Spectroscopic observations were obtained with FLAMES+GIRAFFE at the ESO 8-meter VLT telescope. FLAMES is a fiber multi-object spectrograph, allowing the simultaneous observation of up to 130 objects. For each configuration five separate 3200s exposures were obtained on different night from November 2007 to March 2008. (2 data files).

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Asteroseismology of solar-type stars has an important part to play in the exoplanet program of the NASA Kepler Mission. Precise and accurate inferences on the stellar properties that are made possible by the seismic data allow very tight constraints to be placed on the exoplanetary systems. Here, we outline how to make an estimate of the

We analyzed the longest phase-connected photometric dataset available for NGC 1313 X-2, looking for the ˜6 day modulation reported by Liu et al. (2009). The folded B-band light curve shows a 6 days periodicity with a significance slightly larger than 3σ. The low statistical significance of this modulation, along with the lack of detection in the V

Hydrogen depleted environments have been considered an essential requirement for the efficient formation of fullerene molecules in circumstellar/interstellar environments. In particular, the hydrogen-poor, helium-rich, and carbon-rich character of the gas around R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars has been suggested to be a promising site for the

The neutron star transient and 11 Hz X-ray pulsar IGR J17480-2446, recently discovered in the globular cluster Terzan 5, showed unprecedented bursting activity during its 2010 October-November outburst. We analyzed all X-ray bursts detected with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer and find strong evidence that they all have a thermonuclear origin