We report the discovery in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of 17 broad absorption line (BAL) quasars with high-ionization troughs that include absorption redshifted relative to the quasar rest frame. The redshifted troughs extend to velocities up to v ≃ 12 000 km s-1 and the trough widths

have complex and highly structured profiles. We discuss, in the context of the discrete cloud model of the broad-line region, three possible mechanisms by which profile structure could be produced: irregularities in the radial luminosity distribution, flattened geometries and ionizing continuum variability. In each case, the structure produced has

PKS 0537-441, a bright gamma -ray emitting blazar, was observed at radio, optical, UV and X-ray frequencies during various EGRET pointings, often quasi-simultaneously. In 1995 the object was found in an intense emission state at all wavelengths. BeppoSAX observations made in 1998, non-simultaneously with exposures at other frequencies, allow us to

Brown dwarfs are objects unable to sustain hydrogen burning in their interiors. Deep surveys and large scale infrared surveys have identified a few hundred candidates free-floating in star clusters and in the solar neighborhood. Several brown dwarf companions to low-mass stars have also been detected. In the absence of a direct mass determination

We present Keck Observatory 10 m telescope spectra of the two Pleiades brown dwarfs, Teide 1 and Calar 3, showing a clear detection of the Li 670.8 nm resonance line. In Teide 1, we have also obtained evidence for the presence of the subordinate line at 812.6 nm. A high Li abundance [log N(Li) >= 2.5], consistent with little if any depletion, is

Context: Analysis of bulges to redshifts of up to z ˜ 1 have provided ambiguous results as to whether bulges as a class are old structures akin to elliptical galaxies or younger products of the evolution of their host disks. Aims: We aim to define a sample of intermediate-z disk galaxies harbouring central bulges, and a complementary sample of disk