We have analyzed long-slit spectroscopic data for a sample of tidally disturbed elliptical galaxies. Rotation curves and velocity dispersion profiles have been measured at a variety of position angles in these galaxies and have been used to analyze the dynamical response and internal kinematics of stellar systems involved in strong gravitational

During the first few nights following its discovery, we observed the interstellar Ca II and Na I lines towards supernova 1993J at high spectral resolution (full width half maximum (FWHM) approximately 5-6 km/s) with the William Herschel Telescope at La Palma. We find a crowd of absorption components in the radial-velocity range -135 km/s less than

The rapidly variable Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4151 will be the subject of an intensive monitoring campaign with IUE, Rosat, GRO, ASCA and ground-based telescopes in December 1993. We will report preliminary results of 9.3 days of continuous monitoring with IUE, at a sampling rate of once every ~ 80 min, an order of magnitude faster than that achieved

IAUC 5907 available at Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams.

IAUC 5901 available at Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams.

The International Research on the Interior of the Sun (IRIS) helioseismometer measures the full disk line of sight velocity of the Sun. In fact, it makes a photometric mesurement using two monochromatic spectral windows located on the wings of the D1 solar line. This is a non-linear measurement. Before a scientific exploitation of the IRIS data