NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS
PUBLICATIONS

2013

1. Alighieri, S.d.S., Bianchi, S., Pappalardo, C., Zibetti, S., Auld, R., Baes, M., Bendo, G., Corbelli, E., Davies, J.I., Davis, T., De Looze, I., Fritz, J., Gavazzi, G., Giovanardi, C., Grossi, M., Hunt, L.K., Magrini, L., Pierini, D., and Xilouris, E.M., The Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey XIII. Dust in early-type galaxies. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2013. 552.

2. Amiridis, V., Wandinger, U., Marinou, E., Giannakaki, E., Tsekeri, A., Basart, S., Kazadzis, S., Gkikas, A., Taylor, M., Baldasano, J., and Ansmann, A., Optimizing CALIPSO Saharan dust retrievals. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2013. 13(23): p. 12089-12106.

3. Auld, R., Bianchi, S., Smith, M.W.L., Davies, J.I., Bendo, G.J., Alighieri, S.d.S., Cortese, L., Baes, M., Bomans, D.J., Boquien, M., Boselli, A., Ciesla, L., Clemens, M., Corbelli, E., De Looze, I., Fritz, J., Gavazzi, G., Pappalardo, C., Grossi, M., Hunt, L.K., Madden, S., Magrini, L., Pohlen, M., Verstappen, J., Vlahakis, C., Xilouris, E.M., and Zibetti, S., The Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey – XII. FIR properties of optically selected Virgo cluster galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013. 428(3): p. 1880-1910.

4. Bailer-Jones, C.A.L., Andrae, R., Arcay, B., Astraatmadja, T., Bellas-Velidis, I., Berihuete, A., Bijaoui, A., Carrion, C., Dafonte, C., Damerdji, Y., Dapergolas, A., de Laverny, P., Delchambre, L., Drazinos, P., Drimmel, R., Fremat, Y., Fustes, D., Garcia-Torres, M., Guede, C., Heiter, U., Janotto, A.M., Karampelas, A., Kim, D.W., Knude, J., Kolka, I., Kontizas, E., Kontizas, M., Korn, A.J., Lanzafame, A.C., Lebreton, Y., Lindstrom, H., Liu, C., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., Manteiga, M., Martayan, C., Ordenovic, C., Pichon, B., Recio-Blanco, A., Rocca-Volmerange, B., Sarro, L.M., Smith, K., Sordo, R., Soubiran, C., Surdej, J., Thevenin, F., Tsalmantza, P., Vallenari, A., and Zorec, J., The Gaia astrophysical parameters inference system (Apsis) Pre-launch description. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2013. 559.

5. Balasis, G., Daglis, I.A., Georgiou, M., Papadimitriou, C., and Haagmans, R., Magnetospheric ULF wave studies in the frame of Swarm mission: a time-frequency analysis tool for automated detection of pulsations in magnetic and electric field observations. Earth Planets and Space, 2013. 65(11): p. 1385-1398.

6. Balasis, G., Donner, R.V., Potirakis, S.M., Runge, J., Papadimitriou, C., Daglis, I.A., Eftaxias, K., and Kurths, J., Statistical Mechanics and Information-Theoretic Perspectives on Complexity in the Earth System. Entropy, 2013. 15(11): p. 4844-4888.

7. Belehaki, A. and Lilensten, J., Editorial policies at SWSC. Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, 2013. 3.

8. Bergeot, N., Tsagouri, I., Bruyninx, C., Legrand, J., Chevalier, J.-M., Defraigne, P., Baire, Q., and Pottiaux, E., The influence of space weather on ionospheric total electron content during the 23rd solar cycle. Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, 2013. 3.

9. Bocchio, M., Jones, A.P., Verstraete, L., Xilouris, E.M., Micelotta, E.R., and Bianchi, S., Dust heating Photon absorption versus electron collisions. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2013. 556.

10. Boumis, P. and Meaburn, J., The expansion proper motions of the extraordinary giant lobes of the planetary nebula KjPn 8 revisited. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013. 430(4): p. 3397-3405.

