Development of Research Technology and of Research Infrastructure
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Telescope control and robotics |
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High-resolution spectroscopy and polarimetry |
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3D spectroscopy |
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Supercomputing and
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Development of robotic telescopes, instruments, and software solutions for data reduction,
archiving and "gridification"
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Development of high-resolution spectrographs and polarimeters for solar and stellar physics
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Development of optical focal-plane instrumentation for ground-based telescopes |
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The extensive use of supercomputers and networking in ambitious projects coupled with the
vision of global resource use |
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AGW at LBT |
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PEPSI |
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MUSE |
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AMIGA |
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Acquisition, Guiding and Wavefront sensing unit for the Large Binocular Telescope, Mt. Graham, Arizona.
It will collect the light with two 8.4m mirrors. |
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Potsdam Echelle Polarimetric and Spectroscopic Instrument for the LBT
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The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer is a second generation instrument in development
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Adaptive Mesh Investigations of Galaxy Assembly; adaptive mesh refinement code for
cosmological simulations
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STELLA |
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SES at STELLA |
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PMAS |
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AstroGrid-D |
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Robotic telescopes for stellar activity. Instruments are an Echelle spectrograph and
a wide-field imaging photometer. |
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The STELLA Echelle Spectrograph (SES) is a fiber-fed
spectrograph with a fixed wavelength format of 390-860nm and a spectral resolution of 55,000.
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The Potsdam Multi-Aperture Spectrophotometer is an integral field instrument developed at the AIP.
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AstroGrid-D is a cooperation for distributed computing and sharing resources based on
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RoboTel |
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GREGOR |
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innoFSPEC |
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EFRE network |
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RoboTel is a smaller copy of STELLA. It serves as a robotic test telescope
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Polarimetric calibration unit for the 1.5m Gregory Telescope on Tenerife, and
the GREGOR at night stellar spectrograph.
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Center for innovation competence in fiber-spectroscopy and sensing
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A high-speed network of the AIP
and AEI funded by the European funding of regional development |
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ICE-T |
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HETDEX/VIRUS |
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GAVO |
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International Concordia Explorer Telescope for wide-field high-precision photometry from the Antarctic |
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VIRUS will be a giant optical integral-field unit spectrograph for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment
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German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory. GAVO is a project for building a "Virtual Observatory"
platform in Germany
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LOFAR |
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The Low-Frequency Array is a western European antennae array. Interferometry is achived
by super-computational treatment of the data stream.
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NIRVANA |
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Numerical code for 3D non-relativistic, compressible MHD with adaptive mesh refinement and self-gravity.
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Plate Archive |
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Digitization project for the 10,000 photographic and spectroscopic plates of the
observatories in Potsdam
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Completed projects |
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Euro3D |
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Promoting 3D spectroscopy in Europe; a research training network, funded by the European Commission
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ULTROS |
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A collaboration of AIP and Potsdam University to develop and apply
the method of "nod-shuffle" observations for faint object 3D spectroscopy using PMAS
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