Context. Over the past decade, 3D optical spectroscopy has become the preferred tool for understanding the properties of galaxies and is now increasingly used to carry out galaxy surveys. Low redshift surveys include SAURON, DiskMass, ATLAS3D, PINGS, and VENGA. At redshifts above 0.7, surveys such as MASSIV, SINS, GLACE, and IMAGES have targeted

We study the clustering of galaxies, as a function of their colour, from Data Release Ten (DR10) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. DR10 contains 540 505 galaxies with 0.43 z 0.7; from these we select 122 967 for a `Blue' sample and 131 969 for a `Red' sample based on k + e corrected (to z = 0

I will present an overview of the 100+ previously unidentified Be stars discovered during the APOGEE survey. I will particularly focus on the new highly-magnetized Rigidly Rotating Magnetosphere (RRM) stars of the Sigma Orionis E type we have found. Both of the discovered stars show the spectroscopic signatures of the rigidly rotating

The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) of Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) will be providing high quality (R ˜ 22,500 and a typical S/N > 100) near-infrared spectra for ~100,000, predominantly cool stars (mostly giant stars). In principle these spectra can be used to ascertain the stellar atmospheric parameters

We report on early pilot program results and progress made in the Survey of the Magellanic Stellar History (SMASH). SMASH is an NOAO community survey that is using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) to map a 2400 deg^2 area (at 20% filling factor, or 480 deg^2 total) of the Magellanic Clouds and their periphery in ugriz. With depths of gri 24 and 23

Context. So far, surface magnetic fields have never been detected on Mira stars. Only recently have the spectropolarimetric capabilities of measuring it via the Zeeman effect become available to us. Then, to complete the knowledge of the magnetic field and of its influence during the transition from asymptotic giant branch to planetary nebulae