The Arches is one of the youngest, densest and most massive clusters in the Galaxy. As such it provides a unique insight into the lifecycle of the most massive stars known and the formation and survival of such stellar aggregates in the extreme conditions of the Galactic Centre. In a previous study we presented an initial stellar census for the

The black hole transient V404 Cygni exhibited a bright outburst in June 2015 that was intensively followed over a wide range of wavelengths. Our team obtained high time resolution optical spectroscopy (˜ 90 s), which included a detailed coverage of the most active phase of the event. We present a database consisting of 651 optical spectra obtained

Context. Rotational mixing is known to significantly affect the evolution of massive stars; however, we still lack a consensus regarding the various possible modeling approaches and mixing recipes describing this process. The empirical investigation of surface abundances of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen (CNO) in large samples of O- and B-type stars

With the aim of using classic spectroscopic methods with high resolution and high signal-to-noise ratio in the NIR spectral window, we made a selection of 66 FGK-type stars observed with CARMENES, the brand-new, ultra-stable, double-channel spectrograph at the Spanish-German 3.5m Calar Alto telescope. These spectra are part of a CARMENES stellar

Minor mergers play a crucial role in galaxy evolution. UGC 10214 (the Tadpole galaxy) is a prime example of this process in which a dwarf galaxy has interacted with a large spiral galaxy ˜250 Myr ago and produced a perturbed disc and a giant tidal tail. We used a multi-wavelength dataset that partly consists of new observations (Hα, HI, and CO) and

We show our very first results regarding the stellar atmospheric parameter determinations (T_{eff} , log g, [Fe/H]) of M-type stars observed with CARMENES te{Carmenes} by means of the spectral synthesis method. We have selected spectral ranges around iron and titanium lines and molecular bands in three reference M-type stars: GX And (M1.0 V)