NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS
PUBLICATIONS

2012

1. Aaltonen, V., Rodriguez, E., Kazadzis, S., Arola, A., Amiridis, V., Lihavainen, H., and de Leeuw, G., On the variation of aerosol properties over Finland based on the optical columnar measurements. Atmospheric Research, 2012. 116: p. 46.

2. Akylas, A., Georgakakis, A., Georgantopoulos, I., Brightman, M., and Nandra, K., Constraining the fraction of Compton-thick AGN in the Universe by modelling the diffuse X-ray background spectrum. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2012. 546.

3. Alikakos, J., Boumis, P., Christopoulou, P.E., and Goudis, C.D., Discovery of optical candidate supernova remnants in Sagittarius. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2012. 544.

4. Amiridis, V., Zerefos, C., Kazadzis, S., Gerasopoulos, E., Eleftheratos, K., Vrekoussis, M., Stohl, A., Mamouri, R.E., Kokkalis, P., Papayannis, A., Eleftheriadis, K., Diapouli, E., Keramitsoglou, I., Kontoes, C., Kotroni, V., Lagouvardos, K., Marinou, E., Giannakaki, E., Kostopoulou, E., Giannakopoulos, C., Richter, A., Burrows, J.P., and Mihalopoulos, N., Impact of the 2009 Attica wild fires on the air quality in urban Athens. Atmospheric Environment, 2012. 46: p. 536.

5. Anastasiadis, A., Special Issue: Tsallis Entropy. Entropy, 2012. 14(2): p. 174.

6. Balasis, G., Daglis, I.A., Zesta, E., Papadimitriou, C., Georgiou, M., Haagmans, R., and Tsinganos, K., ULF wave activity during the 2003 Halloween superstorm: multipoint observations from CHAMP, Cluster and Geotail missions. Annales Geophysicae, 2012. 30(12): p. 1751.

7. Berthomier, M., Fazakerley, A.N., Forsyth, C., Pottelette, R., Alexandrova, O., Anastasiadis, A., Aruliah, A., Blelly, P.L., Briand, C., Bruno, R., Canu, P., Cecconi, B., Chust, T., Daglis, I., Davies, J., Dunlop, M., Fontaine, D., Genot, V., Gustavsson, B., Haerendel, G., Hamrin, M., Hapgood, M., Hess, S., Kataria, D., Kauristie, K., Kemble, S., Khotyaintsev, Y., Koskinen, H., Lamy, L., Lanchester, B., Louarn, P., Lucek, E., Lundin, R., Maksimovic, M., Manninen, J., Marchaudon, A., Marghitu, O., Marklund, G., Milan, S., Moen, J., Mottez, F., Nilsson, H., Ostgaard, N., Owen, C.J., Parrot, M., Pedersen, A., Perry, C., Pincon, J.L., Pitout, F., Pulkkinen, T., Rae, I.J., Rezeau, L., Roux, A., Sandahl, I., Sandberg, I., Turunen, E., Vogt, J., Walsh, A., Watt, C.E.J., Wild, J.A., Yamauchi, M., Zarka, P., and Zouganelis, I., Alfven: magnetosphere-ionosphere connection explorers. Experimental Astronomy, 2012. 33(2-3): p. 445.

8. Bongiorno, A., Shankar, F., Civano, F., Gavignaud, I., and Georgakakis, A., Seeking for the Leading Actor on the Cosmic Stage: Galaxies versus Supermassive Black Holes. Advances in Astronomy, 2012.

9. Bossioli, E., Tombrou, M., Karali, A., Dandou, A., Paronis, D., and Sofiev, M., Ozone production from the interaction of wildfire and biogenic emissions: a case study in Russia during spring 2006. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2012. 12(17): p. 7931.

10. Cappelluti, N., Ranalli, P., Roncarelli, M., Arevalo, P., Zamorani, G., Comastri, A., Gilli, R., Rovilos, E., Vignali, C., Allevato, V., Finoguenov, A., Miyaji, T., Nicastro, F., Georgantopoulos, I., and Kashlinsky, A., The nature of the unresolved extragalactic cosmic soft X-ray background. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2012. 427(1): p. 651.

