Extragalactic Astrophysics
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Star formation and
interstellar medium |
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Galaxies and quasars |
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Cosmology and
large-scale structure |
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Brown dwarfs and low-mass stars;
high proper motion survey compared with near-infrared sky surveys;
formation of massive stars and their influence on galaxy evolution;
distance-calibrators in the form of the Cepheid period-luminosity relation;
star formation in the early universe
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Structure of the Milky Way galaxy and of its components; surveys for quasars
and Active Galactic Nuclei; host galaxies and environments of AGN; clusters of
galaxies; X-ray observations of compact objects; numerical simulations of galaxy
formation and evolution.
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Morphology and evolution of large-scale structure, formation
of first stars and galaxies, intergalactic medium and background
radiation, galaxy formation in a cosmological environment,
dark matter halos and dark energy effects in cosmology.
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Selected projects |
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CLUES |
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Constellation |
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eROSITA |
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GALOCS |
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Constrained Local UniversE Simulations; the observed distribution of
nearby galaxies is used to construct the initial conditions for these
simulations
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International collaboration for the study of the origin of stellar masses and their distribution
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The mission will provide the first sky survey of intermediate x-ray energies up to 10 keV
with high resolution.
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GALactic Open Cluster Study; German-Russian collaboration supported by DFG; investigation
of the population of open clusters in the Solar neighbourhood
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GEMS |
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MUSE |
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RAVE |
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SDSS |
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Galaxy Evolution from Morphology and SEDs: An investigation of the
largest colour mosaic image ever obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. |
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The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer is a second generation instrument in development
for the Very Large Telescope (VLT).
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The RAdial Velocity Experiment is a survey to measure the radial velocities,
metallicities and abundance ratios for up to 1 mill. stars |
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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey provides detailed optical images of more than 1/4 of the
sky, and a 3D map of about 1 mill. galaxies and quasars.
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STAGES |
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HETDEX/VIRUS |
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XMM-SSC |
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Space Telescope A901/902 Galaxy Evolution Survey: a multiwavelength survey to probe the
physical drivers of galaxy evolution in dense environments
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VIRUS will be a giant integral-field unit spectrograph for the optical light
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XMM Survey Science Center at AIP provides the source detection software for the pipe-line processing of the XMM EPIC data.
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Completed projects |
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AMIGA |
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ARENA |
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Young stellar clusters |
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Adaptive Mesh Investigations of Galaxy Assembly; adaptive mesh refinement code for cosmological simulations
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Antarctic Research, a European Network for Astrophysics: Kollaboration zur
Förderung von Infrarot- und optischer Astronomie in der Antarktis
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EU network
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