Major surveys with MPIA involvement
Joint endeavours
Pan-STARRS 1 MPIA Co-PIs: Thomas Henning, Hans-Walter Rix |
Planet and Star Formation Department
SEEDS - Strategic Explorations of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru MPIA Co-PI: Thomas Henning |
LEECH - The LBTI Exozodi Exoplanet Common Hunt LEECH is a ~100 night exoplanet imaging survey that uses the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) and the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI) to search for exoplanets around nearby stars. LEECH uses mid-infrared light, where cool, low-mass planets emit most of their light, and adaptive optics performance is superb. |
HAT-South HAT-South is a collaboration among the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, the Princeton University, the Australian National University, and the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. It consists of a network of six identical, fully automated wide field telescopes, located at three sites in the Southern hemisphere. |
THOR THOR (The HI/OH/Recombination line survey of the Milky Way) is a large program at the VLA to study cloud formation, HI to H2 conversion and feedback processes. This survey of the northern part of the Milky Way (90 square degrees), at a spatial resolution of 15''-20'', observes the atomic, molecular and ionized gas in tracers of HI, OH, radio recombination lines and the cm continuum emission. PI: Henrik Beuther |
CORE The large PdBI program CORE addresses the "Fragmentation and disk formation during high-mass star formation''. For the first time, a northern hemisphere sample will be studied at the highest spatial resolution (0.2-0.3'') in (sub)mm continuum and line emission to investigate the fragmentation processes, disk formation, infall and accretion rates as well as the chemical evolution during the (high-mass) star formation processes. PI: Henrik Beuther |