11. Combes, F., Boquien, M., Kramer, C., Xilouris, E.M., Bertoldi, F., Braine, J., Buchbender, C., Calzetti, D., Gratier, P., Israel, F., Koribalski, B., Lord, S., Quintana-Lacaci, G., Relano, M., Roellig, M., Stacey, G., Tabatabaei, F.S., Tilanus, R.P.J., van der Tak, F., van der Werf, P., and Verley, S., Dust and gas power spectrum in M 33 (HERM33ES). Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2012. 539.

12. Dalakas, V., Mathiopoulos, P.T., Di Cecca, F., and Gallinaro, G., A Comparative Study Between SC-FDMA and OFDMA Schemes for Satellite Uplinks. Ieee Transactions on Broadcasting, 2012. 58(3): p. 370.

13. Dong, Z., Fan, P., Panayirci, E., and Mathiopoulos, P.T., Effect of power and rate adaptation on the spectral efficiency of MQAM/OFDM system under very fast fading channels. Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2012.

14. Dupree, A.K., Brickhouse, N.S., Cranmer, S.R., Luna, G.J.M., Schneider, E.E., Bessell, M.S., Bonanos, A., Crause, L.A., Lawson, W.A., Mallik, S.V., and Schuler, S.C., TW Hya: Spectral Variability, X-Rays, And Accretion Diagnostics. Astrophysical Journal, 2012. 750(1).

15. Fan, P., Panayirci, E., Poor, H.V., and Mathiopoulos, P.T., Special issue on broadband mobile communications at very high speeds. Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2012: p. 1.

16. Galan, C., Mikolajewski, M., Tomov, T., Graczyk, D., Apostolovska, G., Barzova, I., Bellas-Velidis, I., Bilkina, B., Blake, R.M., Bolton, C.T., Bondar, A., Brat, L., Brozek, T., Budzisz, B., Cikala, M., Csak, B., Dapergolas, A., Dimitrov, D., Dobierski, P., Drahus, M., Drozdz, M., Dvorak, S., Elder, L., Frackowiak, S., Galazutdinov, G., Gazeas, K., Georgiev, L., Gere, B., Gozdziewski, K., Grinin, V.P., Gromadzki, M., Hajduk, M., Heras, T.A., Hopkins, J., Iliev, I., Janowski, J., Kocian, R., Kolaczkowski, Z., Kolev, D., Kopacki, G., Krzesinski, J., Kucakova, H., Kuligowska, E., Kundera, T., Kurpinska-Winiarska, M., Kuzmicz, A., Liakos, A., Lister, T.A., Maciejewski, G., Majcher, A., Majewska, A., Marrese, P.M., Michalska, G., Migaszewski, C., Miller, I., Munari, U., Musaev, F., Myers, G., Narwid, A., Nemeth, P., Niarchos, P., Niemczura, E., Ogloza, W., Oegmen, Y., Oksanen, A., Osiwala, J., Peneva, S., Pigulski, A., Popov, V., Pych, W., Pye, J., Ragan, E., Roukema, B.F., Rozanski, P.T., Semkov, E., Siwak, M., Staels, B., Stateva, I., Stempels, H.C., Steslicki, M., Swierczynski, E., Szymanski, T., Tomov, N., Waniak, W., Wiecek, M., Winiarski, M., Wychudzki, P., Zajczyk, A., Zola, S., and Zwitter, T., International observational campaigns of the last two eclipses in EE Cephei: 2003 and 2008/9. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2012. 544.

17. Georgakakis, A., Grossi, M., Afonso, J., and Hopkins, A.M., The radio spectra of reddened Two Micron All Sky Survey quasi-stellar objects: evidence for young radio jets. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2012. 421(3): p. 2223.

18. Grosso, N. and Paronis, D., Comparison of contrast reduction based MODIS AOT estimates with AERONET measurements. Atmospheric Research, 2012. 116: p. 33.

19. Holwerda, B.W., Bianchi, S., Boker, T., Radburn-Smith, D., de Jong, R.S., Baes, M., van der Kruit, P.C., Xilouris, M., Gordon, K.D., and Dalcanton, J.J., Herschel/SPIRE observations of the dusty disk of NGC 4244. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2012. 541.

20. Iwasawa, K., Gilli, R., Vignali, C., Comastri, A., Brandt, W.N., Ranalli, P., Vito, F., Cappelluti, N., Carrera, F.J., Falocco, S., Georgantopoulos, I., Mainieri, V., and Paolillo, M., The XMM deep survey in the CDF-S II. A 9-20 keV selection of heavily obscured active galaxies at z > 1.7. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2012. 546.

