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Covid-19 related situation at ZAH

Operations at ZAH premises are still restricted. Buildings are closed for the public. Please contact individuals via Phone or Email listed HERE or get in contact with our Central Institute Management. For university related news see HERE. (2021/01/12)

Zooming into the Monsters Mouth

Wuji Wang (ZAH/ARI) is the first Heidelberg doctoral student to receive observation time at the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). (2021/04/20)

CARMENES helped in finding exoplanet proxy atmosphere

The new super-Earth named Gliese 486b with a planetary atmosphere will help testing methods of studying exoplanet atmospheres. The CARMENES instrument, partly constructed and operated by LSW, was decisively involved. (2021/03/05)

Turbulence simulation breaks records

A team led by C. Federrath (ANU) and R. Klessen (ZAH) has carried out the highest-resolution simulations to date to study the transition from turbulence in the supersonic and subsonic range in interstellar gas. (2021/01/11)

Jenny Wagner receives Prize for Courageous Science

With this prize, Baden-Württemberg honors researchers who have left a beaten path and carried on with courage and risk. Jenny Wagner (ZAH/ARI) has done so in the field of gravitational lensing. (2020/12/21)

Saskia Hekker receives ERC Consolidator Grant

Prof. Dr Saskia Hekker receives an ERC Consolidator Grant for excellent young researchers. A total of 2 million euros has been earmarked for funding her research. (2020/12/09)

Diving into the Milky Way’s eye of the storm

Ultra-realistic simulations lift curtains to understanding star formation in the Galaxy’s very heart. (2020/12/07)

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Astro & Physics talks

Heidelberg Physics Seminar and Talks Organizer (HePhysTo)

Colloquia at ZAH
May 11
16:00		Tracing AGN feedback signatures from small to large scales across cosmic time
Dr. Dominika Wylezalek (ZAH, University of Heidelberg)
Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium
Zoom, Zoom
May 14
15:00		TBD
Catherine Zucker (CfA)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)
May 18
16:00		The riddle of binary black hole formation
Prof. Michela Mapelli (INAF Padova)
Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium
Zoom, Zoom

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Recent publications
5/2021
Gaia Collaboration; Antoja, T. et al. (inc. Sagristà Sellés, A.; Juaristi Campillo, J.; del Peloso, E. F.; Balog, Z.; Löffler, W.; Jordan, S.; Altmann, M.; Gracia-Abril, G.; Bastian, U.; Biermann, M.)
Gaia Early Data Release 3. The Galactic anticentre
A&A 649, A8(2021)

5/2021
Lindegren, L.; Bastian, U. et al. (inc. Biermann, M.)
Gaia Early Data Release 3. Parallax bias versus magnitude, colour, and position
A&A 649, A4(2021)

6/2021
Kim, Jaeyeon; Chevance, Mélanie et al. (inc. Ward, Jacob L.; Kreckel, Kathryn; Klessen, Ralf S.; Glover, Simon C. O.; Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik)
On the duration of the embedded phase of star formation
MNRAS 504, 487(2021)

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