Tim Schulze-Hartung

Diploma Thesis

In the course of my diploma thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, I started to develop BASE, a computer program helping astronomers to find extrasolar planets (or exoplanets) and characterise their orbits based on radial-velocity data from spectroscopy of their corresponding host stars.
BASE has been tested on synthetic and real data. I have derived the models for both the astrometric and radial-velocity observables and laid the foundation for an extension of the program to such data.

Ph.D. Thesis

In my Ph.D. thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, supervised by Dr. Ralf Launhardt, Prof. Dr. Thomas Henning and Prof. Dr. Andreas Quirrenbach, I work on the combined treatment of radial-velocity and astrometric data. In an upcoming article, we will introduce BASE and apply it to data of the well-known binary Mizar A.