Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg


Welcome to the Center for Astronomy of Heidelberg University

Dylan Nelson receives the 2023 MERAC Award for New Technologies

The 2023 MERAC Prize for the Best Early Career Researcher is awarded to Dylan Nelson (ZAH/ITA) for his leading role in computational astrophysics. (2023/04/05)

Dominika Wylezalek receives the 2023 MERAC Award in Observational Astrophysics

The 2023 MERAC Prize for the Best Early Career Researcher is awarded to Dominika Wylezalek (ZAH/ARI) for her studies of supermassive black holes. (2023/04/05)

Ute and Roland Wielen Foundation Fund established

The new “Ute and Roland Wielen Foundation Fund” shall support science, research and teaching at Heidelberg University, primarily at ARI and ITA. (2023/03/16)

Frauke Melchior becomes new Rector of Universität Heidelberg

Heading Heidelberg University in future will be molecular biologist Prof. Dr Frauke Melchior. She will take up her new office as of 1 October this year. (2023/03/09)

Landessternwarte Königstuhl celebrates success of the CARMENES project

Data obtained within five years with the eponymous spectrograph at Calar-Alto Observatory have already led to the discovery of 59 partly habitable new exoplanets. (2023/02/22)

Webb telescope finds pieces of the star formation puzzle

Using Webb's image clarity at infrared wavelengths, scientists discover missing pieces of the star formation puzzle. Their findings are now published in a collection of research papers, also with first authors from ZAH. (2023/02/16)

More news and research highlights ►­►­►­►­

zum Seitenanfang/up
Next Astro colloquia
May 30
16:00		How to grow a galactic disk (or two)
Professor Florent Renaud (Lund Observatory, Sweden)
Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium
Philosophenweg 12, Main Lecture Theatre (gHS)
Jun 01
11:15		Temperature inhomogeneities cause the abundance discrepancy in H II regions
Jose Eduardo Mendez Delgado (ARI)
ARI Institute Colloquium
ARI, Moenchhofstrasse 12-14, Seminarraum 1.OG
Jun 02
11:00		TBD
José Eduardo Méndez Delgado (ARI)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)

more colloquia ...

Astro & Physics talks in HD

Heidelberg Physics Seminar and Talks Organizer (HePhysTo)

Recent ZAH publications
6/2023
Gebek, Andrea; Baes, Maarten et al. (inc. Nelson, Dylan)
The atomic-to-molecular hydrogen transition in the TNG50 simulation: Using realistic UV fields to create spatially resolved H I maps
MNRAS 521, 5645(2023)

6/2023
Rathjen, Tim-Eric; Naab, Thorsten et al. (inc. Girichidis, Philipp)
SILCC - VII. Gas kinematics and multiphase outflows of the simulated ISM at high gas surface densities
MNRAS 522, 1843(2023)

6/2023
Reina-Campos, Marta; Trujillo-Gomez, Sebastian et al.
Constraining the shape of dark matter haloes with globular clusters and diffuse stellar light in the E-MOSAICS simulations
MNRAS 521, 6368(2023)

more publications ...