Astronomy & Astrophysics LaTeX template
A&A
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What it is
- Class
- aa
- Version tested
- aa.cls v9.1 (\filedate 2016/09/01, file dated 2021-10-05) when it comes from the archived package; A&A's current package is 9.4 (March 2026)
- Licence of the class
- Copyright EDP Sciences, all rights reserved (aa.cls header): not redistributed by us
- Licence of our starter
- CC0-1.0 (written by Sapience from the class documentation; use it freely)
- Official source
- www.aanda.org/for-authors/latex-issues/latex-classes
How the files arrive
The class and style files state no licence we could redistribute under, so they are not kept by Papers: when you start a paper, they are fetched from the official source above and checked against the version we tested. If the publisher has updated them since, the paper says so.
A&A's site refuses programs and EDP's download server was down when we built this, so the class usually comes from the Internet Archive's 2023 copy of EDP's package (aa.cls v9.1); the paper's TEMPLATE.txt names the source that served it. A&A's current package is 9.4 (March 2026): for it, use the official A&A template on Overleaf.
Format
Structured abstract (context, aims, methods, results, conclusions)
The venue's own instructions are the rule: www.aanda.org/for-authors/latex-issues/latex-classes.
AASTeX 7
MNRAS
JCAP
AASTeX 7 (two columns)
Research Notes of the AAS
The Planetary Science Journal