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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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Science Year 2023 - Our Universe

The red planet on tour in Potsdam

The planet Mars is visiting the city of Potsdam in the form of a work of art from 16 to 28 September as part of the Science Year "Our Universe". The ceremonial opening will take place on Saturday, 16 September at 5:30 pm in the St. Nicholas Church.

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Annual Meeting of the German Astronomical Society

“Cosmic Evolution of Matter on all Scales” is the theme of the annual conference of the German Astronomical Society, which began today at the TU Berlin and is expected to attract around 300 scientists working in the field of astronomy.

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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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Science Year 2023 – Our Universe

In the course of the Science Year 2023, the AIP will actively participate in various events and formats.

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The planet Mars is visiting the city of Potsdam in the form of a work of art from 16 to 28 September as part of the Science Year "Our Universe". The ceremonial opening will take place on Saturday, 16 September at 5:30 pm in the St. Nicholas Church.

“Cosmic Evolution of Matter on all Scales” is the theme of the annual conference of the German Astronomical Society, which began today at the TU Berlin and is expected to attract around 300 scientists working in the field of astronomy.

Employing state-of-the-art numerical simulations, a study led by scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) has obtained the first systematic characterization of the properties of stellar winds in a sample of cool stars.

 

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Latest Publications

Measuring the photoionization rate, neutral fraction, and mean free path of H I ionizing photons at 4.9 ≤ z ≤ 6.0 from a large sample of XShooter and ESI spectra

Gaikwad, P., ... Puchwein, E., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 525, 3, 4093 – Published November 2023

Cataclysmic Variables from Sloan Digital Sky Survey - V. The search for period bouncers continues

Inight, K., ... Schwope, A., ... Knauff, K., Kurpas, J., ... Standke, A., Stütz, L., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 525, 3, 3597 – Published November 2023

Constraining the assembly time of the stellar haloes of nearby Milky Way-mass galaxies through AGB populations

Harmsen, B., ... de Jong, R. S., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 525, 3, 4497 – Published November 2023

Searching for magnetic fields in pulsating A-type stars: the discovery of a strong field in the probable δ Sct star HD 340577 and a null result for the γ Dor star HR 8799

Hubrig, S., Järvinen, S. P., Alvarado-Gómez, J. D., Ilyin, I., Schöller, M.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 526, 1, L83 – Published November 2023

Gamma-ray emission from spectrally resolved cosmic rays in galaxies

Werhahn, M., Girichidis, P., Pfrommer, C., Whittingham, J.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 525, 3, 4437 – Published November 2023

Environmental effects on associations of dwarf galaxies

Yaryura, C. Y., ... Gottlöber, S., Libeskind, N. I., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 525, 1, 415 – Published October 2023

On the general nature of 21-cm-Lyman α emitter cross-correlations during reionization

Hutter, A., ... Gottlöber, S., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 525, 2, 1664 – Published October 2023

Cosmic variance and the inhomogeneous UV luminosity function of galaxies during reionization

Dawoodbhoy, T., ... Sorce, J. G., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524, 4, 6231 – Published October 2023

ASTRAEUS - VIII. A new framework for Lyman-α emitters applied to different reionization scenarios

Hutter, A., ... Gottlöber, S., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524, 4, 6124 – Published October 2023

Exploring the short-term variability of H α and H β emissions in a sample of M dwarfs

Kumar, V., Rajpurohit, A. S., Srivastava, M. K., Fernández-Trincado, J. G., Queiroz, A. B. A.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524, 4, 6085 – Published October 2023

The first evidence of tidally induced activity in a brown dwarf-M dwarf pair: a Chandra study of the NLTT 41135/41136 system

Ilić, N., Poppenhaeger, K., Dsouza, D., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524, 4, 5954 – Published October 2023

Numerical quantification of the wind properties of cool main sequence stars

Chebly, J. J., Alvarado-Gómez, J. D., Poppenhäger, K., Garraffo, C.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524, 4, 5060 – Published October 2023

Far beyond the Sun - II. Probing the stellar magnetism of the young Sun ι Horologii from the photosphere to its corona

Amazo-Gómez, E. M., Alvarado-Gómez, J. D., Poppenhäger, K., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524, 4, 5725 – Published October 2023

Unveiling the time evolution of chemical abundances across the Milky Way disc with APOGEE

