Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
Universitäts-Sternwarte
Lehrstuhl für Theoretische und Numerische Astrophysik
Address
Scheinerstraße 1
81679 München
Deutschland
GERiT
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81679 München
Projects
Priority Programmes
Current projects
How does the chemical composition of stars influence planet formation?
(Applicant
Bitsch, Bertram
)
Mountains and Deserts in the demographics of Giants
(Applicants
Ercolano, Ph.D., Barbara
;
Preibisch, Thomas
)
Completed projects
Anti-hierarchical black hole growth across cosmic history - X-ray constraints from deep fields and local mergers
(Applicant
Hasinger, Günther
)
Common Funds for SPP 1573
(Applicant
Burkert, Andreas
)
Deciphering the interstellar medium around the Scorpius-Centarus OB association
(Applicant
Preibisch, Thomas
)
Fragmentation und Sternentstehung in gravitativ instabilen Molekülwolken
(Applicant
Burkert, Andreas
)
Induzierte Sternentstehung in turbulenten Molekülwolken
(Applicant
Burkert, Andreas
)
Influence of irregular temperature variations caused by gravity waves on the infrared radiative cooling/heating of the mesosphere/lower termosphere
(Applicant
Pauldrach, Adalbert Wilhelm Alois
)
Junge Sternhaufen und Sternentstehung
(Applicant
Fritze-von Alvensleben, Uta
)
New technique for retrieving pressure and temperature distributions in the Martian atmosphere from the infrared limb observations
(Applicant
Pauldrach, Adalbert Wilhelm Alois
)
SPP 1573: Physics of the Interstellar Medium
(Spokesperson
Burkert, Andreas
)
Striations, wisps and arcs - the fascinating evolution of filaments in a violent environment
(Applicant
Burkert, Andreas
)
The journey of ionising photons through the porous ISM of galaxies
(Applicants
Ercolano, Ph.D., Barbara
;
Preibisch, Thomas
)
The origin of galactic disks
(Applicant
Burkert, Andreas
)
The physics of the interstellar medium under extreme conditions in Seyfert galaxies
(Applicant
Burkert, Andreas
)
The Structure and Formation of Elliptical Galaxies
(Applicant
Burkert, Andreas
)
Research Grants
Completed projects
Extragalactic nebular emission line analysis with realistic EUV spectral energy distributions of massive stars of different metallicities as a tool for measuring interstellar chemical abundances
(Applicant
Pauldrach, Adalbert Wilhelm Alois
)
Feeding and Feedback in the Nucleus of our Galaxy
(Applicant
Burkert, Andreas
)
Implementation of metals in a three-dimensional non-LTE radiative transfer code to simulate the intergalactic medium at early cosmological times
(Applicant
Pauldrach, Adalbert Wilhelm Alois
)
Infrarot-Interferometrische Untersuchungen der zirkumstellaren Materie und Multiplizität junger Sterne
(Applicant
Preibisch, Thomas
)
Magnetfelder der Sternentstehung als Heizmechanismus für diffus ionisiertes Gas im Interstellaren Medium
(Applicant
Lesch, Harald
)
Massive Star Feedback and Triggered Star Formation: Confronting multi-wavelength observations of the Carina Nebula with numerical simulations
(Applicant
Preibisch, Thomas
)
Multi-dimensional radiative transfer in the expanding atmospheres of massive stars
(Applicant
Puls, Joachim
)
Realistische synthetische Spektren für Supernovae als Werkzeug für die Quantifizierung der empirischen kosmologischen Konstanten bzw. der "dunklen Energie"
(Applicant
Pauldrach, Adalbert Wilhelm Alois
)
Self-consistent atmospheric models of very massive stars and their early evolution in dense stellar systems
(Applicant
Pauldrach, Adalbert Wilhelm Alois
)
Small-scale inhomogeneities and their impact on observed mass-loss rates of radiation-driven winds
(Applicant
Puls, Joachim
)
The impact of AGN-radiation on the evolution of galaxies and their circumgalactic medium
(Applicant
Obreja, Aura
)
Wasserstoffreiche Zentralsterne Planetarischer Nebel als Vorläufer von Weißen Zwergen und Typ la Supernovae - UV-Analysen zur Bestimmung der grundlegenden Sternparameter
(Applicants
Pauldrach, Adalbert Wilhelm Alois
;
Werner, Klaus
)
Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Groups
Completed projects
From dark to light: The connection between galaxies and their dark matter haloes through cosmic time
(Applicant
Moster, Benjamin
)
Research Units
Current projects
Coordination Funds
(Applicant
Ercolano, Ph.D., Barbara
)
Disk population study: observational constraints
(Applicant
Miotello, Ph.D., Anna
)
FOR 2634: Planet Formation Witnesses and Probes: Transition Discs
(Spokesperson
Ercolano, Ph.D., Barbara
)
Probing the inner planet-forming zones of disks with mid-infrared spectroscopy
(Applicant
van Dishoeck, Ewine F.
)
Solids and gas evolution in disks: observational constraints
(Applicant
Testi, Leonardo
)
The radiation-hydrodynamics of photoevaporative winds with chemistry
(Applicant
Ercolano, Ph.D., Barbara
)
Thermally-assisted magentocentrifugal outflows – theoretical predictions and observational signatures
(Applicants
Ercolano, Ph.D., Barbara
;
Gressel, Oliver
)
Thermochemistry of disc winds and atmospheres
(Applicant
Ercolano, Ph.D., Barbara
)
Completed projects
Gone with the wind: dust entrainment in photoevaporative winds
(Applicant
Ercolano, Ph.D., Barbara
)
New constraints on disk-dissipation processes from the relation between accretion and X-ray activity
(Applicant
Preibisch, Thomas
)
Transition disks and planetary systems
(Applicant
Dullemond, Cornelis Petrus
)
CRC/Transregios
Current projects
Habitability of moons around free-floating planets
(Project Head
Ercolano, Ph.D., Barbara
)
Completed projects
Exoplanetary atmospheres and the connection to the building blocks of life in our solar system
(Project Heads
Caselli, Paola
;
Ercolano, Ph.D., Barbara
;
Mutschler, Hannes
;
Schmitt-Kopplin, Philippe
)
Collaborative Research Centres
Completed projects
Dynamische Entwicklung von Gas- und Sternkomponente in jungen Galaxien und Galaxiengruppen
(Project Heads
Burkert, Andreas
;
Spurzem, Rainer
)
Galaxienwechswelwirkung im jungen Universum
(Project Head
Burkert, Andreas
)
Clusters of Excellence
Completed projects
EXC 153: Origin and Structure of the Universe - The Cluster of Excellence for Fundamental Physics
(Spokesperson
Paul, Stephan
)
Clusters of Excellence (ExStra)
Current projects
EXC 2094: ORIGINS: From the Origin of the Universe to the First Building Blocks of Life
(Spokespersons
Burkert, Andreas
;
Paul, Stephan
)
