Researchers led by PhD student Caroline Collischon in the group of Manami Sasaki at the Remeis Observatory have introduced a new way of describing shapes in the night sky. In their recent paper on “Morphometry on the sphere” published in Communications Physics, they adapted a set of powe...
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has awarded Martin Mayer a research fellowship within their Walter-Benjamin Programme. Dr. Martin Mayer, who has been in the Multiwavelength group at the Remeis Observatory since October 2023, is a postdoctoral researcher, working on hot interstellar medium,...
Since 2021, the DFG research unit “eRO-STEP” (eROSITA studies of Stellar Endpoints) has been investigating astrophysical sources of X-ray emission, focusing in particular on compact objects (white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes) and hot gas in the interstellar medium. The SRG/eRO...
The third brightest star in the constellation Columba (Gamma Columbae), about 900 light years from Earth kept a sectret – which has now been disclosed by Dr. Andreas Irrgang from the Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory in Bamberg in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Norbert Przybilla, a former Remeis astro...
German observatories host a heritage of astronomical observations stored on historical photographic plates that show the starry sky (see Fig. 1). Together with the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam and the Universities of Hamburg and Tartu (Estonia), scientists at the Dr. Remeis-Sternwarte ...
Our PhD-student Caroline Collischon published a paper titled “Tracking down the origin of superbubbles and supergiant shells in the Magellanic Clouds with Minkowski tensor analysis”. In collaboration with Prof. Dr. Klaus Mecke of the Institute of Theoretical Physics, an automatic bubble-...
Joern Wilms, who is a professor at the Friedrich-Alexander University and leading the X-ray astronomy group at the Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory since 2006, has received a promotion by the FAU president Joachim Hornegger. He has now the status of a full professor. Prof. Joern Wilms received this well-...
Supernovae type Ia are very important standard candles for distances in the universe, as they are very bright. Since the mechanism will produce an explosion of a certain luminosity the brightness of the event observed from earth will immediately give a glimpse at the distance of the supernova. In or...
Nearly two years after launch, the eROSITA consortium, in which the observatory is heavily involved, will have its first data release. This release, called early data release (EDR), will include the calibration and science verification observations. These observations were carried out between Septem...
The large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is the largest satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The LMC is home to many interesting objects such as SN1987A or the nebula 30 Doradus. Also known as the Tarantula nebula, 30 Doradus is an emission nebula and one of the largest and most active...
