Context. The homogenization of the stellar parameters is an important goal for large observational spectroscopic surveys, but it is very difficult to achieve it because of the diversity of the spectroscopic analysis methods used within a survey, such as spectrum synthesis and the equivalent width method. To solve this problem, constraints to the

We show preliminary results of an ongoing investigation aimed at determining the configuration of the magnetic field vector in the threads of a quiescent hedgerow solar prominence using high-spatial resolution spectropolarimetric observations taken in the He I 1083.0 nm multiplet. The data consist of a two-dimensional map of a quiescent hedgerow

A method is defined for identifying late-T and Y dwarfs in WISE down to low values of signal-to-noise. This requires a WISE detection only in the W2-band and uses the statistical properties of the WISE multiframe measurements and profile fit photometry to reject contamination resulting from non-point-like objects, variables and moving sources. To

Stellar-mass black holes have all been discovered through X-ray emission, which arises from the accretion of gas from their binary companions (this gas is either stripped from low-mass stars or supplied as winds from massive ones). Binary evolution models also predict the existence of black holes accreting from the equatorial envelope of rapidly

La búsqueda de planetas extrasolares se ha convertido en uno de los campos de mayor interés de la Astrofísica en los últimos años. Desde el descubrimiento del primer planeta fuera del Sistema Solar orbitando una estrella de secuencia principal en 1995, el número de planetas detectados ha crecido exponencialmente. Aunque la mayoría de los

We present an overview of and status report on XSL, the X-Shooter Spectral Library. XSL is an ESO Large Programme that is using the X-Shooter three-beam spectrograph to collect moderate-resolution (R=7000--11000), high signal-to-noise spectra of more than 700 stars across the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram with a large range of compositions. XSL is