We review the results obtained with the Galactic center campaigns of the BeppoSAX Wide Field X-ray Cameras (WFCs). This pertains to the study of luminous low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). When pointed at the Galactic center, the WFC field of view contains more than half of the Galactic LMXB population. The results exemplify the excellent WFC

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New observations of V534 Tau were performed during the STEPHI IX campaign in November 1998. An overall run of 285 h of data has been collected from three sites over a period of 23 days. Period analysis reveals a rich oscillation spectrum with nine frequencies above the 99% confidence level. This oscillation spectrum spans a large range of

We present integral field spectroscopy of X2127+119, the luminous X-ray binary in the globular cluster M15, obtained with INTEGRAL/WYFFOS on the William Herschel Telescope. We find that tomograms of HeIIλ4686 line profiles appear to be incompatible with the previously assumed view of X2127+119, in which the binary consists of a 1.4-Msolar neutron

The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) team has produced a foreground map that can account for most of the low-frequency Galactic microwave emission in the WMAP maps, tentatively interpreting it as synchrotron emission. Finkbeiner and collaborators have challenged these conclusions, arguing that the WMAP team's ``synchrotron'' template is

The Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) is one of the three science instruments for ESA's far infrared and submillimetre observatory Herschel. It employs two Ge:Ga photoconductor arrays (stressed and unstressed) with 16 × 25 pixels, each, and two filled Si bolometer arrays with 16 × 32 and 32 × 64 pixels, respectively, to perform