NEWS at MPA

Location: ESO

"Absorbers in Super Luminous Supernovae (SLSNe)"

ESO/MPA/MPE Gas Matters Club

"First scientific results from BRITE satellite mission"

ESO Lunch Talk

"Multiwavelength tests of a dark matter signal from the Inner Galaxy"

Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium

"Formation and Evolution of Giant Molecular Clouds: Gravity or Turbulence"

Star and Planet Formation

"ISM Dynamics and Star Formation"

ESO Lunch Talk

"Broad [CII] Line Wings as a Tracer of Molecular Outflows"

AGN Club

"The mass structure of galaxy clusters probed with strong gravitational lensing"

ESO Lunch Talk

"Thinking Big (and Small): Frontier Science in the Era of Wide Field Lensing Surveys"

Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium

"Out of this world: exploring the Universe with the largest emission-line surveys"

ESO Lunch Talk

"Tracing Outflows in AGN Forbidden Region with SINFONI"

AGN Club

"The properties of dwarf spheroidal galaxies and their connections with the LCDM paradigm"

ESO Lunch Talk

"A deep ALMA image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field"

Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
I will present new results from the first deep ALMA continuum image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), designed to better connect our UV/optical and FIR/mm views of the high-redshift Universe. From a mosaic of 45 ALMA pointings we have constructed a 1.3mm image covering the full 4.5 sq arcmin of the HUDF as previous imaged with WFC3/IR and ACS on Hubble. This new image reaches an rms depth of 35 micro-Jy at a resolution of of 0.7 arcsec. I will describe the design and implementation of this project, and the analysis of the final data product both for source discovery and stacking in the galaxy mass/redshift plane. After presenting our results I will discuss the implications of our findings for our understanding of the 1.3mm background, the mass dependence of star formation and dust obscuration, and the history of cosmic star-formation density. I will close by discussing the prospects for future progress. [more]

"VMC star clusters science: an overview"

ESO Lunch Talk

"The Hunt for kpc-scale cold-gas outflows in nearby AGN-host galaxies"

AGN Club
  • Date: Jun 23, 2016
  • Time: 11:10 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Boris Nedelchev
  • University of Hertfordshire
  • Location: ESO
  • Room: ESO library

"Galaxy Evolution in 3D"

Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium

"Effective equation of state for small-scale perturbations in the ICM"

ESO Galaxy Cluster

"At the edge of galaxy clusters: splashback and accretion shock"

ESO Galaxy Cluster
  • Date: Sep 23, 2016
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Xun Shi
  • MPA
  • Location: ESO
  • Room: ESO library
  • Host: ESO

"Gas accretion via galactic fountains"

ESO/MPA/MPE Gas Matters Club

"The formation of massive black-hole binaries: Understanding the Advanced LIGO detections"

Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium

"Tracing Galaxies by their Shadows: Evolution of Metals and Dust in Galaxies from Quasar Absorption Systems"

ESO Lunch Talk

"The many flavours of star cluster dynamics"

Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium

"The Molecular Outflows in NGC 253 and Circinus as Revealed by ALMA"

ESO Lunch Talk

"Ethics in Astronomy"

*KES: Knowledge Exchange Series

Mixing in stars in the era of high-performance computing

Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Mixing in the radiative zones of stars is one of the least well understoodcomponents of stellar evolution, and yet can, in many instances, play acrucial role. In recent years, however, much progress has been made inquantifying mixing by a variety of hydrodynamic instabilities, thanks tonumerical experiments that have strongly benefited from advances insupercomputing. I will review the state of the field, and presentperspectives on what can and should be done next by the stellar evolutioncommunity, and by the astrophysical fluid dynamics community. [more]

''Modelling the dust content of galaxies over cosmic time''

ESO/MPA/MPE Gas Matters Club

"Spatially resolved star formation relation in two HI-rich galaxies with central post-starburst signature

ESO/MPA/MPE Gas Matters Club

"Losing sight of CO in galaxies: cosmic rays and the CMB effect"

ESO Lunch Talk

"Resolving the Physics of environmental effects and gas stripping phenomena in local Clusters of galaxies"

ESO/MPA/MPE Gas Matters Club

"The Radial Acceleration Relation: linking baryons and dark matter in galaxies"

ESO Lunch Talk

"Galaxy Cluster Studies with the South Pole Telescope"

Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium

"Stars and stellar evolution"

Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
ALMA has been producing stunning images and results for stars acrossthe mass and evolutionary ranges. In this talk, I will focus on someresults for Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars (AGB), Planetary Nebulae, RedSupergiants (RSG) and Supernovae. An area of particular interest is theshaping process by which AGB stars evolve to form often highly axisymmetricPlanetary Nebulae - what are the roles of binarity and magnetic fields? Aswell as the mechanisms by which some of the stars are losing large amountsof mass (10-7 to 10-4 Msun/yr) to the interstellar medium. Finally I willdiscuss how ALMA long baseline and high frequency data are starting tohelp answer some of the long-standing questions in stellar evolution. [more]

"Cosmological Weak Lensing: Recent Results"

Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Cosmological Weak LensingWeak gravitational lensing is a unique technique to map the distribution of dark matter in the universe. It is also a sensitive probe of large scale structures in the universe and cosmological parameters. I will first briefly describe the principles of weak lensing. I will then review the current observational status of this field, highlighting several new measurements especially from the ongoing Dark Energy Survey (DES). I will then discuss the status of tensions between cosmological probes and results for a new integrated approach to combine them. [more]

"New models for the clumpy obscurer around AGN"

AGN Club

"An ALMA Survey of CO isotopologue emission from Protoplanetary Disks in Chamaeleon I"

Star and Planet Formation

"Gas inflow and outflow in an interacting high-redshift galaxy: The remarkable host environment of GRB 080810 at z=3.35"

ESO/MPA/MPE Gas Matters Club

"Ultra-deep imaging in the nearby Universe: tracing the Magellanic Clouds interaction with telephoto lens"

ESO Informal Discussion

"Observations of young hydrogen-rich supernovae and new instruments to study them"

ESO Lunch Talk
  • Date: Oct 17, 2017
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Adam Rubin
  • Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Location: ESO
  • Room: ESO library
  • Host: ESO

"Determining ground layer turbulence statistics using a SLODAR type method"

Special Seminar

" A Study of the Close Environment of AGN with X-Ray Obscuration"

AGN Club
  • Date: Nov 30, 2017
  • Time: 11:10 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Teng Liu
  • MPE
  • Location: ESO
  • Room: ESO library

"Axisymmetric Dynamical Models of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies"

ESO Lunch Talk

"Oort's file (Part I)"

ESO Informal Discussion

"Introduction to Gravitational Lensing"

KES: Knowledge Exchange Series

"Gravitational wave emission and their multi-messenger signals"

Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium

"On-sky closed loop correction of atmospheric dispersion for high-contrast coronagraphy and astrometry"

ESO Special Seminar

MUSE reveals metal-enriched absorbers in the circum- galactic medium (CGM) of a radio galaxy at z=2.9

ESO/MPA/MPE 'Gas Matters' Club

"Explosive Nucleosynthesis in Core Collapse Supernovae"

KES: Knowledge Exchange Series
  • Date: Apr 8, 2019
  • Time: 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Marco Limongi
  • (INAF, Oss. Astr. di Roma)
  • Location: ESO
  • Room: ESO library
  • Host: ESO

"Using sub-millimeter surveys to look for proto-brown dwarf candidates"

ESO Lunch Talk
  • Date: Apr 9, 2019
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Oscar Morata
  • currently ESO visitor
  • Location: ESO
  • Room: ESO library
  • Host: ESO

"How much does the Milky Weigh?"

ESO Informal Discussion

"Predictions of the Pseudo-Complex Theory of Gravity for EHT Observations: Observational Tests"

AGN Club

"Quasar-driven winds in galaxy formation"

Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; } Quasars are now thought to have made critical impact on galaxy formation. Feedback from accretion onto supermassive black holes is frequently implicated in establishing the black hole mass vs galaxy bulge correlations and in limiting the maximal mass of galaxies. In this talk, I will review the indirect evidence for quasar feedback as required by galaxy formation models. I will then review the recent progress on detecting direct evidence for quasar-driven outflows and other types of feedback through multi-wavelength observations. These data may provide direct observational evidence for one of the long-standing paradigms in galaxy formation. [more]

"The role of cluster age on the onset of multiple populations in stellar clusters

ESO Informal Discussion

A characteristic optical variability timescale in accretion disks

ESO AGN Coffee

Phasing the JWST

ESO Special Talk
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