11. Castello-Mor, N., Carrera, F.J., Alonso-Herrero, A., Mateos, S., Barcons, X., Ranalli, P., Perez-Gonzalez, P.G., Comastri, A., Vignali, C., and Georgantopoulos, I., The XMM deep survey in the CDF-S VI. Obscured AGN selected as infrared power-law galaxies. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2013. 556.

12. Davies, J.I., Bianchi, S., Baes, M., Boselli, A., Ciesla, L., Clemens, M., Davis, T.A., De Looze, I., Alighieri, S.d.S., Fuller, C., Fritz, J., Hunt, L.K., Serra, P., Smith, M.W.L., Verstappen, J., Vlahakis, C., Xilouris, E.M., Bomans, D., Hughes, T., Garcia-Appadoo, D., and Madden, S., The Herschel Fornax Cluster Survey – I. The bright galaxy sample. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013. 428(1): p. 834-844.

13. Donner, R.V. and Balasis, G., Correlation-based characterisation of time-varying dynamical complexity in the Earth’s magnetosphere. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 2013. 20(6): p. 965-975.

14. Drakatos, G., Paradissis, D., Anastasiou, D., Elias, P., Marinou, A., Chousianitis, K., Papanikolaou, X., Zacharis, E., Argyrakis, P., Papazissi, K., and Makropoulos, K., Joint approach using satellite techniques for slope instability detection and monitoring. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2013. 34(6): p. 1879-1892.

15. Drazinos, P., Kontizas, E., Karampelas, A., Kontizas, M., and Dapergolas, A., Star forming regions in a sample of HST spiral galaxies. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2013. 553.

16. Eftaxias, K., Minadakis, G., Potirakis, S.M., and Balasis, G., Dynamical analogy between epileptic seizures and seismogenic electromagnetic emissions by means of nonextensive statistical mechanics. Physica a-Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications, 2013. 392(3): p. 497-509.

17. Falocco, S., Carrera, F.J., Corral, A., Barcons, X., Comastri, A., Gilli, R., Ranalli, P., Vignali, C., Iwasawa, K., Cappelluti, N., Rovilos, E., Georgantopoulos, I., Brusa, M., and Vito, F., The XMM Deep survey in the CDF-S V. Iron K lines from active galactic nuclei in the distant Universe. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2013. 555.

18. Fanali, R., Caccianiga, A., Severgnini, P., Della Ceca, R., Marchese, E., Carrera, F.J., Corral, A., and Mateos, S., Studying the relationship between X-ray emission and accretion in AGN using the XMM-Newton Bright Serendipitous Survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013. 433(1): p. 648-658.

19. Fanidakis, N., Georgakakis, A., Mountrichas, G., Krumpe, M., Baugh, C.M., Lacey, C.G., Frenk, C.S., Miyaji, T., and Benson, A.J., Constraints on black hole fuelling modes from the clustering of X-ray AGN. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013. 435(1): p. 679-688.

20. Georgantopoulos, I., Comastri, A., Vignali, C., Ranalli, P., Rovilos, E., Iwasawa, K., Gilli, R., Cappelluti, N., Carrera, F., Fritz, J., Brusa, M., Elbaz, D., Mullaney, R.J., Castello-Mor, N., Barcons, X., Tozzi, P., Balestra, I., and Falocco, S., The XMM deep survey in the CDF-S IV. Compton-thick AGN candidates. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2013. 555.

21. Giannaros, T.M., Melas, D., Daglis, I.A., Keramitsoglou, I., and Kourtidis, K., Numerical study of the urban heat island over Athens (Greece) with the WRF model. Atmospheric Environment, 2013. 73: p. 103-111.

22. Gontikakis, C., Patsourakos, S., Efthymiopoulos, C., Anastasiadis, A., and Georgoulis, M.K., COMBINING PARTICLE ACCELERATION AND CORONAL HEATING VIA DATA-CONSTRAINED CALCULATIONS OF NANOFLARES IN CORONAL LOOPS. Astrophysical Journal, 2013. 771(2).

23. Guglielmino, F., Anzidei, M., Briole, P., Elias, P., and Puglisi, G., 3D displacement maps of the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake (Italy) by applying the SISTEM method to GPS and DInSAR data. Terra Nova, 2013. 25(1): p. 79-85.

