This contribution reports the status of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments on Tenerife. These include the classic Tenerife beam-switching experiments at 10, 15 and 33 GHz, the Jodrell-IAC interferometer at 33 GHz, the COSMOSOMAS project and the Cambridge-IAC Very Small Array (VSA).

A new empirical model that accurately describes the inner and outer light-profiles of early-type galaxies is presented. This model effectively unites the Sérsic and Nuker models, and in so doing allows one to perform meaningful comparisons between the inner and outer properties of early-type galaxies. New and fundamental connections between a

We present a study of the properties of radial conformal Killing fields (RCKF) in conformally flat space-times, pointing out its interest in kinematical cosmology. i) Robertson-Walker space-times are characterized as those conformally flat metrics admitting a geodesic RCKF. ii) The conformal factor of space-times that admit a RCKF with homogeneous

Comet Hale-Bopp defines a milestone event for cometary science: it is the first "really big" comet observed with modern equipment on the ground and from space and due to that; it is considered the new reference object in cometary sciences. At the beginning of a new era in spacecraft exploration of comets and five years after Hale-Bopp's perihelion

We present optical broad- and narrow-band imaging of a sample of a dozen barred galaxies. These images are analysed in conjunction with our previously published near-infrared imaging of their central regions and with literature values for, e.g. bar strengths and the total star formation activity of the galaxies. We present B, I and Hα images, and

Using GOLF/SOHO data a detailed analysis of the solar background spectrum has been performed at high and low phases of solar activity cycle. The analysis includes not only the non-periodic components of the background power spectrum but also the periodic ones. Apart from the solar activity, other causes produce similar effects in the data