News about Astrophysics

Researchers close to finding habitable planets

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute and Aarhus University are part of a team that has discovered a planetary system with five small planets of which two are super-Earth sized and lie in the habitable zone.

Denmark contributing to the world's largest telescope for searching for life in the unive

The Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University and DTU space are investing at total of 37 million kroner in a new telescope, which will be called the European Extremely Large Telescope,…

Most distant Type Ia supernova observed

In the quest to find the most distant supernova, researchers have broken the record and observed a supernova that exploded more than 10 billion years ago. This was in the early youth of the universe when it was evolvin…

Planck satellite explores the infancy of the universe

Using new data from the Planck satellite, researchers can now show that the universe is not expanding as fast as previously thought and the universe is 80 million years older than we thought.

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

Catarina Fernandes

Revealing the dynamics of Galaxy Clusters with X-rays Supervisor: Steen H. Hansen

Martina Zamboni

The Shape of Galaxy Clusters Supervisor: Steen H. Hansen

Christa Gall

Genesis and evolution of dust in the early Universe Supervisor: Anja C. Andersen

Peter Laursen

Interpreting Lyman α radiation from young, dusty galaxies Supervisor: Anja C. Andersen & Jesper Sommer-Larsen

Georgios Leloudas

OBSERVATIONS OF SUPERNOVAE AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS Supervisor: Jesper Sollerman

Danuta Paraficz

Cosmological Applications of STRONG GRAVITATIONAL LENSING Supervisor: Prof. Jens Hjorth

Niels-Erik Kofod

Measuring Lyman Continuum Emission from High Redshift Galaxies Supervisor: Johan P. U. Fynbo

Michal Michalowski

Star Formation at High Redshifts and the Importance of Dust Obscuration Supervisor: Prof. Jens Hjorth

Mike Alexandersen

An almost automated search for dust scattered X-ray haloes around gamma-ray bursts using Swift XRT data Supervisor: Darach Watson Co-supervisor: Anja Andersen

Rosina Pisecka Hein

Investigation Of The X-ray Halo Around GRB 031203 Supervisor: Darach Watson Co-supervisor: Anja Andersen

Taia Kronborg

Gravitational lensing of SNLS Supernovae

Ole Høst

Observational probes of dark matter halos Supervisor: Steen H. Hansen