24. Keramitsoglou, I., Kiranoudis, C.T., Maiheu, B., De Ridder, K., Daglis, I.A., Manunta, P., and Paganini, M., Heat wave hazard classification and risk assessment using artificial intelligence fuzzy logic. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2013. 185(10): p. 8239-8258.

25. Keramitsoglou, I., Kiranoudis, C.T., and Weng, Q., Downscaling Geostationary Land Surface Temperature Imagery for Urban Analysis. Ieee Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2013. 10(5): p. 1253-1257.

26. Kofidis, E., Katselis, D., Rontogiannis, A., and Theodoridis, S., Preamble-based channel estimation in OFDM/OQAM systems: A review. Signal Processing, 2013. 93(7): p. 2038-2054.

27. Kokkalis, P., Papayannis, A., Amiridis, V., Mamouri, R.E., Veselovskii, I., Kolgotin, A., Tsaknakis, G., Kristiansen, N.I., Stohl, A., and Mona, L., Optical, microphysical, mass and geometrical properties of aged volcanic particles observed over Athens, Greece, during the Eyjafjallajokull eruption in April 2010 through synergy of Raman lidar and sunphotometer measurements. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2013. 13(18): p. 9303-9320.

28. Kontoes, C., Keramitsoglou, I., Papoutsis, I., Sifakis, N.I., and Xofis, P., National Scale Operational Mapping of Burnt Areas as a Tool for the Better Understanding of Contemporary Wildfire Patterns and Regimes. Sensors, 2013. 13(8): p. 11146-11166.

29. Koulouridis, E., Plionis, M., Chavez, R., Terlevich, E., Terlevich, R., Bresolin, F., and Basilakos, S., The environment of HII galaxies revisited. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2013. 554.

30. Koulouridis, E., Plionis, M., Chavushyan, V., Dultzin, D., Krongold, Y., Georgantopoulos, I., and Leon-Tavares, J., Activity of the Seyfert galaxy neighbours. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2013. 552.

31. Koutoulidis, L., Plionis, M., Georgantopoulos, I., and Fanidakis, N., Clustering, bias and the accretion mode of X-ray-selected AGN. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013. 428(2): p. 1382-1394.

32. Koutsias, N., Pleniou, M., Mallinis, G., Nioti, F., and Sifakis, N.I., A rule-based semi-automatic method to map burned areas: exploring the USGS historical Landsat archives to reconstruct recent fire history. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2013. 34(20): p. 7049-7068.

33. Kozlowski, S., Onken, C.A., Kochanek, C.S., Udalski, A., Szymanski, M.K., Kubiak, M., Pietrzynski, G., Soszynski, I., Wyrzykowski, L., Ulaczyk, K., Poleski, R., Pietrukowicz, P., Skowron, J., Meixner, M., Bonanos, A.Z., and Collaboration, O., THE MAGELLANIC QUASARS SURVEY. III. SPECTROSCOPIC CONFIRMATION OF 758 ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI BEHIND THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS. Astrophysical Journal, 2013. 775(2).

34. Kramer, C., Abreu-Vicente, J., Garcia-Burillo, S., Relano, M., Aalto, S., Boquien, M., Braine, J., Buchbender, C., Gratier, P., Israel, F.P., Nikola, T., Roellig, M., Verley, S., van der Werf, P., and Xilouris, E.M., Gas and dust cooling along the major axis of M33 (HerM33es) ISO/LWS C II observations. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2013. 553.

35. Kunagu, P., Balasis, G., Lesur, V., Chandrasekhar, E., and Papadimitriou, C., Wavelet characterization of external magnetic sources as observed by CHAMP satellite: evidence for unmodelled signals in geomagnetic field models. Geophysical Journal International, 2013. 192(3): p. 946-950.

36. Kutiev, I., Tsagouri, I., Perrone, L., Pancheva, D., Mukhtarov, P., Mikhailov, A., Lastovicka, J., Jakowski, N., Buresova, D., Blanch, E., Andonov, B., Altadill, D., Magdaleno, S., Parisi, M., and Torta, J.M., Solar activity impact on the Earth’s upper atmosphere. Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, 2013. 3.

