ARCETRI ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY

ANNUAL REPORT 1993

OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI

Largo E. Fermi 5
50125 Firenze, Italy

tel. [55] 27521, telex. 572268 ARCETR I, telefax [55] 220039

E-Mail: username@arcetri.astro.it

Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• SUN AND SOLAR SYSTEM PHYSICS
  • Photosphere and chromosphere
  • Corona
  • Cometary Physics

• STELLAR PHYSICS
  • X-ray and EUV emission from stellar coronae
  • Optical spectroscopy and polarimetry
  • Near IR spectroscopy and lunar occultations
  • Non-thermal radio stars

• INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM AND STAR FORMATION
  • Interstellar Medium: theoretical studies
  • Interstellar medium: radio observations
  • Star Formation and Early Stellar Evolution
  • masers and methanol masers

• EXTRAGALACTIC AND HIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS
  • Active Galaxies
  • Nearby active galaxies in the IR
  • Radio galaxies
  • Normal galaxies
  • Diffuse matter in Galaxies
  • Clusters of Galaxies and Large Scale Structure
  • High Energy Astrophysics and Collapsed Compact Objects

• FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICAL PROCESSES: DYNAMICS
• ACTIVITY AT THE GORNERGRAT IR TELESCOPE TIRGO
• INSTRUMENTATION PROJECTS
  • Large Binocular Telescope Project
  • Solar Instrumentation
  • Infrared Instrumentation
  • Radioastronomical Instrumentation
  • Space Instrumentation

• COMPUTING AND DATA ANALYSIS
  • Computing Facilities
  • Software Development and New Services

• EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC