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The Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) is dedicated to astrophysical questions ranging from the exploration of our Sun to the evolution of the cosmos. It focuses on the study of cosmic magnetic fields, extragalactic astrophysics and the development of research technologies in the fields of spectroscopy, robotic telescopes and E-science.

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Starlight catching system for 4MOST is unpacked in Potsdam

With construction for 4MOST, an instrument for spectroscopic sky surveys, underway, its first major subsystem arrived at the Babelsberg campus of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and is now being unpacked and assembled.

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Stone laying of new institute building

The Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) today celebrated the laying of the foundation stone for the extension building on the Babelsberg campus together with Dr. Inge Schlotzhauer, Head of Division for Non-University Research, Brandenburg Ministry of Science, Research and Culture and Chair of the Board of Trustees of AIP, the Mayor of the State Capital Potsdam Mike Schubert and the President of the Leibniz Association Professor Matthias Kleiner. The approximately 200 guests were welcomed by the institute’s spokesperson of the Executive Board and scientific chairman Professor Matthias Steinmetz.

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Research Area II: Extragalactic Astrophysics

Galaxies are fundamental cosmic building blocks. At the largest scales, they serve as markers to study the distribution of matter in the universe - active galaxies and quasars are particularly important because of their intrinsic brightness. Nearby objects can be spatially resolved and consist of populations with very different patterns of motion, star formation histories and chemical abundances.

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Research Area I: Cosmic Magnetic Fields

Cosmic events are determined by two natural forces: gravity and magnetic fields. The magnetic field research at the AIP is mainly focused on magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations, the magnetically induced activities on the Sun and the stars, solar coronaphysics as well as space weather in our solar system and on planets around other stars.

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Virtual Babelsberg Starry Night

The next lecture of the virtual Babelsberg Starry Nights of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) will be broadcasted starting on Thursday, 21 October 2021 on the YouTube channel "Urknall, Weltall und das Leben". Please note that the lecture will be given in German.

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Starlight catching system for 4MOST is unpacked in Potsdam
Oct. 28, 2021

With construction for 4MOST, an instrument for spectroscopic sky surveys, underway, its first major subsystem arrived at the Babelsberg campus of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and is now being unpacked and assembled.

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AIP celebrates laying of first stone for new institute building
Oct. 27, 2021

The Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) today celebrated the laying of the foundation stone for its extension building at the Babelsberg campus together with Dr Inge Schlotzhauer, Head of Division for Non-University Research, Brandenburg Ministry of Science, Research and Culture and Chair of the Board of Trustees of AIP, the Mayor of the State Capital Potsdam, Mike Schubert, and the President of the Leibniz Association, Prof Matthias Kleiner.

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AIP once again awarded for equal opportunity
Oct. 22, 2021

The Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) has again received the “TOTAL E-QUALITY” award, which is valid for the years 2021 to 2023.

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Latest Publications

Two striking head-tail galaxies in the galaxy cluster IIZW108: insights into transition to turbulence, magnetic fields, and particle re-acceleration

Müller, A., Pfrommer, C., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508, 4, 5326 – Published December 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab2928, NASA ADS

MUSEQuBES: characterizing the circumgalactic medium of redshift ≍3.3 Ly α emitters

Muzahid, S., ... Wendt, M., Wisotzki, L., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508, 4, 5612 – Published December 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab2933, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: Galaxies and Quasars

Presence of red giant population in the foreground stellar substructure of the Small Magellanic Cloud

James, D., ... Omkumar, A. O., ... Cioni, M.-R. L., ... El Youssoufi, D., ... Niederhofer, F., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508, 4, 5854 – Published December 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab2873, NASA ADS

Lyman-α transmission properties of the intergalactic medium in the CoDaII simulation

Gronke, M., ... Sorce, J. G., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508, 3, 3697 – Published December 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab2762, NASA ADS

The challenge of simultaneously matching the observed diversity of chemical abundance patterns in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations

Buck, T., ... Pfrommer, C., Steinmetz, M., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508, 3, 3365 – Published December 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab2736, NASA ADS

On the road to per cent accuracy - V. The non-linear power spectrum beyond ΛCDM with massive neutrinos and baryonic feedback

Bose, B., ... Pfeifer, S., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508, 2, 2479 – Published December 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab2731, NASA ADS

NGC 5746: Formation history of a massive disc-dominated galaxy

Martig, M., ... Minchev, I., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508, 2, 2458 – Published December 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab2729, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: Milky Way and the Local Volume

Dynamical modelling of the twisted galaxy PGC 046832

den Brok, M., Krajnović, D., Emsellem, E., Brinchmann, J., Maseda, M.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508, 4, 4786 – Published December 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab2852, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: Galaxies and Quasars

Cosmic rays and non-thermal emission in simulated galaxies - III. Probing cosmic-ray calorimetry with radio spectra and the FIR-radio correlation

Werhahn, M., Pfrommer, C., Girichidis, P.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508, 3, 4072 – Published December 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab2535, NASA ADS

Cepheid metallicity in the Leavitt law (C-metall) survey - I. HARPS-N@TNG spectroscopy of 47 classical Cepheids and 1 BL Her variables

Ripepi, V., ... Trentin, E., ... Storm, J.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508, 3, 4047 – Published December 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab2460, NASA ADS

