Exoplanets with relatively clear atmospheres are prime targets for detailed studies of chemical compositions and abundances in their atmospheres. Alkali metals have long been suggested to exhibit broad wings due to pressure broadening, but most of the alkali detections only show very narrow absorption cores, probably because of the presence of

A neutrino with energy ˜290 TeV, IceCube-170922A, was detected in coincidence with the BL Lac object TXS 0506+056 during enhanced gamma-ray activity, with chance coincidence being rejected at ˜3σ level. We monitored the object in the very-high-energy (VHE) band with the Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescopes for ˜41 hr

We find that the Fe III λλ2039-2113 spectral feature in quasars appears systematically redshifted by amounts accountable under the hypothesis of gravitational redshift induced by the central supermassive black hole (BH). Our analysis of 27 composite spectra from the BOSS survey indicates that the redshift and the broadening of the lines in the Fe

Understanding the peculiar properties of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) via spectroscopic analysis is a challenging task requiring very deep observations and exquisite data reduction. In this work, we perform one of the most complete characterizations of the stellar component of UDGs to date using deep optical spectroscopic data from OSIRIS at Gran

We present results obtained from a spectroscopic analysis of high-resolution spectra taken with the ESPADONS spectrograph at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and the SOPHIE spectrograph installed at the telescope in Haute-Provence Observatory. The data were collected for A- and F-type stars observed in the Kepler field. The presented sample of

We present a software simulator for the modeling of astronomical instrumentation, which includes platform effects and software processing. It is an end-to-end simulator, from the entrance of the telescope to the data acquisition at the detector, along with software blocks dealing, e.g., with demodulation, inversion, and compression. Developed