pirjola, R., and Tsagouri, I., Investigating dynamic coupling in geospace through the combined use of modeling, simulations and data analysis. Acta Geophysica, 2009. 57(1): p. 141.

19. Dalakas, V., Rontogiannis, A.A., and Mathiopoulos, P.T., Time domain constellation shaping technique for peak-to-average power ratio reduction. Iet Communications, 2009. 3(7): p. 1144.

20. Dimitropoulou, M., Georgoulis, M., Isliker, H., Vlahos, L., Anastasiadis, A., Strintzi, D., and Moussas, X., The correlation of fractal structures in the photospheric and the coronal magnetic field. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2009. 505(3): p. 1245.

21. Eftaxias, K., Athanasopoulou, L., Balasis, G., Kalimeri, M., Nikolopoulos, S., Contoyiannis, Y., Kopanas, J., Antonopoulos, G., and Nomicos, C., Unfolding the procedure of characterizing recorded ultra low frequency, kHZ and MHz electromagetic anomalies prior to the L’Aquila earthquake as pre-seismic ones – Part 1. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2009. 9(6): p. 1953.

22. Elias, P., Kontoes, C., Papoutsis, I., Kotsis, I., Marinou, A., Paradissis, D., and Sakellariou, D., Permanent Scatterer InSAR Analysis and Validation in the Gulf of Corinth. Sensors, 2009. 9(1): p. 46.

23. Fahed, R., Moffat, A.F.J., and Bonanos, A.Z., Photometric variability of WC9 stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2009. 392(1): p. 376.

24. Georgakakis, A., Clements, D.L., Bendo, G., Rowan-Robinson, M., Nandra, K., and Brotherton, M.S., Are red 2MASS QSOs young? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2009. 394(1): p. 533.

25. Georgakakis, A., Coil, A.L., Laird, E.S., Griffith, R.L., Nandra, K., Lotz, J.M., Pierce, C.M., Cooper, M.C., Newman, J.A., and Koekemoer, A.M., Host galaxy morphologies of X-ray selected AGN: assessing the significance of different black hole fuelling mechanisms to the accretion density of the Universe at z similar to 1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2009. 397(2): p. 623.

26. Georgantopoulos, I., Akylas, A., Georgakakis, A., and Rowan-Robinson, M., The Compton-thick AGN in the Chandra Deep Field North. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2009. 507(2): p. 747.

27. Georgoulias, A.K., Papanastasiou, D.K., Melas, D., Amiridis, V., and Alexandri, G., Statistical analysis of boundary layer heights in a suburban environment. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 2009. 104(1-2): p. 103.

28. Gerasopoulos, E., Kokkalis, P., Amiridis, V., Liakakou, E., Perez, C., Haustein, K., Eleftheratos, K., Andreae, M.O., Andreae, T.W., and Zerefos, C.S., Dust specific extinction cross-sections over the Eastern Mediterranean using the BSC-DREAM model and sun photometer data: the case of urban environments. Annales Geophysicae, 2009. 27(7): p. 2903.

29. Gonidakis, I., Livanou, E., Kontizas, E., Klein, U., Kontizas, M., Belcheva, M., Tsalmantza, P., and Karampelas, A., Structure of the SMC Stellar component distribution from 2MASS data. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2009. 496(2): p. 375.

30. Karampelas, A., Dapergolas, A., Kontizas, E., Livanou, E., Kontizas, M., Bellas-Velidis, I., and Vilchez, J.M., Star complexes and stellar populations in NGC 6822 Comparison with the Magellanic Clouds. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2009. 497(3): p. 703.

31. Katragkou, E., Kazadzis, S., Amiridis, V., Papaioannou, V., Karathanasis, S., and Melas, D., PM10 regional transport pathways in Thessaloniki, Greece. Atmospheric Environment, 2009. 43(5): p. 1079.

32. Kazadzis, S., Bais, A., Balis, D., Kouremeti, N., Zempila, M., Arola, A., Giannakaki, E., Amiridis, V., and Kazantzidis, A., Spatial and temporal UV irradiance and aerosol variability within the area of an OMI satellite pixel. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2009. 9(14): p. 4593.

33. Kontoes, C., Keramitsoglou, I., Sifakis, N., and Konstantinidis, P., SITHON: An Airborne Fire Detection System Compliant with Operational Tactical Requirements. Sensors, 2009. 9(2): p. 1204.

34. Kontoes, C.C., Poilve, H., Florsch, G., Keramitsoglou, I., and Paralikidis, S., A comparative analysis of a fixed thresholding vs. a classification tree approach for operational burn scar detection and mapping. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2009. 11(5): p. 299.

