We have taken advantage of a stellar occultation by the dwarf planet Makemake on 2011 April 23, to determine several of its main physical properties. We present...

We study X-ray transients from the XMM-Newton slew catalog with focus on the identification of flare stars. We have selected 118 variable X-ray sources from the...

We discuss recent observations of stars located close to the symmetry plane of the Milky Way, and examine them in the context of theories of Galaxy formation...

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We present selected results from integral-field spectroscopy of 48 earlytype galaxies observed as part of the SAURON survey. Maps of the Hβ Fe5015, Mgb and...

As part of an ongoing project aimed at studying the age and metallicity gradients of the stellar populations along the bars of a sample of barred spirals of...

For the first time have been able to observe and combine a large number of observables for two SO galaxies NGC 5689 and NGC 7332, in order to apply a detailed...

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