Aims: Our goal is to study the circumstellar environment associated with each component of the wide intermediate-mass pre-main sequence binary system PDS 144...
Polarisation of very-low-mass stars and brown dwarfs. I. VLT/FORS1 optical observations of field ultra-cool dwarfs
Context: Ultra-cool dwarfs of the L spectral type (T_eff = 1400-2200 K) are known to have dusty atmospheres. Asymmetries of the dwarf surface may arise from...
If the disappearance of the broad emission lines observed in changing-look quasars originates from the obscuration of the quasar core by dusty clouds moving in...
Polarization of the changing-look quasar J1011+5442
If the disappearance of the broad emission lines observed in changing-look quasars were caused by the obscuration of the quasar core through moving dust clouds...
PORTA: A three-dimensional multilevel radiative transfer code for modeling the intensity and polarization of spectral lines with massively parallel computers
The interpretation of the intensity and polarization of the spectral line radiation produced in the atmosphere of the Sun and of other stars requires solving a...
Position-velocity diagrams of ionized gas in the inner regions of disk galaxies
We use long-slit spectroscopy along the major axis of a sample of 23 nearby disk galaxies to study the kinematic properties of the ionized-gas component in...
Possible detection of phase changes from the non-transiting planet HD 46375b by CoRoT
Context. The present work deals with the detection of phase changes in an exoplanetary system. HD 46375 is a solar analog known to host a non-transiting Saturn...
Possible origin of the non-detection of metastable He I in the upper atmosphere of the hot Jupiter WASP-80b
Aims: We aim to constrain the origin of the non-detection of the metastable He I triplet at ≈10 830 Å obtained for the hot Jupiter WASP-80b. Methods: We measure...
Possible ring material around centaur (2060) Chiron
We propose that several short-duration events observed in past stellar occultations by Chiron were produced by ring material. Some similarities between these...