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The Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) is dedicated to astrophysical questions ranging from the exploration of our Sun to the evolution of the cosmos. It focuses on the study of cosmic magnetic fields, extragalactic astrophysics and the development of research technologies in the fields of spectroscopy, robotic telescopes and E-science.

President Ram Chandra Paudel
Piece of a rock, grey-white colour, meteorite Ribbeck
Two men shaking hands with satisfaction
MUSE Ultra Deep Field
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President of Nepal visited the Telegrafenberg

On June 16, 2024, the President of Nepal, Ram Chandra Paudel, visited the research institutes on the Telegrafenberg in Potsdam.

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Meteorite discovery near Ribbeck: Virtual lecture from the Babelsberg Starry Nights on 20th June 2024

On 21 January 2024, an asteroid struck Ribbeck near Nauen in Brandenburg. Dr Jürgen Rendtel from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) was one of the meteorite searchers and found some fragments himself. In his lecture, which will be broadcast from Thursday, 20 June 2024 on the YouTube channel “Urknall, Weltall und das Leben” (Big Bang, Universe and Life), he reports on the discovery, the search for the fragments and the peculiarities of the meteorite (in German).

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ESO signs agreement for ANDES instrument on the ELT

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has signed an agreement for the design and construction of ANDES, the ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph. The ANDES instrument will be installed on ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT).

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Research Area II: Extragalactic Astrophysics

Galaxies are fundamental cosmic building blocks. At the largest scales, they serve as markers to study the distribution of matter in the universe - active galaxies and quasars are particularly important because of their intrinsic brightness. Nearby objects can be spatially resolved and consist of populations with very different patterns of motion, star formation histories and chemical abundances.

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Research Area I: Cosmic Magnetic Fields

Cosmic events are determined by two natural forces: gravity and magnetic fields. The magnetic field research at the AIP is mainly focused on magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations, the magnetically induced activities on the Sun and the stars, solar coronaphysics as well as space weather in our solar system and on planets around other stars.

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President Ram Chandra Paudel

President of Nepal visited the Telegrafenberg
June 19, 2024

On June 16, 2024, the President of Nepal, Ram Chandra Paudel, visited the research institutes on the Telegrafenberg in Potsdam.

[more]
Piece of a rock, grey-white colour, meteorite Ribbeck

Virtual Babelsberg Starry Night on 20 June 2024 on the meteorite discovery near Ribbeck
June 18, 2024

On 21 January 2024, an asteroid struck Ribbeck near Nauen in Brandenburg. Dr Jürgen Rendtel from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) was one of the meteorite searchers and found some fragments himself. In his lecture, which will be broadcast from Thursday, 20 June 2024 on the YouTube channel “Urknall, Weltall und das Leben” (Big Bang, Universe and Life), he reports on the discovery, the search for the fragments and the peculiarities of the meteorite (in German).

[more]
Two men shaking hands with satisfaction

ESO signs agreement for ANDES instrument on the ELT
June 5, 2024

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has signed an agreement for the design and construction of ANDES, the ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph. The ANDES instrument will be installed on ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT).

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Latest Publications

Observational Predictions for the Survival of Atomic Hydrogen in Simulated Fornax-like Galaxy Clusters

Chaturvedi, A. et al.
The Astrophysical Journal, 969, 1, 28 – Published July 2024
doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad43dd, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: Galaxies and Quasars

New quasars behind the Magellanic Clouds. II. Spectroscopic confirmation of 136 near-infrared selected candidates

Ivanov, V. D., Cioni, M.-R. L., ...
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 687, A16 – Published July 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202346504, NASA ADS

LMC stars and where to find them: inferring birth radii for external galaxies

Lu, Y., ... Ratcliffe, B., Minchev, I., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532, 1, 411 – Published July 2024
doi:10.1093/mnras/stae1509, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: Milky Way and the Local Volume

UVIT Study of the MAgellanic Clouds (U-SMAC) - I. Recent star formation history and kinematics of the Shell region in the north-eastern Small Magellanic Cloud

Hota, S., Subramaniam, A., Dhanush, S. R., Cioni, M.-R. L., Subramanian, S.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532, 1, 322 – Published July 2024
doi:10.1093/mnras/stae1438, NASA ADS

Introducing the BRAHMA simulation suite: signatures of low-mass black hole seeding models in cosmological simulations

Bhowmick, A. K., ... Weinberger, R., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 531, 4, 4311 – Published July 2024
doi:10.1093/mnras/stae1386, NASA ADS

Galaxy Spectra neural Network (GaSNet). II. Using Deep Learning for Spectral Classification and Redshift Predictions

Zhong, F., ... Guiglion, G., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society – Published June 2024
doi:10.1093/mnras/stae1461, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: Milky Way and the Local Volume

JWST observations of galaxy damping wings during reionization interpreted with cosmological simulations

Keating, L. C., ... Puchwein, E., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society – Published June 2024
doi:10.1093/mnras/stae1530, NASA ADS

On the Determining Physical Factor of Jet-related Coronal Mass Ejections' Morphology in the High Corona

Duan, Y., Shen, Y., Tang, Z., Zhou, C., Tan, S.
The Astrophysical Journal, 968, 2, 110 – Published June 2024
doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad445c, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: Solar Physics

Broad and Bidirectional Narrow Quasiperiodic Fast-propagating Wave Trains Associated with a Filament-driven Halo Coronal Mass Ejection on 2023 April 21

