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The blazar 1ES 0229+200 is a high frequency peaked BL Lac object with a hard TeV spectrum extending to 10 TeV. Its unusual spectral characteristics make it a frequently used probe for intergalactic radiation and magnetic fields. With new,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 S. Kaufmann , S. J. Wagner , O. Tibolla , M. Hauser

We present orbit-resolved spectroscopic and photometric observations of the polar ST LMi during its recent low and high states. In the low state spectra, we report the presence of blue and red satellites to the H-alpha emission line; the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Kafka , S. B. Howell , R. K. Honeycutt , J. W. Robertson

We present single-epoch multi-wavelength optical-NIR observations of the "anomalous" lensed quasar SDSS J0924+0219, made using the Magellan 6.5-metre Baade telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. The data clearly resolve the anomalous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-25 D. J. E. Floyd , N. F. Bate , R. L. Webster

The COSMOS HI Large Extragalactic Survey (CHILES) Continuum & Polarization (CHILES Con Pol) survey is an ultra-deep continuum imaging study of the COSMOS field conducted using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array. We obtained 1000 hours of…

We present scientific results obtained with a recently commissioned \'{e}chelle spectrograph on the 0.5-m Solaris-1 telescope in the South African Astronomical Observatory. BACHES is a low-cost slit \'{e}chelle spectrograph that has a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Stanisław K. Kozłowski , Maciej Konacki , Piotr Sybilski , Milena Ratajczak , Rafał K. Pawłaszek , Krzysztof G. Hełminiak

Two newly identified magnetic cataclysmic variables discovered in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), SDSSJ155331.12+551614.5 and SDSSJ132411.57+032050.5, have spectra showing highly prominent, narrow, strongly polarized cyclotron humps…

2MASS J09440940-5617117 was identified as a cataclysmic variable in 2007 by its spectrum. In this article we present optical differential photometry in the Rc band obtained using the 0.6-m telescope at Observatorio do Pico dos Dias/Brazil.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-15 K. M. G. Silva , C. V. Rodrigues , F. J. Jablonski , F. D'Amico , D. Cieslinski , R. Baptista And L. A. De Almeida

We present three new candidate AM CVn binaries, plus one confirmed new system, from a spectroscopic survey of color-selected objects from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. All four systems were found from their helium emission lines in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Arne Rau , Gijs H. A. Roelofs , Paul J. Groot , Tom R. Marsh , Gijs Nelemans , Danny Steeghs , Mansi M. Kasliwal

The visual STELLA echelle spectrograph (SES-VIS) is a new instrument for the STELLA-II telescope at the Iza\~na observatory on Tenerife. Together with the original SES spectrograph - which will still be used in the near IR - and a new…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Michael Weber , Klaus Strassmeier , Manfred Woche , Ilya Ilyin , Arto Järvinen

High-resolution optical spectra of the B[e] star CI Cam were obtained on arbitrary dates 2002-2023 using the echelle spectrograph NES of the 6-m BTA telescope. The temporal variability of the powerful emissions of H$\alpha$ and HeI profiles…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-20 Valentina G. Klochkova , Anatoly S. Miroshnichenko , Vladimir E. Panchuk

High resolution FUV echelle spectra showing absorption features arising from CI and CO gas in the Beta Pictoris circumstellar (CS) disk were obtained on 1997 December 6 and 19 using the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS). An…

From May to July 2004, the central radian of the Galactic Plane was scanned by the H.E.S.S. (High Energy Stereoscopic System) telescopes at energies above 200 GeV. This survey was performed from -$3^o$ to +$3^o$ in latitude, for a total of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-15 A. Lemiere , R. Terrier , A. Djannati-Ataï

We propose that the decline in the near-IR flux from the massive binary system Eta Carinae during the spectroscopic event might be explained by accreted mass that absorbs the radiation from the secondary star, and by that reduces the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Amit Kashi , Noam Soker

With our new speckle imaging polarimeter we have obtained first polarimetric images with sub-arcsecond resolution of the Luminous Blue Variable eta Carinae in the Halpha line. The polarization patterns at the 3'' scale match well earlier…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Heino Falcke , Kris Davidson , Karl-Heinz Hofmann , Gerd Weigelt

The BL Lac object 1ES 0229+200 is a firmly established very-high-energy (VHE; E >100 GeV) source. Located at a redshift of 0.1396, its published VHE spectrum is particularly hard (Gamma ~2.5) and is widely used to perform studies on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Matteo Cerruti

The Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy Imager (ETSI) amalgamates a low resolution slitless prism spectrometer with custom multi-band filters to simultaneously image 15 spectral bandpasses between 430 nm and 975 nm with an average spectral…

We investigate the spectral characteristics of the Be/X-ray binary system, EXO 051910+3737.7, in which Be/X-ray systems are the largest sub-class of high-mass X-ray binaries. Spectroscopic observations are taken by the Thai National…

We have obtained 48 high resolution echelle spectra of the pre-main sequence eclipsing binary system KH~15D (V582 Mon, P = 48.37 d, $e$ $\sim$ 0.6, M$_{A}$ = 0.6 M$_{\odot}$, M$_{B}$ = 0.7 M$_{\odot}$). The eclipses are caused by a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Catrina M. Hamilton , Christopher M. Johns-Krull , Reinhard Mundt , William Herbst , Joshua N. Winn

While transmission spectroscopy has allowed us to detect many atomic and molecular species in exoplanet atmospheres, the improvement in resolution and signal-to-noise ratio enabled us to become sensitive to planet-occulted line distortions…

We present results from a spectroscopic study of ~4000 galaxies in a 6.2 square degree field in the direction of the Aquarius supercluster and a smaller typical field region in Cetus, down to R<19.5. Galaxy redshifts were measured using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. E. Smith , H. Dahle , S. J. Maddox , P. B. Lilje