The contribution to population in ellipticals of blue stragglers - A test of their origin
An observational test of the binary hypothesis for the origin of the blue straggler (BS) stars has been performed searching for radial velocity variables among...
The control unit of the near infrared spectrograph of the Euclid space mission: detailed design
The Near Infrared Spectrograph and Photometer (NISP) is one of the instruments on board the ESA EUCLID mission. The Universidad Poli&tacute;ecnica de Cartagena...
The control unit of the near infrared spectrograph of the EUCLID space mission: preliminary design
The Near Infrared Spectrograph and Photometer (NISP) is one of the instruments on board the ESA EUCLID mission. The Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena and...
The cooling tail of a long X-ray burst from XTE J1701-407
Swift XRT observed the recently discovered source XTE J1701-407 (Markwardt et al., ATel #1569, Degenaar et al., ATel #1572) on July 17th, 2008 at UT 13:31:45...
The coordinated key role of wet, mixed, and dry major mergers in the buildup of massive early-type galaxies at z < 1
Hierarchical models predict that massive early-type galaxies (mETGs) derive from the most massive and violent merging sequences occurred in the Universe...
COrE+ has been proposed to ESA as a medium-class mission for investigating, within the framework of the ESA Cosmic Vision program, a set of important scientific...
The Coronae of AB Dor and V471 Tau: Youth vs Tidal Spin-Up
We report on an analysis of high resolution Chandra spectra of two stars with very similar spectral types and rotation rates but with very different...