The detection of 206s X-ray pulsations from H0253+193 indicates that the source is a compact object. It is argued here that object can not be a T Tauri star or Be/X –ray binary pulsar suggested that H 0253+193 is slowly ...

Kinematical distances are estimated for six open star clusters. They agree fairly well with the photometric distances. The kinematical distances cannot, at present, be estimated better than the photometric distances. When ...

We have used the velocity dispersion as an age indicator to constrain the ages of a large sample of main sequence Vega-like stars in order to study the lifetimes and temporal evolution of the dust disks around them. We use ...

Aims. We carried out optical polarimetry of five dense cores, (IRAM 04191, L1521F, L328, L673-7, and L1014) which are found to harbour very low luminosity objects (VeLLOs; Lint ≲ 0.1 L⊙). This study was conducted mainly ...

We present results of optical linear polarization measurements of stars in the region of the relatively isolated cometary globule CG 12 in Centaurus at a galactic latitude b~= 21°. A polarization map representing the ...

We report first results from a program to study magnetic fields in cometary globules (CGs). These are clouds near massive stars showing a head-tail morphology. Linear optical polarization measurements on stars seen projected ...

We aim to develop a method to determine distances to molecular clouds using JHK near-infrared photometry. Methods: The method is based on a technique that aids spectral classification of stars lying towards the fields ...

Gas within molecular clouds (MCs) is turbulent and unevenly distributed. Interstellar shocks such as those driven by strong fluxes of ionizing radiation (IR) profoundly affect MCs. While small dense MCs exposed to a strong ...

We present the results of spectroscopic observations for 52 objects from the list of Halpha emission stars of Stephenson (\cite{Ste86}). Out of six known T Tauri stars observed, five showed Halpha in emission and in one ...