We investigate a peculiar feature at the hottest, blue end of the horizontal branch of Galactic globular cluster ω Centauri, using the high-precision and nearly complete catalog that has been constructed from a survey taken with the Advanced Camera for Survey on board the Hubble Space Telescope, that covers the inner 10 × 10 arcmin. It is a densely

This table contains the photometric time serie obtained for a series of transits of the planet HD 17156b. The first column gives the date as Barycentric Julian Days (BJD), the second one gives the flux normalized to the out-of-transit average value, and the third one gives the Identification code of each observation. (2 data files).

From a study of broad absorption line (BAL) + infrared (IR) + FeII quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) [using deep Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph Integral Field Unit (GMOS-IFU) spectroscopy], new results are presented for IRAS 04505-2958. Specifically, we have studied in detail the outflow (OF) process at two large galactic scales: (i) two blobs/shells

We present extensive early photometric (ultraviolet through near-infrared) and spectroscopic (optical and near-infrared) data on supernova (SN) 2008D as well as X-ray data analysis on the associated Swift X-ray transient (XRT) 080109. Our data span a time range of 5 hr before the detection of the X-ray transient to 150 days after its detection, and

The development of adaptive optics systems for projects related to large telescopes demands a proper knowledge of the atmospheric turbulence. Due to the lack of long-term information on optical turbulence, high-altitude winds (in particular winds at the 200-mbar pressure level) were adopted as a parameter for estimating the total turbulence at a