Rainer Beck

Staff Astronomer

Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
Auf dem Hügel 69
53121 Bonn

Phone: +49 228 525 323

Fax: +49 228 525 436

Email: rbeck at mpifr-bonn.mpg.de

Scholarpedia article on the Square Kilometre Array with the actual design (2010):

http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Square_kilometre_array

Scholarpedia article on magnetic fields in galaxies:

http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Galactic_Magnetic_Fields

Recent reviews on magnetic fields in galaxies:

bern.pdf

Vortrag "Magnetfelder in Galaxien" an der Universität Tübingen (in German):

Powerpoint Folien: Magnetismus.pdf

Video: Magnetismus.html

LOFAR Activities:

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding a Research Unit on "Magnetisation of Interstellar and Intergalactic Media: The Prospects of Low Frequency Radio Observations"

see: Magnetische Impulse

LOFAR Key Science Project on Cosmic Magnetism:

Webpage: mksp.html

Reviews:

"Towards a New Era of Observing of Cosmic Magnetic Fields" (Review talk given at the ISKAF conference in June 2010): saksen.pdf

"Magnetic Visions" (Review talk given at the Cozumel conference "The Magnetic Universe" in Jan. 2008): cozumel.pdf

"Magnetic Visions" (Talk given at the ASTRONET Symposium in Poitiers Jan. 2007): visions.pdf

"Measurements of Cosmic Magnetism with LOFAR and SKA" (summary of a talk given at the URSI meeting in Miltenberg Sept. 2006): ursi.pdf

LOFAR Meetings:

LOFAR/SKA Splinter Workshop "The Radio Sky: LOFAR to SKA" Bonn 14-15 Sept. 2010: http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/div/meetings/splinter/

LOFAR Conference "Astrophysics with E-LOFAR" Hamburg 16-19 Sept. 2008: http://www.hs.uni-hamburg.de/DE/Ins/Lofar/lofar_workshop/index.html

LOFAR Workshop at the Annual Assembly of the Astronomische Gesellschaft (Köln Sept. 2005): Splinter.html

LOFAR Documents:

LOFAR Webseite des MPIfR (in German): Lofar.html

German LOFAR White Paper (MPIfR 2005): white.paper.pdf

LOFAR in Germany (Talk given at the LOFAR Survey Workshop in Leiden March 2007): GLOW.pdf

Planned LOFAR network in Germany (Article in "Sterne und Weltraum", Sept. 2006, in German): lofar.pdf

Gründung des German Long Wavelength Consortiums GLOW (Pressemitteilung vom 5. Mai 2006, in deutsch): glow.presse.htm

LOFAR in Deutschland (Pressemitteilung vom 7. September 2005, deutsch): lofar.presse.htm

SKA Activities:

LOFAR/SKA Splinter Workshop "The Radio Sky: LOFAR to SKA" Bonn 14-15 Sept. 2010: http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/div/meetings/splinter/

Scholarpedia article on the Square Kilometre Array:

http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Square_kilometre_array

Reviews and papers:

"Towards a New Era of Observing of Cosmic Magnetic Fields" (Review talk given at the ISKAF conference in June 2010): saksen.pdf

"Magnetism in Nearby Galaxies, Propects with the SKA, and Synergies with the E-ELT" (Review talk given at the Crete conference "Astronomy with Megastructures" in May 2010): crete.pdf

"Wide Field Polarimetry and Cosmic Magnetism" (Review talk given at the Limelette SKADS conference in Nov. 2009): limelette.pdf

"Magnetic Visions" (Review talk given at the Cozumel conference "The Magnetic Universe" in Jan. 2008): cozumel.pdf

SKA Artikel in "Sterne und Weltraum", Sep. 2006 (in German): ska.suw.pdf

"Revealing Cosmic Magnetism with the SKA" (Review talk given at the 10th Paris Cosmology Colloquium Oct. 2006): SKA.magnetism.beck.pdf

