We obtained simultaneously recorded time series of broadband images of a sunspot close to the disk center at the German Vacuum Tower Telescope, Tenerife, in two wavelength bands at 0.56 μm and 1.55 μm. Maps of brightness difference images Tb(1.55 μm) and Tb(0.56 μm) were computed for the best image pairs. Furthermore, a scatter plot of the

Simultaneous time series of broadband images of two active regions close to the disk center were acquired at the Swedish Vacuum Solar Telescope, La Palma, in the infrared bands at 1.55 and 0.80 μm, corresponding to the minimum and maximum continuum opacities, respectively. Dark faculae are detected in images obtained as weighted intensity

We present a study of 16 planetary nebulae (PNe) where fullerenes have been detected in their Spitzer Space Telescope spectra. This large sample of objects offers a unique opportunity to test conditions of fullerene formation and survival under different metallicity environments because we are analyzing five sources in our own Galaxy, four in the

This work quantifies the influence of the terrestrial atmosphere on the instrumental polarization (IP) of telescopes. Our numerical simulations show that seeing mostly induces a random crosstalk between Stokes parameters. The main contamination affects the linear polarization signals and is due to mixing with intensity. In general, circular

HH 262 is a group of emitting knots displaying an `hour-glass' morphology in the Hα and [SII] lines, located 3.5 arcmin to the north-east of the young stellar object L1551-IRS5, in Taurus. We present new results of the kinematics and physical conditions of HH 262 based on Integral Field Spectroscopy covering a field of ~1.5 × 3 arcmin2, which

Integral field optical spectroscopy with the INTEGRAL fiber-based system is used to map the extended ionized regions and gas flows in Mrk 273, one of the closest ultraluminous infrared galaxies. The Hβ and [O III] λ5007 maps show the presence of two distinct regions separated by 4" (3.1 kpc) along position angle (P.A.) 240 deg. The northeastern