This first part of Special Session 5 explored the current status of infrared-based observations of obscured and distant stellar clusters in the Milky Way galaxy...
SS Cygni - The mass accretion rate behaviour in quiescence and in outburst
The correspondent mass accretion rate values for SS Cygni are deduced from the He II 1640 A emission line equivalent width values in all good available IUE low...
SS433 and the nature of ultra-luminous X-ray sources
The nature of the ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs) discovered in significant numbers in nearby galaxies by XMM and CXO continues to be a controversial topic...
SS433 is the prototype microquasar in the Galaxy and may even be analogous to the ULX sources if the jets' kinetic energy is taken into account. However, in...
Stability Study of the GOLF Blue Wing Working Cycle
The GOLF experiment is a resonant scattering spectrophotometer in flight on board the SOHO mission, originally designed to measure the intensity of the solar...
Standard Spectral Evolutionary Sequence for Type 1a Supernovae
Spectroscopic monitoring of a wide range of supernovae of different types and at different evolutionary stages has been carried out. The observations were taken...
Standing on the shoulder of a giant: ISAAC, Antu, and star formation
In this article, we hope to illustrate the great qualitative and quantitative strides that star-formation studies have taken in the past few years, by looking...