The cooling tail of a long X-ray burst from XTE J1701-407
Swift XRT observed the recently discovered source XTE J1701-407 (Markwardt et al., ATel #1569, Degenaar et al., ATel #1572) on July 17th, 2008 at UT 13:31:45...
The coordinated key role of wet, mixed, and dry major mergers in the buildup of massive early-type galaxies at z < 1
Hierarchical models predict that massive early-type galaxies (mETGs) derive from the most massive and violent merging sequences occurred in the Universe...
COrE+ has been proposed to ESA as a medium-class mission for investigating, within the framework of the ESA Cosmic Vision program, a set of important scientific...
The Coronae of AB Dor and V471 Tau: Youth vs Tidal Spin-Up
We report on an analysis of high resolution Chandra spectra of two stars with very similar spectral types and rotation rates but with very different...
The Coronal Line Spectrum of the Brightest Seyfert Galaxies as Seen by ISO
The ISO coronal line spectrum of a sample of the brightest known Seyfert galaxies is presented and modeled. ISO observations of [O IV] 25.9 μ, [Ne V] 14.3 μ,...
The CoRoT space observatory was launched at the end of 2006 and has been delivering scientific data from early 2007 until its recent interruption, on 2 Nov...