Young Massive Clusters (YMCs) with ages 6 Myr are ideal tools for mapping the current chemical abundances in the Galactic disk for several reasons. First of all, the locations of these clusters can be known through spectrophotometric distances. Secondly, their young ages guarantee that these objects present the same chemical composition than the

We present new and stronger evidence for a previously reported relationship between galactic spiral arm pitch angle P (a measure of the tightness of spiral structure) and the mass M BH of a disk galaxy's nuclear supermassive black hole (SMBH). We use an improved method to accurately measure the spiral arm pitch angle in disk galaxies to generate

Small-scale magnetic fields are thought to play an important role in the heating of the outer solar atmosphere. By taking advantage of the unprecedented high-spatial and temporal cadence of the Imaging Magnetograph eXperiment (IMaX), the filter vector polarimeter on board the Sunrise balloon-borne observatory, we study the transversal and

Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) represent one of the kinds of star-forming galaxies that are found in the high-redshift universe. The detection of LBGs in the far-infrared (FIR) domain can provide very important clues on their dust attenuation and total star-formation rate (SFR), allowing a more detailed study than has been performed so far. In this

Recent evidence indicates that currently accepted mass-loss rates may need to be revised downwards when small-scale density inhomogeneities (clumping) are taken into account. Only a consistent treatment of ALL possible diagnostics from the UV through radio, scanning different regions of the stellar wind, and analyzed by means of state of the art

NGC 4494 is one of several intermediate-luminosity elliptical galaxies inferred to have an unusually diffuse dark matter halo. We use the χ2-made-to-measure particle code NMAGIC to construct axisymmetric models of NGC 4494 from photometric and various kinematic data. The extended kinematics include light spectra in multiple slitlets out to 3.5Re