The study if the large scale structure and properties of the Milky Way has always walked hand in hand with the availability of photometric and spectroscopic large scale surveys. Using the data from programs as 2MASS or UKIDSS, we show how we can derive large scale properties of our Galaxy, such as the behavior of the interstellar extinction or the

We study non-LTE inversions of the Ca II infrared triplet lines as a tool for inferring physical properties of the quiet Sun. The inversion code is successful in recovering the temperature, velocity, and longitudinal magnetic flux density in the photosphere and chromosphere, but the height range where the inversions are sensitive is limited

Arch filament systems occur in active sunspot groups, where a fibril structure connects areas of opposite magnetic polarity, in contrast to active region filaments that follow the polarity inversion line. We used the GREGOR Infrared Spectrograph (GRIS) to obtain the full Stokes vector in the spectral lines Si I λ1082.7 nm, He I λ1083.0 nm, and Ca I

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Aims: We present abundance analysis based on high resolution spectra of 105 isolated red giant branch (RGB) stars in the Galactic Globular Cluster NGC 6121 (M 4). Our aim is to study its star population in the context of the multi-population phenomenon recently discovered to affect some Globular Clusters. Methods: The data have been collected with

We present spectra for 12 new ultracool dwarfs found in the DENIS infrared survey. Seven of them have spectral types at the bottom of the M-class (M8-M9.5), and the other five belong to the cooler ``L'' class. We also present spectra for the two new L dwarfs found by the EROS 2 proper-motion survey. We introduce a scheme for L dwarf classification