Annual Report 2011 Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

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18 I. General I.3 National and International Collaborations The MPIA is strategically well-placed: Heidelberg has become one of Germany's foremost centers of astronomical research. Cooperation with the High-energy Astrophysics Department of the MPI for Nuclear Physics (MPIK), the new Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), and with the institutes of the Center for Astronomy Heidelberg (ZAH), established in 2005, is manifold: the ZAH consists of the Landessternwarte, the Astronomisches Recheninstitut, and the Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik at the University. Also, the “International Max Planck Research School” for Astronomy and Cosmic Physics (IMPRS, see Section I.4) is run jointly by the Max Planck Institutes and the University. Köln Bonn Kaiserslautern Bochum Freiburg Darmstadt Mannheim Heidelberg Kiel Bad Wildbad Tübingen Nationally, MPIA has extensive cooperations with the MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching and the MPI for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, as well as with numerous other German institutes, whose locations are shown in Fig. I.3.1. The establishment of the German Center for Interferometry (Frontiers of Interferometry in Germany, or fringe, located at the MPIA, also emphasizes the Institute’s prominent role in Germany in this innovative astronomical technique. The goal is to coordinate efforts Fig. I.3.1: Position of the partner institutes of the MPIA in Germany. Hamburg Braunschweig Göttingen Jena Garching München Tautenburg Potsdam Dresden Credit: Mountain High Maps / MPIA graphic
made by German institutes in this field and to accomodate the interests of the German astronomical community in the European Interferometric Initiative. Another specific goal is the preparation of the next generation of interferometric instruments. This includes the preparation of second-generation instruments for VLTI, such as MatiSSe and gravity. fringe, together with other interferometric centers in Europe, is partaking in the establishment of the European Interferometry Initiative. The long-term perspective is to establish a European interferometric center for the optical and infrared wavelength region. In addition to MPIA, the following institutes are participating in fringe: the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam (AIP), the Astrophysical Institute of Jena University, the Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics in Freiburg, the MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, the MPI for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, the University of Hamburg, the I. Physical Institute of Cologne University, and the Universities of Kiel and Munich. The MPIA is participating in a number of EU- networks and worldwide collaborations, in part as project leader. These include: opticon: A network of all operators of major telescopes in Europe, financed by the European Union. 1 Dublin 2 Edinburgh 3 Manchester 4 Durham 5 Chilton 6 Cardiff 7 Oxford 8 Cambridge 9 Hatfield 10 London 22 1 2 3 6 4 5 9 10 16 17 32 31 33 34 25 36 21 20 35 7 11 8 15 14 18 13 12 28 29 19 27 26 30 23 24 11 Southhampton 12 Saclay 13 Paris 14 Leiden 15 Amsterdam 16 Dwingeloo 17 Groningen 18 Liège 19 Bordeaux 20 Madrid 21 Toledo 22 Lissabon 23 Granada 24 Calar Alto 25 Marseille 26 Grenoble 27 Genf 28 Versoix 29 Lausanne 30 Bern 44 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 I.3 National and international Collaborations 19 Its main goal is to optimize use of scientific technical infrastructure, in order to increase scientific results and reduce costs. Opticon’s other main goal is to coordinate technology development for the next generation of ground-based telescopes. eSpri (Exoplanet Search with PriMa): This project aims at carrying out the first systematic astrometric planet search with a measurement accuracy of 10–20 micro-arcseconds. For this purpose, we have built, in collaboration with eSo, the Landessternwarte Heidelberg, and the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland, differential delay lines for the PriMa facility at the VLTI. Our consortium is also developing the astrometric data reduction software. cid: The “Chemistry In Disks” project is a joint collaboration with Bordeaux, Jena and iram (Grenoble). The major goal of Cid is the study of physical structure and chemical composition of protoplanetary disks at various evolutionary stages. We focus on a sample of nearby bright protoplanetary disks orbiting low-mass (T-Tauri) and intermediate-mass (Herbig Ae) stars. For that, we employ multimolecule, multi-line observations with the Plateau de Bure interferometer and the IRAM 30 m an- Fig. I.3.2: Position of MPIA’s international partner institutes. See also on the following page. 31 Basel 32 Strasbourg 33 Zürich 34 Mailand 35 Genua 36 Nizza 37 Padua 38 Triest 39 Bologna 40 Florenz 45 46 47 48 49 41 Rom 42 Neapel 43 Wien 44 Kopenhagen 45 Stockholm 46 Budapest 47 Krakau 48 Warschau 49 Athens 50 Helsinki 50 51 51 St. Petersburg 52 Moskau 53 Tel Aviv 54 Yerevan 53 52 54 Credit: naSa “Blue Marble” / MPIA graphic
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