AM CVn systems are a subclass of cataclysmic variables where two DB WDs exchange H-depleted material under short period orbits -in the range approx. 5 - 65 minutes. The prototype, AM CVn (=HZ9) itself, was first discovered in 1957 as a "peculiar" DB WD by Greenstein & Matthews and in 1967 Smak found its characteristic 17-18 min photometric

In this work we made use of the lists of candidate members obtained by Gutiérrez Albarrán et al. (2024) for a target sample of 42 open clusters, ranging from 1 Myr to 5 Gyr and observed within the Gaia-ESO survey (GES), with the aim of studying Li as an age indicator and deriving an empirical Li-age relation for FGK late-type stars. We conducted a

Many detected planets experience hydrodynamic atmospheric escape during some stage of their life. Most of those exoplanets are hot Jupiters and sub-Neptunes orbiting close to their stars. Traditionally, the escape in these evaporating planets has been studied by Lyman-α line absorption measurements taken by instruments from space. Very recently, a

Galaxy quenching, the intricate process through which galaxies transition from active star-forming states to retired ones, remains a complex phenomenon that requires further investigation. This study investigates the role of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in regulating star formation by analyzing a sample of 643 nearby galaxies with redshifts

Context. The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S 4G), together with its Early Type Galaxy (ETG) extension, stands as the most extensive dataset of deep uniform mid-infrared (mid-IR; 3.6 and 4.5 μm) imaging for a sample of 2817 nearby (d < 40 Mpc) galaxies. However, the velocity criterion used to select the original sample results in

Context. A multitude of spectral activity indicators are routinely computed nowadays from the spectra generated as part of planet-hunting radial velocity surveys. Searching for shared periods among them can help to robustly identify astrophysical quantities of interest, such as the stellar rotation period. However, this identification can be