VLBI

Gisela Ortiz won the prize of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) for the best 2017 astronomy thesis for Division A (Fundamental Astronomy) for her thesis „Ultra-high precision astrometry with centimeter and millimeter very long baseline interferometry“ at the Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica, Mexico. She is now a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany. more

Bonn Correlator Project - a Cooperation between MPIfR / BKG / IGG Uni Bonn

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Large scale surveys of our Milky Way are one of the main topics of the group to reveal the structure of our own Galaxies and the properties of its dense interstellar medium as raw material for star formation. We conducted several legacy survey projects, the Global view on Star formation in the Milky Way (GLOSTAR) with the Very Large Array, the BeSSeL Survey (Bar and Spiral Structure Legacy Survey), as well as the APEX telescope surveys of dust and molecular gas, ATLASGAL and SEDIGISM. more

Studies of the interstellar medium  provide key information about the physical and chemical processes which drive the evolution of galaxies.  Observations in the sub-millimeter wavelength regime, as provided by APEX, Herschel ALMA and NOEMA, are in particular critical as they trace the cold gas reservoir - the material from which new generations of stars are born.  The relations between the chemical and physical properties of the cold molecular gas and star formation are key research areas of our group. more

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