Astronomy in the Canary Islands has grown from its historical beginnings at the site-testing expedition of C. Piazzi Smyth in 1856. Simony, Edgecomb, and...

This book is a comprehensive reference on ancient Egyptian astronomy, one of the most important topics in historical astronomy. Written by two recognized...

The two pyramids built during the Old Kingdom by the Fourth Dynasty King Sneferu at Dahshur are usually considered as two consecutive projects, the second –...

Context. BD + 60° 73 is the optical counterpart of the X-ray source IGR J00370+6122, a probable accretion-powered X-ray pulsar. The X-ray light curve of this...

Only a few binary systems with compact objects display TeV emission. The physical properties of the companion stars represent basic input for understanding the...

Context. The current generation of X-ray satellites has discovered many new X-ray sources that are difficult to classify within the well-described subclasses...

Aims: We derive information about the dynamics of the stellar photosphere, including pulsation, from a coherent interpretation of the linear polarisation...

We present integral field spectroscopy of NGC 5033, a low luminosity Seyfert galaxy. The observations were made with INTEGRAL, a fiber based system operating at...

After their birth a significant fraction of all stars pass through the tidal threshold (práh) of their cluster of origin into the classical tidal tails. The...