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Context: Deep photometry of crowded fields, such as Galactic globular clusters, is severely limited by the resolution of ground-based telescopes. On the other hand, the Hubble Space Telescope does not have the near-infrared (NIR) filters needed to allow large color baselines. Aims: In this work we demonstrate how ground based observations can reach

Aims: We estimate the minimum length on which solar granulation can be considered to be a Markovian process. Methods: We measure the variation in the bright difference between two pixels in images of the solar granulation for different distances between the pixels. This scale-dependent data is empirically analyzed to find the minimum scale on which

Context: The space experiment CoRoT has recently detected transits by a hot Jupiter across the disc of an active G7V star (CoRoT-Exo-2a) that can be considered as a good proxy for the Sun at an age of approximately 0.5 Gyr. Aims: We present a spot modelling of the optical variability of the star during 142 days of uninterrupted observations

The active galactic nucleus PG 1553+113 was observed by the MAGIC telescope in July 2006 during a multiwavelength campaign, in which telescopes in the optical, X-ray, and very high energies participated. Although the MAGIC data were affected by strong atmospheric absorption (calima), they were analyzed after applying a correction. In 8.5 h, a

The physics of blazar flares is still not well understood. Currently favored emission models include electron inverse Compton (IC) scattering of low-energy synchrotron photons from within the jet or photons generated outside the jet, emission produced by the proton initiated cascades or synchrotron emission of extremely high-energy protons or muons