21. Karampelas, A., Kontizas, M., Rocca-Volmerange, B., Bellas-Velidis, I., Kontizas, E., Livanou, E., Tsalmantza, P., and Dapergolas, A., Optimization of synthetic galaxy spectra Application to ESA’s Gaia mission. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2012. 538.

22. Keramitsoglou, I., Daglis, I.A., Amiridis, V., Chrysoulakis, N., Ceriola, G., Manunta, P., Maiheu, B., De Ridder, K., Lauwaet, D., and Paganini, M., Evaluation of satellite-derived products for the characterization of the urban thermal environment. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 2012. 6.

23. Kocevski, D.D., Faber, S.M., Mozena, M., Koekemoer, A.M., Nandra, K., Rangel, C., Laird, E.S., Brusa, M., Wuyts, S., Trump, J.R., Koo, D.C., Somerville, R.S., Bell, E.F., Lotz, J.M., Alexander, D.M., Bournaud, F., Conselice, C.J., Dahlen, T., Dekel, A., Donley, J.L., Dunlop, J.S., Finoguenov, A., Georgakakis, A., Giavalisco, M., Guo, Y., Grogin, N.A., Hathi, N.P., Juneau, S., Kartaltepe, J.S., Lucas, R.A., McGrath, E.J., McIntosh, D.H., Mobasher, B., Robaina, A.R., Rosario, D., Straughn, A.N., van der Wel, A., and Villforth, C., CANDELS: Constraining The Agn-Merger Connection With Host Morphologies At Z Similar To 2. Astrophysical Journal, 2012. 744(2).

24. Kokkalis, P., Mamouri, R.E., Todua, M., Didebulidze, G.G., Papayannis, A., Amiridis, V., Basart, S., Perez, C., and Baldasano, J.M., Ground-, satellite- and simulation-based analysis of a strong dust event over Abastumani, Georgia, during May 2009. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2012. 33(16): p. 4886.

25. Koumpia, E. and Bonanos, A.Z., Fundamental parameters of four massive eclipsing binaries in Westerlund 1. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2012. 547.

26. Koutroumbas, K.D., Piecewise Linear Curve Approximation Using Graph Theory and Geometrical Concepts. Ieee Transactions on Image Processing, 2012. 21(9): p. 3877.

27. Malandraki, O.E., Agueda, N., Papaioannou, A., Klein, K.L., Valtonen, E., Heber, B., Droege, W., Aurass, H., Nindos, A., Vilmer, N., Sanahuja, B., Kouloumvakos, A., Braune, S., Preka-Papadema, P., Tziotziou, K., Hamadache, C., Kiener, J., Tatischeff, V., Riihonen, E., Kartavykh, Y., Rodriguez-Gasen, R., and Vainio, R., Scientific Analysis within SEPServer – New Perspectives in Solar Energetic Particle Research: The Case Study of the 13 July 2005 Event. Solar Physics, 2012. 281(1): p. 333.

28. Mamouri, R.E., Papayannis, A., Amiridis, V., Mueller, D., Kokkalis, P., Rapsomanikis, S., Karageorgos, E.T., Tsaknakis, G., Nenes, A., Kazadzis, S., and Remoundaki, E., Multi-wavelength Raman lidar, sun photometric and aircraft measurements in combination with inversion models for the estimation of the aerosol optical and physico-chemical properties over Athens, Greece. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2012. 5(7): p. 1793.

29. Martina, M., Masera, G., Papaharalabos, S., Mathiopoulos, P.T., and Gioulekas, F., On Practical Implementation and Generalizations of max* Operator for Turbo and LDPC Decoders. Ieee Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2012. 61(4): p. 888.

30. Mountrichas, G. and Georgakakis, A., The clustering of X-ray-selected active galactic nuclei at z=0.1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2012. 420(1): p. 514.

31. Papadopoulos, P.P., van der Werf, P., Xilouris, E., Isaak, K.G., and Gao, Y., The Molecular Gas In Luminous Infrared Galaxies. Ii. Extreme Physical Conditions And Their Effects On The X-Co Factor. Astrophysical Journal, 2012. 751(1).

32. Papadopoulos, P.P., van der Werf, P.P., Xilouris, E.M., Isaak, K.G., Gao, Y., and Muehle, S., The molecular gas in luminous infrared galaxies – I. CO lines, extreme physical conditions and their drivers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2012. 426(4): p. 2601.

