Rainer Beck

Staff Astronomer

Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
Auf dem Hügel 69
53121 Bonn

Phone: +49 228 525 323

Fax: +49 228 525 436

Email: rbeck at mpifr-bonn.mpg.de

Vortrag "Magnetfelder in Galaxien" an der Universität Tübingen (in German):

Powerpoint Folien: Magnetismus.pdf

Video: Magnetismus.html

LOFAR Activities:

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding a Research Unit on "Magnetisation of Interstellar and Intergalactic Media: The Prospects of Low Frequency Radio Observations"

see: Magnetische Impulse

LOFAR Key Science Project on Cosmic Magnetism:

Webpage: mksp.html

Reviews:

"The LOFAR View of Cosmic Magnetism" (Review talk given at the AG conference in September 2012): hamburg12.pdf

"Towards a New Era of Observing of Cosmic Magnetic Fields" (Review talk given at the ISKAF conference in June 2010): saksen10.pdf

"Magnetic Visions" (Review talk given at the conference "Magnetic Fields in the Universe II" in Jan. 2008 on Cozumel): cozumel09.pdf

"Magnetic Visions" (Talk given at the ASTRONET Symposium in Jan. 2007 in Poitiers): visions07.pdf

"Measurements of Cosmic Magnetism with LOFAR and SKA" (summary of a talk given at the URSI meeting in Sept. 2006 in Miltenberg): ursi07.pdf

LOFAR Meetings:

AG Splinter Workshop "A fresh view of the radio sky: science with LOFAR, SKA and its pathfinders", Heidelberg 20-21 Sept. 2011: splinter-heidelberg

AG Splinter Workshop "The radio sky: LOFAR to SKA", Bonn 14-15 Sept. 2010: splinter-bonn

LOFAR Conference "Astrophysics with E-LOFAR", Hamburg 16-19 Sept. 2008: hamburg-lofar_workshop

AG Workshop, Köln Sept. 2005: Splinter.html

LOFAR Documents:

LOFAR Webseite des MPIfR (in German): Lofar.html

LOFAR Poster (in German): poster.lofar.pdf

LOFAR in Germany (Poster): poster.GLOW.pdf

Planned LOFAR network in Germany (Article in "Sterne und Weltraum", Sept. 2006, in German): lofar.pdf

Gründung des German Long Wavelength Consortiums GLOW (Pressemitteilung vom 5. Mai 2006, in deutsch): glow.presse.htm

LOFAR in Deutschland (Pressemitteilung vom 7. September 2005, deutsch): lofar.presse.htm

German LOFAR White Paper (MPIfR 2005): white.paper.pdf

SKA Activities:

Scholarpedia article on the Square Kilometre Array:

Square_Kilometre_Array

German SKA White Paper:

German SKA White Paper

Workshops:

AG Splinter Workshop "A fresh view of the radio sky: science with LOFAR, SKA and its pathfinders", Heidelberg 20-21 Sept. 2011: splinter-heidelberg

AG Splinter Workshop "The radio sky: LOFAR to SKA", Bonn 14-15 Sept. 2010: splinter-bonn

Reviews and papers:

"Future observations of cosmic magnetic Fields with the SKA and its Precursors" (Review talk given at the "Magnetic Fields in the Universe III" conference in August 2011 in Zakopane): zakopane11.pdf

"Towards a new era of observing of cosmic magnetic fields" (Review talk given at the ISKAF conference in June 2010): saksen10.pdf

"Magnetism in nearby galaxies, propects with the SKA, and synergies with the E-ELT" (Review talk given at the conference "Astronomy with Megastructures" in May 2010 on Crete): crete10.pdf

"Wide field polarimetry and cosmic magnetism" (Review talk given at the SKADS conference in Nov. 2009 in Limelette): limelette10.pdf

"Magnetic Visions" (Review talk given at the conference "Magnetic Fields in the Universe II" in Jan. 2008 on Cozumel): cozumel09.pdf

SKA Artikel in "Sterne und Weltraum", Sept. 2006 (in German): ska.suw.pdf

SKADS Polarization Simulations (talk at the B-POL workshop in Oct. 2006 in Paris): SKADS.beck.pdf

