Since May 2005 the Tenerife Infrared Polarimeter II (TIP-II) has been operational at the Vacuum Tower Telescope on Tenerife. The core of the polarimeter is a...
Tentative detection of atmospheric evaporation in GJ1214b
During the early stages of planetary formation, planets suffer severe changes in their physical and orbital properties due to internal and external forces...
Test of VPHGS in SHSG for use at cryogenic temperatures
Silver halide sensitized gelatin (SHSG) processes are interesting because they combine the spectral and energetic sensitivity of a photographic emulsions with...
Testing AGN Unification through IR Spectral Energy Distributions--North
Unification schemes of active galactic nuclei (AGN) account for a variety of observational differences in terms of viewing geometry. However, our recent work...
Testing commercial variable fiber attenuators and lenslet arrays for equalized integral field spectroscopy applications
We have been testing at laboratory commercial variable attenuators commonly used in telecommunication applications for their used in astronomy. Such variable...
Testing evolutionary tracks of Pre-Main Sequence stars: the case of HD113449
Evolutionary tracks are of key importance for the understanding of star formation. Unfortunately, tracks published by various groups differ so that it is...
Testing Intermediate-age Stellar Evolution with Magellanic Cloud Clusters
We present new deep VLT color-magnitude diagrams of three intermediate-age populous star clusters in the LMC. These data will be used independently by the...