Max Planck Institute for Astronomy - Annual Report 2005

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16 I. General Edinburgh Groningen Dwingeloo Stockholm Durham Cambridge Amsterdam Helsinki Leiden St. Petersburg Hamilton Manchester Kopenhagen Pittsburgh Dublin Harvard Warschau Oxford Columbus Chilton Liège Moskau Seattle Budapest Chicago Stanford London Taschkent Basel Berkeley Tucson Princeton Paris Middletown Saclay Padua Versoix Neapel Moffett Fields Florenz Nanjing Rochester Pasadena Nizza Tel Aviv Kyoto Baltimore Grenoble Flagstaff Charlottesville Los Alamos Gainesville Calar Alto Lissabon Seoul Las Cruces Teneriffa Honolulu Houston Paranal La Silla wavefront sensor is being built – a special type of multiconjugate adaptive optics system. This project is dealing with problems arising with adaptive-optics image field correction for the extremely large next-generation telescopes. Together with the universities of Braunschweig, Chemnitz, Dresden, Jena, and Leiden, MPIA is participating in the DFG Research Group »Laboratory Astrophysics«. This is field of research is being pursued at the MPIA group at the University of Jena. 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 GemS surveys. Further 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. pLanetS: A »research training network« of the EU to study theoretical and empirical aspects of the formation and evolution of protoplanetary disks and planets. Spitzer Legacy Programs: The naSa infrared telescope Spitzer (formerly Sirtf) has started its planned two and a half years mission on August 25 th , 2003. Within a so-called legacy program, collaborations have the opportunity to carry out large-scale observing programs. The MPIA is participating in approved programs the first to study the star-formation in the most nearby galaxies (SinGS) and the earliest stages of star formation in the Milky Way. Within the fepS (Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems) legacy program together with Steward Observatory and Colleagues of other institutes, MPIA is responsible for the data reduction of the spectroscopic data. Within SinGS, the MPIA is leading the effort on radio data and dwarf galaxies. Fig. I.9: Distribution of the international partner institutes of MPIA. Gif (German-Israeli Foundation): Within this collaboration, a program to study gravitational lenses is carried out. Partner of the MPIA is the University of Tel Aviv. Through a separate grant, a wide field camera for the wiSe Observatory is being built to search for planet transits. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) 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 will provide 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-American, Japanese, and German institutes. MPIA was the first, of now 12, European partner institutes in SDSS, the only one to participate since the inception of surveying. In exchange for material and financial contributions to the SDSS from MPIA, a team of scientists at the Institute gets full access to the data. In 2005, the »original« SDSS was completed, but an extension, focusing e.g. on Milky Way structure was approved. arena (Antarctic Research European Network for Astrophysics): This network comprises 21 partners from research and technology from seven European countries and Australia. The goal of this cooperation is the longterm development of the Antarctic (particularly of the site Dome C) for observations in the optical and infrared regime.
I.4 Teaching and Public Outreach Students are coming from all over the world to the Institute to carry out the research for their diploma or doctoral thesis. A majority of these students complete their studies at the University of Heidelberg. For that reason, a number of scientists at the MPIA give lectures there. Students of earlier semesters also can do some scientific work at the MPIA. So the Institute offers advanced practical courses or enables the students to participate in »mini research projects«. These last about two months and cover a wide range of problems, including the analysis of observational data or numerical simulations as well as work on instrumentation. These practical courses offer the students an early, practically orientated insight into astrophysical research, particularly in view of a later diploma or doctoral thesis. The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Astronomy and Cosmic Physics, which was established in July, 2004, by the Max Planck Society and the University of Heidelberg, made a successful start (Chapter V.4) on 2005. The school offers 40 PhD students from all over the world a three year education under excellent conditions in experimental and theoretical research in the field of astronomy and cosmic physics. It is sponsored by the five astronomical research institutes in Heidelberg. The Institute's mission also includes the educating and informing of the general public about results of astronomical research. So members of the Institute give talks at schools, adult education centers and planetaria. They also appear at press conferences or on radio and television programs, in particular on the occasion of astronomical events which attract major public attention. Numerous groups of visitors come to the MPIA on the Königstuhl and the Calar Alto Observatory. In cooperation with the Landessternwarte, a one-week teacher training course which is very popular among teachers of physics and mathematics in Baden-Württemberg is held regularly in autumn at MPIA. A special highlight in the year under report has been the open house (Chapter V.2). On September 25 th , more than five thousand visitors came to the Institute to inform themselves about the scientific and technical projects of MPIA at a total of 34 stations and to learn news from the field of modern astronomy. In 2005, the MPIA participated again in the Girls' Day, a nationwide campaign intended to encourage schoolgirls to inform themselves about professions that still are mainly male-dominated. At various stations about 60 schoolgirls got a general idea of the work of an astronomical institute (Chapter V.9). Finally, the monthly astronomical journal Sterne und Weltraum (Stars and Space, SuW), co-founded 1962 by Hans Elsässer, is published at the MPIA. This journal is intended for the general public but also offers a lively forum both for professional astronomers and for the large community of amateurs in this field. Great interest was shown in the School project, which has been initiated the previous year in cooperation with the Academy of Advanced Training of Teachers of the Land Baden-Württemberg, Donaueschingen, and with the support of the Klaus Tschira Foundation. For selected articles published in SuW, detailed didactic materials are developed each month and made freely available in the internet. About four times a year training courses for teachers based on these materials are held at the Academy. In their regular physics lessons, teachers and students will thus be able to deal with current research issues presented in generally comprehensible terms in SuW. 17
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