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Dr. Florian Niederhofer

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I am currently a postdoc at the AIP working in the 'Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo' group led by Maria-Rosa Cioni.

Scientific Interests:

  • Magellanic Clouds
  • Proper motion measurements of stars
  • Dynamical Studies of stellar populations
  • Star clusters and globular clusters

My current research work is focused on dynamical studies of star clusters within the Large Magellanic Cloud. This project is funded by my own DLR research grant.

Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
Postdoctoral Researcher
Office: LH/1-03
Phone: +49 331 7499 314
fniederhofernothing@aip.de

Leibniz-Institut
für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)
An der Sternwarte 16
14482 Potsdam

Previous projects at the AIP included measurements of the proper motions of both Magellanic Clouds and the characterisation of large scale dynamical structures within the galaxies, using mainly data from the VISTA near-infrared survey of the Magellanic Cloud system (VMC).

Before I came to Potsdam, I was a postdoc at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore with Nate Bastian, where I studied the multiple population phenomenon in star clusters within the Magellanic Clouds.

I obtained my Diploma in Physics and my Ph.D. in Astrophysics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich under the supervision of Markus Kissler-Patig and Barbara Ercolano.

During that time I also spent three years at the European Southern Observatory in Garching.

Publications

Publications at NASA ADS: ADS library

Latest refereed publications, retrieved from NASA ADS:

Hubble Space Telescope proper motions of Large Magellanic Cloud star clusters: I. Catalogues and results for NGC 1850
Niederhofer, F., ... Kacharov, N., ... Cioni, M.-R. L., ..., 2024
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 689, A162; published September 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202450255, NASA ADS
The effects of stellar rotation along the main sequence of the 100-Myr-old massive cluster NGC 1850
Kamann, S., ... Niederhofer, F., ..., 2023
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518, 1, 1505; published January 2023
doi:10.1093/mnras/stac3170, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
The VMC survey. XLV. Proper motion of the outer LMC and the impact of the SMC
Schmidt, T., Cioni, M.-R. L., Niederhofer, F., ... Bell, C. P. M., ... El Youssoufi, D., ..., 2022
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 663, A107; published July 2022
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202142148, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
The VMC survey - XLVI. Stellar proper motions in the centre of the Large Magellanic Cloud
Niederhofer, F., Cioni, M.-R. L., Schmidt, T., ..., 2022
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512, 4, 5423; published June 2022
doi:10.1093/mnras/stac712, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
Presence of red giant population in the foreground stellar substructure of the Small Magellanic Cloud
James, D., ... Omkumar, A. O., ... Cioni, M.-R. L., ... El Youssoufi, D., ... Niederhofer, F., ..., 2021
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508, 4, 5854; published December 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab2873, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
The VMC survey - XLIV: mapping metallicity trends in the large magellanic cloud using near-infrared passbands
Choudhury, S., ... Cioni, M.-R. L., ... Miller, A. E., Niederhofer, F., ..., 2021
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 507, 4, 4752; published November 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab2446, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
Role of host galaxy in the formation of multiple stellar populations: analysis of NGC 1786 and NGC 1898
Vanaraj, V., Niederhofer, F., Goudfrooij, P., 2021
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 507, 1, 282; published October 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab2094, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
Stellar substructures in the periphery of the Magellanic Clouds with the VISTA hemisphere survey from the red clump and other tracers
El Youssoufi, D., Cioni, M.-R. L., Bell, C. P. M., ... Matijevĭc, G., Niederhofer, F., ... Schmidt, T., ..., 2021
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 505, 2, 2020; published August 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab1075, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
The VMC survey - XLI. Stellar proper motions within the Small Magellanic Cloud
Niederhofer, F., Cioni, M.-R. L., ... Schmidt, T., ... Matijevĭc, G., ... Bell, C. P. M., ... El Youssoufi, D., ..., 2021
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 502, 2, 2859; published April 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/stab206, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
Gaia view of a stellar sub-structure in front of the Small Magellanic Cloud
Omkumar, A. O., ... Niederhofer, F., ... Cioni, M.-R. L., El Youssoufi, D., ..., 2021
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 500, 3, 2757; published January 2021
doi:10.1093/mnras/staa3085, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo