Emission lines from the simulated interstellar medium

Emission lines from the simulated interstellar medium
Cool circumgalactic gas in galaxy clusters

Cool circumgalactic gas in galaxy clusters
Galaxies light up hydrogen halos around neighbouring galaxies

Galaxies light up hydrogen halos around neighbouring galaxies
Gravitational wave sources in quadruple-star systems

Gravitational wave sources in quadruple-star systems
Relieving the Hubble tension with Early Dark Energy

Relieving the Hubble tension with Early Dark Energy
JWST reveals highly distant galaxies behind a known gravitational magnifier

JWST reveals highly distant galaxies behind a known gravitational magnifier
Peculiar white dwarf mergers

Peculiar white dwarf mergers
New analysis strengthens the hint of new physics in polarized radiation from the early Universe 

New analysis strengthens the hint of new physics in polarized radiation from the early Universe
 

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Max Planck Medal for Rashid Sunyaev

Max Planck Medal for Rashid Sunyaev

November 22, 2022

On November 17, the German Physical Society announced that it will award the Max Planck Medal, its highest award in Theoretical Physics, to Rashid Sunyaev. Thus the DPG honours “his numerous and fundamental contributions to relativistic astrophysics and to cosmology, in particular for the theoretical prediction of experimentally observed changes in the spectrum of cosmic background radiation passing through galaxy clusters.”
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The infinitely small or the infinitely large?

The infinitely small or the infinitely large?

November 21, 2022

Even though her first interest was in the tiny scales of particle physics, Daniela Galárraga-Espinosa decided to go to the other extreme and study galaxies and the large-scale structure of the Universe.
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Eiichiro Komatsu receives 2022 Nishina Memorial Prize

Eiichiro Komatsu receives 2022 Nishina Memorial Prize

November 11, 2022

The Nishina Memorial Foundation announced this week that Professor Eiichiro Komatsu, director at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, receives the most prestigious Japanese physics award. The Nishina Memorial Prize is presented annually, honoring outstanding Japanese scientists who have made substantial contributions to physics research. Komatsu receives the prestigious award for his “contributions to the standard cosmology based on the cosmic microwave background”. The award will be presented during a ceremony in Tokyo on 6 December 2022.
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Quantum Chromodynamics at Five Trillion Degrees Kelvin

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The Hunt for Lensed Quasars and Weak-Line Active Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn

from 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)

A walk through the world of chiral dynamics.

from 05:15 PM to 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)

Modeling UV-Driven Chemistry in Protoplanetary Disks with Constraints from HST’s ULLYSES Program

from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)

Title 1: "Large-Scale Structure Formation with Dispersion and Higher Cumulants"; Title 2: "Investigating the Nonlinear Structure and Linear Dynamics of Cosmic Voids"

from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Molecular gas in HI-absorption-selected galaxies at z~2

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Sensitivity of Euclid strong lens observations to dark matter substructure

from 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)

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JWST Commissioning - From First Light to First Science

from 10:45 AM to 11:45 AM (Local Time Germany)

Puzzles in galaxy scaling relations

from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Planetary Population Synthesis and the Emergence of Four Classes of Planetary System Architectures

from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Weakly Supervised Variational Autoencoder with HARPS

from 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Title 1: "Ly-alpha radiative transfer for spatially resolved Ly-alpha spectra from T-Tauri star, TW Hydrae"; Title 2: " Ly-alpha Scattering in T Tauri Systems: Insights from HST's ULLYSES Program"

from 02:00 PM to 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)

A large (~1 pc) contracting envelope around the prestellar core L1544

from 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Star cluster formation, feedback and evolution across cosmic times

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How well-intentioned white male physicists maintain ignorance of inequality and justify inaction

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Star cluster formation, feedback and evolution across cosmic times

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Top Physics - Precision for Discoveries

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The Gaia mission, Gaia DR3, and science highlights from the Gaia data releases

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3D Global Radiative GRMHD models of Strongly Magnetized Accretion Flows

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Star cluster formation, feedback and evolution across cosmic times

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Dec 8, 2022 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
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Top Physics - Precision for Discoveries

Dec 8, 2022 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
TUM, Garching, Room: TUM Physics Department Garching HS 3 and via zoom

The Gaia mission, Gaia DR3, and science highlights from the Gaia data releases

Dec 8, 2022 03:15 PM - 04:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
ESO Auditorium "Telescopium" and online

3D Global Radiative GRMHD models of Strongly Magnetized Accretion Flows

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The infinitely small or the infinitely large?

The infinitely small or the infinitely large?

November 21, 2022

Even though her first interest was in the tiny scales of particle physics, Daniela Galárraga-Espinosa decided to go to the other extreme and study galaxies and the large-scale structure of the Universe.
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Note due to corona:Contacting MPA

Note due to corona:
Contacting MPA

Because of Covid and to protect MPA employees, (large) public events continue to be suspended. External guests are subject to the 3G rule and need to proof their compliance on entering the MPA building.
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Prof. Dr. Volker Springel

Scientific Members, Kollegium, Directors
Prof. Dr. Selma E. de Mink
Prof. Dr. Guinevere Kauffmann
Prof. Dr. Eiichiro Komatsu
Prof. Dr. Volker Springel

Emeritus Directors
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hillebrandt
Prof. Dr. Rashid Sunyaev
Prof. Dr. Simon White

External Scientific Members
Prof. Dr. Rolf-Peter Kudritzki
Prof. Dr. Werner Tscharnuter

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Pia Fischhaber

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