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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
May 06
16:30
New Tricks for the Analysis of Stellar Spectra
Carlos Allende Prieto (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) )
Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium
Philosophenweg 12, Main Lecture hall (gHS),
May 08
11:15
Improving the Milky Way star cluster census with Gaia and machine learning
Emily Hunt (MPIA)
ARI Institute Colloquium
ARI, Moenchhofstrasse 12-14, Seminarraum 1.OG
May 09
11:00
TBA
Oscar Carrion-Gonzalez (MPIA)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)

Recent ZAH publications
4/2025
Stuber, Sophia K.; Pety, Jerome et al. (inc. Klessen, Ralf S.)
Surveying the Whirlpool at Arcseconds with NOEMA (SWAN): II. Survey design and observations
A&A 696, A182(2025)

4/2025
Rodríguez, M. Jimena; Lee, Janice C. et al. (inc. Klessen, Ralf S.)
Tracing the Earliest Stages of Star and Cluster Formation in 19 Nearby Galaxies with PHANGS-JWST and HST: Compact 3.3 μm Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emitters and Their Relation to the Optical Census of Star Clusters
ApJ 983, 137(2025)

4/2025
Lapi, Andrea; Haridasu, Balakrishna S. et al. (inc. Boco, Lumen)
Little ado about everything. Part II. An 'emergent' dark energy from structure formation to rule cosmic tensions
JCAP 04, 015(2025)