Aims.Core-collapse supernovae may show significant polarization that implies non-spherically symmetric explosions. We observed the type II-plateau SN 2005af using optical polarimetry in order to verify whether any asphericity is present in the supernova temporal evolution. Methods: .We used the IAGPOL imaging polarimeter to obtain optical linear

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We present multicolour photometry of four-field ultracool dwarfs with the triple-beam photometer ULTRACAM. Data were obtained simultaneously in the Sloan-g' band and a specially designed narrow-band NaI filter. The previously reported 1.8-h period of Kelu-1 is here recovered in the g' band, but the lack of any significant variability in the NaI

Introduction: When lacking polarimetric observations, the Bright Points (BPs) visible in the G-band at 430 nm are commonly used as tracers for magnetic fields. Methods: Observations presented in this paper were taken on October 11, 2005 at the German Vacuum Tower Telescope and involved the Tenerife Infrared Polarimeter (TIP) at 1.5 micron, the

We present new results following up on our deep near-IR imaging of the strong lensing clusters Abell 1835 and AC114, which has allowed us to identify 13 star forming galaxy candidates at z>7 (Richard et al. 2006, A&A in press, [astro-ph/ 0606134]). Our previous optical and near-IR observations (mostly from WFPC2/HST, CFHT, ISAAC/VLT) have now been

The effect of breakup is investigated for the medium weight 6Li+59Co system in the vicinity of the Coulomb barrier. The strong coupling of breakup/transfer channels to fusion is discussed within a comparison of predictions of the Continuum Discretized Coupled-Channels model which is also applied to 6He+59Co a reaction induced by the borromean halo