Recently, models for Advection Dominated Accretion Flow (ADAF) have been shown to explain many of the quiescent properties of the X-ray and optical emission from black hole soft X-ray transients (BH SXT) (Narayan, McClintock and Yi 1996 ApJ 457, 821; Narayan, Barret and McClintock 1996, submitted to ApJ). One novel feature of the ADAF model is that

We present echelle spectroscopy in the 3550 to 7010 A range for two positions of the Orion Nebula. The data were obtained with the 2.1-m telescope at Observatorio Astronomico Nacional in San Pedro Martir, Baja California. We have measured the intensities of several permitted lines of C(+) , N(+) , N(++) , O(0) , O(+) , Ne(0) , Si(+) , Si(++) which

We present Keck spectroscopy of small (r 2 objects. The majority of the emission-line systems have properties similar to local Hii galaxies.

We have acquired CO J=1->0 mapping of a region 2x2arcmin^2^ about the cometary nebula and jet outflow source 1548c27. We find little evidence for interaction between the jet and molecular cloud, although it is found that the reflection nebula is embedded within a neutral condensation of size =~10^2^arcsec. Kinematic variations across the source

We present results of a CCD optical imaging survey of the ionized gas in 73 luminous elliptical and lenticular galaxies, selected from the RC3 catalog to represent a broad variety of X-ray, radio, infrared and kinematical properties. For each galaxy we have used broad-band R images and narrow-band images centered at the Hα and [NII] emission lines

We observed the reflection nebula NGC 7023 at various positions using wide and narrow band photometry centred on the 7.7 and 11.3μm PAH emission features and wide band photometry at 20 and 25μm. No significant variations have been detected over the nebula in the 7.3 and 20μm continuum relative to the total emission in the 6-15μm range (hereafter