Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Zentrum für Astronomie (ZAH)
Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik
Address
Albert-Ueberle-Straße 2
69120 Heidelberg
Deutschland
GERiT
This institution in GERiT
69120 Heidelberg
Projects
Research Grants
Current projects
GROOVHY: Gravitational radiation from black holes’ hyperbolic mergers
(Applicant
Bernuzzi, Sebastiano
)
Interferometric Observations of Benchmark Stars for Calibrating Large Stellar Surveys of the Milky Way
(Applicant
Karovicova, Ph.D., Iva
)
Physical description of turbulent and gravitationally bound structures in molecular clouds in relation to the modeling of the general cloud structure
(Applicant
Klessen, Ph.D., Ralf
)
Stars, dust, and gas: evolution and impact of young star clusters in nearby galaxies in the era of JWST
(Applicants
Klessen, Ph.D., Ralf
;
Schinnerer, Eva
)
The formation of dormant black hole binaries: a key to mass transfer and stellar dynamics
(Applicant
Mapelli, Michela
)
Completed projects
3D Computermodelle zur Dynamik von magnetischen Flußringen in Akkretionsscheiben
(Applicant
Ulmschneider, Peter
)
Clustered Star Formation on various scales. An extensive panchromatic stellar survey of star-forming galaxies in the Local Group with the Hubble Space Telescope
(Applicant
Gouliermis, Dimitrios
)
Formation and Evolution of Protostellar Disks in Young Star Clusters: Implications for the Origin of Binary Stars and Substellar Objects
(Applicant
Klessen, Ph.D., Ralf
)
FUV-Driven Photoevaporation of protoplanetary Disks
(Applicant
Dullemond, Cornelis Petrus
)
Investigation of the dust formation and violent mass loss of evolved stars
(Applicant
Karovicova, Ph.D., Iva
)
Protostellare Ausflüsse und Interstellare Turbulenz
(Applicant
Klessen, Ph.D., Ralf
)
The Anatomy of Stellar Nurseries
(Applicant
Hony, Ph.D., Sacha
)
The Initial Mass Function in Star-forming Regions in the Magellanic Clouds
(Applicant
Gouliermis, Dimitrios
)
Zeitabhängigkeit der Atmosphärenstruktur von M-Typ Mira-Variablen
(Applicant
Scholz, Michael
)
Priority Programmes
Completed projects
Chondrule formation: Nebular gas confinement of impact splashes
(Applicant
Dullemond, Cornelis Petrus
)
Common Funds for SPP 1573
(Applicant
Burkert, Andreas
)
Composition of planets with an N-body-Monte-Carlo approach
(Applicant
Dullemond, Cornelis Petrus
)
Development and physical reason of IR spectral features during condensation and solid phase reactions of Fe-Mg silicate systems: IR studies focused on non-stoichiometric silicates
(Applicants
Dohmen, Ralf
;
Gail, Hans-Peter
;
Pucci, Annemarie
;
Tamanai, Akemi
)
Effekte der Selbstgravitation bei viskosen protostellaren Scheiben - Theorie und Modellierung
(Applicant
Riffert, Harald
)
Effekte der Selbstgravitation bei viskosen protostellaren Scheiben - Theorie und Modellierung
(Applicant
Tscharnuter, Werner M.
)
Evolution of the Early Solar Nebula: Isotopic Fractionation and Dynamical Processes
(Applicant
Semenov, Dmitry
)
Fast and versatile diagnostic radiative transfer of 3-D models of the ISM
(Applicant
Dullemond, Cornelis Petrus
)
HII regions and triggered star formation in the turbulent ISM
(Applicant
Naab, Thorsten
)
Linienspektren für kollabierende Objekte
(Applicant
Wehrse, Rainer
)
Modelling the internal constitution and thermal evolution of planetesimals and applications to geochronology
(Applicant
Gail, Hans-Peter
)
Origin of volatiles and organics on Earth, IDPs, meteorites, and comets
(Applicant
Semenov, Dmitry
)
Pebble accretion and the composition of exoplanets
(Applicants
Birnstiel, Tilman
;
Dullemond, Cornelis Petrus
)
Predicting star formation and metal enrichment in quasars for high-redshift ALMA observations
(Applicant
Klessen, Ph.D., Ralf
)
Protostellare Akkretionsstoßfronten
(Applicant
Gail, Hans-Peter
)
Scales and thresholds in molecular cloud turbulence
(Applicants
Klessen, Ph.D., Ralf
;
Ossenkopf-Okada, Volker
;
Walch-Gassner, Stefanie
)
Spektren kühler Vorhauptreihensterne: Opazitäten und Modellatmosphären
(Applicant
Baschek, Bodo
)
Sternentstehung in Medien mit hoher Verscherung am Beispiel des Galaktischen Zentrums
(Applicant
Duschl, Wolfgang J.
)
The Formation and Evolution of resonant planetary Systems
(Applicants
Dullemond, Cornelis Petrus
;
Schäfer, Christoph
)
The Formation of Prestellar Cores in the ISM
(Applicant
Clark, Paul Campbell
)
The life-cycle of turbulent molecular clouds
(Applicants
Glover, Ph.D., Simon
;
Klessen, Ph.D., Ralf
;
Naab, Thorsten
;
Walch-Gassner, Stefanie
)
The role of water in the process of planet formation
(Applicant
Dullemond, Cornelis Petrus
)
Understanding the Dynamic ISM: A "Big Data'' Comparative Analysis of Models and Observations
(Applicant
Shetty, Rahul
)
Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Groups
Completed projects
Star formation in turbulent interstellar gas clouds
(Applicant
Klessen, Ph.D., Ralf
)
WBP Position
Current projects
From agnosticism to astrophysics: a new approach to non-parametric methods to infer the astrophysical populations of binary black holes from gravitational waves
(Applicant
Rinaldi, Stefano
)
Collaborative Research Centres
Completed projects
Administration of the SFB
(Project Heads
Appenzeller, Immo
;
Duschl, Wolfgang J.
