Recently a number of works have given interesting results on the penumbral fine structure of sunpots (del Toro Iniesta, Bellot Rubio & Collados 2001...
Using CGS4 on UKIRT, we have obtained 2.00--2.45 mu m infrared spectra of a number of low-mass X-ray binaries including Sco X-1, Sco X-2, and GX13+1. Sco X-1...
Infrared Spectroscopy Of V404 CYGNI. Limits On The Accretion Disc Contamination
We have obtained for the first time 2.10 - 2.45 micron infrared spectra of soft X-ray transient V404 Cygni. We determine a 95 percent confidence upper limit to...
Binary models of symbiotic stars are discussed, analyzing the results of recent IR observations. It is indicated that a binary must have component masses of...
Initial proposal for the ORM 8-m telescope control system design
The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) is taking preliminary steps towards the building of an 8-m class optical-infrared telescope to be placed at the...
Initial Results from Near-infrared Spectroscopy of the Klio and Sulamitis Primitive Inner-belt Families: a New "Klio-like" Compositional Group
The PRIMitive Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey (PRIMASS) is a visible and near-infrared study of primitive asteroids throughout the asteroid belt. Nesvorny et al...
Inner and Outer Photometric Structure of Elliptical Galaxies
The Nuker model, when applied to the inner regions of ``core'' galaxies, is shown to produce systematic biases in the determination of the core ``break-radii''...