Research activities

 

 


 

Stellar and Planetary Formation

Interstellar medium, molecular cloud fragmentation, proto stars, young binary systems and stellar clusters, circumstellar disks, Outflows from Young Stars, Brown Dwarfs, extrasolar planets, lab astronomy, IR-Interferometry, Adaptive Optics.

 

Galaxies and Cosmology

 

Theoretical Astrophysics

 

Instrumentation for earthbound observatories

Development of instrumentation for the Calar Alto telescopes, the ESO Very Large Telescope.

 ALFA:     Adaptive Optics
 LAICA:   Wide-field CCD Camera
 W 2000: Wide-
field IR Camera

 LUCIFER:           IR spectrograph
 LINC/NIRVANA: High resolution camera
 CONICA:  Diffraction limited IR camera
 MIDI:         10µm Interferometry
 PARSEC: LASER for adaptive optics for the VLT
 Planet Finder:

 


IR Space Observatories

 ISO: ESA's Infrared-Space-Observatory.  Camera/spectrometer instrument  PACS for HERSCHEL far IR satellite  observatory of ESA.  NGST: Next Generation Space Telescope
 A-Study of the Mid-Infrared Instrument  MIRI.


Frontiers of Interferometry in Germany FrinGe


Collaboration with other institutes

European star formation network (ESFON)
European Network on Adaptive Optics with Extremely Large Telescopes (OPTICON)
SFB Nr. 439 - Galaxies in the early universe


Responsible: Jakob Staude
Last updated: February 27, 2004