The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is the nearest low-metallicity dwarf galaxy. Its proximity and low reddening has enabled us to detect its Wolf-Rayet (WR) star population with 12 known objects. Quantitative spectroscopy of the stars revealed half of these WR stars to be strong sources of He II ionizing flux, but the average metallicity of the SMC

We revisit the Quasar Main Sequence (QMS) by investigating the impact of the stellar component from the host galaxy (HG) on the emission line spectra of the active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We first detect spectra with broad emission lines using a line ratio method for a sample of $\sim$3000 high SNR ( $>$20) black hole mapper objects (part of the

Context. Erupting flux ropes play a crucial role in powering a wide range of solar transients, including flares, jets, and coronal mass ejections. These events are driven by the release of stored magnetic energy, facilitated by the shear in complex magnetic topologies. However, the mechanisms governing the formation and eruption of flux ropes

Context. The overwhelming majority of cataclysmic variables (CVs) have orbital periods shorter than 10 h. However, a few have much longer orbital periods, and their formation and existence pose certain challenges for the CV evolution models. These extremely long-period CVs must host nuclearly evolved donor stars (i.e., subgiants), as the companion

Two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations are presented from the formation up to the late evolution of planetary nebula, for six different stellar models from 1 to 5 M $_{\odot }$. The hydrodynamical models use stellar evolution calculations as inner boundary conditions and updated values for the number of ionizing photons. Special emphasis is

We present simultaneous high-precision optical polarimetric and near-infrared (NIR) to ultraviolet (UV) photometric observations of the low-mass black hole X-ray binary A0620−00 in a quiescent state. Subtracting interstellar polarization, estimated from a sample of field stars, we derived the intrinsic polarization of A0620−00. We show that the