Coevolution

Fall 2011. Together with Arjen van der Wel we organize the workshop Watching Galaxies Grow Up, from Dec 4.-9. at Ringberg Castle in Bavaria.

20 Oct 2011. It is time to introduce our new group member, Robert Singh, who came to us already in August for a PhD project jointly supervised by Knud and Glenn van de Ven on the topic of "The true nature of LINERs" using data from the CALIFA survey.

12 Oct 2011. Our group member Rene Andrae successfully defended his thesis on the "Alignments of Disc Galaxies" at the Ruperto Carola University of Heidelberg. Rene moves on to postdoctoral research in the Gaia group headed by Coryn Bailer-Jones, also at MPIA.

30 Sep 2011. Press release by MPIA/MPG on our paper on dynamical mass measurements of z=1.3 AGN host galaxy with VLT/SINFONI. Please see the projects page for details and background.

04 Jul 2011. ApJ just accepted our study that for the first time measured The dynamical mass of a z=1.3 AGN host galaxy from VLT/SINFONI NIR integral field spectroscopy.

05 Jan 2011. Press release by the European Space Agency (ESA) and MPIA on the Merging-AGN connection paper. Please see the projects page for details and background.

04 Nov 2010. A paper was just accepted showing that major merger are not the dominant mechanism to fuel black hole growth, at least over the last 8 billion years. No merger-AGN connection since z=1.

04 Jun 2010. New results on the origin of black hole-galaxy scaling relations submitted for publication in ApJ: They are a natural product of galaxy formation without the need for a physical driver. (04/2011: Now accepted and published in ApJ.)

30 Nov 2009. ESO press release on "HE0450-2958: Black Hole Caught Zapping Galaxy into Existence?" Please see our projects page for background.

27 Oct 2009. New paper on the evolution of the MBH-Mstellar-relation over the last 9 Gyrs accepted for publication in ApJL.