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The Ernst Patzer Foundation is awarding the best refereed publications by young researchers at MPIA and ZAH. This year, Brooke Polak (ITA) and Jose Eduardo Mendez-Delgado (ARI) are among the awardees. (2024/11/30)

Dr. Dominika Wylezalek, Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leader at ZAH/ARI, received the Hengstberger Award 2024. The award will support Dr. Wylezalek in organising a scientific symposium at the IWH in 2025. (2024/10/19)

The Landessternwarte Königstuhl (LSW) mourns the loss of Dr. Gerhard Klare, who died on July 24, 2024 at the age of 92. (2024/07/25)

Since July 1, 2024, Prof. Dr. Joachim Wambsganss (ZAH/ARI) is director of ZAH. He succeeds Prof. Dr. Norbert Christlieb, who was director since July 1, 2021 and who is now ZAH deputy director. (2024/07/01)

The Young Academy welcomed ten young scientists as new members, amongst them Dominika Wylezalek (ZAH/ARI). New members have the opportunity to e.g. initiate interdisciplinary research projects and working groups. (2024/06/24)

German Research Foundation and Foundation for Polish Science jointly honour Heidelberg scientist and his colleague Andrzej Udalski from Warsaw. (2024/05/22)


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ASTROPHYSICS CURRICULUM
Astro & Physics Talks
Next Astro colloquia
Dec 10
16:30
Cosmic rays in the interstellar medium and their dynamical impact on galaxy evolution
PD Dr. Philipp Girichidis (Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik, Heidelberg)
Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium
Philosophenweg 12, Main Lecture hall (gHS)
Dec 12
11:15
The atmospheres of Blue Supergiants
Matheus Bernini-Peron (ARI)
ARI Institute Colloquium
ARI, Moenchhofstrasse 12-14, Seminarraum 1.OG
Dec 13
11:00
TBA
Paul Mollière (MPIA)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)

Recent ZAH publications
11/2024
Kaur, Simranpreet; Viganò, Daniele et al. (inc. Quirrenbach, Andreas)
Hints of auroral and magnetospheric polarized radio emission from the scallop-shell star 2MASS J05082729–2101444
A&A 691, L17(2024)

12/2024
Brandner, Wolfgang; Sorg, Artur; Röser, Siegfried; Schilbach, Elena
The Radiative–Convective Gap: Fact or Fiction?
AJ 168, 282(2024)

12/2024
Parmentier, Geneviève
Cracking the Relation between Mass and 1P-star Fraction of Globular Clusters. II. The Masses in 1P and 2P Stars as a Second Tool
ApJ 976, 191(2024)