The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are unique local laboratories for studying the formation and evolution of small galaxies in exquisite detail. The Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History (SMASH) is an NOAO community Dark Energy Camera (DECam) survey of the Clouds mapping 480 deg2 (distributed over ∼2400 square degrees at ∼20% filling factor)

Coronal jets represent important manifestations of ubiquitous solar transients, which may be the source of significant mass and energy input to the upper solar atmosphere and the solar wind. While the energy involved in a jet-like event is smaller than that of "nominal" solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), jets share many common

Aims: The purpose of this paper is to characterize the statistical properties of solar granulation in the photosphere and low chromosphere up to 650 km. Methods: We use velocity and intensity variations obtained at different atmospheric heights from observations in Ba II 4554 Å. The observations were done during good seeing conditions at the VTT at

The magnetic field observed in the photosphere and at higher levels of the solar atmosphere is generated in the convective envelope that extends along the first 200 000 km below the solar surface (see DYNAMOS: SOLAR AND STELLAR and SOLAR INTERIOR). To properly understand the solar magnetic cycle, it is necessary to explain the processes whereby the

This book is a collection of papers by four internationally known speakers who explore some key areas in solar physics. O. von der Lühe discusses new techniques that are being developed for observing the sun at high spatial resolution and which have played a key role in most of the recent discoveries about the Sun. Egidio Landi Degl'Innocenti

Potassium line data from observatories in Hawaii and Spain were used to establish the authenticity of complex solar oscillation signals. Combination of the two data sets yields precise frequency, amplitude and phase determinations. Analyses of individual lines indicate possible decay and excitation of individual modes and suggest lifetimes for the