Listed are the [Mg/Fe], [Ca/Fe], [Ti/Fe] and [Si/Fe] abundance ratios for 650 K giants in four fields of the Galactic Bulge. Abundances were measured using standard 1D local thermodynamic equilibrium MARCS models and spectral synthesis using MOOG. The list also includes the metallicities [Fe/H] presented in Zoccali et al. (2008, Cat. J/A+A/486/177)

A team consisting of Japan, USA, Spain, and Norway is developing a high-throughput Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha SpectroPolarimeter (CLASP), which is proposed to fly with a NASA sounding rocket in 2014. CLASP will explore the magnetism of the upper solar chromosphere and transition region via the Hanle effect of the Lyα line for the first time. This

Context. Luminous and ultraluminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs and ULIRGs) are much more numerous at higher redshifts than locally, dominating the star-formation rate density at redshifts ~1-2. Therefore, they are important objects in order to understand how galaxies form and evolve through cosmic time. Local samples provide a unique opportunity to

If thick disks are ubiquitous and a natural product of disk galaxy formation and/or evolution processes, all undisturbed galaxies that have evolved during a significant fraction of a Hubble time should have a thick disk. The late-type spiral galaxy NGC 4244 has been reported as the only nearby edge-on galaxy without a confirmed thick disk. Using

We derive the size and temperature profile of the accretion disk of the lensed quasar SBS 0909+532 by measuring the wavelength dependence (chromaticity) of the microlensing magnification produced by the stars in the lens galaxy. After correcting for extinction using the flux ratios of 14 emission lines, we observe a marked change in the B-A flux

We present a method for the determination of [α/Fe] ratios from low-resolution (R = 2000) SDSS/SEGUE stellar spectra. By means of a star-by-star comparison with degraded spectra from the ELODIE spectral library and with a set of moderately high-resolution (R = 15, 000) and medium-resolution (R = 6000) spectra of SDSS/SEGUE stars, we demonstrate