We present the results on the age and metallicity estimates of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) clusters L110, L112 and L113 obtained from CCD Washington CT1 photometry. We confirm L113 as a relatively old and metal-poor cluster, and report for the first time that L110 and 112 are also relatively old clusters (t ~ 6.5 Gyr). Their derived ages and

We present two new planetary systems found around cool dwarf stars with data from the K2 mission. The first system was found in K2-239 (EPIC 248545986), characterized in this work as M3.0V and observed in the 14th campaign of K2. It consists of three Earth-sized transiting planets with radii of 1.1, 1.0, and 1.1 R⊕, showing a compact configuration

Using data from the extended Kepler mission in K2 Campaign 10, we identify two eclipsing binaries containing white dwarfs with cool companions that have extremely short orbital periods of only 71.2 min (SDSS J1205-0242, a.k.a. EPIC 201283111) and 72.5 min (SDSS J1231+0041, a.k.a. EPIC 248368963). Despite their short periods, both systems are

We have modelled the central emitting broad line region (BLR) of the III Zw 2 using the Hα, Hβ, Lyα and Mg II (2798) broad lines. We proposed that two-component model, consisting of inner Keplerian relativistic disk and an outer emitting structure that surrounds the disk, can explain the shape of III Zw 2 broad lines.

Integral field optical spectroscopy using the INTEGRAL system has been used to characterize the kinematic and ionization properties of the warm gas within 2 kpc of the dust-enshrouded nucleus of Arp 220. Owing to the large internal extinction toward the nuclei, the brightest stellar and line-emitting regions observed at optical wavelengths do not

In studies on intermediate- and high-resolution spectra of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), some objects exhibit narrow Na I D absorptions often blueshifted with respect to the rest wavelength within the host galaxy. The absence of these in other SNe Ia may reflect that the explosions have different progenitors: blueshifted Na I D features might be