A sounding-rocket program called the Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha Spectro-Polarimeter (CLASP) is proposed to be launched in the summer of 2014. CLASP will observe the solar chromosphere in Ly-alpha (121.567 nm), aiming to detect the linear polarization signal produced by scattering processes and the Hanle effect for the first time. The polarimeter of

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The technique and some preliminary results about the study of the luminosity function (LF) of Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs) through gravitational lensing (GL) is presented. Clusters of galaxies, with suitably modeled gravitational lenses are observed using the tunable filters (TF) of the instrument OSIRIS at the GTC. The combination of these natural

A big challenge in solar and stellar physics in the coming years will be to decipher the magnetism of the solar outer atmosphere (chromosphere and corona) along with its dynamic coupling with the magnetic fields of the underlying photosphere. To this end, it is important to develop rigorous diagnostic tools for the physical interpretation of

In this paper, we present deep high-quality photometry of globular cluster systems (GCSs) belonging to five early-type galaxies, covering a range of mass and environment. Photometric data were obtained with the Gemini North and Gemini South telescopes in the filter passbands g', r' and i'. The combination of these filters with good seeing

FK Com (G5 III) is an ultrafast-rotating single yellow giant. It is the eponymous member of its class, and is suspected to have been a coalesced binary that has spun up. Here we present preliminary results from a multi-wavelength campaign we have carried out in April-May 2011. We observe the corona with X-rays with the high-resolution HETG