35. Koulouras, G., Balasis, G., Kiourktsidis, I., Nannos, E., Kontakos, K., Stonham, J., Ruzhin, Y., Eftaxias, K., Cavouras, D., and Nomicos, C., Discrimination between pre-seismic electromagnetic anomalies and solar activity effects. Physica Scripta, 2009. 79(4).

36. Kutiev, I., Marinov, P., Belehaki, A., Reinisch, B., and Jakowski, N., Reconstruction of topside density profile by using the topside sounder model profiler and digisonde data. Advances in Space Research, 2009. 43(11): p. 1683.

37. Laird, E.S., Nandra, K., Georgakakis, A., Aird, J.A., Barmby, P., Conselice, C.J., Coil, A.L., Davis, M., Faber, S.M., Fazio, G.G., Guhathakurta, P., Koo, D.C., Sarajedini, V., and Willmer, C.N.A., AEGIS-X: The Chandra Deep Survey Of The Extended Groth Strip. Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2009. 180(1): p. 102.

38. Lilensten, J. and Belehaki, A., Developing the scientific basis for monitoring, modelling and predicting space weather. Acta Geophysica, 2009. 57(1): p. 1.

39. Malandraki, O.E., Marsden, R.G., Lario, D., Tranquille, C., Heber, B., Mewaldt, R.A., Cohen, C.M.S., Lanzerotti, L.J., Forsyth, R.J., Elliott, H.A., Vogiatzis, I.I., and Geranios, A., Energetic Particle Observations And Propagation In The Three-Dimensional Heliosphere During The 2006 December Events. Astrophysical Journal, 2009. 704(1): p. 469.

40. Mamouri, R.E., Amiridis, V., Papayannis, A., Giannakaki, E., Tsaknakis, G., and Balis, D.S., Validation of CALIPSO space-borne-derived attenuated backscatter coefficient profiles using a ground-based lidar in Athens, Greece. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2009. 2(2): p. 513.

41. Mavromatakis, F., Boumis, P., Meaburn, J., and Caulet, A., A new candidate supernova remnant G 70.5+1.9. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2009. 503(1): p. 129.

42. Meaburn, J., Lopez, J.A., Boumis, P., Lloyd, M., and Redman, M.P., A high-speed bipolar outflow from the archetypical pulsating star Mira A. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2009. 500(2): p. 827.

43. Montero-Dorta, A.D., Croton, D.J., Yan, R., Cooper, M.C., Newman, J.A., Georgakakis, A., Prada, F., Davis, M., Nandra, K., and Coil, A., The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: the red sequence AGN fraction and its environment and redshift dependence. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2009. 392(1): p. 125.

44. Mueller, D., Heinold, B., Tesche, M., Tegen, I., Althausen, D., Arboledas, L.A., Amiridis, V., Amodeo, A., Ansmann, A., Balis, D., Comeron, A., D’Amico, G., Gerasopoulos, E., Guerrero-Rascado, J.L., Freudenthaler, V., Giannakaki, E., Heese, B., Iarlori, M., Knippertz, P., Mamouri, R.E., Mona, L., Papayannis, A., Pappalardo, G., Perrone, R.M., Pisani, G., Rizi, V., Sicard, M., Spinelli, N., Tafuro, A., and Wiegner, M., EARLINET observations of the 14-22-May long-range dust transport event during SAMUM 2006: validation of results from dust transport modelling. Tellus Series B-Chemical and Physical Meteorology, 2009. 61(1): p. 325.

45. Papadimitriou, Z.G., Mathiopoulos, P.T., and Sagias, N.C., The Trivariate and Quadrivariate Weibull Fading Distributions with Arbitrary Correlation and their Applications to Diversity Reception. Ieee Transactions on Communications, 2009. 57(11): p. 3230.

46. Papaharalabos, S. and Mathiopoulos, P.T., Simplified sum-product algorithm for decoding LDPC codes with optimal performance. Electronics Letters, 2009. 45(2): p. 116.

47. Papaharalabos, S., Mathiopoulos, P.T., Masera, G., and Martina, M., On Optimal and Near-Optimal Turbo Decoding Using Generalized max* Operator. Ieee Communications Letters, 2009. 13(7): p. 522.

48. Papayannis, A., Mamouri, R.E., Amiridis, V., Kazadzis, S., Perez, C., Tsaknakis, G., Kokkalis, P., and Baldasano, J.M., Systematic lidar observations of Saharan dust layers over Athens, Greece in the frame of EARLINET project (2004-2006). Annales Geophysicae, 2009. 27(9): p. 3611.

49. Perez Grana, J.A., Kemp, S.N., de la Fuente, E., Katsiyannis, A.C., and Meaburn, J., The unusual interacting pair of galaxies IC 3481 and IC 3481A: An optical-NIR photometric and spectroscopic analysis. New Astronomy, 2009. 14(6): p. 556.

