In this review I address some of the global properties of galaxies which show nuclear activity, or central starbursts. Confining my attention to the inner...
From the ground to space: an infrared view of active galactic nuclei
In the past 10-15 years our view of the circumnuclear material of active galactic nuclei (AGN) has completely changed thanks to the combination of new...
Of the mechanisms proposed to bring gaseous fuel into the central starburst regions of a galaxy, non-axisymmetries in the gravitational potential set up by...
There is considerable evidence that the circumnuclear regions of galaxies are intimately related to their host galaxies, most directly through their bars. There...
The question of how a starburst is fuelled is closely related to some of the main outstanding problems in our understanding of starbursts, namely which...
Full Stokes observations in the He i 1083 nm spectral region covering an M3.2 flare
We present an exceptional data set acquired with the Vacuum Tower Telescope (Tenerife, Spain) covering the pre-flare, flare, and post-flare stages of an M3.2...
Full-Stokes Observations and Analysis of He I 10830 Å in a Flaring Region
We present observations of the full Stokes vector in a flaring region, taken in the chromospheric He I 10830 Å multiplet. The data were recorded with the new...
Fullerene and graphene molecular nanostructures in evolved stars
The detections of fullerenes and (possibly) planar C_{24} (a small fragment of a graphene sheet) in the H-rich circumstellar environments of evolved stars show...