Optical Counterparts of Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources
We present the optical identification and characterization of counterparts of four objects previously cataloged as ultraluminous X-ray (ULX) sources. The...
Optical Emission of the Ultraluminous X-Ray Source NGC 5408 X-1: Donor Star or Irradiated Accretion Disk?
We obtained three epochs of simultaneous Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/Wide Field Camera 3 and Chandra observations of the ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) NGC...
Optical Linear Polarization of Late M and L Type Dwarfs
We report on the linear polarimetric observations in the Johnson I-band filter of 44 ultracool dwarfs with spectral types between M6 and L7.5, corresponding to...
Optical Microvariability in Quasars: Spectral Variability
We present a method that we developed to discern where the optical microvariability (OM) in quasars originates: in the accretion disk (related to thermal...
Optical Observations of Psr J2021+3651 in the Dragonfly Nebula With the GTC
PSR J2021+3651 is a 17 kyr old rotation powered pulsar detected in the radio, X-rays, and γ-rays. It powers a torus-like pulsar wind nebula with jets, dubbed...
Optical Observations Reveal Strong Evidence for High-energy Neutrino Progenitor
We present the earliest astronomical observation of a high-energy neutrino error box of which the variability was discovered after high-energy-neutrino...
Optical Properties of the Ultraluminous X-Ray Source Holmberg IX X-1 and Its Stellar Environment
Holmberg IX X-1 is an archetypal ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX). Here we study the properties of the optical counterpart and of its stellar environment using...
Optical Recombination Lines of Heavy Elements in Giant Extragalactic H II Regions
We present high-resolution observations of the giant extragalactic H II regions NGC 604, NGC 2363, NGC 5461, and NGC 5471, based on observations taken with the...
Optical Spectroscopic Survey of a Sample of Unidentified Fermi Objects
We present optical spectroscopy secured at the 10 m Gran Telescopio Canarias of the counterparts of 20 extragalactic γ-ray sources detected by the Fermi...