Research Area: PLANETS AND STAR FORMATION
Topics covered in this research area
- Detection and characterisation of extrasolar planets
- Observational methods to study the earliest stages of star formation
- The circumstellar environment of high and low mass stars
- Star formation at the Galactic Centre
Thesis topics offered on Planets and Star Formation
Scientific Staff in Garching working on Planet and Star Formation
Planets and Star Formation · Faculty
- Comets, asteroids, trans-neptunian objects
- Surface properties and evolution of icy bodies
- Cometary activity at large heliocentric distances
- Ultra-deep imaging
Planets and Star Formation · Stellar Populations · Faculty
- Transiting exoplanets
- Nearby brown dwarfs and low mass stars
- Milky Way structure and star clusters
Planets and Star Formation · Faculty
- Optical and near-IR interferometry
- Double stars and stellar evolution
- Star formation
Planets and Star Formation · Stellar Populations · Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty
- Pre-main Sequence Stars in massive star-burst Clusters
- Stellar Population in Clusters
- Stellar dynamics in Globular Clusters
- Exotica in Globular Clusters (BSS, MSP, IMBH)
- Resolved stellar populations in dSph
Planets and Star Formation · Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty
- Magnetic activity in cool stars and stellar clusters
- Optical, NIR and X-ray spectroscopy of stars and circumstellar environments
- T Tauri and pre-main sequence stars
- Stellar surface imaging
Käufl, Hans-Ulrich (Pensioner)
Planets and Star Formation
- Stellar evolution (post main sequence, RGB, AGB, post-AGB)
- YSOs and Circumstellar Discs
- Planetary and cometary atmospheres
- Very high contrast imaging
- Hi-speed photometry
- Instrumentation
Planets and Star Formation · Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty
- Precision Spectroscopy, direct measurement of the cosmic acceleration
- Light Element Abundances (Li and Be): Primordial Nucleosynthesis, Galactic Enrichment, Stellar Mixing
- Globular Clusters: light elements anti-correlations
- Chemical Abundance of stars in the local group, in clusters and in the field
- Exo-Planets, planets around evolved stars
- Spectroscopic Survey Facility
Planets and Star Formation · Faculty
- Star formation
- TTauri stars, Pre-main sequence binaries
- Young stellar clusters
Planets and Star Formation · Faculty
- Star formation in this and nearby galaxies
- Cirumstellar matter (disks, outflows)
- Near-infrared spectroscopy (particularly of H2)
- Instrumentaton expertise: IFU spectroscopy, KMOS, ELT instrumentation
Planets and Star Formation · Faculty
Planets and Star Formation · Faculty
Planets and Star Formation · Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty
- High mass star formation
- Young (proto-)stellar clusters
- Young brown dwarfs
- Circumstellar disks and their evolution
Planets and Star Formation · Faculty
- Star and Planet Formation
- Protoplanetary Disks
- Exoplanets
- Infrared Spectroscopy
- VLT Instruments: CRIRES, FORS2, SPHERE, VISIR, XSHOOTER
Planets and Star Formation · Faculty
- Low mass star formation: cloud cores, protostars, protostellar disks, jets and outflows
- High mass star formation (jets and outflows)
Stellar Populations · Stellar Structure and Evolution · Planets and Star Formation · Faculty
- Interacting binaries
- Exoplanets
- Star and planet formation
- Stellar Population in Clusters
Planets and Star Formation · Stellar Structure and Evolution · Fellows
- Protoplanetary disk evolution and formation of planets
- Accretion and ejection processes in young stars
- Photospheric and chromospheric properties of pre-main sequence stars
- Kinematic properties of young stellar clusters
Planets and Star Formation · Faculty
- Protoplanetary disks and their gas content
- Astrochemistry in star- and planet-forming environments
- Dust properties in Young Stellar Objects
Planets and Star Formation · Fellows
- Comets, trans-neptunian objects and asteroids
- Surface properties and evolution of small bodies in Solar System
- Solar System formation and history
Planets and Star Formation · Students
- Circumstellar disks and their evolution
- Dust and gas properties around young stars
- Protoplanet detection
Planets and Star Formation · Fellows
- Planet formation
- Protoplanetary disks: theory and observations
- Astrochemistry of star and planet forming objects
- Dynamical encounters
Planets and Star Formation · Students
- Molecular gas disks around exoplanet host stars
- Hot Jupiter formation
Planets and Star Formation · Stellar Populations · Faculty
- Young stellar populations
- Circumstellar environment
- Interstellar gas dynamics
Planets and Star Formation · Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty
- Observational techniques, instrumentation and calibration, particularly at radio to sub-mm wavelenghts
- Long wavelength emission from stars
- Ejecta from evolved stars (inc. masers)
Planets and Star Formation · Students
- Star Formation and Protoplanetary Disks: interstellar medium, molecular clouds, cores collapse, core mass function, initial mass function, filamentary structures, protostars classification and evolution, protostellar disk, accretion disk, protoplanetary disk, spectroscopical and photometrical analysis.
Planets and Star Formation · Students
- Exoplanets
- Kernel phase
- Nulling interferometry
- Space missions
Stellar Structure and Evolution · Planets and Star Formation · Stellar Populations · Scientists
Stellar Structure and Evolution · Planets and Star Formation · Fellows
- Search and atmospheric characterization of very low-mass stars
- Brown dwarfs and exoplanets
- Time series, transits, linear polarization
Stellar Structure and Evolution · Planets and Star Formation · Fellows
- White dwarfs
- Evolved planetary systems
- Large area surveys
Planets and Star Formation · Stellar Structure and Evolution · Students
- Exoplanets
- Optical and near-infrared spectroscopy
- Magnetic activity in cool stars
Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Planets and Star Formation · Students
- Radiative transfer modelling
- High-mass star formation
- ISM structure and dynamics
- Young Stellar Objects
- Software development for Astrophysics
Planets and Star Formation · Fellows
- Near-IR and mm interferometry
- Protoplanetary disks
- Pre-main sequence stars
- Accretion processes in young stars
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