(596) Scheila is a large primitive asteroid observed with a comet-like apearence last December. We present near-infrared spectra (0.8-2.4 μm) obtained at different rotational phases, covering a whole rotation period of the object after the ejection event, a spectrum in the 2.2-4.0 μm region obtained in 2007, and mid-infrared photometry measured by

The role of neutron transfers is investigated in the fusion process below the Coulomb barrier by analyzing 32S+90Zr and 32S+96Zr as benchmark reactions. A full coupled-channel calculation of the fusion excitation functions has been performed for both systems by using multi-neutron transfer coupling for the more neutronrich reaction. The enhancement

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We observed the optical counterpart of MAXI J1836-194 (Negoro et al., ATel#3611; Kennea et al., ATel#3613) with the 82cm IAC80 telescope at the Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife, Spain. We acquired 94 I-band images on Sep 28.83079--28.93356 UT (starting 39 minutes after Swift trigger 504307; Barthelmy et al., GCN 12405) with an exposure time of 1