Astronomer Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy Millimeter & Submillimeter Astronomy Group (staff scientist submm division)

Auf dem Huegel 69

53121 Bonn (Germany)

eMail: hwiese[at]mpifr.de

Phone: +49 228 525 346

Fax: +49 228 525 229

Created:
Tuesday Jan 13 16:33 CEST 2009
Last modified:
Friday Oct 21 10:14 CEST 2010

Helmut Wiesemeyer

Research Projects:

Shock structures and excitation conditions in Supernova remnants (collaborators: A. Gusdorf, R. Guesten)

Correlation polarimetry for the 30m telescope (collaborators: C. Thum, D. Morris, G. Paubert, et al.)

Magnetic fields in the envelopes of AGB stars (collaborators: F. Herpin, A. Baudry, C. Thum),
in infrared dark clouds (collaborators: F. Poidevin, C. Vastel, P. Bastien), and in
globular filaments (collaborators: F. Boulanger, F. Pajot, R. Guesten)

Magnetic fluctuations in the atmospheres of SiO stars (collaborators: C. Thum, A. Baudry, F. Herpin)

Polarization standards for CMB polarization experiments (Planck satellite core team working group 6)

Polarized radiative transfer, maser theory

Transient phenomena in astrophysics:
Galactic Center monitoring (coll. A. Eckart et al.),
flux variations in protoplanetary disks (coll. M. Fernandez,IAA Granada, F. Kerschbaum, Univ. Wien, et al.),
polarization monitoring of active galactic nuclei (coll. I. Agudo, C. Thum)

Former occupational tasks:

Organization of two IRAM interferometry schools,

Managing the HERA observing pool,

Author of the data processing software MIRA,

Commissioning of receivers (e.g. HERA and EMIR), polarimeters (e.g. XPOL), and spectrometers for the 30m telescope,

Astronomer on duty at the IRAM 30m telescope and Plateau de Bure interferometer.