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Risk of coronary stenosis after adjuvant radiotherapy for breast cancer
Purpose Adjuvant radiotherapy (RT) for breast cancer is associated with an increased risk of ischemic heart disease. We examined the risk of coronary artery stenosis in a large cohort of women with breast cancer receiving adjuvant RT. Methods A cohort of women diagnosed with breast cancer between 1992 and 2012 in three Swedish health care regions (n = 57,066) were linked to the Swedish Coronary Angiography and Angioplasty Registry (SCAAR) to identify women receiving RT who subsequently underwent a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) due to coronary stenosis. Cox regression analyses were performed to examine risk of a coronary intervention and competing risk analyses were performed to calculate cumulative incidence. Results A total of 649 women with left-sided breast cancer and 494 women with right-sided breast cancer underwent a PCI. Women who received left-sided RT had a significantly higher risk of a PCI in the left anterior descending artery (LAD) compared to women who received right-sided RT, hazard ratio (HR) 1.44 (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.21-1.77, p < 0.001). For the proximal, mid, and distal LAD, the HRs were 1.60 (95% CI 1.22-2.10), 1.38 (95% CI 1.07-1.78), and 2.43 (95% CI 1.33-4.41), respectively. The cumulative incidence of coronary events at 25 years from breast cancer diagnosis were 7.0% in women receiving left-sided RT and 4.4% in women receiving right-sided RT. Conclusion Implementing and further developing techniques that lower cardiac doses is important in order to reduce the risk of long-term side effects of adjuvant RT for breast cancer.Peer reviewe
Study of the interacting system NGC 6845
We present optical spectroscopy, B, V, R and I CCD photometry and VLA neutral
hydrogen observations of the interacting quartet NGC 6845, also know as Klemola
30. NGC 6845 A, the dominant component, sports a broad and bright tidal bridge
and a faint tidal tail, which bifurcate. The tidal bridge has a (B-I) color
bluer than that of NGC 6845 A inner disk. Five strong condensations, identified
as HII regions brighter than the brightest in our Galaxy, are found along the
tidal bridge, with the two most luminous located at the bridge tip. Two giant
HII regions, comparable to 30 Dor, are located where the tidal bridge and the
tidal tail joint the disk of NGC 6845 A. Since the age of the HII regions are
3-8 Myr, star formation has been occurring along the tidal bridge and the tidal
arm well after they had begun to be torn apart (>= 100 Myr). Satoh model
fitting to the rotation curve of the A component reveals a kinematical mass of
4.4(+-1.2)E11 M_sun, inside the central 12 kpc (H_0=75 km/s/Mpc). The HI
emission shows two components, a more massive one that belongs to NGC 6845 A,
and a second one associated to NGC 6845 B. We do not detect gas associated to
galaxies C and D. The total amount of HI is 1.4E10 M_sun, five time the HI
content of the Milky Way. The HI kinematics indicates an amount of dark matter
associated to the A component two times higher than the mass inside its central
12 kpc. The group kinematics indicates an M/L ~ 43(+-2) or M/L ~ 66(+-2) (solar
units), according to two different prescriptions for the internal absorption
correction. In spite of this difference, both values furnish similar group mass
(~1E13 M_sun). Although preliminary results on N-Body simulations indicate that
either B or C might well create a tidal feature like the bridge of the A
component, the collision with B appears to be more favourable.Comment: 24 pages, 11 JPEG figures, uses aastex.cls and natbib.sty (included).
To appear in the June/1999 issue of the Astronomical Journa
Merging Galaxies in the SDSS EDR
We present a new catalog of merging galaxies obtained through an automated
systematic search routine. The 1479 new pairs of merging galaxies were found in
approximately 462 sq deg of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Early Data Release
(SDSS EDR; Stoughton et al. 2002) photometric data, and the pair catalog is
complete for galaxies in the magnitude range 16.0 <= g* <= 20.
The selection algorithm, implementing a variation on the original
Karachentsev (1972) criteria, proved to be very efficient and fast. Merging
galaxies were selected such that the inter-galaxy separations were less than
the sum of the component galaxies' radii.
We discuss the characteristics of the sample in terms of completeness, pair
separation, and the Holmberg effect. We also present an online atlas of images
for the SDSS EDR pairs obtained using the corrected frames from the SDSS EDR
database. The atlas images also include the relevant data for each pair member.
