Together with other observational methods, visible and near infra-red polarimetry can help to understand the morphology of magnetic fields in the neighborhood of several star-forming regions. Inside molecular clouds, this morphology can be deduced with the help of submm polarimetry but rarely in the same regions. When both observational methods are

We describe new methods of analysis that have been developed in order to make optimal use of the stellar spectral data obtained during the course of follow-up medium-resolution observations of color-selected stars from the ``Century Survey.'' The initial selection of stars in the stellar component of the Century Survey is based on broadband V and R

Observations show that propagating magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere. The technique of MHD seismology uses the wave observations combined with MHD wave theory to indirectly infer physical parameters of the solar atmospheric plasma and magnetic field. Here, we present an analytical seismological inversion scheme

The anisotropy in the angular distribution of the fusion-fission and quasifission fragments for the 16O + 238U , 19F + 208Pb and 32S + 208Pb reactions is studied by analyzing the angular-momentum distributions of the dinuclear system and compound nucleus which are formed after capture and complete fusion, respectively. The orientation angles of the

This paper presents a detailed description, analysis, and interpretation of the spectropolarimetric observations recently reported by Socas-Navarro, Trujillo Bueno, & Ruiz Cobo. These observations consist of time series of Stokes I and V profiles above a sunspot umbra. The spectral lines observed simultaneously are the Ca II chromospheric lines at

APOGEE is a large-scale, NIR, high-resolution (R˜ 20 000) spectroscopic survey of Galactic stars. It is one of the four experiments in SDSS-III. Because APOGEE will observe in the H band, where the extinction is six times smaller than in V, it will be the first survey to pierce through Galactic dust and provide a vast, uniform database of chemical