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ZAH NEWS

Stefan Wagner appointed as new Director of H.E.S.S.

Prof. Dr. Stefan Wagner (LSW) appointed as new Direktor of the H.E.S.S. Experiment and as Spokesperson of the H.E.S.S. collaboration. (2019/11/19)

Teaching prize for Anna Pasquali

Dr. Anna Pasquali has received the teaching prize of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. (2019/10/18)

ERC Synergy Grant for Ralf Klessen

International research team with Ralf Klessen studies the Milky Way as a “galactic ecosystem”. The project is being funded with approximately 12.7 million euros. (2019/10/11)

How do the strongest magnets in the universe form?

German-British research team simulates basic conditions for the formation of magnetic stars. (2019/10/10)

Kathryn Kreckel obtains Emmy Noether Research Group

A new Emmy Noether Research Group at ZAH has started working on resolving the baryon cycle in nearby galaxies and is led by Dr Kathryn Kreckel. The German Research Foundation (DFG) has allocated 1.7 mill. euros over six years. (2019/10/01)

CARMENES contributes to confirmation of earth-size planet

The "Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)" detected an exoplanet orbiting the star GJ 357. Analysis of measurements, to which the CARMENES spectrograph has contributed, revealed one further planet inside the habitable zone. (2019/08/01)

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Astro & Physics talks

Heidelberg Physics Seminar and Talks Organizer (HePhysTo)

Colloquia at ZAH
Dec 06
15:00		 Characterizing the formation mechanisms of protostellar disks: observations and models
Anaelle Maury (CEA/Saclay)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)
Dec 10
16:30		 The subsurface ocean of Enceladus: A habitable place in our solar system
Frank Postberg (Freie Universitaet Berlin)
Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium
Philosophenweg 12, großer Hörsaal
Dec 12
11:15		 nn
Jan Rybizki (MPIA)
ARI Institute Kolloquium
Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Mönchhofstraße 12-14, Seminarraum 1

Recent publications
12/2019
Fuhrmeister, B.; Czesla, S. et al. (inc. Kaminski, A.; Quirrenbach, A.)
The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. The He I triplet at 10830 Å across the M dwarf sequence
A&A 632, A24(2019)

1/2020
Winter, Andrew J.; Diederik Kruijssen, J. M. et al. (inc. Keller, Benjamin W.; Chevance, Mélanie)
Prevalent externally driven protoplanetary disc dispersal as a function of the galactic environment
MNRAS 491, 903(2020)

12/2019
Hannon, Stephen; Lee, Janice C. et al. (inc. Grebel, E. K.; Gouliermis, D. A.)
H α morphologies of star clusters: a LEGUS study of H II region evolution time-scales and stochasticity in low-mass clusters
MNRAS 490, 4648(2019)