The origin of the high X-ray luminosities of most ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) still remains poorly understood. Most of the scenarios proposed to explain their nature assume that ULXs are powered by accretion on to a black hole (BH). In this case, the detection of compact radio emission and the location of the ULXs in the Fundamental Plane (X

We have used the Mambo instrument on the IRAM 30m telescope to observe at 1.2mm 63 Spitzer-selected z>1 hyperluminous infrared galaxy candidates (HLIRGs) with starburst-dominated mid-infrared (MIR) spectral energy distributions from the SWIRE Legacy survey. The primary selection criteria are a peak in the IRAC 5.8μm band due to the rest frame near

We examine the errors in the atmospheric parameters recovered from the inversion of spectro-polarimetric data with limited wavelength sampling. We suggest that response functions evaluated in Milne-Eddington atmospheres may be useful as diagnostic tools that allow, for instance, the selection of the optimum wavelength positions to be observed by

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