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RR Lyrae stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud as seen by Gaia
Left panels: G-band light curves of RR Lyrae stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud observed by Gaia during the EPSL scanning. Right panels: I-band light curves obtained for the same stars by the OGLE IV...
View ArticleCall for observing proposals at the 1.52m Cassini Telescope
Proposals may be submitted for the August 1st, 2015 – January 31st, 2016 semester. The deadline is June 19th, 2015, at 13:00 UT.…
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A press release by G. Clementini (INAF-OABO), V. Ripepi (INAF-OACN), S. Leccia (INAF-OACN), et al. was published yesterday (May 28, 2015) on the ESA Gaia web page showing results from the DPAC-CU7...
View ArticleV404 Cygni outburst observed at Loiano
The X-ray binary V404 Cygni underwent an outburst detected in the X-ray band by Swift on June 18, 2015. One of the components of this source is a black hole weighing about 10 solar masses, and it is...
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MAORY KICK OFF MEETING
Image taken at the MAORY kick-off meeting in Bologna. A new era for the Adaptive Optics. MAORY the Multi Conjugate Adaptive Optics RelaY for E-ELT entered in a new era. After the agreement signed on...
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DDO68
DDO 68 , una pulce di Galassia ma vorace Un team internazionale di ricercatori guidato da Francesca Annibali, Cassini Fellowship presso l’Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna dell’Istituto Nazionale di...
View ArticleGaia Data Release 1
The Gaia spacecraft was launched on December 19th, 2013 to perform a 5-year long all-sky scanning survey that will provide exquisitely accurate astrometry (100 times better than Hipparcos) and...
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Gaia16aye: the first binary microlensing event ever discovered towards the...
On 2016-08-05 the 1.2 mag brightening of an otherwise quiet stellar source triggered the Gaia16aye Gaia Science Alert, nicknamed Ayers Rock (19:40:01.13 +30:07:53.4, J2000). The previous 22 Gaia...
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SECCO 1: a very dark stellar system lost in Virgo
Left panel: Hα images of the two bodies of SECCO 1 (projected separation ~6 kpc ) extracted from the MUSE data cube. Right panels: HST -ACS images of the same region. At the distance of the object 10...
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