Asteroid (3200) Phaethon is a remarkable Near Earth Asteroid (NEA). It was the first asteroid associated with a meteor shower, namely the Geminid stream1. Phaethon's unusual orbit has a high inclination and a very low perihelion distance (0.14 AU). Its reflectance spectrum suggests a connection with primitive meteorites, best fitting with CI/CM

The linear optical polarimetry was obtained during several observing runs at the CASLEO in San Juan, Argentina, during 2003-2007. The Torino five-channel photopolarimeter was used on the 2.15-m telescope. All observations were obtained simultaneously through the five Johnson-Cousins broad-band UBVRI filters centred at λUeff=0.360um, λBeff=0.440um

This paper presents a detailed study of the scattering polarization profiles formed under partial frequency redistribution (PRD) in two thermal models of the solar atmosphere. Particular attention is given to understanding the influence of several atmospheric parameters on the emergent fractional linear polarization profiles. The shapes of these Q

We present new deep and accurate space (Advanced Camera for Surveys-Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope) and ground-based (Suprime-Cam at Subaru Telescope, Mega-Cam at Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope) photometric and astrometric data for the Local Group dwarf irregular IC10. We confirm the significant decrease of the

We present a new sample of 25 fossil groups (FGs) at z

Comet Lulin was observed in July 2008, when the comet was in-bound at 1.7 AU from the Sun. Analysis of the images showed that the comet had a very intense and anomalous enhancement of the column density of the solid components in the inner coma. This effect was before interpreted as due to the presence of sublimating grains (Tozzi et al, 2004, AA