The Sculptor Galaxy NGC253 is a nearby barred Sc galaxy seen nearly edge-on and it has been the target of the Science Verification (SV) for the new ESO survey telescopes VST and VISTA: SV have been defined by teams of astronomers from ESO and the community, including the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics. On the behalf of the VISTA and

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Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients have been recently unveiled as a new class of High Mass X-ray Binaries thanks to the excellent survey capabilities of the INTEGRAL/IBIS instrument. Although there is a general agreement on explaining the behavior of supergiant Fast X-ray Transients as the result of accretion by a compact object from the wind of a

The spectral predictions of stellar population models are not as accurate in the ultra-violet (UV) as in the optical wavelength domain. One of the reasons is the lack of high-quality stellar libraries. The New Generation Stellar Library (NGSL), recently released, represents a significant step towards the improvement of this situation. To prepare

I describe the modeling of stellar ensembles in terms of probability distributions. This modeling is primary characterized by the number of stars included in the considered resolution element, whatever its physical (stellar cluster) or artificial (pixel/IFU) nature. It provides a solution of the direct problem of characterizing probabilistically

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