Ratcliffe, B., Minchev, I., ... Khoperskov, S., ... Queiroz, A., ... Steinmetz, M., de Jong, R. S., Nepal, S., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 525, 2, 2208 – Published October 2023

Molecular and ionized gas in tidal dwarf galaxies: the spatially resolved star-formation relation

Kovakkuni, N., ... Pawlowski, M. S., ... Weilbacher, P. M.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society – Published September 2023

The impact of magnetic fields on cosmological galaxy mergers - II. Modified angular momentum transport and feedback

Whittingham, J., Sparre, M., Pfrommer, C., Pakmor, R.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society – Published September 2023

Erratum: "The Orbital Histories of Magellanic Satellites Using Gaia DR2 Proper Motions" (2020, ApJ, 893, 121)

Patel, E., ... Pawlowski, M. S., ...
The Astrophysical Journal, 954, 2, 221 – Published September 2023

HETDEX Public Source Catalog 1-Stacking 50,000 Lyman Alpha Emitters

Davis, D., ... Wisotzki, L., ...
The Astrophysical Journal, 954, 2, 209 – Published September 2023

Structure, Kinematics, and Observability of the Large Magellanic Cloud's Dynamical Friction Wake in Cold versus Fuzzy Dark Matter

Foote, H. R., ... Sparre, M., ...
The Astrophysical Journal, 954, 2, 163 – Published September 2023

Still alive and kicking: A significant outburst in changing-look AGN Mrk 1018

Brogan, R., Krumpe, M., Homan, D., Urrutia, T., Granzer, T., ...
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 677, A116 – Published September 2023

The stellar halo in Local Group Hestia simulations. III. Chemical abundance relations for accreted and in situ stars

Khoperskov, S., Minchev, I., Libeskind, N., ... Steinmetz, M., ... Sorce, J. G., Spaare, M., ...
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 677, A91 – Published September 2023

The stellar halo in Local Group Hestia simulations. II. The accreted component

Khoperskov, S., Minchev, I., Libeskind, N., ... Steinmetz, M., ... Sorce, J. G., Spaare, M., ...
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 677, A90 – Published September 2023

The stellar halo in Local Group Hestia simulations. I. The in situ component and the effect of mergers

Khoperskov, S., Minchev, I., Libeskind, N., ... Steinmetz, M., ... Sorce, J. G., Spaare, M., ...
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 677, A89 – Published September 2023

A Rotating Satellite Plane around Milky Way-like Galaxy from the TNG50 Simulation

Xu, Y., Kang, X., Libeskind, N. I.
The Astrophysical Journal, 954, 2, 128 – Published September 2023

Three-component modelling of O-rich AGB star winds. I. Effects of drift using forsterite

Sandin, C., Mattsson, L., Chubb, K. L., Ergon, M., Weilbacher, P. M.
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 677, A27 – Published September 2023

Measuring galaxy cluster mass profiles into the low-acceleration regime with galaxy kinematics

Li, P., ... Júlio, M. P., Pawlowski, M. S., ...
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 677, A24 – Published September 2023

COSMOS-Web: An Overview of the JWST Cosmic Origins Survey

Casey, C. M., ... Sparre, M., ...
The Astrophysical Journal, 954, 1, 31 – Published September 2023

Observational Signatures of Electron-driven Chromospheric Evaporation in a White-light Flare

Li, D., ... Warmuth, A., Schuller, F., ...
The Astrophysical Journal, 954, 1, 7 – Published September 2023

Global Energetics of Solar Powerful Events on 2017 September 6

Li, D., Warmuth, A., ...
Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 23, 9, 095017 – Published September 2023

The MillenniumTNG Project: the hydrodynamical full physics simulation and a first look at its galaxy clusters

Pakmor, R., ... Pfrommer, C., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524, 2, 2539 – Published September 2023

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07.09.2023, 14:30 – 15:30
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21.09.2023, 20:00 – 21:00
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Talk (in German): Resolved stellar populations - scientific working (Martin Roth)

21.09.2023, 20:00 – 21:00
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Talk (in German): Resolved stellar populations - Pleiades and scientific working (Martin Roth)

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Annual Meeting of the German Astronomical Society 2023
Sept. 11, 2023 – Sept. 15, 2023
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WE-Heraeus-Symposium, part of the Berlin Science Week
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