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 · Faculty

- 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 · Fellows

- Planet formation
- Protoplanetary disks: theory and observations
- Astrochemistry of star and planet forming objects
- Dynamical encounters
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
- 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
Planets and Star Formation · Students
- Exoplanetary atmospheres
- High-resolution spectroscopy
Planets and Star Formation · Students
- Star formation
- Young stars
- Protostellar jets
- Observational astronomy
- Planetary science
- Science outreach & communication
- Nanosatellites & cubesats
Planets and Star Formation · Students
- Analysis of dust and kinematical data of planet-forming disks
- Direct comparison of theoretical models with observations
- Chemistry in planet-forming regions
Planets and Star Formation · Fellows
- Outflows and jets from young protostars
- Young planet-forming disks and conditions for early planet formation
- Chemistry in star-forming regions; submillimeter interferometry.
Stellar Structure and Evolution · Planets and Star Formation · Students

- Protoplanetary disks
- Low-mass star formation
- Integral Field Spectroscopy
Planets and Star Formation · Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Students
- High mass star formation
- Magnetic fields and star formation
- Chemistry in star forming regions
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