We present European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope (ESO VLT) and William Herschel Telescope (WHT) spectroscopic observations of two powerful radio galaxies at intermediate redshifts (3C 213.1 and 3C 459), obtained with the aim of establishing the nature and evolutionary status of the host galaxies. Spectral synthesis modelling has been

The CCD images were obtained using the 1.54-m Danish telescope at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on La Silla, equipped with the Danish Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera (DFOSC) on 4-5 Nov and 29 Dec 1999. Observations were secured in the Washington C and Kron-Cousins R filters. (5 data files).

The CCD images were obtained using the 1.54-m Danish telescope at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on La Silla, equipped with the Danish Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera (DFOSC) on 4-5 Nov and 29 Dec 1999. Observations were secured in the Washington C and Kron-Cousins R filters. (5 data files).

We report two-dimensional MHD simulations which demonstrate that photospheric 5 minute oscillations can leak into the chromosphere inside small-scale vertical magnetic flux tubes. The results of our numerical experiments are compatible with those inferred from simultaneous spectropolarimetric observations of the photosphere and chromosphere

Aims:A recent catalogue by Flesch & Hardcastle presents two major anomalies in the spatial distribution of QSO candidates: i) an apparent excess of such objects near bright galaxies, and ii) an excess of very bright QSO candidates compared to random background expectations in several regions of the sky. Because anyone of these anomalies would be