Aims: We aim to determine the trigonometric parallaxes and proper motions of a sample of ten field L0-L5 dwarfs with spectroscopic evidence for low-gravity...
Trio of super-Earth candidates orbiting K-dwarf HD 48948: a new habitable zone candidate
We present the discovery of three super-Earth candidates orbiting HD 48948, a bright K-dwarf star with an apparent magnitude of $m_V$ = 8.58 mag. As part of the...
The Triple F ( Fresh From the Fridge) mission, a Comet Nucleus Sample Return, has been proposed to ESA’s Cosmic Vision program. A sample return from a comet...
Triple system HD 201433 with a SPB star component seen by BRITE - Constellation: Pulsation, differential rotation, and angular momentum transfer
Context. Stellar rotation affects the transport of chemical elements and angular momentum and is therefore a key process during stellar evolution, which is...
About 20% of stars in the solar vicinity are in the Hercules stream, a bundle of stars that move together with a velocity distinct from the Sun. Its origin is...
TRUFAS, a wavelet-based algorithm for the rapid detection of planetary transits
Aims: We describe a fast, robust and automatic detection algorithm, TRUFAS, and apply it to data that are being expected from the CoRoT mission. Methods: The...
Truncated Star Formation in Compact Groups of Galaxies: A Stellar Population Study
We present the results of a study comparing the stellar populations in the elliptical galaxies of Hickson compact groups (HCGs) with those in low-density...
Truncated stellar discs in the near infrared. II. Statistical properties and interpretation
The results obtained in Paper I are used to study possible relationships between the truncation radius of stellar discs in the NIR and structural parameters of...
Truncated stellar disks in the near infrared. I. Observations
We present NIR surface photometry of 11 edge-on galaxies obtained in the course of a long term project aimed at analysing the occurrence and type of the...