Astronomers from the Remeis Observatory have studied the X-ray emission from a massive young star cluster that acts as a Galactic particle accelerator Our home galaxy, and consequently Earth too, is submerged in a continuous stream of charged particles known as cosmic rays. These particles can reach...
Remeis Researchers have discovered the leftovers of two stellar explosions in the outskirts of our neighbor galaxy, using ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite. When the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton pointed its telescope at two unidentified sources of light in the outskirts of the Large Magellanic ...
Researchers at the Remeis-Observatory have discovered X-rays from a star which exploded more than 130 years ago. Ernst Hartwig was a German astronomer who became the first director of the Dr Karl Remeis Observatory when it was founded in 1889. Professionally, he became known for the discovery of the...
Astronomers from the Remeis Observatory Bamberg have published the most detailed X-ray map of exploded stars in our neighbor galaxy to date. The work led by Federico Zangrandi, PhD student in the multiwavelength group led by Prof. Manami Sasaki, used data by the SRG/eROSITA telescope. This telescope...
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-...
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...