33. Papaharalabos, S., Mathiopoulos, P.T., Masera, G., and Martina, M., Non-recursive max* operator with reduced implementation complexity for turbo decoding. Iet Communications, 2012. 6(7): p. 702.

34. Papayannis, A., Mamouri, R.E., Amiridis, V., Giannakaki, E., Veselovskii, I., Kokkalis, P., Tsaknakis, G., Balis, D., Kristiansen, N.I., Stohl, A., Korenskiy, M., Allakhverdiev, K., Huseyinoglu, M.P., and Baykara, T., Optical properties and vertical extension of aged ash layers over the Eastern Mediterranean as observed by Raman lidars during the Eyjafjallajokull eruption in May 2010. Atmospheric Environment, 2012. 48: p. 56.

35. Papayannis, A., Mamouri, R.E., Amiridis, V., Remoundaki, E., Tsaknakis, G., Kokkalis, P., Veselovskii, I., Kolgotin, A., Nenes, A., and Fountoukis, C., Optical-microphysical properties of Saharan dust aerosols and composition relationship using a multi-wavelength Raman lidar, in situ sensors and modelling: a case study analysis. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2012. 12(9): p. 4011.

36. Petropoulos, G.P., Kontoes, C.C., and Keramitsoglou, I., Land cover mapping with emphasis to burnt area delineation using co-orbital ALI and Landsat TM imagery. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2012. 18: p. 344.

37. Pinfield, D.J., Burningham, B., Lodieu, N., Leggett, S.K., Tinney, C.G., van Spaandonk, L., Marocco, F., Smart, R., Gomes, J., Smith, L., Lucas, P.W., Day-Jones, A.C., Murray, D.N., Katsiyannis, A.C., Catalan, S., Cardoso, C., Clarke, J.R.A., Folkes, S., Galvez-Ortiz, M.C., Homeier, D., Jenkins, J.S., Jones, H.R.A., and Zhang, Z.H., Discovery of the benchmark metal-poor T8 dwarf BD+01 degrees 2920B. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2012. 422(3): p. 1922.

38. Ranalli, P., Comastri, A., Zamorani, G., Cappelluti, N., Civano, F., Georgantopoulos, I., Gilli, R., Schinnerer, E., Smolcic, V., and Vignali, C., X-ray properties of radio-selected star forming galaxies in the Chandra-COSMOS survey. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2012. 542.

39. Rizogiannis, C., Kofidis, E., Rontogiannis, A.A., and Theodoridis, S., Adaptive BLAST-type decision-feedback equalizers for DS-CDMA systems. Signal Processing, 2012. 92(4): p. 977.

40. Roelfsema, P.R., Helmich, F.P., Teyssier, D., Ossenkopf, V., Morris, P., Olberg, M., Shipman, R., Risacher, C., Akyilmaz, M., Assendorp, R., Avruch, I.M., Beintema, D., Biver, N., Boogert, A., Borys, C., Braine, J., Caris, M., Caux, E., Cernicharo, J., Coeur-Joly, O., Comito, C., de Lange, G., Delforge, B., Dieleman, P., Dubbeldam, L., de Graauw, T., Edwards, K., Fich, M., Flederus, F., Gal, C., di Giorgio, A., Herpin, F., Higgins, D.R., Hoac, A., Huisman, R., Jarchow, C., Jellema, W., de Jonge, A., Kester, D., Klein, T., Kooi, J., Kramer, C., Laauwen, W., Larsson, B., Leinz, C., Lord, S., Lorenzani, A., Luinge, W., Marston, A., Martin-Pintado, J., McCoey, C., Melchior, M., Michalska, M., Moreno, R., Mueller, H., Nowosielski, W., Okada, Y., Orleanski, P., Phillips, T.G., Pearson, J., Rabois, D., Ravera, L., Rector, J., Rengel, M., Sagawa, H., Salomons, W., Sanchez-Suarez, E., Schieder, R., Schloeder, F., Schmuelling, F., Soldati, M., Stutzki, J., Thomas, B., Tielens, A.G.G.M., Vastel, C., Wildeman, K., Xie, Q., Xilouris, M., Wafelbakker, C., Whyborn, N., Zaal, P., Bell, T., Bjerkeli, P., de Beck, E., Cavalie, T., Crockett, N.R., Hily-Blant, P., Kama, M., Kaminski, T., Lefloch, B., Lombaert, R., De Luca, M., Makai, Z., Marseille, M., Nagy, Z., Pacheco, S., van der Wiel, M.H.D., Wang, S., and Yildiz, U., In-orbit performance of Herschel-HIFI. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2012. 537.

