New integral field optical fiber spectroscopy obtained with the INTEGRAL system, together with archival HST WFPC2 and NICMOS images, has been used to investigate the ultraluminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) IRAS 17208-0014, one of the coldest and most luminous objects in the IRAS 1 Jy sample. We have found that the optical nucleus is not coincident

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We propose to measure the expansion parallax of the nebulae around the binary symbiotic Miras He 2-104 {the Southern Crab} and He 2-147 by means of high resolution WFPC2/F658N images to be taken at two different epochs. Given the large outward velocities of these nebulae inferred from ground-based spectroscopy, their apparent expansion can be

GRS 1747-312 is a bright transient X-ray source in the globular cluster Terzan 6 with quasi-periodic outbursts approximately every 4.5 months. We carried out 2-60 keV target-of-opportunity observations during eight outbursts with the Proportional Counter Array on the RXTE satellite, for a total exposure time of 301 ks, and detect the first

Several members of the COROT Seismology Working Group (SWG) have performed several ``hare-and-hound'' exercises to prepare the data exploitation of the mission in the past few years. These exercises consist in reproducing a theoretical model on the basis of a light curve obtained from a frequency spectrum computed from an ``unknown'' theoretical

We report the identification of the cataclysmic variable 1RXS J062518.2+733433 as an intermediate polar. The orbital period of the system is determined to be 283.0+/-0.2 min from the radial velocity variation of Hα, measured in an extensive set of time-resolved spectra. Differential optical photometry obtained over a base line of three weeks