We present a study of the properties of radial conformal Killing fields (RCKF) in conformally flat space-times, pointing out its interest in kinematical cosmology. i) Robertson-Walker space-times are characterized as those conformally flat metrics admitting a geodesic RCKF. ii) The conformal factor of space-times that admit a RCKF with homogeneous

A new empirical model that accurately describes the inner and outer light-profiles of early-type galaxies is presented. This model effectively unites the Sérsic and Nuker models, and in so doing allows one to perform meaningful comparisons between the inner and outer properties of early-type galaxies. New and fundamental connections between a

Clusters of galaxies are the largest known gravitationally bound structures in the Universe, with masses around 1015 M⊙, most of it in the form of dark matter. The ground-based Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope MAGIC made a deep survey of the Perseus cluster of galaxies using almost 400 h of data recorded between 2009 and 2017. This is the

Context. The chemical composition of stars that have orbiting planets provides important clues about the frequency, architecture, and composition of exoplanet systems. Aims: We explore the possibility that stars from different galactic populations that have different intrinsic abundance ratios may produce planets with a different overall

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright flashes observed typically at GHz frequencies with millisecond duration, whose origin is likely extragalactic. Their nature remains mysterious, motivating searches for counterparts at other wavelengths. FRB 121102 is so far the only source known to repeatedly emit FRBs and is associated with a host galaxy at

We present a preliminary spectroscopic analysis of the binary system V577Oph, observed during the summer of 2007 on the 2.6 m NOT telescope on La Palma. We have obtained time series spectroscopic observations, which show clear binary motion as well as radial velocity variations due to pulsation in the primary star. By modelling the radial