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Dominika Wylezalek neue Professorin am ZAH / ARI

Dominika Wylezalek wurde zum 1. März 2025 zur neuen Professorin am ZAH und Direktorin am ARI ernannt. Dort wird sie die Forschungsgruppe „Galaxy Evolution and AGN (GALENA)“ leiten. (2025/02/24)

Last starlight for Gaia

With its sky-scanning phase completed and "retirement” orbit imminent, the ARI team is saddened by the forced break in contact. But there are great data products on the horizon. (2025/01/16)

Michela Mapelli appointed Humboldt Scouting Sponsor

Prof. Dr. Michela Mapelli (ZAH/ITA) has been appointed to the "Henriette Herz Scouting Program". She now has the opportunity to recommend scientific talents from abroad for a Humboldt Research Fellowship in Heidelberg. (2025/01/08)

DoBlack: Unraveling the zoo of dormant black holes

To investigate the formation of dormant black holes which are part of a binary star system with a companion star, Prof. Dr. Michela Mapelli (ZAH/ITA) receives a research grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG). (2025/01/07)

Teaching award for Eva Grebel

Eva Grebel (ZAH) received the teaching award from the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Heidelberg University. (2024/12/06)

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Patzer Award for Brooke Polak (ITA) and Jose Eduardo Mendez-Delgado (ARI)

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)

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ASTROPHYSICS CURRICULUM

Summer Term 2025 ►►►►

Astro & Physics Talks

HePhySTO – HEidelberg PHYsics Seminar Talks Organizer ►►►►

Next Astro colloquia
Apr 29
16:30		The build-up of galactic nuclei: how do black holes get there?
Nadine Neumayer (MPIA)
Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium
Philosophenweg 12, Main Lecture hall (gHS),
May 02
11:00		TBA
Julia Seidel (ESO)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)
May 02
11:00		TBA
Alexander Plavin (BHI, Harward)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)

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Recent ZAH publications
4/2025
Müller, Jonas; Coppée, Quentin; Hekker, Saskia
Oscillations of red giant stars with magnetic damping in the core: I. Dissipation of mode energy in dipole-like magnetic fields
A&A 696, A134(2025)

6/2025
Lewis, Briley L.; Waggoner, Abygail R. et al. (u.a. Lefever, R. R.)
Improving undergraduate astronomy students' skills with research literature via accessible summaries: An exploratory case study with Astrobites-based reading assignments
PRPER 21, a0124(2025)

4/2025
Wang, Wuji; De Breuck, Carlos et al. (u.a. Groth, Julian T.; de Oliveira, Bruno Dall'Agnol; Kukreti, Pranav; Rupke, David S. N.; Wylezalek, Dominika)
JWST + ALMA ubiquitously discover companion systems within ≲18 kpc around four z ≈ 3.5 luminous radio-loud AGN
A&A 696, A88(2025)

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