We report the detection of the first two microlensing candidates from the Wendelstein Calar Alto Pixellensing Project (WeCAPP). Both are detected with a high signal-to-noise ratio and were filtered out from 4.5 million pixel light curves using a variety of selection criteria. Here we only consider well-sampled events with timescales of 1 day

We present the evolution of the rest-frame optical luminosity density jrestλ, the integrated rest-frame optical color, and the stellar mass density, ρ*, for a sample of Ks band-selected galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field-South (HDF-S). We derived jrestλ in the rest-frame U, B, and V bands and found that jrestλ increases by a factor of 1.9+/-0.4, 2.9

The MAGIC telescope, presently at its commissioning phase, will become fully operative by the end of 2003. Placed at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM) on the island of La Palma, MAGIC is the largest among new generation ground-based gamma ray telescopes, and will reach an energy threshold as low as 30 GeV. The range of the

We have studied the Lyα, Hβ, Hα, and Mg II λ2798 line profiles of the Seyfert 1 galaxy III Zw 2. The shapes of these broad emission lines show evidence of a multicomponent origin and also features that may be identified as the peaks due to a rotating disk. We have proposed a two-component broad-line region (BLR) model consisting of an inner

Recent results from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2MASS All-Sky Survey have clearly revealed the extent of the spatial distribution of stars affiliated with the tidal debris tail of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy (Sgr). Although these surveys help to constrain the shape of the Sgr orbit, kinematics of the tidal tail stars are crucial in

We consider the evolution of the light elements, especially beryllium and boron but also lithium, in the Galaxy as derived from observations within 1 kpc of the Sun. The interest in Li has much to do with the evaluation of the universal baryon abundance via primordial nucleosynthesis, but the difficulties of interpretation have led to the need to