The Treasury program LEGUS (HST/GO-13364) is the first HST UV Atlas of nearby galaxies, and is aimed at the thorough investigation of star formation and its relation with galaxy environment, from the scales of individual stars to those of ~kpc clustered structures. The 154-orbits program is obtaining NUV,U,B,V,I images of 50 star-forming galaxies

Large-amplitude longitudinal (LAL) prominence oscillations consist of periodic mass motions along a filament axis. The oscillations appear to be triggered by an energetic event, such as a microflare, subflare, or small C-class flare, close to one end of the filament. Observations reveal speeds of several tens to 100 km/s, periods of order 1 hr

JPCam is a 14-CCD mosaic camera, using the new e2v 9k-by-9k 10 μm-pixel 16-channel detectors, to be deployed on a dedicated 2.55 m wide-field telescope at the OAJ (Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre) in Aragon, Spain. The camera is designed to perform a Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) survey of the northern sky. The J-PAS survey strategy

We have developed a method for finding dynamical resonances in disk galaxies using the change in sense of the radial component of the in-plane velocity at a resonance radius. Using simulations we show that we would expect to find these changes at corotation radii with a weaker effect at the Lindblad resonances. The method works well with

We still have a very limited knowledge about the formation of the early Milky Way. A line of research has focused on understanding the nature of the stellar halo, finding kinematical and chemical evidence of substructure. The existence of substructure is in line with the hierarchical formation scenario predicted by ΛCDM simulations for large

We present 20 candidate hypervelocity stars from the Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (SEGUE) G and K dwarf samples. Previous searches for hypervelocity stars have only focused on large radial velocities; in this study, we also use proper motions to select the candidates. We determine the hypervelocity likelihood of each