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The 2023 MERAC Prize for the Best Early Career Researcher is awarded to Dylan Nelson (ZAH/ITA) for his leading role in computational astrophysics. (2023/04/05)

The 2023 MERAC Prize for the Best Early Career Researcher is awarded to Dominika Wylezalek (ZAH/ARI) for her studies of supermassive black holes. (2023/04/05)

The new “Ute and Roland Wielen Foundation Fund” shall support science, research and teaching at Heidelberg University, primarily at ARI and ITA. (2023/03/16)

Heading Heidelberg University in future will be molecular biologist Prof. Dr Frauke Melchior. She will take up her new office as of 1 October this year. (2023/03/09)

Data obtained within five years with the eponymous spectrograph at Calar-Alto Observatory have already led to the discovery of 59 partly habitable new exoplanets. (2023/02/22)

Using Webb's image clarity at infrared wavelengths, scientists discover missing pieces of the star formation puzzle. Their findings are now published in a collection of research papers, also with first authors from ZAH. (2023/02/16)


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Next Astro colloquia
May 30
16:00
How to grow a galactic disk (or two)
Professor Florent Renaud (Lund Observatory, Sweden)
Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium
Philosophenweg 12, Main Lecture Theatre (gHS)
Jun 01
11:15
Temperature inhomogeneities cause the abundance discrepancy in H II regions
Jose Eduardo Mendez Delgado (ARI)
ARI Institute Colloquium
ARI, Moenchhofstrasse 12-14, Seminarraum 1.OG
Jun 02
11:00
TBD
José Eduardo Méndez Delgado (ARI)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)

Astro & Physics talks in HD

Heidelberg Physics Seminar and Talks Organizer (HePhysTo)

Recent ZAH publications
7/2023
Engler, Christoph; Pillepich, Annalisa et al. (inc. Grebel, Eva K.; Nelson, Dylan; Pasquali, Anna)
Satellites of Milky Way- and M31-like galaxies with TNG50: quenched fractions, gas content, and star formation histories
MNRAS 522, 5946(2023)

6/2023
Dutta, Rajeshwari; Fossati, Matteo et al. (inc. Nelson, Dylan)
Metal line emission from galaxy haloes at z ≈ 1
MNRAS 522, 535(2023)

7/2023
Pasquini, L.; Pala, A. F. et al. (inc. Ludwig, H. -G.)
Accurate mass-radius ratios for Hyades white dwarfs
MNRAS 522, 3710(2023)