We performed accurate and deep NIR (J,K) photometry of the Globular Cluster (GC) 47Tuc using data collected with SOFI at New Technology Telescope (NTT) (ESO, La Silla). Data cover a significant fraction of the innermost regions of the cluster and the Color Magnitude Diagram (CMD) ranges from the red HB down to the lower Main Sequence (MS). In the

For most black hole X-ray binaries, the fraction of X-ray flux originating in the synchrotron jets is generally thought to be low in the hard state. However in one intriguing case, using infrared -X-ray correlations, evolution of broadband spectra and timing signatures we show that synchrotron emission from a jet likely dominated both the infrared

We present results for a sample of absorbed Broad-line Active Galactic Nuclei (BLAGN) se-lected from a cross-correlation of the 2XMMi and Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 6 catalogues. These sources are selected in X-ray to have 0.5-2 versus 2-4.5 keV X-ray hardness ratios which are harder than the X-ray background and in the same time to have

Present and future key instruments at the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) are introduced, and their corresponding latest scientific highlights are presented. GLAS (Ground-layer Laser Adaptive optics System): The recently installed 515 nm laser, mounted on the WHT (William Herschel Telescope), produces a bright artificial star at a height of

ASTRONET is an ERA-Net financed by the European Commission FP6 under the initiative Integrating and Strengthening the European Research Area (ERA). ASTRONET was created by a group of European funding agencies in order to establish a comprehensive long-term planning for the development of European astronomy. The objective of this effort is to

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