MEGARA (Multi-Espectrógrafo en GTC de Alta Resolución para Astronomía) is the future intermediate-resolution optical Integral-Field Unit (IFU) and Multi-Object Spectrograph (MOS) of the 10.4m GTC telescope. The instrument can be used to observe either a contiguous (100% filling factor) field-of-view of 12.5×11.3 arcsec^{2} or 92 objects anywhere in

The Milky Way is expected to contain a large number of young massive (few x 1000 solar masses) stellar clusters, borne in dense cores of gas and dust. Yet, their known number remains small. We have started a programme to search for such clusters, MASGOMAS (MAssive Stars in Galactic Obscured MAssive clusterS). Initially, we selected promising

Aims: The aim of this work is to study the energy transport by means of Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves propagating in quiet-Sun magnetic topology from layers below the surface to the corona. Upwardly propagating waves find obstacles, such as the equipartition layer with plasma β = 1, the transition region, and null points, and they get transmitted

In this paper, we use information from the light field to obtain a distribution map of the wavefront phase. This distribution is associated with changes in refractive index which are relevant in the propagation of light through a heterogeneous or turbulent medium. Through the measurement of the wavefront phase from a single shot, it is possible to

Understanding how different stellar populations evolve in different regions is a key to understand the evolution of galaxies. Traditionally the kinematics and stellar populations in galaxies have been obtained separately and unrelatedly, sometimes ignoring the other one. In this pilot study we simultaneously disentangle the stellar populations

J-PAS is a Spanish-Brazilian 8500 deg^2 Cosmological Survey which will be carried out from the Javalambre Observatory with a purpose-built, dedicated 2.5 m telescope and a 4.7 deg^2 camera with 1.2 Gpix. Starting in 2015, J-PAS will use 59 filters to measure high precision 0.003(1+z) photometric redshifts for 90M galaxies plus several million QSOs