The atmospheric monitoring system of the JEM-EUSO instrument
The JEM-EUSO telescope will detect Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) from space, detecting the UV Fluorescence Light produced by Extensive Air Showers (EAS...
The atmospheric parameters and spectral interpolator for the MILES stars
Context. Empirical libraries of stellar spectra are used to classify stars and synthetize stellar populations. MILES is a medium spectral-resolution library in...
The atmospheric variations of the peculiar B[e] star HD 45677 (FS Canis Majoris).
We have studied spectra of the peculiar B[e] star HD 45677. Examination of the Balmer wings enabled us to determine a value of logg=3.9 indicating a possibly...
The Aurora radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of reionization: calibration and first results
We introduce a new suite of radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation and reionization called Aurora. The Aurora simulations make use of a...
The Average Size and Temperature Profile of Quasar Accretion Disks
We use multi-wavelength microlensing measurements of a sample of 10 image pairs from 8 lensed quasars to study the structure of their accretion disks. By using...
The awakening of BL Lacertae: observations by Fermi, Swift and the GASP-WEBT
Since the launch of the Fermi satellite, BL Lacertae has been moderately active at γ-rays and optical frequencies until 2011 May, when the source started a...
The B-type Binaries Characterisation Programme - II. VFTS 291: a stripped star from a recent mass transfer phase
Recent studies of massive binaries with putative black hole companions have uncovered a phase of binary evolution that has not been observed before, featuring a...
The B0.5 IVe CoRoT target HD 49330. II. Spectroscopic ground-based observations
Context: We present spectroscopic ground-based observations of the early Be star HD 49330 obtained simultaneously with the CoRoT-LRA1 run just before the burst...