This paper presents the proposal of a high resolution, integral field spectrograph that is currently being designed for the 4-meter aperture European Solar Telescope that will be located in the Canary Islands. This instrument is optimized to study the solar chromosphere and photosphere to allow the investigation of several phenomena concentrated

Spectroscopy of the low-mass X-ray binary Ser X-1 using the Gran Telescopio Canarias have revealed a ≃2 h periodic variability that is present in the three strongest emission lines. We tentatively interpret this variability as due to orbital motion, making it the first indication of the orbital period of Ser X-1. Together with the fact that the

We present here 350 and 500 micron polarization observations of the Lupus I molecular cloud taken during the 2010 BLASTPol Antarctic flight. Lupus I is a nearby, isolated, young, and filamentary molecular cloud making it an ideal target to test magnetically regulated star formation models. In the presence of intermediate to strong magnetic fields

Using spectroscopic data taken with OSIRIS spectrograph at the 10.4m-GTC telescope, we discover that the orbital period of the secondary star of the black hole binary XTE J1118+480, with an orbital period of P_{orb}˜ 4.1 hr, is rapidly decreasing. We have derived an orbital period time derivative of dot P=-1.83±0.66 ms yr^{-1} in this system

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are powered by energetic phenomena which cannot be attributed to stars. Among AGN, several objects can be described by the unified model (Antonucci 1993; Urry & Padovani 1995). However, several subclasses of objects that cannot be accommodated into this scheme, as is the case of LINERs (low ionisation narrow emission

The formation and evolution of Local Group galaxies can be studied in the greatest possible detail thanks to the possibility of obtaining photometry and spectroscopy of their individual stars. I present an overview of different methods that can be combined for their study, and discuss recent results on the star formation history of a sample of