;
Tscharnuter, Werner M.
)
An Astrometric, Photometric, and Spectroscopic Census of Moving Groups and Open Clusters
(Project Heads
Bailer-Jones, Coryn A.L.
;
Grebel, Eva K.
;
Henning, Thomas
;
Klessen, Ph.D., Ralf
;
Pasquali, Anna
;
Permentier, Geneviève
;
Reffert, Sabine
)
Building up the Center of the Milky Way
(Project Heads
Glover, Ph.D., Simon
;
Neumayer née Häring, Nadine
)
Cosmological simulations of the Milky Way’s formation
(Project Heads
Just, Andreas
;
Klessen, Ph.D., Ralf
;
Macciò, Andrea Valerio
;
Pillepich, Ph.D., Annalisa
;
Rix, Hans-Walter
;
Springel, Volker
)
Dust formation by stars and evolution of interstellar dust at low metallicities
(Project Heads
Gail, Hans-Peter
;
Tscharnuter, Werner M.
)
Dynamical evolution of stars and gas in young galaxies
(Project Heads
Gail, Hans-Peter
;
Spurzem, Rainer
)
Energietransport durch Strahlung
(Project Heads
Rannacher, Rolf
;
Wehrse, Rainer
)
Feedback and interstellar turbulence
(Project Heads
Banerjee, Robi Stefan
;
Dullemond, Cornelis Petrus
;
Fendt, Christian
)
Formation and evolution of the first generation of stars
(Project Heads
Duschl, Wolfgang J.
;
Gail, Hans-Peter
;
Tscharnuter, Werner M.
)
Information Infrastructure
(Project Heads
Klessen, Ph.D., Ralf
;
Spurzem, Rainer
;
Wambsganss, Joachim
)
Materieströmungen in Akkretionsscheiben
(Project Heads
Rannacher, Rolf
;
Tscharnuter, Werner M.
)
Modelling and analysis of proto-galactic radiation fields
(Project Heads
Bartelmann, Matthias
;
Wehrse, Rainer
)
Parallel and Many-Core Supercomputing Infrastructure
(Project Heads
Klessen, Ph.D., Ralf
;
Springel, Volker
;
Spurzem, Rainer
)
SFB Administration
(Project Heads
Grebel, Eva K.
;
Klessen, Ph.D., Ralf
;
Thimm, Guido
)
Star Formation and ISM Dynamics in the disk of the Milky Way
(Project Heads
Beuther, Henrik
;
Klessen, Ph.D., Ralf
;
Springel, Volker
;
Spurzem, Rainer
)
The chemical evolution from diffuse clouds to dense cores
(Project Heads
Banerjee, Robi Stefan
;
Beuther, Henrik
;
Dullemond, Cornelis Petrus
)
The Multi-Scale Physics of Star and Cluster Formation — From Molecular Clouds to Stellar Feedback
(Project Heads
Dullemond, Cornelis Petrus
;
Glover, Ph.D., Simon
;
Klessen, Ph.D., Ralf
;
Kruijssen, Diederik
;
Parmentier, Geneviève A.
;
Spurzem, Rainer
)
Research Units
Current projects
FOR 2634: Planet Formation Witnesses and Probes: Transition Discs
(Spokesperson
Ercolano, Ph.D., Barbara
)
From Transition Disks to Debris Disks
(Applicants
Birnstiel, Tilman
;
Dullemond, Cornelis Petrus
)
Completed projects
Evolution of the mineralogical and chemical composition of pre-planetary disks
(Applicant
Tscharnuter, Werner M.
)
FOR 759: The Formation of Planets: The Critical First Growth Phase
(Spokesperson
Kley, Wilhelm
)
Gone with the wind: dust entrainment in photoevaporative winds
(Applicant
Ercolano, Ph.D., Barbara
)
Initial conditions of the birthplaces of planets
(Applicant
Kley, Wilhelm
)
Modeling the evolution of the dust population in protoplanetary disks
(Applicant
Dullemond, Cornelis Petrus
)
Origin of complex non-axisymmetric structures in Type 2 Transition Disks
(Applicant
Dullemond, Cornelis Petrus
)
Thermal annealing of silicates in protoplanetary disks - Laboratory data and modelling
(Applicant
Lattard, Dominique
)
Transition disks and planetary systems
(Applicant
Dullemond, Cornelis Petrus
)
Research Fellowships
Completed projects
Direct determination of effective temperatures for calibrators in the Gaia mission and the Gaia-ESO-Survey
(Applicant
Karovicova, Ph.D., Iva
)
Clusters of Excellence (ExStra)
Current projects
EXC 2181: STRUCTURES: A unifying approach to emergent phenomena in the physical world, mathematics, and complex data
(Spokespersons
Klessen, Ph.D., Ralf
;
Oberthaler, Markus Kurt
;
Salmhofer, Manfred
;
Wienhard, Anna
)
