Context. Theories of the formation and evolution of small bodies in planetary systems predict that they may escape into interstellar space at any time, leaked from extrasolar Oort clouds or ejected following close encounters with local planets or their host stars. After just two such interlopers – 1I/2017 U1 ('Oumuamua) and 2I/Borisov – had been

We explore the differences in gas-rich field ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) and diffuse classical dwarf galaxies using an extensive atomic gas (H I) follow-up survey of optically selected UDG candidates from the Systematically Measuring Ultra-diffuse Galaxies (SMUDGes) catalogue. We also compare the SMUDGes-H I observations with two state-of-the-art

We introduce (and test on real data) a new method based on Machine Learning techniques to quantitatively analyse observed microlensing light curves of lensed quasars. The method is aimed at providing a fast and robust procedure to estimate physical parameters from observed light curves, in order to be easily applied to the large quantities of light

We study the temporal and spectral characteristics of the X-ray emission of the hard X-ray transient binary system IGR~J17503--2636 to characterize its variability and spectral properties. This source was observed by XMM-Newton on April 3, 2020 with an exposure time of ${\sim}27~\mathrm{ks}$. The light curves show variability on several timescales

Stars in galaxies form when baryons radiatively cool down and fall into dark matter-dominated gravitational wells. Eventually, star formation quenches as gas is depleted and/or perturbed by feedback processes that prevent the gas from collapsing and condensing. Here we report spatially resolved spectroscopic observations, using the JWST/NIRSpec

Context. We have previously studied several elements in 58 selected bulge spheroid stars, based on spectral lines in the H band. We now derive the abundances of the less studied elements phosphorus (P; Z=15), sulphur (S; Z=16), and potassium (K; Z=19). Aims. The abundances of P, S, and K in 58 bulge spheroid stars are compared both with the results