We briefly review the fundamentals of nuclear gamma-ray line astronomy (radioactive astronomy), focusing on its role to decipher the intimate physics of supernovae, either immediatly (via 56 Co) or after a time delay (via 44 T i). All kinds of super-novae can be in principle tested through their radioactivities and their associated gamma-ray lines. Dedicated to the spectroscopy and imaging of c...

We use deep J (1.25 μm) and Ks (2.15 μm) images of the Antennae (NGC 4038/9) obtained with the Wide-field InfraRed Camera on the Palomar 200-inch telescope, together with the Chandra X-ray source list of Zezas et al. (2002a), to search for infrared counterparts to X-ray point sources. We establish an Xray/IR astrometric frame tie with ∼ 0. 5 rms residuals over a ∼ 4.3 field. We find 13 “strong”...

Following the detection of strong TeV γ-ray flares from the BL Lac object 1ES 1959+650 with the Whipple 10 m Cherenkov telescope on May 16 and 17, 2002, we performed intensive Target of Opportunity (ToO) radio, optical, X-ray and TeV γ-ray observations from May 18, 2002 to August 14, 2002. Observations with the X-ray telescope RXTE (Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer) and the Whipple and HEGRA (High E...