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Low- and intermediate-mass stars (1--8 M&sun;) lose up to 80 % of their initial mass during the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) phase. Heavy mass loss is the signature of the late AGB phase: at uncertain rates of 10-6 to 10-3 M&sun; yr-1, on timescales of ˜ 10^5--10^6 yr, it removes up to 7 M&sun; of stellar material. We have investigated the

Asteroseismology provides us with a unique opportunity to improve our understanding of stellar structure and evolution. Recent developments, including the first systematic studies of solar-like pulsators, have boosted the impact of this field of research within astrophysics and have led to a significant increase in the size of the research

We report the discovery of a very cool brown dwarf, ULAS J003402.77-005206.7 (ULAS J0034-00), identified in the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey First Data Release. We provide optical, near-infrared, and mid-infrared photometry of the source, and two near-infrared spectra. Comparing the spectral energy distribution of ULAS J0034-00 to that of the T8

We report the discovery of a substellar-mass companion to the K0 giant HD 17092 with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope. In the absence of any correlation of the observed 360 day periodicity with the standard indicators of stellar activity, the observed radial velocity variations are most plausibly explained in terms of a Keplerian motion of a planetary

Because of the intense brightness of the OB-type multiple star system σ Ori, the low-mass stellar and substellar populations close to the centre of the very young σ Orionis cluster is poorly know. I present an IJHK_s survey in the cluster centre, able to detect from the massive early-type stars down to cluster members below the deuterium burning