We report on Télescope Héliographique pour l'Etude du Magnétisme et des Instabilités Solaires (THEMIS)2 observations of linear polarization events associated with umbral flashes observed in the Ca II infrared (IR) triplet lines. The observed signals are usually delayed in time and shifted in space when compared to the intensity and circular

We present complete near-infrared (0.85-2.45 μm), low-resolution (~100) spectra of a sample of 26 disk L dwarfs with reliable optical spectral type classification. The observations have been obtained with the Near Infrared Camera and Spectrograph at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo using a prism-based optical element (the Amici device) that

We present low-resolution (R~450) K-band spectroscopy for 16 of the 43 circumnuclear star-forming knots in M100 identified by Ryder & Knapen. We compare our measurements of equivalent widths for the Brγ emission line and CO 2.29-μm absorption band in each knot with the predictions of starburst models from the literature, and derive ages and burst

We present V-band surface photometry and major-axis kinematics of stars and ionized gas of three early-type spiral galaxies, namely NGC 772, 3898 and 7782. For each galaxy we present a self-consistent Jeans model for the stellar kinematics, adopting the light distribution of bulge and disc derived by means of a two-dimensional parametric

Data recovered from the GOLF experiment on board the ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft have been used to analyze the low-order low-degree solar velocity acoustic-mode spectrum below ν=1.5 mHz (i.e., 1

We compare simultaneous magnetograms of a solar active region taken by the Advanced Stokes Polarimeter (ASP) and the Solar Optical Universal Polimeter (SOUP) in 1998. In addition we compare magnetograms taken by the La Palma Stokes Polarimeter (LPSP), the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) on SOHO, and the SOUP instrument in 2000. The SOUP instrument