An automatic and fast procedure was implemented to determine Te and log g from the comparison of the UV S 2/68 spectra with the Kurucz models. The method has been applied to all A and F stars with (B-V)0 greater than or equal to 0 and luminosity classes III, IV, IV-V, and V, included in the Ultraviolet Bright-Star Spectrophotometric Catalogue. From

Open clusters have long been used to study the chemodynamical evolution of the Galactic disc. This requires a homogeneously analysed sample covering a wide range of ages and distances. In this paper, we present the Open Clusters Chemical Abundances from Spanish Observatories (OCCASO) second data release. This comprises a sample of high-resolution

We investigate the influence of scattering processes in the continuum on the formation of lines in static, one dimensional atmosphere. It is shown that the Schuster mechanism of emission line formation can work under certain physical conditions. We derive formulae for the calculation of the line profiles in atmospheres with an ad hoc temperature

Ultra-compact nuclear rings (UCNRs) can be defined as those galactic circumnuclear rings with a radius inferior to 200 parsecs [1]. Because very high spatial resolution is needed, this population has not been studied systematically until now. One important issue that has to be solved is whether UCNRs have an origin similar to larger circumnuclear

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Aims: We present an innovative artificial neural network (ANN) architecture, called Generative ANN (GANN), that computes the forward model, that is it learns the function that relates the unknown outputs (stellar atmospheric parameters, in this case) to the given inputs (spectra). Such a model can be integrated in a Bayesian framework to estimate