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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 13
11:00
characterizing clouds and weather in exoplanet atmospheres
Paul Mollière (MPIA) : From photons to storms
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)
Dec 17
16:30
The beating hearts of galaxies: supermassive black hole feedback probed by X-ray spectroscopy
Dr Aurora Simionescu (SRON Leiden)
Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium
Philosophenweg 12, Main Lecture hall (gHS)
Dec 19
11:15
Gustav Kirchhoff – Founder of Astrophysics
Joachim Wambsganss (ARI)
ARI Institute Colloquium
ARI, Moenchhofstrasse 12-14, Seminarraum 1.OG

Recent ZAH publications
12/2024
Lim, Dongwook; Chun, Sang-Hyun et al. (inc. Koch-Hansen, Andreas J.)
Two stellar populations with different metallicities in the low-mass globular cluster Gran 5
A&A 692, A14(2024)

12/2024
Ramachandran, V.; Sander, A. A. C. et al. (inc. Bernini-Peron, M.)
X-Shooting ULLYSES: Massive stars at low metallicity: VIII. Stellar and wind parameters of newly revealed stripped stars in Be binaries
A&A 692, A90(2024)

12/2024
Pillepich, Annalisa; Sotillo-Ramos, Diego et al. (inc. Nelson, Dylan; Ramesh, Rahul)
Milky Way and Andromeda analogues from the TNG50 simulation
MNRAS 535, 1721(2024)