We calibrated the absolute magnitudes M V , M J , M_{Ks} and M g of red clump stars in terms of colours. M V and M g are strongly dependent on colour, while the...
Luminosity-colour relations for thin-disc main-sequence stars
In this study we present the absolute magnitude calibrations of thin-disc main-sequence stars in the optical , and in the near-infrared . Thin-disc stars are...
Luminous Efficiency in Hypervelocity Impacts from the 1999 Lunar Leonids
An analysis of the optical flashes produced by Leonid meteoroids impacting the Moon in 1999 November is carried out in order to estimate the fraction of kinetic...
Luminous giants populate the dense Cosmic Web. The radio luminosity-environmental density relation for radio galaxies in action
Context. Giant radio galaxies (GRGs, giant RGs, or giants) are megaparsec-scale, jet-driven outflows from accretion disks of supermassive black holes, and...
Luminous Red Stars in Local Group Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies: an Intermediate-Age Population?
In this Letter, we show that the optically bright stars above the tip of the first red giant branch (TRGB) in the color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of nearby...
Lunar mare single-scattering, porosity, and surface-roughness properties with SMART-1 AMIE
A novel shadowing and coherent-backscattering model is utilized in the analysis of the single-scattering albedos and phase functions, local surface roughness...
Lunar Occultations of 18 Stellar Sources from the 2.4 m Thai National Telescope
We report further results from the program of lunar occultation (LO) observations started at the 2.4 m Thai National Telescope (TNT) in 2014. We have recorded...
There is an intense debate in cultural astronomy on the importance of lunar standstills in prehistory or antiquity, and even on whether this elusive and...