Several members of the COROT Seismology Working Group (SWG) have performed several ``hare-and-hound'' exercises to prepare the data exploitation of the mission in the past few years. These exercises consist in reproducing a theoretical model on the basis of a light curve obtained from a frequency spectrum computed from an ``unknown'' theoretical

We report the identification of the cataclysmic variable 1RXS J062518.2+733433 as an intermediate polar. The orbital period of the system is determined to be 283.0+/-0.2 min from the radial velocity variation of Hα, measured in an extensive set of time-resolved spectra. Differential optical photometry obtained over a base line of three weeks

All the observations were made at the Harlan J. Smith 2.7-m telescope at McDonald Observatory, using the 2dcoude echelle spectrometer (Tull et al., 1995PASP..107..251T) with a 2048x2048 pixel Tektronix charge-coupled device (CCD) as detector. (3 data files).

We have obtained series of images in the near infrared J and Ks bands for seven L-type dwarfs with a duration of 3 to 6 hours. We present results on: 1) the amplitude of variability associated with atmospheric changes over time scales from minutes to several hours; 2) the search for cool companions in wide orbits; 3) the search for transits of

In this paper we present the Johnson-Cousins UBVR CCD photometry of the stars in King 2, an old open cluster towards the galactic anticenter. We have obtained the colour-magnitude diagram, the colour excess, the reddening, an estimate of the metallicity, and the distance modulus. The comparison of the observational colour-magnitude diagram with the

The σ Orionis cluster (˜3 Myr, 350 pc) is an ideal site to investigate the early evolution of substellar (brown dwarf and planetary mass) objects. To date, the cluster photometric and spectroscopic sequence of free-floaters is known for a wide mass range from 1M&sun; down to roughly 3MJup. The substellar domain covers spectral types that go from