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Dominika Wylezalek has been appointed as a new Professor at ZAH and Director at ARI, effective March 1, 2025. She will lead the research group “Galaxy Evolution and AGN (GALENA)”. (2025/02/24)

With its sky-scanning phase completed and "retirement” orbit imminent, the ARI team is saddened by the forced break in contact. But there are great data products on the horizon. (2025/01/16)

Prof. Dr. Michela Mapelli (ZAH/ITA) has been appointed to the "Henriette Herz Scouting Program". She now has the opportunity to recommend scientific talents from abroad for a Humboldt Research Fellowship in Heidelberg. (2025/01/08)

To investigate the formation of dormant black holes which are part of a binary star system with a companion star, Prof. Dr. Michela Mapelli (ZAH/ITA) receives a research grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG). (2025/01/07)

Eva Grebel (ZAH) received the teaching award from the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Heidelberg University. (2024/12/06)

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)


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ASTROPHYSICS CURRICULUM
Astro & Physics Talks
Next Astro colloquia
Apr 17
11:15
Vision for the new professorship for extragalactic astrophysics at ARI
Dominika Wylezalek (ARI)
ARI Institute Colloquium
ARI, Moenchhofstrasse 12-14, Seminarraum 1.OG
Apr 24
11:15
CONs: New Perspectives on the HiddenLives of Galaxy Nuclei
Jay Gallagher (University of Wisconsin-Madison and Macalester College)
ARI Institute Colloquium
ARI, Moenchhofstrasse 12-14, Seminarraum 1.OG
Apr 25
11:00
JWST Debris Disks: Transforming our Understanding of Exoplanetary Systems
Christine Chen (STScI)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)

Recent ZAH publications
4/2025
Fisher, Deanne B.; Bolatto, Alberto D. et al. (inc. Klessen, Ralf S.; Glover, Simon C. O.)
JWST observations of starbursts: cold clouds and plumes launching in the M 82 outflow
MNRAS 538, 3068(2025)

4/2025
Zhang, Shuo; Zhang, Hua-Wei et al. (inc. Homeier, Derek)
Half a Million M Dwarf Stars Characterized Using Domain-adapted Spectral Analysis
ApJS 277, 47(2025)

4/2025
Petit, Q.; Ducourant, C. et al. (inc. Wambsganss, J.)
Gaia GraL: Gaia gravitational lens systems: IX. Using XGBoost to explore the Gaia Focused Product Release GravLens catalogue
A&A 696, A51(2025)