We report new photometric and spectroscopic observations of the K2-99 planetary system. Asteroseismic analysis of the short-cadence light curve from K2's Campaign 17 allows us to refine the stellar properties. We find K2-99 to be significantly smaller than previously thought, with R ⋆ = 2.55 ± 0.02 R ⊙. The new light curve also contains four

We present MUSE deep integral-field unit spectroscopy of three planetary nebulae (PNe) with high-abundance discrepancy factors (ADF > 20): NGC 6778, M 1-42, and Hf 2-2. We have constructed flux maps for more than 40 emission lines, and use them to build extinction, electron temperature (T e), electron density (n e), and ionic abundances maps of a

We present a study based on the high-resolution spectroscopy and K2 space photometry of five chemically peculiar stars in the region of the open cluster M44. The analysis of the high-precision photometric K2 data reveals that the light variations in HD 73045 and HD 76310 are rotational in nature and caused by spots or cloud-like co-rotating

New surveys such as European Space Agencys (ESA's) Euclid mission are planned to map with unprecedented precision the large-scale structure of the Universe by measuring the 3D positions of tens of millions of galaxies. It is necessary to develop theoretically modelled galaxy catalogues to estimate the expected performance and to optimize the

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a snapshot of the Universe at early times (z ∼ 1100). In the recent years, several experiments have provided constraints on the concordance ΛCDM model from a statistical analysis of the CMB anisotropies. On the other hand, many galaxy surveys will measure the 3D distribution of the dark matter component of

An exoplanet is an astronomical object that orbits one or more stars different from the Sun and has a mass lower than that necessary to produce the thermonuclear fusion of deuterium. Among the variety of techniques implemented to discover these objects, one of the most reliable is the radial velocity (RV) method. This technique is based on