The BL Lac object 3C 66A was the target of an extensive multiwavelength monitoring campaign from 2003 July through 2004 April (with a core campaign from 2003 September to 2003 December) involving observations throughout the electromagnetic spectrum. Radio, infrared, and optical observations were carried out by the WEBT-ENIGMA collaboration. At

Using a high-resolution spectrum of the secondary star in the neutron star binary Cen X-4, we have derived the stellar parameters and veiling caused by the accretion disk in a consistent way. We have used a χ2 minimization procedure to explore a grid of 1,500,000 LTE synthetic spectra computed for a plausible range of both stellar and veiling

We consider the Two Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM) of type III which leads to Flavour Changing Neutral Currents (FCNC) at tree level. In the framework of this model we calculate the NLO contribution for b->s gamma and the branchings for the meson decays B^+ -> l^+ u. We examine the limits on the new parameters lambda_{bb} and M_{H^pm}. We take into

We present the results of a detailed analysis of 121 ground-based high-resolution, high signal-to-noise ratio spectroscopic measurements spread over 3 yr for the β Cephei star θ Ophiuchi. We discovered θ Oph to be a triple system. In addition to the already known speckle B5 companion of the B2 primary, we showed the presence of a low-mass

We define and study a family of cubic surfaces in the projectivized tangent bundle over a four dimensional projective space associated to the root system D_5. The 27 lines are rational over the base and we determine the classifying map to the moduli space of marked cubic surfaces. This map has degree two and we use it to get short proofs for some

We perform a chi ^{2} fit at 95% CL to obtain model-dependent bounds to Z-Z' mixing angle theta and Z_2-mass in the framework of SU(3)_C X SU(3)_L X U(1)_X models with beta arbitrary. Using experimental results at the Z-pole and atomic parity violation, we obtain allowed regions according to the value of beta and depending on the assignment of the