The observations were carried out between 2009 June 20 and August 20 in service mode with the ESO VLT instrument FORS2 at UT1 (Antu). FORS2 is a focal reducer multimode instrument that can be used for optical imaging, polarimetry, long-slit and multi-object spectroscopy. (1 data file).

Despite its importance for understanding the nature of early stellar generations and for constraining Galactic bulge formation models, at present little is known about the metal-poor stellar content of the central Milky Way. This is a consequence of the great distances involved and intervening dust obscuration, which challenge optical studies

Context. On March 28, 2011, the BAT instrument on board the Swift satellite detected a new transient event that in the very beginning was classified as a gamma ray burst (GRB). However, the unusual X-ray flaring activity observed from a few hours up to days after the onset of the event made a different nature seem to be more likely. The long

In this contribution I review the results of the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Galactic Clusters Survey (GCS) on the Initial Mass Function (IMF) and the current searches for young T dwarfs in open clusters and star-forming regions.

Thanks to different ground-based surveys and space missions, nowadays we have a fairly large sample of discovered extra-solar planets to study and, without a doubt, this number will increase in the future. One of the most succesful techniques that allows us to prove the physical properties and atmospheric composition of these exoplanets is

Within the framework of the density matrix theory for the generation and transfer of polarized radiation, velocity density matrix correlations represent an important physical aspect that, however, is often neglected in practical applications when adopting the simplifying approximation of complete redistribution on velocity. In this paper, we