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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)

Galaxienfusion und neue Erden

Symposium 2019 der Hector Fellow Academy am Donnerstag, 11. Juli 2019, mit Vorträgen von Hector Fellow Prof. Dr. Eva Grebel und Prof. Dr. Joachim Wambsganß. Durch das Programm führt Prof. Dr. Harald Lesch. (9.07.2019)

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Astro & Physics talks

Heidelberg Physics Seminar and Talks Organizer (HePhysTo)

Colloquia at ZAH
Nov 21
11:15		 Next-generation stellar atmosphere models: From understanding spectra to creating a virtual laboratory
Andreas Sander (Armagh Observatory)
ARI Institute Kolloquium
Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Mönchhofstraße 12-14, Seminarraum 1
Nov 22
15:00		 Tracing early nucleosynthesis in-/directly in the Universe
Camilla Hansen (MPIA)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)
Nov 26
16:30		 The Galactic Halo Renaissance
Alis Deason (Durham University)
Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium
Philosophenweg 12, großer Hörsaal

Recent publications
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)

11/2019
Ho, I. -Ting; Kreckel, Kathryn et al. (inc. Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik; Glover, Simon C. O.)
Mapping Electron Temperature Variations across a Spiral Arm in NGC 1672
ApJ 885, L31(2019)

12/2019
Spurio Mancini, A.; Köhlinger, F. et al. (inc. Reischke, R.; Schäfer, B. M.)
KiDS + GAMA: constraints on horndeski gravity from combined large-scale structure probes
MNRAS 490, 2155(2019)