Annual Report 2011 Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

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20 I. General Credit for both figures: naSa “Blue Marble” / MPIA graphic Vancouver Victoria Seattle Stanford Berkeley Moffett Field Santa Cruz Pasadena Honolulu Hilo Tucson Calgary Paranal La Silla Santiago Flagstaff Los Alamos Las Cruces Socorro Austin Houston Teneriffa Cape Town tenna, followed by comprehensive data analysis and theoretical modeling. SeedS: This is an imaging survey using the Subaru telescope. The main goal is to search for giant planets and protoplanetary/debris disks around 500 nearby stars of solar type or other more massive young stars. This is a collaboration between naoJ, Princeton and MPIA. The MPIA is part of a DFG-funded research network (“Forschergruppe”) on the first stages of planet formation. This network involves the University of Tübingen (chair), the MPIA (co-chair), the Institute for Geology and Geophysics in Heidelberg (co-chair), the Kirchhoff Institute for Physics in Heidelberg, the Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in Heidelberg, the Institute for Planetology in Münster and the Institute for Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics in Braunschweig. It combines laboratory astrophysics with theoretical astrophysics and astronomical observations in order to gain a better understanding of how the first planetary embryos are formed out of the circumstellar dust surrounding a young star. The network funds 10 PhD students, most of which started in early 2007. The project is currently within it´s 2 nd funding period (from January 2010 until December 2012). Chicago Batavia Pittsburgh Macomb Columbus Baltimore Charlottesville Eriwan Ruston Gainesville Toronto Hamilton Lewisburg Rochester Harvard, Troy Cambridge Amherst Middletown New Haven New York Princeton Taschkent Kyoto Seoul Tokyo Nanjing Kaganawa Taiwan Weston Canberra SiSco (Spectroscopic and Imaging Surveys for Cosmology): This EU network is dedicated to the study of galaxy evolution with the help of sky surveys. The Institute has made pivotal contributions to this network through cadiS, coMbo-17, and the geMS surveys. Additional partners are: University of Durham, Institute for Astronomy in Edinburgh, University of Oxford, University of Groningen, Osservatorio Astronomico Capodimonte in Naples, and eSo in Garching. elixir, an EU network dedicated to exploit the unprecedented capabilities of the nirSpec instrument on the JWST space mission. SDSS, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, has revolutionized wide-field surveying at optical wavelengths. It is the most extensive imaging and spectroscopy sky survey to date, imaging about a quarter of the entire sky in five filters. The final catalogue provides positions, magnitudes, and colors of an estimated one hundred million celestial objects as well as redshifts of about one million galaxies and quasars. The observations are made with a 2.5 m telescope specially built for this purpose at Apache Point Observatory, New Mexico. The project is conducted by an international consortium of
US, Japanese and German institutes. The MPIA was the first of what is now twelve European partner institutes in SDSS and the only one to participate since the inception of surveying. In exchange for material and financial contributions to the SDSS, a team of scientists at the MPIA receives full access to the data. In 2005, the “original” SDSS was completed, and an extension, SDSS-II/Segue,, focusing on Milky Way structure, was completed in mid 2008. MPIA is a partner in Pan-StarrS1 (PS1) see also chapter IV.1, the most ambitious sky survey project since the SDSS, as part of the Pan-StarrS1 Science Consortium (PS1SC), using a dedicated 1.8 m telescope and the record-breaking 1.4 Gigapixel Camera (GPC1) with a 7-square-degree field of view. PS1SC is an international collaboration, involving the University of Hawaii, the MPE, Johns Hopkins University, the Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope, the Universities of Durham, Edinburgh and Belfast, and Taiwan’s National Central University. It will operates the PS1 telescope during 2009 – 2012 to carry out multiple time-domain I.3 National and international Collaborations 21 imaging surveys in its g, r, i, z, y filter set: the “3pi” survey of all of the sky visible from its location on Haleakala (Hawaii), a medium-deep supernova survey, as well as a dedicated survey of the Andromeda galaxy and a search for transiting planets. Including this planet search, MPIA scientists are leading four out of twelve key science projects within PS1SC, covering in addition the search for the most distant quasars and the coolest stars, as well as a comprehensive study of the Local Group’s structure. Within the herSchel Space Observatory project, MPIA is the largest Co-I institute in the PACS instrument consortium, which consists of partners from 6 European countries. herSchel was successfully launched on May 14 th , 2009. The institute leads two herSchel guaranteed Time Key Programs on “The earliest phases of star formation” and “The Dusty Young Universe: Photometry and Spectroscopy of Quasars at z 2” and participates in nine other herSchel Open and Guaranteed Time Key Programs. All these observing programs are large international collaborations.
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