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Patzer Award for Elisa Schösser (ZAH/ARI)

The Ernst Patzer Foundation annually awards prizes for the best peer-reviewed publications by young researchers at MPIA and ZAH. This year, Elisa Schösser (ZAH/ARI) is one of the three prize winners. (2025/10/31)

New Gliese Fellow 2025: Dr. Natalia Lahén

Dr. Natalia Lahén started her new position as Gliese Fellow 2025 at ARI. Her main research interests focus on hydrodynamical simulations of the formation and evolution of stars and star clusters in a galactic ecosystem. (2025/10/01)

Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung fördert neue Forschungsgruppe am ZAH

Mit seiner neuen Forschungsgruppe verfolgt Dr. Ksoll das Ziel, auf Basis des Maschinellen Lernens Auswertungsalgorithmen für die Erforschung der Sternentstehung zu entwickeln. Die CTS fördert sein Vorhaben mit 1,8 Millionen Euro. (2025/09/23)

LSWs optical systems design for CUBES passed final review

The Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph (CUBES), a future instrument for ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), has successfully passed its final design review. LSW is responsible for the design and development of its optical system. (2025/08/08)

The Thousand Colour Map of Sculptor

Astronomers created the most detailed colour map of the Sculptor Galaxy - a technical and scientific triumph also featuring Heidelberg expertise. (2025/07/14)

New ZAH Director: Ralf Klessen

Since July 1, Prof. Dr. Ralf Klessen (ZAH/ITA) is managing director of ZAH. He succeeds Prof. Dr. Joachim Wambsganss. As deputy director the ZAH board elected Prof. Dr. Dominika Wylezalek (ZAH/ARI). (2025/07/01)

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ASTROPHYSICS CURRICULUM

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Astro & Physics Talks

HePhySTO – HEidelberg PHYsics Seminar Talks Organizer ►►►►

Guest scientists at ZAH
Next Astro colloquia
Nov 11
16:30		Origin of supermassive black holes from dense star clusters: Implications for the Local Universe and for JWST
Dominik Schleicher (Sapienza University of Rome)
Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium
Philosophenweg 12, Main Lecture hall (gHS),
Nov 13
11:15		The power of asteroseismology: the internal structure of stars
Saskia Hekker (HITS/LSW)
ARI Institute Colloquium
ARI, Moenchhofstrasse 12-14, Seminarraum 1.OG
Nov 14
11:00		TBA
Farzana Meru
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)

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Recent ZAH publications
10/2025
Sankar, Swetha; Zakamska, Nadia L. et al. (u.a. Bertemes, Caroline; Wylezalek, Dominika)
JWST Q3D Program: Active Galactic Nucleus Photoionization and Shock Ionization in a Red Quasar at z = 0.4
ApJ 991, 227(2025)

10/2025
Rinaldi, Stefano; Liang, Yajie et al. (u.a. Mapelli, Michela)
Exploration of features in the black hole mass spectrum inspired by non-parametric analyses of gravitational wave observations
A&A 702, A52(2025)

10/2025
Dehnen, Walter
The gravitational potential of spiral perturbations: I. The 2D (razor-thin) case
A&A 702, A192(2025)

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