In recent years, a lot of effort has been put into better understanding the physical processes which lead a sunlike star, at the end of its evolution, to lose its gaseous envelope and die as a slowly cooling white dwarf. The most spectacular phase of this late evolution is the one in which the ejected envelope is made fluorescent by the energetic

The spiral galaxy NGC 3521 exhibits apparently normal kinematic properties of gas and stars along its major axis. However, the analysis of the LOSVD reveals strong asymmetries. A decomposition of the LOSVD data with a two-Gaussian component model shows two counter-rotating stellar components. The observed kinematic decoupling is interpreted as a

We present preliminary results of the surface photometry of a sample of blue compact dwarf galaxies (BCDGs). A total of 28 galaxies have been observed in the BVRI bands. From these data the contour maps and surface brightness distributions in each band have been built. Contour maps and surface profiles of the 22 galaxies already analysed are

The LEGRI Science Operation Center (SOC) is the single contact point between the MINISAT-01 Centro de Operaciones Científicas (COC) located at Villafranca del Castillo (Madrid) and the LEGRI Consortium. Its architecture, operational procedures and associated software has been developed at the Universities of Valencia and Birmingham on the scope to

Two years after launch (04.21.97), LEGRI is operating on Minisat-01 in a LEO orbit. The LEGRI detector plane is formed by two type of gamma-ray solid state detectors: HgI_2 and CdZnTe. Detectors are embedded in a box containing the FEE and DFE electronics. This box provides an effective detector passive shielding. Detector plane is multiplexed by a

LEGRI has been operating successfully on MINISAT-01 since its switch-on the 22nd of May 1997. HouseKeeping (HK) data have been continuously received for nearly two years by LEGRI SOC in Valencia, and subsequently checked on a daily basis and then stored for long term monitoring analysis. LEGRI HouseKeeping data include three critical operating