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Diploma and doctoral students in our group have the opportunity to work in a highly international environment
on data taken with world-leading telescopes. The latter in particular incude, depending on the focus of the work, e.g.
APEX, the
IRAM 30m-Telescope near Granada, the
IRAM Interferometer at Plateau de Bure, the
Submillimeter Array, the
Effelsberg 100-m
Radio Telescope, and the
Very Large Array.
One or several trips to the former two telescopes are usual during the course of a PhD program, and also possible during a
diploma program.
Our group has a particular focus and expertise on star-formation research, but our research interests range from asteroids in the solar system to precise distance determinations within our galaxy and the local group. The following collection of links gives a good general introduction to our present main activities.
Depending on personal interest, the offered student projects are likely to deal with aspects from the following incomplete list of research topics:
- Astro-Chemistry:
- Projects in this section concern the physical (e.g. kinematics, densities, and temperatures) and chemical (molecular abundances) characterization of astrophysical objects through analysis of molecular line radiation in the (sub)millimeter wavelength range.
- Star-Formation:
- These projects concentrate on finding and morphologically characterizing star-forming regions in the Milky Way, with a particular emphasis on high-mass star formation. Comparison of such observations with theoretical models of star-formation allows to better constrain how stars do form.
We usually reduce and analyse our observations with existing software. If desired, the research procects can also involve the development of new tools in particular for the analysis of observations. The extent of such programming work is flexible and can be taylored to the interests of the students.
The projects usually involve several group members. All theses are supervised by senior researchers. Diploma students work on projects for which all data has already been aquired, in order to avoid delays in the thesis progres. If desired, additional data can be collected during the thesis though. Doctoral students usually start their project based on existing data, which is then complemented by extensive new observations. It also often happens that diploma projects evolve into a following doctoral thesis.
For more information, please contact
Karl Menten
under
kmenten@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de.
In particular PhD students, but also diploma students, benefit from the
International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS)
for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Bonn. This school offers courses and a formal thesis supervision not
part of usual PhD programs. It also supports foreign students who come to germany for their thesis project.
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