Probing the stellar populations in the outskirts of spiral galaxies
We present our results on the stellar population properties of the outskirts of disk galaxies. In particular, we focus on spiral galaxies with stellar disk...
Probing the Structure of SDSS J1004+4112 through Microlensing Analysis of Spectroscopic Data
We aim to uncover the structure of the continuum and broad emission line (BEL) emitting regions in the gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J1004+4112 through...
Probing the Uniformity of the Local Sheet Environment (PULSE)
Essentially all galaxies within roughly 4 Mpc of the Milky Way are confined to a thin sheet-like structure, here referred to as the ``Local Sheet''. Our...
Problems of the Modern Romanian Astronomy: TELEROM
The TV broadcast discusses problems of the modernization of the Romanian astronomical infrastructure, the worst in Eastern Europe. It presents the TELEROM...
Problems with the dark matter and dark energy hypotheses, and alternative ideas
Two exotic elements have been introduced into the standard cosmological model: non-baryonic dark matter and dark energy. The success in converting a hypothesis...
Processing Chains for Characterization and Data Analysis of TES X-ray Detectors
The EURECA (EUropean-japanese Calorimeter Array) project was aimed at developing a prototype for an X-ray Imaging detector based on TES (Transition Edge Sensor)...
Processing of stellar spectrograms digitized by means of the PDS 1010A microdensitometer - The ELSPEC/1 software package
The software package ELSPEC/1 written at Trieste Astronomical Observatory for the automatic reduction of spectrograms digitized by a PDS 1010A microdensitometer...