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ALMA provides unprecedented views of the birth of planets

The first survey of protoplanetary disks using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) revealed unknown structures which likely are the sites for planets to be formed. ZAH is one of the leading partners of the campaign. (12.12.2018)

CARMENES detects loss of exoplanet atmosphere

CARMENES detects atmospheric loss of helium from exoplanet WASP-69b in the form of an extended comet-like tail. (6.12.2018)

Two ZAH students among winners of 2018 Patzer Award

Each year the Ernst Patzer Foundation is awarding three of the best refereed publications by PhD students and young postdocs at MPIA and ZAH. In 2018, Michael Hanke (ZAH/ARI) and Dr. Mattia Sormani (ZAH/ITA) are among the awardees. (30.11.2018)

Funding for CRC 881 “The Milky Way System” continued

Funding has been continued for CRC 881 "The Milky Way System” with approx. 9.4 million euros reaching its third and final funding period from 2019-2022. (26.11.2018)

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Colloquia at ZAH
Jan 22
16:15		 -- NO COLLOQUIUM --
(speaker got ill) (...)
Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium
Philosophenweg 12, Großer Hörsaal
Jan 23
15:15		 UVIT- HST- Gaia-VISTA study of star cluster Kron 3 in the Small Magellanic Cloud: A cluster with a large spread in metallicity
Prasanta Kumar Nayak (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)
SFB Seminar - The Milky Way System
ARI seminar room basement, video broadcast to HITS, LSW, MPIA
Jan 23
16:00		 Hunting abundance spreads in globular clusters of the LMC
Andreas Koch (ARI/ZAH)
SFB Seminar - The Milky Way System
ARI seminar room basement, video broadcast to HITS, LSW, MPIA

Recent publications
2/2019
Gentile Fusillo, Nicola Pietro; Tremblay, Pier-Emmanuel et al. (inc. Jordan, Stefan)
A Gaia Data Release 2 catalogue of white dwarfs and a comparison with SDSS
MNRAS 482, 4570(2019)

2/2019
Rastello, S.; Amaro-Seoane, P. et al. (inc. Arca-Sedda, M.)
Stellar black hole binary mergers in open clusters
MNRAS 483, 1233(2019)

1/2019
Sonoi, T.; Ludwig, H. -G. et al.
Calibration of mixing-length parameter α for MLT and FST models by matching with CO5BOLD models
A&A 621, A84(2019)