This catalog will be useful for conducting studies of the general
characteristics of merging galaxies, their environments, and their component
galaxies. The redshifts for a subset of the interacting and merging galaxies
and the distribution of angular sizes for these systems indicate the SDSS
provides a much deeper sample than almost any other wide-area catalog to date.Comment: 58 pages, which includes 15 figures and 6 tables. Figures 2, 8, 9,
10, 11, 13, and 14 are provided as JPEG files. For online atlas, see
http://home.fnal.gov/~sallam/MergePair/ . Accepted for publication in A
The CoRoT target HD175726: an active star with weak solar-like oscillations
Context. The CoRoT short runs give us the opportunity to observe a large
variety of late-type stars through their solar-like oscillations. We report
observations of the star HD175726 that lasted for 27 days during the first
short run of the mission. The time series reveals a high-activity signal and
the power spectrum presents an excess due to solar-like oscillations with a low
signal-to-noise ratio. Aims. Our aim is to identify the most efficient tools to
extract as much information as possible from the power density spectrum.
Methods. The most productive method appears to be the autocorrelation of the
time series, calculated as the spectrum of the filtered spectrum. This method
is efficient, very rapid computationally, and will be useful for the analysis
of other targets, observed with CoRoT or with forthcoming missions such as
Kepler and Plato. Results. The mean large separation has been measured to be
97.2+-0.5 microHz, slightly below the expected value determined from solar
scaling laws.We also show strong evidence for variation of the large separation
with frequency. The bolometric mode amplitude is only 1.7+-0.25 ppm for radial
modes, which is 1.7 times less than expected. Due to the low signal-to-noise
ratio, mode identification is not possible for the available data set of
HD175726. Conclusions. This study shows the possibility of extracting a seismic
signal despite a signal-to-noise ratio of only 0.37. The observation of such a
target shows the efficiency of the CoRoT data, and the potential benefit of
longer observing runs.Comment: 8 pages. Accepted in A&
Modeling the Images of Relativistic Jets Lensed by Galaxies with Different Mass Surface Density Distributions
The images of relativistic jets from extragalactic sources produced by
gravitational lensing by galaxies with different mass surface density
distributions are modeled. In particular, the following models of the
gravitational lens mass distribution are considered: a singular isothermal
ellipsoid, an isothermal ellipsoid with a core, two- and three-component models
with a galactic disk, halo, and bulge. The modeled images are compared both
between themselves and with available observations. Different sets of
parameters are shown to exist for the gravitationally lensed system B0218+357
in multicomponent models. These sets allow the observed geometry of the system
and the intensity ratio of the compact core images to be obtained, but they
lead to a significant variety in the Hubble constant determined from the
modeling results.Comment: 26 pages, 9 figures, will be published in the Astronomy Letters,
2011, v.37, N4, pp. 233-24
High Resolution Spectroscopy and Spectropolarimetry of some late F-/early G-type sun-like stars as targets for Zeeman Doppler imaging
High resolution spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry have been undertaken at
the Anglo-Australian Telescope in order to identify suitable targets for
magnetic studies of young sun-like stars, for the proxy study of early solar
evolution. This study involved the investigation of some variable late F-/early
G-type sun-like stars originally identified by the Hipparcos mission. Of the 38
stars observed for this study, HIP 31021, HIP 64732, HIP 73780 were found to be
spectroscopic binary stars while HIP 19072, HIP 67651 and HIP 75636 are also
likely to be binaries while HIP 33111 could even be a triple system. Magnetic
fields were detected on a number of the survey stars: HIP 21632, HIP 43720, HIP
48770, HIP 62517, HIP 71933, HIP 77144, HIP 89829, HIP 90899 and HIP 105388,
making these stars good candidates for follow-up Zeeman Doppler imaging
studies.Comment: 16 pages, 16 figures, 4 tables Accepted for publication in PAS
The Incidence of Highly-Obscured Star-Forming Regions in SINGS Galaxies
Using the new capabilities of the Spitzer Space Telescope and extensive
multiwavelength data from the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS),
it is now possible to study the infrared properties of star formation in nearby
galaxies down to scales equivalent to large HII regions. We are therefore able
to determine what fraction of large, infrared-selected star-forming regions in
normal galaxies are highly obscured and address how much of the star formation
we miss by relying solely on the optical portion of the spectrum. Employing a
new empirical method for deriving attenuations of infrared-selected
star-forming regions we investigate the statistics of obscured star formation
on 500pc scales in a sample of 38 nearby galaxies. We find that the median
attenuation is 1.4 magnitudes in H-alpha and that there is no evidence for a
substantial sub-population of uniformly highly-obscured star-forming regions.
