Fullerane C60H18 and its deuterated analogous C60D18 were synthesized in n-hexane solution by a reduction reaction of C60 under the action of HCl or DCl on Zn dust. The resulting solutions were subjected to UV irradiation at 245nm from a low pressure mercury lamp under He. It was found that at 212nm the photolysis rate constant of C60H18 molecule

We report on the detection by Swift of GRB 080913, and subsequent optical/near-infrared follow-up observations by GROND, which led to the discovery of its optical/NIR afterglow and the recognition of its high-z nature via the detection of a spectral break between the i' and z' bands. Spectroscopy obtained at the ESO-VLT revealed a continuum

Aims: We present spatially resolved high-resolution spectrophotometric data for the planetary nebulae PB 8, NGC 2867, and PB 6. We have analyzed two knots in NGC 2867 and PB 6 and one in PB 8. The three nebulae are ionized by [WC] type nuclei: early [WO] for PB 6 and NGC 2867 and [WC 5-6] in the case of PB 8. Our aim is to study the behavior of the

Context: The study of the evolution of the Tully-Fisher relation has been controversial in the past years. The main difficulty is in determining the required parameters for intermediate and high redshift galaxies, given the cosmological corrections and biases involved. Aims: This work aims to identify the main problems of the study of the Tully

We present Very Large Telescope (VLT) intermediate resolution spectroscopy of UY Vol, the optical counterpart of the low mass X-ray binary (LMXB) X-ray burster EXO 0748-676. By using Doppler tomography we detect narrow components within the broad HeII λ4542, λ4686 and λ5412 emission lines. The phase, velocity and narrowness of these lines are

An RXTE observation of 4U 1636-536 taken on March 10th, 2009, revealed two type I X-ray bursts from this well studied neutron star low-mass X- ray binary (NS-LMXB). The recurrence time (wait time) between the two events, 5.4 minutes, is the shortest observed in any NS-LMXB. The average spectrum exhibited by both bursts was thermal. We performed