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Scientific activities at the Landessternwarte

The ongoing projects are described in the following pages. Further information is available on the home pages of individual users. Older annual reports can be found here.

General astrophysics

• Time Resolved Astrophysics
• Very High Energy (VHE) Astrophysics
• Heidelberg Plate Archive

Extragalactic astrophysics

• The Fors Deep Field (FDF) project
• EC-TMR project on Quasar Variability: ENIGMA
• Multifrequency Studies of Blazar Variability
• Emission Lines of AGN
• Hot Spots in Radio Galaxies
• Active Galaxies at high redshift

Stellar astrophysics

• Extrasolar planets
• Hot stars
• Metal-poor stars

Instrumentation

• Carmenes- Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exoearths with Near-infrared and optical Échelle Spectrographs
• Large Binocular Telescope
• LUCI - A Near-Infrared Camera & Spectrograph for the LBT (MPE page)
• 4MOST - 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope
• NAIR - Novel Astronomical Instrumentation through Photonic Reformatting
• HESS Phase 2
• ATOM: Automatic Telescope for Optical Monitoring
• SOLSPEC

Completed projects

• FORS: official homepage at ESO, archive page at LSW
• FEROS
• HEROS
• Dissertation list

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