Optical intensity interferometry observations using the MAGIC Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes
Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) currently in operation feature large mirrors and order of 1 ns time response to signals of a few photo...
Optical linear polarization in ultra cool dwarfs. A tool to probe dust in the ultra cool dwarf atmospheres
Aims. Recent studies have detected linear polarization in L dwarfs in the optical I band. Theoretical models have been developed to explain this polarization...
Optical Linear Polarization of Late M and L Type Dwarfs
We report on the linear polarimetric observations in the Johnson I-band filter of 44 ultracool dwarfs with spectral types between M6 and L7.5, corresponding to...
Optical Microvariability in Quasars: Spectral Variability
We present a method that we developed to discern where the optical microvariability (OM) in quasars originates: in the accretion disk (related to thermal...
Optical nebular emission following the most luminous outburst of Aquila X-1
Aquila X-1 is a prototypical neutron star low mass X-ray binary and one of the most studied X-ray transients. We present optical spectroscopy obtained with the...
Optical novae: the major class of supersoft X-ray sources in M 31
We searched for X-ray counterparts of optical novae detected in M 31 and M 33. We combined an optical nova catalogue from the WeCAPP survey with optical novae...
Optical observations and dust modelling of comet 156P/Russell-LINEAR
Comet 156P/Russell-LINEAR is a short period Jupiter family comet with an orbital period of 6.44 years. The results from spectroscopic, photometric, polarimetric...
Optical observations of Dwingeloo 1, a nearby barred spiral galaxy behind the Milky Way
We present new optical observations of the nearby barred spiral galaxy Dwingeloo 1 (Dw1) obtained with the Isaac Newton, William Herschel and Wise telescopes...