50. Pietrella, M., Perrone, L., Fontana, G., Romano, V., Malagnini, A., Tutone, G., Zolesi, B., Cander, L.R., Belehaki, A., Tsagouri, I., Kouris, S.S., Vallianatos, F., Makris, J., and Angling, M., Oblique-incidence ionospheric soundings over Central Europe and their application for testing now casting and long term prediction models. Advances in Space Research, 2009. 43(11): p. 1611.

51. Rovilos, E., Georgantopoulos, I., Tzanavaris, P., Pracy, M., Whiting, M., Woods, D., and Goudis, C., Normal galaxies in the XMM-Newton fields X-rays as a star formation indicator. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2009. 502(1): p. 85.

52. Schwartz, S.J., Horbury, T., Owen, C., Baumjohann, W., Nakamura, R., Canu, P., Roux, A., Sahraoui, F., Louarn, P., Sauvaud, J.-A., Pincon, J.-L., Vaivads, A., Marcucci, M.F., Anastasiadis, A., Fujimoto, M., Escoubet, P., Taylor, M., Eckersley, S., Allouis, E., and Perkinson, M.-C., Cross-scale: multi-scale coupling in space plasmas. Experimental Astronomy, 2009. 23(3): p. 1001.

53. Stanislawska, I. and Belehaki, A., Space weather observational activities and data management in Europe. Acta Geophysica, 2009. 57(1): p. 236.

54. Stanislawska, I., Belehaki, A., Jakowski, N., Zolesi, B., Gulyaeva, T.L., Cander, L.R., Reinisch, B.W., Pezzopane, M., Tsagouri, I., Tomasik, L., and Galkin, I., COST 296 scientific results designed for operational use. Annals of Geophysics, 2009. 52(3-4): p. 423.

55. Sybis, M., Tyczka, P., Papaharalabos, S., and Mathiopoulos, P.T., Reduced-complexity algorithms for near-optimal decoding of turbo TCM codes. Electronics Letters, 2009. 45(5): p. 278.

56. Trichas, M., Georgakakis, A., Rowan-Robinson, M., Nandra, K., Clements, D., and Vaccari, M., Testing the starburst/AGN connection with SWIRE X-ray/70 mu m sources. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2009. 399(2): p. 663.

57. Tsagouri, I., Koutroumbas, K., and Belehaki, A., Ionospheric foF2 forecast over Europe based on an autoregressive modeling technique driven by solar wind parameters. Radio Science, 2009. 44.

58. Tsalmantza, P., Kontizas, M., Rocca-Volmerange, B., Bailer-Jones, C.A.L., Kontizas, E., Bellas-Velidis, I., Livanou, E., Korakitis, R., Dapergolas, A., Vallenari, A., and Fioc, M., Towards a library of synthetic galaxy spectra and preliminary results of classification and parametrization of unresolved galaxies for Gaia. II. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2009. 504(3): p. 1071.

59. Tsiropoula, G., Tziotziou, K., Schwartz, P., and Heinzel, P., Multiwavelength analysis of a solar quiet. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2009. 493(1): p. 217.

60. Wang, Z., Mathiopoulos, P.T., and Schober, R., Channeling Partitioning Policies for Multi-Class Traffic in LEO-MSS. Ieee Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2009. 45(4): p. 1320.

61. Watermann, J., Vainio, R., Lilensten, J., Belehaki, A., and Messerotti, M., The State of Space Weather Scientific Modeling-An Introduction. Space Science Reviews, 2009. 147(3-4): p. 111.

62. Watermann, J., Wintoft, P., Sanahuja, B., Saiz, E., Poedts, S., Palmroth, M., Milillo, A., Metallinou, F.A., Jacobs, C., Ganushkina, N.Y., Daglis, I.A., Cid, C., Cerrato, Y., Balasis, G., Aylward, A.D., and Aran, A., Models of Solar Wind Structures and Their Interaction with the Earth’s Space Environment. Space Science Reviews, 2009. 147(3-4): p. 233.

63. Zhao, H., Fan, P., Mathiopoulos, P.T., and Papaharalabos, S., On SNR Estimation Techniques for Turbo Decoding Over Uncorrelated Rayleigh Fading Channels With Unknown Fading Parameters. Ieee Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2009. 58(9): p. 4955.

64. Zhu, M., Papadopoulos, P.P., Xilouris, E.M., Kuno, N., and Lisenfeld, U., Tracing Molecular Gas Mass In Extreme Extragalactic Environments: An Observational Study. Astrophysical Journal, 2009. 706(2): p. 941.