FRIDA (InFRared Imager and Dissector for the Adaptive optics system of GTC) is a near infrared, diffraction limited imager and integral field spectrograph that has been designed and is being built as a collaborative project between GTC partner institutions from México, Spain and the USA. FRIDA will operate with the adaptive optics system of GTC

Massive stars are crucial to understand the chemical and dynamical evolution of the Universe. Our knowledge of their physics at sub-SMC metallicities, dominant in the early Universe, is still in its infancy, due to the lack of proper observations and analyses. We have started a programme to observe stars in nearby galaxies with metallicities below

The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ) is a new astronomical facility located at the Sierra de Javalambre (Teruel, Spain) whose primary role will be to conduct all-sky astronomical surveys. The main OAJ facilities are two wide-field telescopes: the JST/T250, a 2.55 m telescope with a 3° diameter FoV, and the JAST/T80, a 0.83 m telescope

Since 2006, the European Near Earth Asteroids Research (EURONEAR) project has been contributing to the research of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) within a European network. One of the main aims is the amelioration of the orbits of NEAs, and starting in 2014 February we focus on the recovery of one-opposition NEAs using the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT)

We investigate the light-element behavior of red giant stars in northern globular clusters (GCs) observed by the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment. We derive abundances of 9 elements (Fe, C, N, O, Mg, Al, Si, Ca, and Ti) for 428 red giant stars in 10 GCs. The intrinsic abundance range relative to measurement errors is

We present models that predict spectra of old- and intermediate-aged stellar populations at 2.51 Å (FWHM) with varying [α/Fe] abundance. The models are based on the MILES library and on corrections from theoretical stellar spectra. The models employ recent [Mg/Fe] determinations for the MILES stars and BaSTI scaled-solar and α-enhanced isochrones