The ARENA consortium proposes the construction and operation of a 2 meter class telescope at Dôme C dedicated to wide field imaging, and driven by major astrophysical key projects. We present here the foreseen contribution of the Observatoire de Lyon, concerning the data management and the databases.

We describe a scenario for the topology of the magnetic field in penumbrae that accounts for recent observations showing upflows, downflows, and reverse magnetic polarities. According to our conjecture, short narrow magnetic loops fill the penumbral photosphere. Flows along these arched field lines are responsible for both the Evershed effect and

Here we present the methodology we have devised to study the spatial distribution of Massive Star Formation in galaxies. We show results of our analysis performed on a sample of 4,503 galaxies in a range of redshifts extending up to z˜1.2, in the Chandra Deep Field South. We use data from GOODS-HST and COMBO17. The aim is to produce techniques

The purpose of this work is to quantify the ionizing photon budget in the HII regions, deriving the fraction of the Lyman continuum (Lyc) absorbed by dust or escaping from the regions. An underlying aim is to explore the degree of inhomogeneity of a typical HII region.

Within the hierarchical framework for galaxy formation, merging and tidal interactions are expected to shape large galaxies to this day. While major mergers are quite rare at present, minor mergers and satellite disruptions-which result in stellar streams-should be common, and are indeed seen in both the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy. As a

We study a sample of 20 galaxies with an observed central drop in the stellar velocity dispersion (σ-drop) matched with a control sample of galaxies without a σ-drop. We search for correlations between σ-drops and the properties, primarily morphological, of the inner zones and discs of their host galaxies. Both morphological parameters and