The regions in the highly-obscured tail of the attenuation distribution
(A_H-alpha > 3) make up only ~4% of the sample of nearly 1800 regions, though
very embedded infrared sources on the much smaller scales and lower
luminosities of compact and ultracompact HII regions are almost certainly
present in greater numbers. The highly-obscured cases in our sample are
generally the bright, central regions of galaxies with high overall attenuation
but are not otherwise remarkable. We also find that a majority of the galaxies
show decreasing radial trends in H-alpha attenuation. The small fraction of
highly-obscured regions seen in this sample of normal, star-forming galaxies
suggests that on 500pc scales the timescale for significant dispersal or break
up of nearby, optically-thick dust clouds is short relative to the lifetime of
a typical star-forming region.Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ; emulateapj style, 30 pages, 18
figures (compressed versions), 3 table
Single-nuclei transcriptomes from human adrenal gland reveal distinct cellular identities of low and high-risk neuroblastoma tumors
Childhood neuroblastoma has a remarkable variability in outcome. Age at diagnosis is one of the most important prognostic factors, with children less than 1 year old having favorable outcomes. Here we study single-cell and single-nuclei transcriptomes of neuroblastoma with different clinical risk groups and stages, including healthy adrenal gland. We compare tumor cell populations with embryonic mouse sympatho-adrenal derivatives, and post-natal human adrenal gland. We provide evidence that low and high-risk neuroblastoma have different cell identities, representing two disease entities. Low-risk neuroblastoma presents a tran- scriptome that resembles sympatho- and chromaffin cells, whereas malignant cells enriched in high-risk neuroblastoma resembles a subtype of TRKB+cholinergic progenitor population identified in human post-natal gland. Analyses of these populations reveal different gene expression programs for worst and better survival in correlation with age at diagnosis. Our findings reveal two cellular identities and a composition of human neuroblastoma tumors reflecting clinical heterogeneity and outcome
Solar-like oscillations with low amplitude in the CoRoT target HD 181906
Context: The F8 star HD 181906 (effective temperature ~6300K) was observed
for 156 days by the CoRoT satellite during the first long run in the centre
direction. Analysis of the data reveals a spectrum of solar-like acoustic
oscillations. However, the faintness of the target (m_v=7.65) means the
signal-to-noise (S/N) in the acoustic modes is quite low, and this low S/N
leads to complications in the analysis. Aims: To extract global variables of
the star as well as key parameters of the p modes observed in the power
spectrum of the lightcurve. Methods: The power spectrum of the lightcurve, a
wavelet transform and spot fitting have been used to obtain the average
rotation rate of the star and its inclination angle. Then, the autocorrelation
of the power spectrum and the power spectrum of the power spectrum were used to
properly determine the large separation. Finally, estimations of the mode
parameters have been done by maximizing the likelihood of a global fit, where
several modes were fit simultaneously. Results: We have been able to infer the
mean surface rotation rate of the star (~4 microHz) with indications of the
presence of surface differential rotation, the large separation of the p modes
(~87 microHz), and therefore also the ridges corresponding to overtones of the
acoustic modes.Comment: Paper Accepted to be published in A&A. 10 Pages, 12 figure
The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets. V. Follow-up of ELODIE candidates: Jupiter-analogs around Sun-like stars
We present radial-velocity measurements obtained in a programs underway to
search for extrasolar planets with the spectrograph SOPHIE at the 1.93-m
telescope of the Haute-Provence Observatory. Targets were selected from
catalogs observed with ELODIE, mounted previously at the telescope, in order to
detect long-period planets with an extended database close to 15 years. Two new
Jupiter-analog candidates are reported to orbit the bright stars HD150706 and
HD222155 in 16.1 and 10.9 yr at 6.7 (+4.0,-1.4) and 5.1(+0.6,-0.7) AU and to
have minimum masses of 2.71 (+1.44,-0.66) and 1.90 (+0.67,-0.53) M_Jup,
respectively. Using the measurements from ELODIE and SOPHIE, we refine the
parameters of the long-period planets HD154345b and HD89307b, and publish the
first reliable orbit for HD24040b. This last companion has a minimum mass of
4.01 +/- 0.49 M_Jup orbiting its star in 10.0 yr at 4.92 +/- 0.38 AU. Moreover,
the data provide evidence of a third bound object in the HD24040 system. With a
surrounding dust debris disk, HD150706 is an active G0 dwarf for which we
partially corrected the effect of the stellar spot on the SOPHIE
radial-velocities. HD222155 is an inactive G2V star. On the basis of the
previous findings of Lovis and collaborators and since no significant
correlation between the radial-velocity variations and the activity index are
found in the SOPHIE data, these variations are not expected to be only due to
stellar magnetic cycles. Finally, we discuss the main properties of this new
population of long-period Jupiter-mass planets, which for the moment, consists
of fewer than 20 candidates. These stars are preferential targets either for
direct-imaging or astrometry follow-up to constrain the system parameters and
for higher precision radial-velocity to search for lower mass planets, aiming
to find a Solar System twin.Comment: accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysic
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