Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy/Argelander Institute for Astronomy Main Colloquium Titel: New Physics at the Pulsar Timing Array Frontier Speaker: Prof. Dr. Kai Schmitz, University of Muenster Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) collaborations around the globe recently announced compelling evidence for a gravitational-wave background (GWB) at nanohertz frequencies. This breakthrough achievement has important implications for astrophysics, […]

Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy/Argelander Institute for Astronomy Main Colloquium Titel: Binarity and dynamics of open clusters Speaker: Dr. Vikrant Jadhav, AIfA Binary stars play a vital role in astrophysical research, as the majority of stars are in binaries. I will discuss the photometric identification of binaries in open clusters along with their cluster membership. […]

Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy/Argelander Institute for Astronomy Main Colloquium Titel: Is Dark Matter made up of Primordial Black Holes? Speaker: Prof. Günther Hasinger, German Center for Astrophysics in Görlitz, University Dresden The cosmic X-ray background radiation has been almost completely resolved into discrete objects, mainly from the growth of massive black holes in the […]

Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy/Argelander Institute for Astronomy Main Colloquium Titel: Astronomy at Highest Angular Resolution – Adaptive Optics, Interferometry and Black Holes Speaker: Dr. Frank Eisenhauer MPE Garching The last 25 years have seen wonderful times in high angular resolution, optical/infrared ground-based astronomy: active optics enabled ever larger telescopes, adaptive optics now routinely remove […]

Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy/Argelander Institute for Astronomy Main Colloquium Titel: Astronomical imaging with information field theory Speaker: Dr. Torsten Enßlin MPA Garching Astronomical imaging is the process of translating measurement data into images of the sky that can be understood by humans and analyzed physically. This requires that one or several fields like the […]

Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy/Argelander Institute for Astronomy Main Colloquium Titel: CMB-driven Growth of (Super-)Massive Black Holes Speaker: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Duschl, University of Kiel During most of the lifetime of the Universe, the evolution of (super-massive) black holes (SMBHs) is driven by accretion disks around them and the disks’ internal heating. During early phases […]

Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy/Argelander Institute for Astronomy Main Colloquium Titel: The 2020s: the crazy years for interstellar chemistry Speaker: Dr. Marcelino Agúndez, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) To date, about 300 molecules have been detected in space, mainly in interstellar clouds at different stages along the star formation process and in circumstellar envelopes around […]

Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy/Argelander Institute for Astronomy Main Colloquium Titel: Simulating the connection between the large and event-horizon scales of the accretion flow onto Sgr A* Speaker: Dr. Hector Olivares, University of Aveiro Comparing horizon-scale observations of Sgr A* and M 87* with libraries of numerical simulations has provided considerable insight into their interpretation. […]

Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy/Argelander Institute for Astronomy Main Colloquium Titel: ALMA Observations of Molecular Complexity in the Large Magellanic Cloud Speaker: Prof. Dr. Marta Sewilo, University of Maryland The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is the nearest laboratory for detailed studies on the formation and survival of complex organic molecules (COMs), including biologically important ones, […]

Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy/Argelander Institute for Astronomy Main Colloquium Titel: Cosmological probe combination for current and future surveys Speaker: Prof. Dr. Andrina Nicola, AIfA Recent progress in observational cosmology and the establishment of ΛCDM have relied on the combination of different cosmological probes. These probes are not independent, since they all measure the same […]