Context. To understand the formation and composition of planetary systems, it is essential to have insights into the chemical composition of their host stars. In particular, C/O elemental ratios are useful for constraining the density and bulk composition of terrestrial planets. Aims: We study the carbon abundances with a twofold objective. On the

As available data sets grow in size and complexity, advanced visualization tools enabling their exploration and analysis become more important. In modern astronomy, integral field spectroscopic galaxy surveys are a clear example of increasing high dimensionality and complex data sets, which challenges the traditional methods used to extract the

Ground-based mid-infrared (MIR) astronomical observations require the removal of the fast time variable components of (a) sky/background variation and (b) array background. Typically, this has been achieved through oscillating the telescope's secondary mirror a few times a second, a process termed "chopping." However, chopping reduces on-object

We report on Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) observations of CO(3−2) emission in the Seyfert2/starburst galaxy NGC 1808, at a spatial resolution of 4 pc. Our aim is to investigate the morphology and dynamics of the gas inside the central 0.5 kpc and to probe the nuclear feeding and feedback phenomena. We discovered a nuclear spiral of radius

Giant stars as known exoplanet hosts are relatively rare due to the potential challenges in acquiring precision radial velocities and the small predicted transit depths. However, these giant host stars are also some of the brightest in the sky and so enable high signal-to-noise ratio follow-up measurements. Here, we report on new observations of

We report the discovery of KMT-2020-BLG-0414Lb, with a planet-to-host mass ratio q 2 = 0.9-1.2 × 10 -5 = 3-4 ⊕ at 1σ, which is the lowest mass-ratio microlensing planet to date. Together with two other recent discoveries (4 ≲ q/q ⊕ ≲ 6), it fills out the previous empty sector at the bottom of the triangular (log s, log q) diagram, where s is the