Observations of the Local Arm have been carried out in the near-infrared with the 1.5 m ``Carlos Sanchez'' telescope in Tenerife. A model of the disc with adjustable parameters fitted to reproduce the DIRBE-COBE survey, has been subtracted from the observational data in order to obtain a clean map of the Local Arm, uncontaminated by other

The blazar 3C 279, one of the brightest identified extragalactic objects in the gamma -ray sky, underwent a large (factor of ~10 in amplitude) flare in gamma -rays toward the end of a 3 week pointing by Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), in 1996 January-February. The flare peak represents the highest gamma -ray intensity ever recorded for this

Since its discovery in 1992, the superluminal X-ray transient GRS 1915+105 has been extensively observed in an attempt to understand its behavior. We present here first results from a multiwavelength campaign undertaken from 1996 July to September. This study includes X-ray data from the RXTE All Sky Monitor and BATSE, two-frequency data from the

La tesis presenta los resultados del experimento Bartol-IAC sobre medidas de la anisotropía en el Fondo Cósmico de Microondas. Estas observaciones se realizaron en los meses de Junio y Julio de 1994 en el Observatorio del Teide. Se observó la región del cielo a delta=+40 grados en cuatro bandas a lamda=3,3; 2,1; 1,3 y 1,1 mm. En la tesis e han

El conocimiento de la distribución y evolución de los campos de velocidades a gran escala en la zona de convección solar es una de las claves para la comprensión tanto de los mecanismos de transporte energético, que en esta zona son principalmente convectivos, como de los fenómenos magnéticos allí presentes: actividad, dinamo solar, etc. En este

We have used the TAURUS Fabry-Perot mapping spectrometer on the WHT to produce a complete kinematic map of the disc of M100 in H-alpha. Here we show how the internal velocity dispersion of the principal emission components of the brightest regions varies with their H-alpha luminosity. The plot shows ample scatter, but an upper envelope in the