Alphabetical index
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AIP |
Homepage of Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam |
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AGW |
Acquisition, Guiding, and Wavefront sensing units for the Large Binocular Telescope
as an in-kind contribution of the AIP |
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AMIGA |
Adaptive Mesh Investigation of Galaxy Assembly |
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APT |
Twin Automatic Photoelectric Telescopes "Wolfgang Amadeus"; robotic stellar photometry from southern Arizona |
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ARENA |
Antarctic Research, a European Network for Astrophysics. ARENA aims at fostering optical
and infrared astronomy in Antartica. |
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AstroGrid-D |
A variety of German astrophysical and high-performance computing institutes
launched a cooperation for distributed computing and sharing resources. |
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CLUES |
Constrained Local UniversE Simulations; the observed distribution of
nearby galaxies is used to construct the initial conditions for these
simulations
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CO BOLD |
3D radiation (magneto-) hydrodynamics code designed for the numerical simulation of stellar convection |
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Constellation |
International collaboration for the study of the origin of stellar masses and their distribution
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Cosmology |
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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Einstein tower |
60-cm solar observatory tower on Telegraphenberg, Potsdam |
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eROSITA |
The mission will provide the first sky survey of intermediate x-ray energies up to 10 keV
with high resolution. |
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Euro3D |
Promoting 3D Spectroscopy in Europe; a Research Training Network, funded by the European Commission |
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E-science |
The extensive use of supercomputers and networking in ambitious projects coupled with the
vision of global resource use |
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ESMN |
European Solar Magnetism Network; aimed at understanding solar magnetism by both
direct high-resolution observations and by detailed numerical simulations |
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Galaxies |
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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GALOCS |
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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GAVO |
German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory. GAVO is a project, sponsored by the BMBF, for
building a "Virtual Observatory" platform to support modern astronomical research in Germany. |
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GEMS |
Galaxy Evolution from Morphology and SEDs - an HST study of roughly 10000 galaxies |
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GREGOR |
GREGOR is a 1.5-m solar telescope for high resolution spectropolarimetry
located at the Observatorio del Teide on Tenerife. |
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HETDEX/VIRUS |
VIRUS will be a giant optical integral-field unit spectrograph for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment
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ICE-T |
International Concordia Explorer Telescope for wide-field high-precision photometry from the Antarctic |
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innoFSPEC |
Center for innovation competence in fiber-spectroscopy and sensing
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LBT |
The Large Binocular Telescope on top of Mt. Graham in Arizona, USA. The telescope has two
circular mirrors, each 8.4m in diameter. |
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Library |
Astrophysical library with about 75,000 books |
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LOFAR |
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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MCC |
Media and Communication Center focusing on robotic telescopes and instruments |
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MHD |
Magnetic fields and turbulence in stars, accretion disks, and galaxies. Computer
simulations of dynamos, magnetic instabilities, magneto-convection; MHD laboratory astrophysics |
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MUSE |
The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer is a second generation instrument in development
for the Very Large Telescope (VLT). It is a panoramic integral-field spectrograph operating
in the visible wavelength range. |
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NIRVANA |
Numerical code for 3D non-relativistic, compressible magnetohydrodynamics featuring adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) techniques and self-gravity |
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Optical solar physics |
Determination of the evolution of magnetic structures in the solar atmosphere;
models for radiation transport with magnetic fields |
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OSRA |
Observatory for solar radio astrophysics |
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PEPSI |
The Potsdam Echelle Polarimetric & Spectroscopic Instrument is a fibre-fed
high-resolution Echelle spectrograph for the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) in Arizona. |
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Plate Archive |
Digitization project for the 10,000 photographic and spectroscopic plates of the observatories in Potsdam |
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PMAS |
The Potsdam Multi-Aperture Spectrophotometer is an integral field instrument developed at the AIP. |
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PROMISE |
The Potsdam-Rossendorf Magnetic Instability Experiment is a step towards the experimental
proof of the magneto-rotational instability. |
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RAVE |
RAVE: the RAdial Velocity Experiment is a program to measure the radial velocities,
metallicities and abundance ratios for up to a million stars. |
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RoboTel |
RoboTel is a smaller, 80-cm copy of the robotic telescope STELLA partly for scientific, partly for
educational purposes. |
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SDSS |
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey will map in detail one-quarter of the entire sky, determining the
positions and absolute brightnesses of more than 100 million celestial objects. |
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Solar physics |
Research programme with optical solar physics and solar radio astronomy |
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Solar optical physics |
Determination of the evolution of magnetic structures in the solar atmosphere;
models for radiation transport with magnetic fields |
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Solar radio physics |
Coronal plasma processes studied by radio astronomy; Tremsdorf radio observatory and data utilization |
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STAGES |
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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Star formation |
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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STELLA |
Robotic telescopes for stellar activity. Instruments are an Echelle spectrograph and
a wide-field imaging photometer. |
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Stellar activity |
Doppler imaging observations of stellar surface structures; robotic-telescope development;
simulations of rising flux-tubes |
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Stellar physics |
Computer simulations of stellar convection, winds and dust envelopes of red giants; determination of stellar surface parameters
and chemical abundances |
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Telescope, 70 cm |
The 70-cm telescope on the AIP campus is equiped with a nitrogen-cooled CCD and a Johnson-Cousins filter set. |
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ULTROS |
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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VIRTOBS |
now called GAVO, the German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory. |
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VIRUS/HETDEX |
VIRUS will be a giant optical integral-field unit spectrograph for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment
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VTT |
Vacuum Tower Telescope for solar physics on Tenerife |
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XMM-SSC |
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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XPN |
The project investigates to which extent extragalactic planetary nebulae are good probes for
measuring chemical abundances from their parent stellar population. |
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X-ray |
X-ray surveys XMM-Newton, Rosat, SODART. Clusters of galaxies, active galactic nuclei,
cataclysmic variables, isolated neutron stars |
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