37. LaMassa, S.M., Urry, C.M., Cappelluti, N., Civano, F., Ranalli, P., Glikman, E., Treister, E., Richards, G., Ballantyne, D., Stern, D., Comastri, A., Cardamone, C., Schawinski, K., Boehringer, H., Chon, G., Murray, S.S., Green, P., and Nandra, K., Finding rare AGN: XMM-Newton and Chandra observations of SDSS Stripe 82. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013. 436(4): p. 3581-3601.

38. Leonidaki, I., Boumis, P., and Zezas, A., A multiwavelength study of supernova remnants in six nearby galaxies – II. New optically selected supernova remnants. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013. 429(1): p. 189-220.

39. Leventidou, E., Zanis, P., Balis, D., Giannakaki, E., Pytharoulis, I., and Amiridis, V., Factors affecting the comparisons of planetary boundary layer height retrievals from CALIPSO, ECMWF and radiosondes over Thessaloniki, Greece. Atmospheric Environment, 2013. 74: p. 360-366.

40. Livanou, E., Dapergolas, A., Kontizas, M., Nordstroem, B., Kontizas, E., Andersen, J., Dirsch, B., and Karampelas, A., Age – metallicity relation in the Magellanic Clouds clusters. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2013. 554.

41. Mallet, M., Dubovik, O., Nabat, P., Dulac, F., Kahn, R., Sciare, J., Paronis, D., and Leon, J.F., Absorption properties of Mediterranean aerosols obtained from multi-year ground-based remote sensing observations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2013. 13(18): p. 9195-9210.

42. Meaburn, J., Boumis, P., and Akras, S., The bow-shock and high-speed jet in the faint, 40 arcmin diameter, outer halo of the evolved Helix planetary nebula (NGC 7293). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013. 435(4): p. 3462-3468.

43. Merrifield, M.A., Genz, A.S., Kontoes, C.P., and Marra, J.J., Annual maximum water levels from tide gauges: Contributing factors and geographic patterns. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 2013. 118(5): p. 2535-2546.

44. Mikhailov, A., Belehaki, A., Perrone, L., Zolesi, B., and Tsagouri, I., Retrieval of thermospheric parameters from routinely observed F2-layer Ne(h) profiles at the geomagnetic equator. Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, 2013. 3.

45. Milillo, A., Orsini, S., Plainaki, C., Fierro, D., Argan, A., Vertolli, N., Dandouras, I., Leoni, R., Liemohn, M.W., Scheer, J., Selci, S., Soffitta, P., Baragiola, R.A., Brienza, D., Cassidy, T.A., Chassela, O., Colasanti, L., D’Alessandro, M., Daglis, I., De Angelis, E., Del Monte, E., Di Lellis, A.M., Di Persio, G., Fabiani, S., Gaggero, A., Ganushkina, N., Garnier, P., Gilbert, J.A., Hansen, K.C., Hsieh, K.C., Lazzarotto, F., Lepri, S.T., Mangano, V., Massetti, S., Mattioli, F., Mura, A., Palumbo, M.E., Rispoli, R., Rossi, M., Rubini, A., Teolis, B., Tosi, F., Tosti, D., and Toublanc, D., Energetic neutral particles detection in the environment of Jupiter’s icy moons: Ganymede’s and Europa’s neutral imaging experiment (GENIE). Planetary and Space Science, 2013. 88: p. 53-63.

46. Miteva, R., Klein, K.L., Malandraki, O., and Dorrian, G., Solar Energetic Particle Events in the 23rd Solar Cycle: Interplanetary Magnetic Field Configuration and Statistical Relationship with Flares and CMEs. Solar Physics, 2013. 282(2): p. 579-613.

47. Mountrichas, G., Georgakakis, A., Finoguenov, A., Erfanianfar, G., Cooper, M.C., Coil, A.L., Laird, E.S., Nandra, K., and Newman, J.A., Measuring the dark matter halo mass of X-ray AGN at z similar to 1 using photometric redshifts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013. 430(1): p. 661-675.

48. Papaharalabos, S., Sybis, M., Tyczka, P., and Mathiopoulos, P.T., Novel Generalized max* Approximation Method for Simplified Decoding of Turbo and TTCM Codes. Wireless Personal Communications, 2013. 69(1): p. 373-386.

