We study the propagation of waves from the photosphere to the chromosphere of sunspots. From time series of cospatial Ca II H (including its line blends) intensity spectra and polarimetric spectra of Si I λ 1082.7 nm and He I λ 1083.0 nm we retrieve the line-of-sight velocity at several heights. The analysis of the phase difference and

In this contribution, I review what we have learnt about macroturbulent broadening in the last decade and present first results of a long term observational project aimed at investigating the possible connection between this spectroscopic feature and the stellar variability phenomena and oscillations.

Context. TMR-1C is a candidate protoplanet that lies at a separation of about 10” (~1000 AU) from the Class I protobinary TMR-1 (IRAS 04361+2547) located in the Taurus molecular cloud. A narrow filament-like structure was observed in the discovery HST/NICMOS images, extending southeast from the central proto-binary system towards TMR-1C, suggesting

Aims: The determination of reliable distances to planetary nebulae (PNe) is a major difficulty in the study of this class of objects in the Galaxy. The availability of new photometric surveys such as IPHAS (the INT/WFC photometric Hα survey of the northern Galactic plane) covering large portions of the sky provide an opportunity to apply the so

The important role of metallicity on massive star evolution and the combination of multi-object spectrographs and 10m class telescopes, have lead to numerous systematic studies of massive stars in Local Group galaxies. While color based quests of blue massive stars are relatively successful, they must be confirmed with spectroscopy and usually lead

An outstanding problem in Astronomy for the past 15+ years has been that the radii of low-mass, (M 1.0 M&sun;), main-sequence stars in eclipsing binary systems are consistently about 15% larger than predicted by theoretical models. The main cause is hypothesized to be rapid rotation due to binary spin-up, as all but one of the currently known