MÉKARNIA , D.

First mid-infrared images of a sample of AGB and post-AGB carbon stars (V Hya, IRC +10216, CIT 6 and Roberts 22) obtained at the ESO-La Silla Observatory (Chile) are reported. CIT 6 presents a cometary-like feature clearly seen in the 9.7 µm image, Roberts 22 shows an envelope slightly elongated in the northeast direction while images of V Hya...

First mid-infrared images of a sample of AGB and post-AGB carbon stars (V Hya, IRC +10216, CIT 6 and Roberts 22) obtained at the ESO-La Silla Observatory (Chile) are reported. CIT 6 presents a cometary-like feature clearly seen in the 9.7 µm image, Roberts 22 shows an envelope slightly elongated in the northeast direction while images of V Hya...

First mid-infrared images of a sample of AGB and post-AGB carbon stars (V Hya, IRC +10216, CIT 6 and Roberts 22) obtained at the ESO-La Silla Observatory (Chile) are reported. CIT 6 presents a cometary-like feature clearly seen in the 9.7 μm image, Roberts 22 shows an envelope slightly elongated in the north-east direction while images of V Hya...

Astronomy and Astrophysics, 466, pp. L1-L4, http://dx.doi.org./10.1051/0004-6361:7128

Astronomy and Astrophysics, 466, p. L1

Context. The winter seeing at Concordia is bimodal, i.e. either excellent or quite poor, depending on the altitude above the snow surface. We study the temporal behavior of the good seeing sequences. Efficient exploitation of extremely good seeing conditions with an adaptive optics system requires long integrations.Aims: We examine the temporal...

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Aims: The Antarctica Search for Transiting Extrasolar Planets (ASTEP), an automatized 400 mm telescope located at Concordia station in Antarctica, monitored β Pictoris continuously to detect any variability linked to the transit of the Hill sphere of its planet β Pictoris b. The long observation sequence, from March to September 2017, combined...

The Polar Large Telescope (PLT) project is primarily aimed at undertaking large, wide band synoptic astronomical surveys in the infrared in order to provide critical data to the forthcoming generation of observational facilities such as ALMA, JWST, LSST and the E-ELT, and to complement the observations obtained with them. Sensitive thermal IR...

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