A near- and mid-infrared study of the star-formation complex G 9.62+0.19 is presented. dIt includes photometrically calibrated images through wide-band JHK and narrow-band Br gamma , H[2], and 12.5 mu m filters. The observations were made at Las Campanas, La Silla and the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional-San Pedro Mártir observatories.

We present surface photometry and stellar kinematics of a sample of five SB0 galaxies: ESO 139-G009, IC 874, NGC 1308, NGC 1440 and NGC 3412. We measured their bar pattern speed using the Tremaine-Weinberg method, and derived the ratio, , of the corotation radius to the length of the bar semimajor axis. For all the galaxies, is consistent with

We present Fabry-Perot and multi-object spectroscopy of the galaxies in Hickson compact group 31 (HCG 31). Based upon our Hα data cubes, galaxies A and C are a single entity, showing no discontinuity in their kinematics. Kinematically, galaxy E is probably a component of the A+C complex; otherwise it is a recently detached fragment. Galaxy F

We use Hubble Space Telescope (HST) near-infrared imaging to explore the shapes of the surface brightness profiles of bulges of S0-Sbc galaxies at high resolution. Modeling extends to the outer bulge via bulge-disk decompositions of combined HST-ground-based profiles. Compact, central unresolved components similar to those reported by others are

We present the results of high time resolution optical photometry of five quiescent soft X-ray transients (SXTs): V404 Cyg, A0620-00, J0422+32, GS 2000+25, and Cen X-4. We detect fast optical variations superposed on the secondary star's double-humped ellipsoidal modulation. The variability resembles typical flare activity and has amplitudes

We study a recently observed gravitational microlensing peak in the V-band light curve of Q2237+0305A using a relatively simple physical model, but one that is highly consistent with the data (the best-fit reduced chi 2 is very close to 1). The source quasar is assumed to be a Newtonian geometrically-thin and optically-thick accretion disk. The