The German node of the European ALMA Regional Centre network is operated by the UB / AIfA and UoC / PH1, with PI Schilke as the lead of the Cologne subnode and Prof. Bertoldi, currently the lead of the Bonn subnode. It is one of seven European sites of this network coordinated by ESO since …
Gregor Gassner received a grant within the DFG Research Unit FOR 5409 for the sub-project “A Hybrid Entropy-Dissipative Spectral Element Method for Magnetized Plasmas” (https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/501212410). The research goal of this project is to construct a hybrid spectral element method for the two-fluid plasma system. The non-linear fluid part for ions and electrons is discretized with …
Kai Polsterer is partner in the project Scalable Parallel Astrophysical Codes for Exascale (CoE Space)(www.space-coe.eu). In Astrophysics and Cosmology (A&C) today, High Performance Computing (HPC)-based numerical simulations are outstanding instruments for scientific discovery. They represent essential tools and theoretical laboratories able to investigate, interpret and understand the physical processes behind the observed sky. For these laboratories, the …
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Andreas Lintermann is partner in the project Research on Simulation-Based Engineering at Exascale (CoE RAISE) (https://www.coe-raise.eu). The European Center of Excellence in Exascale Computing “Research on AI- and Simulation-Based Engineering at Exascale” (CoE RAISE) is a project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, European research infrastructures (including e-Infrastructures). In RAISE, …
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Prof. Stephan Schlemmer received a DFG HBFG Large-scale instrumentation in 2020. Double resonance spectroscopy (DRS) shall advance our high-resolution spectroscopy experiments in many substantial ways. In the proposed configuration we want to combine rotational spectroscopy in the microwave/THz frequency range and ro-vibrational spectroscopy in the infrared wavelength regime. The general idea is to address molecules …
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Prof. Stephan Schlemmer received a DFG HBFG Large-scale instrumentation in 2021. The laboratory astrophysics group (AG Schlemmer) develops new methods of molecule spectroscopy. Various radiation sources are used for this purpose. One unique field of research concerns the action spectroscopy of trapped molecular ions which led to publications in Science, Nature, Nature Chemistry and Nature …
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Michael Kramer is a principal investigator in the ERC Synergy grant for the project BlackHoleCam in 2014 (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/610058). Gravity is successfully described by Einstein’s theory of general relativity (GR), governing the structure of our entire universe. Yet it remains the least understood of all forces in nature, resisting unification with quantum physics. One of the …
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Kai Polsterer is beneficiary in the ERC Synergy grant for the project UniverScale in 2021 (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/951549). The most recent determinations of the present rate at which the universe is expanding, expressed by the famous Hubble constant, show a considerable difference with the value deduced from observations of the cosmic microwave background by the European satellite …
Stefanie Walch-Gassner received the ERC starting grant which is funded with appropriate. 1.5 mio € grant in 2016 for the project RADFEEDBACK. The pressure, radiation, and ionization from the warm (UV emitting) and hot (X-ray emitting) gas has a significant impact on the cold, star-forming interstellar medium (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/679852). We propose to carry out a comprehensive …
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Gregor Gassner received the ERC starting grant which is funded with appropriate. 1.5 mio € grant in 2017 for the project EXTREME (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/714487). The dynamics of fluids and plasma is described by non-linear conservation laws. Transient behaviour on multiple scales involving turbulence and shocks is intrinsic to these problems. Due to their low dispersion and …