White dwarfs are compact stars, similar in size to Earth but approximately 200,000 times more massive. Isolated white dwarfs emit most of their power from ultraviolet to near-infrared wavelengths, but when in close orbits with less dense stars, white dwarfs can strip material from their companions and the resulting mass transfer can generate atomic

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In the notes to Table 1, a unit conversion was incorrect. The text should read 1 MJ Gyr-1 = 6.02e+13 g s-1. As a consequence in the 3rd paragraph of Sect. 3, the mass loss taking place in τ Boo b should be dot M_X = 0.011 MJ Gyr-1 for ρ = 1 g cm-3, or dot M_X = 3.4 M⊕ Gyr-1 in Earth mass units. Independently, the values of “log F_X accumulated”, in

Several transiting circumbinary planets have been found in data of the Kepler mission [1-5]. Both CoRoT and Kepler have surveyed similar numbers of stars, and the photometric precision of CoRoT is sufficient that it could detect most of the known circumbinary planets; the main draw-back by CoRoT is the much shorter coverage. Still, there is a high

A semiempirical method for estimating the error and optimum number of sampled levels in precipitable water vapour (PWV) determinations from atmospheric radiosoundings is proposed. Two terms have been considered: the uncertainties in the measurements and the sampling error. Also, the uncertainty has been separated in the variance and covariance