The techniques employed to overcome the instrumental polarization (IP) of solar observations are revised. Special attention is paid to the method used by the...

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The 4-m aperture Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) is the next generation ground based solar telescope. In this paper we provide an overview of the...

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During INTEGRAL's Performance and Verification phase (December 2002) a type-I outburst of the Be/X-ray binary EXO 2030+375 was detected. A pulse period of 41...

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Lens galaxies are objects of great interest in extragalactic astronomy and cosmology and were one of the first targets in the history of IFS. We will present...

Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies (LCBGs) are high surface brightness starburst galaxies bluer than a typical SBc and with typical luminosities ≈ L ⋆, which are...

Starbursts are events in which hundreds of solar masses per year of gas are transformed into stars on timescales much shorter than the Hubble time. They are...