Pressebericht über LOFAR/SKA Vortrag (Nordenham Oct. 2006, in German): nordenham.beck.jpg

"The Magnetic Universe" - one of the "Key Science" Projects for the SKA; see: magnetism.pdf

"The Milky Way and nearby galaxies observable with the SKA" (from the SKA Science Case Book): magnetism_galaxies.pdf

International SKA conference "The Origin and Evolution of Cosmic Magnetism", Bologna 29 Aug - 2 Sep 2005:

- the Proceedings were published as Vol. 327 of the Astronomische Nachrichten (Astronomical Notes)

The organizers: Bryan Gaensler, Luigina Feretti and Rainer Beck

"The Origin of magnetic fields in galaxies" (talk given at the SKA conference "The Origin and Evolution of Cosmic Magnetism" in Bologna 2005): bologna.pdf

Fields of Interest and Research:

Magnetic fields in galaxies (spiral, barred, irregular, clusters) - see my reviews: PSSS13.pdf , ISSI11.pdf , texas10.pdf , naxos10.pdf , crete10.pdf , tenerife09.pdf , espinho09.pdf
Book: Cosmic Magnetic Fields (eds. Richard Wielebinski & Rainer Beck), Lecture Notes in Physics 664, Springer, Berlin 2005 (Cosmic Magnetic Fields)
Magnetfelder in Galaxien (in German): Video eines Vortrages an der Uni Tübingen: Magnetismus.html
Magnetfelder in Galaxien (in German): Artikel aus dem MPG Jahrbuch 2003: mpg.jahrbuch.2003.pdf
Magnetfelder in Galaxien (in German): Artikel aus "Max Planck Forschung" 4/2001: mpg.magnetfelder.pdf
Atlas of magnetic fields: Atlas of magnetic fields - compiled from data observed with the Effelsberg, VLA and ATCA radio telescopes
Popular article on magnetic fields from "New Scientist": new.scientist.magnetic.pdf
Low-frequency polarization with the LOFAR and the German part GLOW
Prospects with LOFAR - see the outreach article in "Spektrum" by Heino Falcke and myself (in German): spektrum.de/artikel/957491
LOFAR-Artikel aus dem MPG Jahrbuch 2011: mpg.jahrbuch.2012.pdf
LOFAR-Artikel aus dem MPG Jahrbuch 2006: mpg.jahrbuch.2006.pdf
Future prospects with the SKA - see my outreach article in "Sterne und Weltraum" (in German): ska.suw.pdf
Revealing Cosmic Magnetism with LOFAR and the SKA: zakopane11.pdf , saksen10.pdf , cozumel09.pdf
Polarization simulations for the European SKA Design Study (SKADS) project: limelette10.pdf , results: dynamo.pdf and skads.pdf
Magnetic fields and star formation - see: oxford07.pdf
Dynamo action and observational signatures - see: dynamo.pdf , escorial.pdf and bologna.pdf
Polarization observation techniques - see: skads.pdf
Propagation of cosmic-ray electrons in galaxies
Radio halos of edge-on galaxies - see: escorial.pdf
Radio-(far)infrared correlation in galaxies
Density waves and spiral structure
Solar eclipses (see below)

PRESSEMITTEILUNGEN / PRESS RELEASES:

Go to the group's home page.

A small collection of solar eclipse photos:

Total solar eclipse of 2006 March 29 (photos taken near Side/Turkey with a 400mm lens plus 2x teleconverter, exposure times 1/2 and 1/125 sec) :

Moon shadow at third contact (fisheye lens) towards southwestern horizon (sea) and northwestern horizon (mountains) :

During total eclipse and a few minutes later :

Annular eclipse of 2005 Oct 3 (photos taken at Villafranca/Spain with a 1000mm Maksutov mirror lens and full aperture filter) :

Total solar eclipse of 2001 June 21 (photos taken near Lusaka/Zambia with a 400mm lens plus 1.4x teleconverter, exposure times 1/125, 1/4 and 1 sec) :