The paper combines the Ly-alpha forest power spectrum from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and high resolution spectra with cosmic microwave background including three-year WMAP, and supernovae and galaxy clustering constraints to derive new constraints on cosmological parameters. The paper has received 293 clean citations so far (source: ADS, SPIRES, and WoS databases), so it ranks among ten most cited papers in astrophysics and cosmology in the last three years (we note a clear mistake in the WoS which claims the paper was cited only four(!) times).
COBISS.SI-ID: 293505
The paper reports the optical polarization of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow, obtained 203 seconds after the initial burst of gamma-rays from GRB 060418, using a ring polarimeter on the robotic Liverpool Telescope. Absence of polarization is ruling out the presence of a large-scale ordered magnetic field in the emitting region. Andreja Gomboc is a member of RoboNet-1.0 network which published 23 papers in international journals (average impact factor 5.1), the most being two publications in the Nature and Science journals.
COBISS.SI-ID: 269953
The halo of the Milky Way was once considered a single component, evidence for its dichotomy has slowly emerged in recent years from inspection of small samples of halo objects. The paper shows that the halo is indeed clearly divisible into two broadly overlapping structural components—an inner and an outer halo—that exhibit different spatial density profiles, stellar orbits and stellar metallicities (abundances of elements heavier than helium). These properties indicate that the individual halo components probably formed in fundamentally different ways.
COBISS.SI-ID: 287617
This is the second public data release of the RAdial Velocity Experiment, the first one is in Steinmetz, M., Zwitter, T., et al., Astronomical Journal (2006), 132, 4, 1645. RAVE is a survey measuring stellar radial velocities and physical properties using the UK Schmidt telescope in Australia, with its huge 6-degree field of view and a multiple object spectrograph. The paper presents the largest catalogue of stellar physical properties derived from spectroscopic observations so far. The first data release was noted also among the news in the journal Science (2006, vol. 311, p. 1221).
COBISS.SI-ID: 309377
The mesoscale numerical weather prediction model ALADIN has been applied for downscaling ERA40 data onto a 10 km grid covering the complex terrain of Slovenia. The modelled wind field is compared with the time-series of observations at 11 stations. This is one of nine articles dealing with the importance of a complex terrain, with others studying precipitation. Relief has the greatest influence on the precipitation amount in Slovenia (in western Slovenia it is the largest in the Alps). The concave shape of the soutwards bulging Trentino mountains and the Dinaric Alps are crucial factors.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1927524