The AGILE gamma-ray burst GRB 080514B was the first detected to have emission at energies above 30 MeV and an optical/NIR afterglow. Here we summarize the main results of our observing campaign based on optical/NIR follow-up observations of this event at several observatories, including the multi-channel imager GROND on La Silla and Swift UVOT. The

The Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) is a collaborative project with participation from Spain, Mexico and the University of Florida, Gainesville. The GTC is an advanced technology 10.4 m segmented primary telescope currently under commissioning. By the time of the conference we should have pointed to the sky. In the talk I will give a brief overview

There is a long-standing debate why the Mn i 5394.7 Å line in the solar irradiance spectrum brightens more at higher activity than other photospheric lines. The claim that this is caused by spectral interlocking to chromospheric emission in the Mg ii h & k lines is disputed. In this paper we settle this issue, using classical one-dimensional

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We study the evolution of initially spherical satellites of a galaxy that resembles the Milky Way using N-Body simulations. The initial satellites come from a Plummer sphere model with 10^6 particles, they are dark matter free and have typical masses of 10^7 - 10^9~M_&sun;. The satellite is bounded by a galactic potential: A Miyamoto-Nagai

Years ago we have compiled all the available optical data in the literature to build a comprehensive classification of the low-ionization structures (LIS), as knots, jets and jet-like structures in planetary nebulae (PNe). This classification highlighted a number of questions that 6 years later still remain open, such as, what is the role of