News about Astrophysics

Sarah Massalkhi

Circumstellar Dust Shells around Evolved Massive Stars Supervisor: Anja C. Andersen

Johan Samsing

DYNAMICS OF STARS, DARK MATTER AND THE UNIVERSE Supervisor: Steen H. Hansen

Ece Kilerci Eser

ACTIVE GALAXIES: A Study of Local Seyferts and Ultra Luminous Infrared Galaxies Supervisor: Marianne Vestergaard

William Gryffydd Beynon Parry

Analysing the Mass Structure of Small Gravitational Lens Galaxies in Galaxy Clusters Supervisors: Claudio Grillo (DARK Fellow) and Lise Christensen (Assoc. Prof.)

Cosmic grains of dust formed in supernova explosion

New research published in Nature shows that not only can grains of dust form in gigantic supernova explosions, they can also survive the subsequent shockwaves they are exposed to. Led by researchers from Aarhus and DARK

Rikke Lund Saust

Investigating the Nature of Damped Lyman-α Absorbing Galaxies Supervisor: Lise Christensen

Ann-Sofie Bak Nielsen

Extinction curves and the total-to-selective extinction ratio for dust formed in the type IIn SN 2005ip Supervisor: Jens Hjorth

Jacob Svensmark

Effect of asphericity in caustic mass estimates of galaxy clusters Supervisor: : Assoc Prof Steen H. Hansen

Teddy Fjeldgaard Frederiksen

NURSERIES OF SUPERNOVAE A STUDY OF YOUNG HIGH REDSHIFT TYPE IA SUPERNOVA HOST GALAXIES Supervisor: Jens Hjorth

Martina Falco

DYNAMICS OF GALAXY CLUSTERS AND THEIR OUTSKIRTS: beyond the virialization regime Supervisor: Steen H. Hansen

Stefan Geier

PIECES TO THE PUZZLE OF HIGH-REDSHIFT GALAXIES FALLING INTO PLACE Supervisor: Johan Peter Uldall Fynbo

Elena Sacchi

Constraining mass and shape of galaxy clusters through large scale structures Supervisors: Lauro Moscardini and Steen H. Hansen

Monster gamma-ray burst in our cosmic neighbourhood

Gamma-ray bursts are violent bursts of gamma radiation associated with exploding massive stars. For the first time ever, researchers from DARK, among others, have observed an unusually powerful gamma-ray

Daves Tomasz Benedykt Hoszowski

Inflated Exoplanets Supervisor: Anja C. Andersen

Troels Paarup

Quasar K-correction in the UV-optical spectral region and broad emission line shape parameter dependence on Eddington ratio

Simone Juul Jakobsen

Supernova remnants and pulsar wind nebulae in the Norma region Main advisor: Darach Watson Co-advisors: John Tomsick and Allan Hornstrup

Gisela Baumann

Particle Dynamics in Solar Coronal Magnetic Reconnection Regions Supervisor: Prof. Åke Nordlund

Kosmisk forskning på top 10 over betydningsfulde gennembrud

Astronomer fra NBI har udviklet en banebrydende metode til at måle langdistance-afstande i universet ved hjælp af lyset fra kvasarer. Physics World har udvalgt denne forskning som et af de 10 vigtigste gennembrud

Christmas burst puzzles

On 25 December 2010, NASA’s Swift satellite detected an unusually bright and long-lived gamma-ray burst. Astrophysicists from DARK and their colleagues explain the unusual phenomenon in a new paper published in…

Diana Juncher

SEARCHING FOR ATTRACTORS IN CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES Supervisor: Steen H. Hansen

Henrik Brink

Halo modelling of galaxy clustering Academic advisor: Berian James Co-advisor: Steen H. Hansen

Desiree Della Monica Ferreira

GAS MASS FRACTIONS FROM XMM-NEWTON Supervisor: Kristian Pedersen

Thøger Juul Thorsen

Probing early galaxy formation with Damped Lyman α-Absorbers Supervisor: Johan P. U. Fynbo

Tayyaba Zafar

Spectroscopy of High Redshift Sightlines Supervisor: Darach Watson