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The boundary between professional and amateur astronomers gets narrower and narrower. We present several real examples, most of them published in refereed journals, of works resulting from fruitful collaborations between key amateur astronomers in Spain and professional colleagues. The common denominator of these works is the search for binaries, mostly nearby, wide, common proper-motion pairs with low-mass stellar components, including some of the most fragile systems ever found.
We present an analysis of K2 light curves (LCs) from Campaigns 4 and 13 for members of the young ($sim$3 Myr) Taurus association, in addition to an older ($sim$30 Myr) population of stars that is largely in the foreground of the Taurus molecular clou
The origin of very low-mass stars (VLMS) and brown dwarfs (BDs) is still an unresolved topic of star formation. We here present numerical simulations of the formation of VLMS, BDs, and planet mass objects (planemos) resulting from the gravitational c
We measured the radii of 7 low and very low-mass stars using long baseline interferometry with the VLTI interferometer and its VINCI and AMBER near-infrared recombiners. We use these new data, together with literature measurements, to examine the lum
Determining the metal content of low-mass members of young associations provides a tool that addresses different issues, such as triggered star formation or the link between the metal-rich nature of planet-host stars and the early phases of planet fo
Recent theoretical studies suggest the existence of low-mass zero-metal stars in the current universe. In order to study the basic properties of the atmosphere of low-mass first stars, we performed one dimensional magnetohydrodynamical simulations fo