We triggered a Chandra ToO observation of the ongoing outburst of a transient source in the globular cluster Terzan 5 (ATel #2919, #2920, #2922, #2924, #2929, #2932, #2933, #2937, #2939, #2940, #2946, #2952, #2958). The 9.9 ks observation was taken with the ACIS S3 chip in imaging mode and began on 2010-10-24 at 19:30:29 UTC. Inspection of the new

CARMENES, Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exo-earths with a Near-infrared Echelle Spectrograph, is a study for a next-generation instrument for the 3.5 m Calar Alto Telescope to be designed, built, integrated, and operated by a consortium of nine German and Spanish institutions. Our main objective is finding habitable exoplanets

Transiting planet systems offer a unique opportunity to observationally constrain proposed models of the interiors (radius, composition) and atmospheres (chemistry, dynamics) of extrasolar planets. The spectacular successes of ground-based transit surveys (more than 60 transiting systems known to-date) and the host of multi-wavelength, spectro

The -beam asymmetry Σ in the photoproduction of negative pions on quasi-free neutrons in a deuterium target was measured at the Grenoble Anneau Accelerateur Laser in the energy interval 700-1500 MeV and over a wide angular range, using polarized and tagged photons. Results are compared with recent partial-wave analyses.

We use ACS data from the HST Treasury survey of the Coma cluster (z˜0.02) to study the properties of barred galaxies in the Coma core, the densest environment in the nearby Universe. This study provides a complementary data point for studies of barred galaxies as a function of redshift and environment. From ˜470 cluster members brighter than MI =

We have carried out a spectroscopic study of asteroid 65 Cybele in the 2 - 4 μm and 5 - 14 μm regions, using NASA's IRTF and Spitzer Space Telescope, respectively. We compare these spectra with those of Trojan asteroids and asteroid 24 Themis. Our target is the largest member of the Cybele population; these asteroids represent a transition group