We fitted the surface-brightness profiles of 21 elliptical galaxies using both the Sérsic function and a new empirical model that combines an inner power law with an outer Sérsic function. The profiles are combinations of deconvolved Hubble Space Telescope (HST) profiles from the literature and ellipse fits to the full WFPC2 mosaic images and thus

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We report the discovery of the optical counterpart to the X-ray transient XTE J1748-361 using the 6.5m Magellan-Clay telescope at Las Campanas Observatory. Several 5-minute images in the V and R bands were obtained using the MagIC camera on May 31 as well as November 9 2003 when the object was reported in outburst (ATEL #204). Seeing conditions

This book contains the lectures delivered at the XIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, which reviewed current knowledge about the origin and evolution of the chemical elements in the Universe. Written by seven prestigious astrophysics researchers, it covers cosmological and stellar nucleosynthesis, abundance determinations in stars and

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Inspecting all 1224 edge-on disk galaxies larger than 2arcmin in the RC3 on Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) images (Lütticke et al. cite{lue2000a}) we have found several galaxies with extraordinary bulges meeting two criteria: they are box shaped and large in respect to the diameters of their galaxies. These bulges are often disturbed, show frequently