Simulations of cosmic ray propagation

Hanasz, M., Strong, A. W., Girichidis, P.
Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics, 7, 1, 2 – Published December 2021
doi:10.1007/s41115-021-00011-1, NASA ADS

Gas flows in galaxy mergers: supersonic turbulence in bridges, accretion from the circumgalactic medium, and metallicity dilution

Sparre, M., Whittingham, J., ... Pfrommer, C., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society – Published November 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab3171, NASA ADS

Resolved Nuclear Kinematics Link the Formation and Growth of Nuclear Star Clusters with the Evolution of Their Early- and Late-type Hosts

Pinna, F., ... Walcher, C. J.
The Astrophysical Journal, 921, 1, 8 – Published November 2021
doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac158f, NASA ADS

The Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation in the Local Group and the Equivalent Circular Velocity of Pressure-supported Dwarfs

McGaugh, S. S., ... Pawlowski, M. S.
The Astronomical Journal, 162, 5, 202 – Published November 2021
doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ac2502, NASA ADS

The evolution of merger fraction of galaxies at z < 0.6 depending on the star formation mode in the AKARI NEP-Wide Field

Kim, E., ... Miyaji, T., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 507, 3, 3113 – Published November 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab2090, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: X-ray Astronomy

The VMC survey - XLIV: mapping metallicity trends in the large magellanic cloud using near-infrared passbands

Choudhury, S., ... Cioni, M.-R. L., ... Miller, A. E., Niederhofer, F., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 507, 4, 4752 – Published November 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab2446, NASA ADS

Central kinematics of the Galactic globular cluster M80

Göttgens, F., ... den Brok, M., ... Krajnovic, D., Weilbacher, P. M.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 507, 4, 4788 – Published November 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab2449, NASA ADS

Implications of the z > 5 Lyman-α forest for the 21-cm power spectrum from the epoch of reionization

Raste, J., ... Keating, L. C., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 507, 4, 4684 – Published November 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab2424, NASA ADS

The rapidly oscillating Ap star γ Equ: linear polarization as an enhanced pulsation diagnostic?

Hubrig, S., Järvinen, S. P., Ilyin, I., Strassmeier, K. G., Schöller, M.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508, 1, L17 – Published November 2021
doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slab101, NASA ADS

The VMC survey - XLIII. The spatially resolved star formation history across the Large Magellanic Cloud

Mazzi, A., ... Cioni, M.-R. L., ... Bell, C. P. M., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508, 1, 245 – Published November 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab2399, NASA ADS

Alignment of the magnetic field in star-forming regions and why it might be difficult to observe

Girichidis, P.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 507, 4, 5641 – Published November 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab2157, NASA ADS

MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW) VIII. Discovery of a MgII emission halo probed by a quasar sightline

Zabl, J., ... Wisotzki, L., ... Wendt, M., ... Muzahid, S., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 507, 3, 4294 – Published November 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab2165, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: Galaxies and Quasars

Dancing in the void: Hydrodynamical N-body simulations of the extremely metal poor galaxy DDO 68

Pascale, R., ... Sacchi, E., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society – Published October 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab3054, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: Milky Way and the Local Volume

Astraeus IV: Quantifying the star formation histories of galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization

Legrand, L., ... Gottlöber, S., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society – Published October 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab3034, NASA ADS

Comparing different closure relations for cosmic ray hydrodynamics

Thomas, T., Pfrommer, C.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society – Published October 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab3079, NASA ADS

Cosmic Web-halo Connection between Twin Universes

Chen, H.-Z., Kang, X., Wang, P., Libeskind, N. I., Luo, Y.
The Astrophysical Journal, 920, 2, 89 – Published October 2021
doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac126c, NASA ADS

Velocity Difference of Ions and Neutrals in Solar Prominences

Wiehr, E., Stellmacher, G., Balthasar, H., Bianda, M.
The Astrophysical Journal, 920, 1, 47 – Published October 2021
doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac1791, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: Solar Physics

Star Formation Histories of Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies: Environmental Differences between Magellanic and Non-Magellanic Satellites?

Sacchi, E. et al.
The Astrophysical Journal, 920, 1, L19 – Published October 2021
doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac2aa3, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: Milky Way and the Local Volume

The metal-poor end of the Spite plateau. II. Chemical and dynamical investigation

Matas Pinto, A. M., ... Steffen, M., ...
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 654, A170 – Published October 2021
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202141288, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: Stellar Physics and Exoplanets

Barium lines in high-quality spectra of two metal-poor giants in the Galactic halo

Cescutti, G., ... Chiappini, C., Steffen, M., Valentini, M., ...
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 654, A164 – Published October 2021
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202141355, NASA ADS

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Events and dates at AIP

Colloquium: Ekaterina Dineva (AIP)
04.11.2021, 14:30 – 15:30
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Colloquium: Elena Sacchi
18.11.2021, 14:30 – 15:30
Scientific
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Colloquium: Alexander Warmuth (AIP)
02.12.2021, 14:30 – 15:30
Scientific
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Colloquium: Jean-Baptiste Salomon
09.12.2021, 14:30 – 15:30
Scientific
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18. Jamboree
16.12.2021, 14:30 – 15:30
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Conferences

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Dynamics of Solar and Stellar Convection Zones and Atmospheres (IAU Symposium 365)

May 23, 2022 – May 27, 2022
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