gamma Dor stars are excellent targets for asteroseismology since the gravity modes present in these stars probe the deep stellar interiors. Mode identification will improve the knowledge of these stars considerably. A selected group of gamma Dor stars and some candidates were observed with the Mercator telescope to find and/or confirm the

One of the most useful spectral windows for spectropolarimetric investigations of the solar chromosphere is the one provided by the spectral lines of the He I 10830 Å multiplet, whose polarization signals are sensitive to the Hanle and Zeeman effects. However, in order to be able to carry out reliable diagnostics of the dynamic and magnetic

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We compared the results from SigSpec and from the iterative-sine-wave fitting, considering an error range of 0.005d-1 in frequency (i.e., a width 3.4 times narrower than 1/DeltaT). The cross-checks show an almost complete agreement on the values of the first 500 frequencies: 498 frequencies were found by both methods, whose 438 (88%) have an

The Hinode Spectro-Polarimeter has revealed the presence of surprisingly strong horizontal magnetic fields nearly everywhere in the quiet solar atmosphere. These horizontal fields, along with measures of the vertical fields, may be the signature of the ``hidden turbulent flux'' of the quiet Sun. The measured horizontal fields average at least to 55

We have detected stellar halo streams in the solar neighborhood using data from the seventh public data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), which includes the directed stellar program Sloan Extension For Galactic Understanding and Exploration (SEGUE). In order to derive distances to each star, we used the metallicity-dependent