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27AUG 2021
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Tracking superbubbles and supergiant shells in the Magellanic Clouds
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-recognition routine based on Minkowski functionals (MF) and tensors (MT) was developed to detect bubble-like […]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-recognition routine based on Minkowski functionals (MF) and tensors (MT) was developed to detect bubble-like […]
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13JUL 2021
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A teardrop as a supernova progenitor
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 order to understand these processes in […]
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25JUN 2021
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eROSITA EDR
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 September and December 2019 before eROSITA started its planned all-sky survey. The EDR includes […]
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19APR 2021
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Colliding clouds in the LMC
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 star forming regions in the […]
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19FEB 2021
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Black hole mass in Cygnus X-1 higher than previously thought
The first black hole ever discovered in our Galaxy is part of the high-mass X-ray binary Cygnus X-1. This system consist of two components, the blue giant star HD 226868 and a black hole. Previously, the distance was thought to be around 6100 lightyears, which indicated that the black hole has a mass of around […]
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11DEC 2020
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Detection of large-scale eROSITA bubbles in the halo of the Milky way
The first all-sky survey by the eROSITA X-ray telescope revealed the entire X-ray Universe with unprecedented detail in June 2020. The study of one particularly interesting feature, the large-scale “eROSITA bubbles” in the halo of the Milky Way, has now been published in Nature. What has been named “eROSITA bubbles” are large-scale structures in the […]
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