News about Astrophysics

Kasper Heintz is awarded 180 hours at the Very Large Telescope to study fast radio bursts

In an exceptionally large program, postdoc and DAWN affiliate Kasper Heintz will now have the opportunity to study the host galaxies of the so-called "fast radio bursts".

Kasper Heintz is awarded 180 hours at the Very Large Telescope to study fast radio bursts

In an exceptionally large program, postdoc and DAWN affiliate Kasper Heintz will now have the opportunity to study the host galaxies of the so-called "fast radio bursts".

Carlos Rodriguez Molinuevo

Title: Transition from drift-wave to interchange turbulence in magnetically confined plasmas Supervisors: Troels Haugbølle, Anders Henry Nielsen

Danish Student solves how the Universe is reflected near black holes

Space is so warped around black holes that even light rays curve around them. However, this has not been given mathematical expression before now, when Albert Sneppen, student at the Niels Bohr Institute, made the…

Martin Jan Sandberg

Title: Procedures for Modeling Dust Evolution Supervisors: Troels Haugbølle, Aake Nordlund

Nanna Marie Baars Støvelbæk

Title: Dust formation in type IIn supernova 2014ab Supervisor: Christa Gall

Kristina Sundgaard Jepsen

Title: Fitting the extinction curves of GRB host galaxies using dust models Supervisor: Anja C. Andersen

Giulia Perotti

Ice and Gas - Linking Infrared and Millimetric Observations towards young Solar-type Stars Academic Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Jes K. Jørgensen

Michael Haah

Title: Porting DISPATCH MHD to GPU Using Directive-Based Programming Supervisors: Troels Haugbølle, Aake Nordlund

Thomas Georges Alphonse Ravinet

Title: AutoMUSE: Autonomous MUSE Source Extractor; Automatic detection and extraction of MUSE spectra Supervisors: Lise Christensen, Adriano Agnello

André Endrup Hartwigsen

Title: Searching for Narrowband excess Ly-alpha emitters at z > 8 in the COSMOS field Supervisors: Johan P. U. Fynbo, Bo Milvang-Jensen

Daniel Ploug Hall

Title: Dust Dynamics in a collapsing prestellar core Supervisor: Troels Haugbølle

Iason Michail Skretas

Title: CO outflows from young stars in Cygnus-X: Exploring the connectionof protostellar and extragalacticoutflows Supervisors: Lars E. Kristensen

Mark Falkenstrøm

Title: Dust Dynamics in Molecular Clouds Supervisors:Troels Haugbølle, Aake Nordlund

Nicolas Konrad Voigt Grunwald

Title: Impact of the Greenland Telescope relocation on future Event Horizon Telescope observations Supervisors: Jes Kristian Jørgensen, Darach J. Watson

Victoria Quist

Title: Spatially resolved molecular emission as a tracer of the physics and chemistry of young stars Supervisor: Jes Kristian Jørgensen

Marcus Horskær Bredtved

Title: Analysis of type Ia supernovae from the Young Supernova Experiment Supervisors: Jens Hjorth, Radoslaw Jan Wojtak

ALMA Discovers Rotating Infant Galaxy with Help of Natural Cosmic Telescope

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers at the Cosmic Dawn Center at UCPH/DTU found a rotating baby galaxy 1/100th the size of the Milky Way at a time when the Universe was only 7% of its…

Danish participation in over a third of the new James Webb Space Telescope’s initial observations

Cosmic Dawn Center – a collaboration between Technical University of Denmark and the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen – will be at work from the very beginning. The primary focus will be on learning more…

Markus Thor Rasmussen

Title: Linking Galactic and extragalactic star formation through high-J CO emission Supervisors: Lars E. Kristensen

New study shows doubt about the composition of 70 percent of our universe

Researchers the world over have long believed that 70 percent of the universe is composed of dark energy, a substance that makes it possible for the universe to expand at an ever-increasing rate. But in a new study,…

Oliver David Damkjær

Title: A study of molecular gas in nearby active galactic nuclei with Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment, APEX Supervisors: Marianne Vestergaard, Lars Kristensen

Danmark lander på Mars

Forskere og studerende fra bl.a. Niels Bohr Institutet var ligesom resten af science-teamet med på sidelinjen under landingen af Perseverance på Mars den 18. februar 2021, og siden da har de arbejdet intenst med tjekke,…

Are we alone? UCPH researchers hold their breath ahead of Mars landing

Traces of prehistoric life will be the ultimate goal as the NASA rover Perseverance lands on Mars tonight. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have contributed several important elements to the mission.