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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
Jun 15
16:00		Ultra-diffuse galaxies and their implications for galaxy formation and evolution
Prof. Pieter van Dokkum (Yale University)
Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium
Zoom, Zoom
Jun 17
11:15		Superbubbles, stellar feedback and triggering of star formation in nearby galaxies
Oleg Egorov (ARI)
ARI Institute Colloquium
ARI, Moenchhofstrasse 12-14, Seminarraum 1, 1.OG
Jun 18
15:00		Unveiling the Architectures of Planetary Systems Across the Stellar Mass Spectrum
Martin Schlecker (MPIA)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)

more colloquia ...

Recent publications
6/2021
Anand, Abhijeet; Nelson, Dylan et al.
Characterizing the abundance, properties, and kinematics of the cool circumgalactic medium of galaxies in absorption with SDSS DR16
MNRAS 504, 65(2021)

7/2021
den Brok, J. S.; Chatzigiannakis, D. et al. (inc. Kruijssen, J. M. D.)
New constraints on the 12CO(2-1)/(1-0) line ratio across nearby disc galaxies
MNRAS 504, 3221(2021)

7/2021
Vayner, Andrey; Zakamska, Nadia L. et al. (inc. Wylezalek, Dominika)
Powerful winds in high-redshift obscured and red quasars
MNRAS 504, 4445(2021)

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