SKADS Polarization Simulations (talk at the B-POL workshop in Paris Oct. 2006): SKADS.beck.pdf

Pressebericht über LOFAR/SKA Vortrag (Nordenham Oct. 2006, in German): nordenham.beck.jpg

"The Magnetic Universe" - one of the "Key Science" Projects for the SKA; see: magnetism.pdf

"The Milky Way and nearby galaxies observable with the SKA" (from the SKA Science Case Book): magnetism_galaxies.pdf

International SKA conference "The Origin and Evolution of Cosmic Magnetism", Bologna 29 Aug - 2 Sep 2005:

http://www.ira.cnr.it/~magnetic/

- the Proceedings were published as Vol. 327 of the Astronomische Nachrichten (Astronomical Notes)

The organizers: Bryan Gaensler, Luigina Feretti and Rainer Beck

"The Origin of magnetic fields in galaxies" (talk given at the conference "The Origin and Evolution of Cosmic Magnetism" in Bologna 2005): bologna.pdf

Fields of Interest and Research:

Magnetic fields in galaxies (spiral, barred, irregular, clusters) - see my reviews: texas10.pdf , review.naxos10 , crete10.pdf , review.tenerife.pdf , review.bern.pdf , review.espinho.pdf
Book: Cosmic Magnetic Fields (eds. Richard Wielebinski & Rainer Beck), Lecture Notes in Physics 664, Springer, Berlin 2005 (Cosmic Magnetic Fields)
Magnetfelder in Galaxien (in German): Video eines Vortrages an der Uni Tübingen: Magnetismus.html
Magnetfelder in Galaxien (in German): Artikel aus dem MPG Jahrbuch 2003: mpg.jahrbuch.2003.pdf
Magnetfelder in Galaxien (in German): Artikel aus "Max Planck Forschung" 4/2001: mpg.magnetfelder.pdf
Atlas of magnetic fields: Atlas of magnetic fields - compiled from data observed with the Effelsberg, VLA and ATCA radio telescopes
Popular article on magnetic fields from "New Scientist": new.scientist.magnetic.pdf
Low-frequency polarization with the LOFAR and the German part GLOW
Prospects with LOFAR - see the outreach article in "Spektrum" by Heino Falcke and myself (in German): http://www.spektrum.de/artikel/957491
LOFAR-Artikel aus dem MPG Jahrbuch 2006: mpg.jahrbuch.2006.pdf
Future prospects with the SKA - see my outreach article in "Sterne und Weltraum" (in German): ska.suw.pdf
Revealing Cosmic Magnetism with LOFAR and the SKA: SKA.magnetism.beck.pdf , cozumel.pdf
Polarization simulations for the European SKA Design Study (SKADS) project: limelette.pdf , results: dynamo.pdf and skads.pdf
Magnetic fields and star formation - see: oxford06.pdf
Dynamo action and observational signatures - see: dynamo.pdf , escorial.pdf and bologna.pdf
Polarization observation techniques - see: skads.pdf
Propagation of cosmic-ray electrons in galaxies
Radio halos of edge-on galaxies - see: escorial.pdf
Radio-(far)infrared correlation in galaxies
Density waves and spiral structure
Solar eclipses (see below)

PRESSEMITTEILUNGEN / PRESS RELEASES:

Go to the group's home page.

A small collection of solar eclipse photos:

Total solar eclipse of 2006 March 29 (photos taken near Side/Turkey with a 400mm lens plus 2x teleconverter, exposure times 1/2 and 1/125 sec) :

Moon shadow at third contact (fisheye lens) towards southwestern horizon (sea) and northwestern horizon (mountains) :

During total eclipse and a few minutes later :

Annular eclipse of 2005 Oct 3 (photos taken at Villafranca/Spain with a 1000mm Maksutov mirror lens and full aperture filter) :

Total solar eclipse of 2001 June 21 (photos taken near Lusaka/Zambia with a 400mm lens plus 1.4x teleconverter, exposure times 1/125, 1/4 and 1 sec) :