The access to SKAO (www.skao.int) via Germany joining the SKA Organisation (Prof. Kramer represents Germany in the SKAO Board of Directors) and the new collaboration with SKA France that will be enabled by this EXC will put the Bonn-Cologne-Jülich region in a prime position to conduct legacy projects with the telescope, even before it comes fully online. Delivering a …
UoC (through the group of Prof. Dominik Riechers) and UB (through the groups of Profs. Frank Bertoldi and Frank Bigiel), together with the cosmology group let by Prof. Komatsu at the Max- Planck-Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) in Garching, are the German CCAT Consortium partners and support the CCAT observatory costs from a DFG Large-scale instrumentation grant …
Seeded by in-house instrumentation developments and the operation of the KOSMA-3m telescope on the Gornergrat in Switzerland followed by NANTEN2 (together with Nagoya, Japan) in Chile, the UoC has successfully deployed the HIFI instrument on the Herschel Space Observatory HIFI10 and the SOFIA/GREAT THz multi-beam spectrometer in the stratosphere GREAT12. GREAT, in particular, has led to …
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The Cologne laboratory astrophysics group lead by Prof.Schlemmer harbours one of the best equipped high-resolution spectroscopy laboratories. The infrastructure comprises several THz absorption spectrometers in the frequency range 0.1 – 2 THz, two chirped pulse Fourier transform spectrometers in the microwave and cm wavelength regimes, an infrared laser multi-path absorption spectrometer with a free jet …
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With the new HPC capabilities, such as those soon to be provided by FZJ, it will be possible to model whole galaxies with sub-parsec resolution and to include, e.g., (self-)gravity, radiative transfer, magnetic fields, and chemical networks. The UoC/RRZK has recently successfully applied for a Tier-2 system (“CHEOPS2”), which will be installed in the University’s new server hall …
At UoC, key laboratory infrastructures have been established (Prof. Labadie) for developing the (third-party funded) new infrared instrumentation and photonics technologies that will equip community and visitor instruments at the ELT and the VLTI, e.g., ELT/METIS or the beam combiner Nulling Observations of exoplaneTs and dusT (NOTT) for the VLTI. In the recent past, comparable laboratory support from UoC has enabled …
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In combination with the recent hiring of Prof. Nicola, the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at UB will have an institutional membership of the AIfA in the Simons Observatory (https://simonsobservatory.org), which plays a key role in ARC3.