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New Gliese Fellow 2023: Dr Tadafumi Matsuno

Dr Matsuno will start his position at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut. He mainly studies old, low-metallicity stars in the Milky Way to understand the origin of elements and the formation history of the Milky Way. (2023/09/13)

Symposium on complex interconnections of stellar yields

Dr. Andreas Sander (ZAH/ARI) hosted his inspiring "Hengstberger Symposium" on nucleosynthesis and stellar yields of massive stars at the Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg (IWH) from September 4th to 8th. (2023/09/08)

Dave Rupke new guest professor at ARI

Prof. Dave Rupke (Rhodes College, US) started his visitorship at ARI. His research focuses on galactic winds driven by AGN and star formation activity. He is hosted by Dominika Wylezalek. (2023/09/01)

Ludwig-Biermann-Award for Dr Dominika Wylezalek

The German Astronomical Society honours Dominika Wylezalek (ZAH/ARI) for her research achievements in the field of galaxy and massive black hole evolution. (2023/30/08)

Nicole Reindl holds new DFG Heisenberg position at ZAH

Dr. Reindl is an expert in the physics of hot compact stars. Funded by a DFG Heisenberg grant, she will establish a new research group at ZAH/LSW. (2023/08/17)

125 Jahre Landessternwarte Königstuhl

Am 20. Juni 2023 feierte die Landessterwarte auf dem Königstuhl ihr 125jähriges Gründungsjubiläum mit einem Festakt in der Aula der Neuen Universität. (2023/06/21)

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Next Astro colloquia
Sep 29
11:00		Improving the census of open clusters with Gaia data and machine learning
Emily Hunt (LSW)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)
Sep 29
11:00		Improving the census of open clusters with Gaia data and machine learning
Emily Hunt (LSW)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)
Oct 06
11:00		TBA
Mariska Kriek
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)

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Astro & Physics talks in HD

Heidelberg Physics Seminar and Talks Organizer (HePhysTo)

Recent ZAH publications
10/2023
Dawoodbhoy, Taha; Shapiro, Paul R. et al. (inc. Lewis, Joseph S. W.)
Cosmic variance and the inhomogeneous UV luminosity function of galaxies during reionization
MNRAS 524, 6231(2023)

11/2023
Mushtaq, Muzammil; Ceverino, Daniel et al. (inc. Reissl, Stefan; Klessen, Ralf S.)
Dust attenuation in galaxies at cosmic dawn from the FirstLight simulations
MNRAS 525, 4976(2023)

10/2023
Mosenkov, Aleksandr V.; Rich, R. Michael et al. (inc. Koch-Hansen, Andreas J.)
The haloes and environments of nearby galaxies (HERON) - III. A 45-kpc spiral structure in the GLSB galaxy UGC 4599
MNRAS 525, 3016(2023)

more publications ...