Since 1995, more than 140 planets around solar-type stars have been discovered. The great success of the first decade of observational research in exoplanets, where both the number of planets detected and the number of research groups in the field have grown in parallel, will be followed by a golden age in exoplanet discovery. In the next 15 years

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We present a spectrophotometric analysis of S Ori J053825.4-024241, a candidate member close to the substellar boundary of the young (1-8 Myr), nearby (~360 pc) σ Orionis star cluster. Our optical and near-infrared photometry and low-resolution spectroscopy indicate that S Ori J053825.4-024241 is a likely cluster member with a mass estimated from

We present ground-based optical and Spitzer Space Telescope infrared imaging observations of the interacting galaxy UGC 10214, the Tadpole galaxy (z=0.0310), focusing on the star formation activity in the nuclear, disk, spiral arms, and tidal tail regions. The ground-based optical data set spans a wavelength range between 0.3 and 0.8 μm, the near

We present the integrated properties of the stellar populations in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) Survey galaxies. Applying the techniques described in the first paper of this series (Perez-Gonzalez et al., 2003, Cat. ), we derive ages, burst masses and metallicities of the newly formed stars in our sample galaxies. (1 data file).

Beta Cephei stars have a simple structure: a convective core surrounded by a radiative envelope. It is therefore worth trying to describe beta Cephei stars with composite polytropes which are useful to retrieve structure parameters from frequency spectra. We show that the structure of beta Cephei models can relatively well be described with two