Zhou, X., ... Tan, S., ...
The Astrophysical Journal, 968, 2, 85 – Published June 2024
doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad4456, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: Solar Physics

The Basic Iterative Deconvolution: A Fast Instrumental Point-Spread Function Deconvolution Method That Corrects for Light That Is Scattered Out of the Field of View of a Detector

Hofmeister, S. J.
Solar Physics, 299, 6, 77 – Published June 2024
doi:10.1007/s11207-024-02321-y, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: Solar Physics

MINCE. II. Neutron capture elements

François, P., ... Steffen, M., ... Gallagher, A. J., ... Valentini, M.
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 686, A295 – Published June 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202449539, NASA ADS

A too-many dwarf satellite galaxies problem in the MATLAS low-to-moderate density fields

Kanehisa, K. J., Pawlowski, M. S., Heesters, N., Müller, O.
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 686, A280 – Published June 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202348242, NASA ADS

A MUSE view of the core of the giant low-surface-brightness galaxy Malin 1

Johnston, E. J., ... Weilbacher, P. M.
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 686, A247 – Published June 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202348587, NASA ADS

Long-period oscillations in the lower solar atmosphere prior to flare events

Wiśniewska, A., Korsós, M. B., Kontogiannis, I., Soós, S., Erdélyi, R.
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 686, A224 – Published June 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202348606, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: Solar Physics

A universal method for solar filament detection from Hα observations using semi-supervised deep learning

Diercke, A., ... Kuckein, C., ... Denker, C., ...
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 686, A213 – Published June 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202348314, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: Solar Physics

Generation of relativistic electrons at the termination shock in the solar flare region

Mann, G., Veronig, A. M., Schuller, F.
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 686, A207 – Published June 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202449162, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: Solar Physics

The SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey. Tracing the large-scale structure with a clustering study of galaxy clusters

Seppi, R., ... Krumpe, M.
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 686, A196 – Published June 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202348843, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: X-ray Astronomy

The dependence of the magnetism of a near-limb sunspot on height

Benko, M., Balthasar, H., Gömöry, P., Kuckein, C., González Manrique, S. J.
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 686, A194 – Published June 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202348617, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: Solar Physics

Discovery of the magnetic cataclysmic variable XMM J152737.4-205305.9 with a deep eclipse-like feature

Ok, S., Schwope, A., Buckley, D. A. H., Brink, J.
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 686, A175 – Published June 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202449511, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: X-ray Astronomy

Populating the Milky Way. Characterising planet demographics by combining galaxy formation simulations and planet population synthesis models

Boettner, C., ... Libeskind, N., ...
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 686, A167 – Published June 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202449557, NASA ADS

ASTRAEUS. IX. Impact of an evolving stellar initial mass function on early galaxies and reionisation

Cueto, E. R., ... Gottlöber, S., ...
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 686, A138 – Published June 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202349017, NASA ADS

Compact white dwarf binaries in the combined SRG/eROSITA/SDSS eFEDS survey

Schwope, A., Kurpas, J., Baecke, P., Knauff, K., Stütz, L., Tubín-Arenas, D., Standke, A., ...
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 686, A110 – Published June 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202348426, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: X-ray Astronomy

The Low-mass Stellar Initial Mass Function in Nearby Ultrafaint Dwarf Galaxies

Filion, C., ... Sacchi, E.
The Astrophysical Journal, 967, 2, 165 – Published June 2024
doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad4020, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: Supercomputing and E-Science

The impact of AGN X-ray selection on the AGN halo occupation distribution

Powell, M. C., Krumpe, M., Coil, A., Miyaji, T.
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 686, A57 – Published June 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202349092, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: Galaxies and Quasars, X-ray Astronomy

Discovery of a dormant 33 solar-mass black hole in pre-release Gaia astrometry

Gaia Collaboration, ... Weingrill, K., ... Enke, H., ... Mints, A., ... Mudimadugula, R., ... Trentin, E., ...
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 686, L2 – Published June 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202449763, NASA ADS

Detection of extragalactic magnetic massive stars

Hubrig, S., ... Järvinen, S. P., ...
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 686, L4 – Published June 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202449793, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: Stellar Physics and Exoplanets

A 500 pc volume-limited sample of hot subluminous stars. I. Space density, scale height, and population properties

Dawson, H., ... Soemitro, A. A., Roth, M. M., ...
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 686, A25 – Published June 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202348319, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: Astrophotonics (innoFSPEC)

An Eccentric Planet Orbiting the Polar V808 Aurigae

Leichty, M., ... Schwope, A., Kurpas, J., ...
The Astrophysical Journal, 967, 2, 81 – Published June 2024
doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad3bac, NASA ADS
AIP sections/groups: X-ray Astronomy

Fritz Krause (1927-2024)

Rüdiger, G.
Astronomische Nachrichten, 345, 5, e20240048 – Published June 2024
doi:10.1002/asna.20240048, NASA ADS

Exploring the directly imaged HD 1160 system through spectroscopic characterization and high-cadence variability monitoring

Sutlieff, B. J., ... Ilyin, I., ... Strassmeier, K. G., ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 531, 1, 2168 – Published June 2024
doi:10.1093/mnras/stae1315, NASA ADS

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Events and dates at AIP

Colloquium: E. Spitoni (Trieste)
04.07.2024, 14:00 – 16:00
Scientific
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Virtual Babelsberg Starry Night
19.07.2024, 20:00 – 21:00
Public Event

Talk (in German): Neues aus der Sonnenumgebung - Braune Zwerge (Ralf-Dieter Scholz)

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