H-alpha emission is ubiquitous in our Galaxy. It traces ionised gas of assorted nebulae such as HII regions, planetary nebulae, Wolf-Rayet nebulae, and supernova remnants. It is a strong signature of active stars, interacting binaries, very massive stars (especially supergiants, Luminous Blue Variables and Wolf-Rayet stars), Be stars, post-AGB

Optical integral field spectroscopy (IFS), combined with Hubble Space Telescope (HST) WFPC imaging, was used to characterize the central regions of the Seyfert 1 radio galaxy 3C 120. We carried out the analysis of the data, deriving intensity maps of different emission lines and the continua at different wavelengths from the observed spectra

We report on spectropolarimetric observations of Hα in prominences made with the Télescope Héliographique pour l'Etude du Magnétisme et des Instabilités Solaires and the High Altitude Observatory/Advanced Stokes Polarimeter. Stokes Q and U show the expected profile shape from resonance scattering polarization and the Hanle effect. In contrast, most

We present the single stellar population (SSP) synthesis results of our new synthetic stellar atmosphere models library with a spectral sampling of 0.3 Å, covering the wavelength range from 3000 to 7000 Åfor a wide range of metallicities (twice solar, solar, half solar and 1/10 solar). The stellar library is composed of 1650 spectra computed with

Two authors, P. T. Boyd and M. Still, were inadvertently left off the author list in our original paper. We apologize for the omission.

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