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The morphological properties of the central 1.9 x 2.8 arcmin region of NGC 5055 have been studied on the basis of BVRI and Hα CCD imaging and photometry. Intensity and color profiles, together with isophotal contours have been analyzed and compared with kinematical data from high spatial resolution spectroscopy which was presented in a previous

We study the buoyant rise of magnetic flux tubes embedded in an adiabatic stratification using two-and three-dimensional, magnetohydrodynamic simulations. We analyze the dependence of the tube evolution on the field line twist and on the curvature of the tube axis in different diffusion regimes. To be able to achieve a comparatively high spatial

Comparisons of visible/NIR and FIR/submm data are investigated on several spatial scales in and around the OMC-1, OMC-2 and OMC-3 star-forming regions in Orion A. Our conclusions are that the magnetic field orientations observed in the filaments are smoothly consistent with the ones probed around OMC-1, OMC-2 and OMC-3. Analysis of NIR and submm

New visible and K-band polarization measurements of stars surrounding molecular clouds in Orion A and stars in the Becklin-Neugebauer (BN) vicinity are presented. Our results confirm that magnetic fields located inside the Orion A molecular clouds and in their close neighborhood are spatially connected. On and around the BN object, we measured the

Comet C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR) was observed at ESO when it had its closest approach to the Earth at the beginning of December 2001 (geocentric distance: 0.32 AU). The aim of the observations was the characterization of the solid component of the coma in order to better understand the origin and the correlation between most aspects of this component. The