We have conducted a 3-month programme of simultaneous optical, soft and hard X-ray monitoring of the LMXB 4U 1636-536/V801 Ara using the SMARTS 1.3-m telescope...
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PublicaciónCorrelated optical/X-ray long-term variability in LMXB 4U 1636-536
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PublicaciónCorrelated X-Ray and Optical Variability in V404 Cygni in Quiescence
We report simultaneous X-ray and optical observations of V404 Cyg in quiescence. The X-ray flux varied dramatically by a factor of >~20 during a 60 ks...
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PublicaciónCOYOTES II: SPOT properties and the origin of photometric period variations in T Tauri stars.
We present the results of a new multi-site campaign (COYOTES II) to monitor the light variations of T Tauri stars (TTS) of the Taurus-Auriga dark cloud. The...
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PublicaciónDelimiting the black hole mass in the X-ray transient MAXI J1659-152 with Hα spectroscopy
MAXI J1659-152 is a 2.4 h orbital period X-ray dipping transient black hole candidate. We present spectroscopy of its I ≍ 23 quiescent counterpart, where we...
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PublicaciónDeriving the dynamical masses of Ultra-Luminous X-ray Sources with OSIRIS
Ultra Luminous X-ray Sources (ULXs) are extragalactic X-ray point sources with L_X ˜ 10^39-10^41 erg s^-1 discovered in the 80s with the Einstein satellite and...
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NoticiaDescubren continuos vientos infrarrojos durante la erupción de un agujero negro de masa estelar
Un equipo de investigadores del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) ha observado por primera vez la emisión constante en el rango infrarrojo de vientos...
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PublicaciónDetection of a 23.6 min periodic modulation in the optical counterpart of 3XMMJ051034.6-670353
We present high speed optical photometric observations made using the NTT and ULTRACAM of the optical counterpart of 3XMMJ051034.6-670353, which was recently...
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PublicaciónDetection of a large Be circumstellar disk during X-ray quiescence of XTE J1946+274
Aims: We present a multiwavelength study of the Be/X-ray binary system XTE J1946+274 with the main goal of better characterizing its behavior during X-ray...
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PublicaciónDetection of Chromatic Microlensing in Q 2237 + 0305 A
We present narrowband images of the gravitational lens system Q 2237 + 0305 made with the Nordic Optical Telescope in eight different filters covering the...