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Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy

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D-53121 Bonn - Endenich

Research Departments

Fundamental Physics in Radio Astronomy (Michael Kramer)

Radio astronomical measurements allow the study of a variety of questions in fundamental physics. Those questions range from the equation-of-state of super-dense matter to the investigation of fundamental forces such as gravity and magnetism.

Millimeter and Submillimeter Astronomy (Karl Menten)

The research team uses the millimetre- and sub-millimetre range of the electromagnetic spectrum to observe various phenomena in the universe. The cosmic background radiation is also being investigated, as well as molecular clouds in the Milky Way and other galaxies.

Radio Astronomy / VLBI (Anton Zensus)

By employing radio-interferometry, extragalactic objects and their centres are investigated in great detail. The Very Long Base Line Interferometry (VLBI) method is applied by correlating data from telescopes distributed worldwide and using them as a “giant“ combined telescope within the framework of coordinated arrays as the the European VLBI network (EVN). In addition, global VLBI experiments are conducted in cooperation with telescopes in the USA.

Research News

Weighing OJ 287 and the project MOMO

February 23, 2023

An international research group led by Stefanie Komossa from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, presents important new results on the galaxy OJ 287, based on the most dense and longest radio-to-high-energy observations to ...

Oxygen in Earth’s Higher Atmosphere

February 02, 2023

A study of the upper atmosphere's composition has successfully measured an increased presence of the oxygen-18 isotope (¹⁸O) — a type of oxygen whose atoms contain 10 neutrons instead of the eight neutrons found in oxygen-16 (¹⁶O), the most common ...

Announcements

Cygnus X: Observations of the interactions between interstellar gas clouds with the airborne observatory SOFIA

February 17, 2023

An international team led by Nicola Schneider (Univ. Cologne) and Alexander Tielens (Univ. Maryland), has performed observations to study the interactions between gas clouds in the Cygnus X region with the upGREAT receiver built by MPIfR and Univ ...

Peering into the heart of a distant quasar with the Event Horizon Telescope

February 13, 2023

A global collaboration of scientists including Maciek Wielgus of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (Bonn, Germany) used the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), to investigate the innermost parts of the quasar NRAO 530. Astronomers are trying ...

Job Offers

Postdoctoral position (m/f/d) | Radio Astronomy - M2FINDERS

February 06, 2023