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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.
Theoretical
Astrophysics
Instrumentation
for earthbound observatories
Development of instrumentation
for the Calar Alto telescopes, the ESO Very Large Telescope.
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ALFA:
Adaptive Optics
LAICA: Wide-field
CCD Camera
W
2000:
Wide-field
IR Camera
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LUCIFER:
IR spectrograph
LINC/NIRVANA: High resolution camera
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CONICA:
Diffraction limited IR camera
MIDI: 10µm
Interferometry
PARSEC: LASER for adaptive optics for the VLT
Planet Finder: |
IR Space Observatories
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ESA's Infrared-Space-Observatory. |
Camera/spectrometer
instrument PACS for HERSCHEL far IR satellite observatory of
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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
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