49. Papoutsis, I., Papanikolaou, X., Floyd, M., Ji, K.H., Kontoes, C., Paradissis, D., and Zacharis, V., Mapping inflation at Santorini volcano, Greece, using GPS and InSAR. Geophysical Research Letters, 2013. 40(2): p. 267-272.

50. Peppas, K.P., Alexandropoulos, G.C., and Mathiopoulos, P.T., Performance Analysis of Dual-Hop AF Relaying Systems over Mixed eta-mu and kappa-mu Fading Channels. Ieee Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2013. 62(7): p. 3149-3163.

51. Piconcelli, E., Miniutti, G., Ranalli, P., Feruglio, C., Fiore, F., and Maiolino, R., Suzaku reveals X-ray continuum piercing the nuclear absorber in Markarian 231. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013. 428(2): p. 1185-1190.

52. Ranalli, P., Comastri, A., Vignali, C., Carrera, F.J., Cappelluti, N., Gilli, R., Puccetti, S., Brandt, W.N., Brunner, H., Brusa, M., Georgantopoulos, I., Iwasawa, K., and Mainieri, V., The XMM deep survey in the CDF-S III. Point source catalogue and number counts in the hard X-rays. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2013. 555.

53. Relano, M., Verley, S., Perez, I., Kramer, C., Calzetti, D., Xilouris, E.M., Boquien, M., Abreu-Vicente, J., Combes, F., Israel, F., Tabatabaei, F.S., Braine, J., Buchbender, C., Gonzalez, M., Gratier, P., Lord, S., Mookerjea, B., Quintana-Lacaci, G., and van der Werf, P., Spectral energy distributions of H II regions in M 33 (HerM33es). Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2013. 552.

54. Tan, L.C., Malandraki, O.E., Reames, D.V., Ng, C.K., Wang, L., Patsou, I., and Papaioannou, A., COMPARISON BETWEEN PATH LENGTHS TRAVELED BY SOLAR ELECTRONS AND IONS IN GROUND-LEVEL ENHANCEMENT EVENTS. Astrophysical Journal, 2013. 768(1).

55. Tsagouri, I., Belehaki, A., Bergeot, N., Cid, C., Delouille, V., Egorova, T., Jakowski, N., Kutiev, I., Mikhailov, A., Nunez, M., Pietrella, M., Potapov, A., Qahwaji, R., Tulunay, Y., Velinov, P., and Viljanen, A., Progress in space weather modeling in an operational environment. Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, 2013. 3.

56. Tylka, A.J., Malandraki, O.E., Dorrian, G., Ko, Y.-K., Marsden, R.G., Ng, C.K., and Tranquille, C., Initial Fe/O Enhancements in Large, Gradual, Solar Energetic Particle Events: Observations from Wind and Ulysses. Solar Physics, 2013. 285(1-2): p. 251-267.

57. Tyndall, A.A., Jones, D., Boffin, H.M.J., Miszalski, B., Faedi, F., Lloyd, M., Boumis, P., Lopez, J.A., Martell, S., Pollacco, D., and Santander-Garcia, M., Two rings but no fellowship: LoTr 1 and its relation to planetary nebulae possessing barium central stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013. 436(3): p. 2082-2095.

58. Verstappen, J., Fritz, J., Baes, M., Smith, M.W.L., Allaert, F., Bianchi, S., Blommaert, J.A.D.L., De Geyter, G., De Looze, I., Gentile, G., Gordon, K.D., Holwerda, B.W., Viaene, S., and Xilouris, E.M., HERschel Observations of Edge-on Spirals (HEROES). Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2013. 556.

59. Zaourar, N., Hamoudi, M., Mandea, M., Balasis, G., and Holschneider, M., Wavelet-based multiscale analysis of geomagnetic disturbance. Earth Planets and Space, 2013. 65(12): p. 1525-1540.

60. Zhang, M., Zhang, L., Mathiopoulos, P.T., Ding, Y., and Wang, H., Perception-based shape retrieval for 3D building models. Isprs Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2013. 75: p. 76-91.