We report the discovery of a very cool brown dwarf, ULAS J003402.77-005206.7 (ULAS J0034-00), identified in the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey First Data...
A very dark stellar system lost in Virgo: kinematics and metallicity of SECCO 1 with MUSE
We present the results of VLT-MUSE (Very Large Telescope-Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer) integral field spectroscopy of SECCO 1, a faint, star-forming...
A very personal semblance of archaeoastronomy pioneer Professor Michael Hoskin, colleague, mentor and friend
Michael Hoskin is the name of a scholar whose memory will remain forever linked to cultural astronomy. Professor of History of Science at the University of...
A Very Small Array search for the extended Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in the Corona Borealis supercluster
We present interferometric imaging at 33 GHz of the Corona Borealis supercluster, using the extended configuration of the Very Small Array. A total area of 24...
A Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray View of the Transient Sky
The development of the latest generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) over recent decades has led to the discovery of new extreme...
A view of the H-band light-element chemical patterns in globular clusters under the AGB self-enrichment scenario
We discuss the self-enrichment scenario by asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars for the formation of multiple populations in globular clusters (GCs) by analysing...
A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE): XVIII. Reconstructing the star formation history of early-type galaxies through the combination of their UV and Hα emission
We reconstructed the star formation histories of seven massive (M ⋆ ≳ 10 10 M ⊙) early-type galaxies (ETGs) in the Virgo cluster by analysing their spatially...
A Virtual Observatory Census to Address Dwarfs Origins (AVOCADO). I. Science goals, sample selection, and analysis tools
Context. Even though they are by far the most abundant of all galaxy types, the detailed properties of dwarf galaxies are still only poorly characterised -...
A VLT-ULTRACAM study of the fast optical quasi-periodic oscillations in the polar V834 Centauri
Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) of a few seconds have been detected in some polars, the synchronised subclass of cataclysmic systems containing a strongly...