41. Rovilos, E., Comastri, A., Gilli, R., Georgantopoulos, I., Ranalli, P., Vignali, C., Lusso, E., Cappelluti, N., Zamorani, G., Elbaz, D., Dickinson, M., Hwang, H.S., Charmandaris, V., Ivison, R.J., Merloni, A., Daddi, E., Carrera, F.J., Brandt, W.N., Mullaney, J.R., Scott, D., Alexander, D.M., Del Moro, A., Morrison, G., Murphy, E.J., Altieri, B., Aussel, H., Dannerbauer, H., Kartaltepe, J., Leiton, R., Magdis, G., Magnelli, B., Popesso, P., and Valtchanov, I., GOODS-Herschel: ultra-deep XMM-Newton observations reveal AGN/star-formation connection. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2012. 546.

42. Sandberg, I., Daglis, I.A., Anastasiadis, A., Buehler, P., Nieminen, P., and Evans, H., Unfolding and Validation of SREM Fluxes. Ieee Transactions on Nuclear Science, 2012. 59(4): p. 1105.

43. Smith, M.W.L., Gomez, H.L., Eales, S.A., Ciesla, L., Boselli, A., Cortese, L., Bendo, G.J., Baes, M., Bianchi, S., Clemens, M., Clements, D.L., Cooray, A.R., Davies, J.I., de Looze, I., Alighieri, S.d.S., Fritz, J., Gavazzi, G., Gear, W.K., Madden, S., Mentuch, E., Panuzzo, P., Pohlen, M., Spinoglio, L., Verstappen, J., Vlahakis, C., Wilson, C.D., and Xilouris, E.M., The Herschel Reference Survey: Dust In Early-Type Galaxies And Across The Hubble Sequence. Astrophysical Journal, 2012. 748(2).

44. Tan, L.C., Malandraki, O.E., Reames, D.V., Ng, C.K., Wang, L., and Dorrian, G., Use Of Incident And Reflected Solar Particle Beams To Trace The Topology Of Magnetic Clouds. Astrophysical Journal, 2012. 750(2).

45. Themelis, K.E., Rontogiannis, A.A., and Koutroumbas, K.D., A Novel Hierarchical Bayesian Approach for Sparse Semisupervised Hyperspectral Unmixing. Ieee Transactions on Signal Processing, 2012. 60(2): p. 585.

46. Themelis, K.E., Schmidt, F., Sykioti, O., Rontogiannis, A.A., Koutroumbas, K.D., and Daglis, I.A., On the unmixing of MEx/OMEGA hyperspectral data. Planetary and Space Science, 2012. 68(1): p. 34.

47. Tsalmantza, P., Karampelas, A., Kontizas, M., Bailer-Jones, C.A.L., Rocca-Volmerange, B., Livanou, E., Bellas-Velidis, I., Kontizas, E., and Vallenari, A., A semi-empirical library of galaxy spectra for Gaia classification based on SDSS data and PEGASE models. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2012. 537.

48. Tsiropoula, G., Tziotziou, K., Kontogiannis, I., Madjarska, M.S., Doyle, J.G., and Suematsu, Y., Solar Fine-Scale Structures. I. Spicules and Other Small-Scale, Jet-Like Events at the Chromospheric Level: Observations and Physical Parameters. Space Science Reviews, 2012. 169(1-4): p. 181.

49. Xilouris, E.M., Tabatabaei, F.S., Boquien, M., Kramer, C., Buchbender, C., Bertoldi, F., Anderl, S., Braine, J., Verley, S., Relano, M., Quintana-Lacaci, G., Akras, S., Beck, R., Calzetti, D., Combes, F., Gonzalez, M., Gratier, P., Henkel, C., Israel, F., Koribalski, B., Lord, S., Mookerjea, B., Rosolowsky, E., Stacey, G., Tilanus, R.P.J., van der Tak, F., and van der Werf, P., Cool and warm dust emission from M 33 (HerM33es). Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2012. 543.

50. Zhang, M., Zhang, L., Mathiopoulos, P.T., Xie, W., Ding, Y., and Wang, H., A geometry and texture coupled flexible generalization of urban building models. Isprs Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2012. 70: p. 1.