The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) normal modes of oscillation of sheared coronal arcades including longitudinal wave propagation are studied. Solutions have been computed to ascertain the effects of the longitudinal magnetic field component, By, and of the longitudinal wavenumber, ky, in these structures. Our results show that whenever By≠0 and/or ky≠0

In this paper we present results of a pilot study to use imaging data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to search for low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies. For our pilot study we use a test sample of 92 galaxies from the Impey et al. catalog distributed over 93 SDSS fields of the Early Data Release (EDR). Many galaxies from the test sample

We present a comparison of the lithium abundances of stars with and without planetary-mass companions. New lithium abundances are reported in 79 planet hosts and 38 stars from a comparison sample. When the Li abundances of planet host stars are compared with the 157 stars in the sample of field stars of Chen et al. (cite{Chen2001}) we find that the

We have obtained Keck Low-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer imaging and spectra for 29 globular clusters associated with the lenticular galaxy NGC 524. Using the empirical calibration of Brodie & Huchra we find that our spectroscopic sample spans a metallicity range of -2.0

We present integral field spectroscopy of the double imaged quasar HE1104-1805 taken with the optical fiber system INTEGRAL-WYFFOS at the WHT telescope. From the spectra of the two components we have measured the continuum and line emission ratios, finding an offset between them that can be related to microlensing.

Integral field optical spectroscopy with the INTEGRAL system has been used to investigate for the first time the two-dimensional kinematic and ionization properties of the extended, warm, ionized gas in Arp 220 over an area of 75.0"×40.0" (i.e., 28×15 kpc). The structure of the ionized gas is divided into well-identified regions associated with the