Detailed Conference Program

(Time zone: Europe/Berlin, CEST/UTC+2)


Monday, 11. September 2023

History - Colloquium of the Working Group History of Astronomy in the Astronomical Society (H 3025)

09:20  Session 1: Einführung: Von der klassischen Astronomie zur theoretischen Astrophysik

09:20  Grußworte / Welcome

09:30  Gudrun Wolfschmidt (Hamburg):
Von der klassischen Astronomie zur theoretischen Astrophysik: 150 Jahre - Karl Schwarzschild (1873--1916) und Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873--1967) - Pioniere der theoretischen Astrophysik (Einführung)

10:00  Markus Bautsch (Berlin):
Die von Johann Jakob Balmer gefundenen Zahlenverhältnisse bei den Spektrallinien des Wasserstoffs

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break (H 3025)

History - Colloquium of the Working Group History of Astronomy in the Astronomical Society (H 3025)

11:00  Session 2: Astrophysik in der 1. Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts

11:00  Ralph Neuhäuser (Jena) & Dagmar L. Neuhäuser (Meran, Italien):
Die rasche Evolution von Beteigeuze durch die Hertzsprung-Lücke vom gelben zum roten Überriesen in historischer Zeit

11:30  Maik Schmerbauch (Berlin):
Hans Kienle (1895-1975) - Wissenschaftler zwischen Astrophysik und Politik im 20. Jahrhundert

12:00-14:00 Lunch Break

History - Colloquium of the Working Group History of Astronomy in the Astronomical Society (H 3025)

14:00  Session 3: Astrophysik ab Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts

14:00  Dietrich Lemke (Heidelberg):
Erlebte Geschichte - Das James-Webb-Space-Telescope -- Von der Idee zur Mission

14:30  Stefan L. Wolff (München):
Vertreibung und Emigration von Astrophysikern im Nationalsozialismus

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break (H 3025)

History - Colloquium of the Working Group History of Astronomy in the Astronomical Society (H 3025)

16:00  Xian Wu (Dresden):
Heinrich Kaysers "Handbuch der Spectroscopie" (1900-1934) und dessen Bedeutung für die Entwicklung der Astrophysik

16:30-18:00 Mitgliederversammlung des Arbeitskreises Astronomiegeschichte (AKAG) (H 3025)

18:00-20:00 Welcome Poster Session (H 0104)


Tuesday, 12. September 2023

09:00-10:30 Award Ceremony and Schwarzschild Lecture (H 0104 / virtual plenum)

09:00  Opening

09:15  Karl Schwarzschild Lecture - Thomas Henning:
From the Karl Schwarzschild Observatory to JWST

10:00  Ludwig Biermann Award Talk - Dominika Wylezalek:
Tracing AGN feedback across cosmic time and from small to large scales

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break (Old Cafeteria)

11:00-12:30 Plenary Talks (Awardees) (H 0104 / virtual plenum)

11:00  Astrophysical Instrumentation Award Talk - Frank Eisenhauer:
Astronomy at Highest Angular Resolution - Adaptive Optics, Interferometry and Black Holes

11:30  PhD Prize Talk - Annika Rudolph:
Exploring Multi-Messenger Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts

12:00  Awards:
Roelin Award: Felicitas Mokler
Jugend-forscht Award: Maximilian Alt

12:15-12:30 Conference Photo (Lichthof)

12:30-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-16:30 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)

SOFIA - SOFIA Scientific Highlights (H 3006)

14:00  Bernhard Schulz:
SOFIA's Legacy and What Comes Next

14:15  Hans Zinnecker:
SOFIA highlights in star formatiom

14:35  Christian Fischer:
Highlights of pubished and unpublished FIFI-LS/SOFIA Data

14:50  G.W. Fuchs:
The envelopes of Late-type stars seen in the infrared at high spectral resolution

15:05  Rengel, Miriam:
Characterizing Titan's Stratospheric Gas Composition: Insights from Space, Ground, and Airborne Observatories

15:20  Helmut Wiesemeyer:
Isotopic abundance patterns as witnesses of primordial nucleosynthesis, protostellar evolution, evaporating oceans, and life

15:30  Slawa Kabanovic:
The formation and physical conditions of molecular clods revealed by the [CII], CO and HI lines.

15:45  Eduard Keilmann:
FEEDBACK observations of RCW79

16:00  Agata Karska:
SOFIA FIFI-LS spectroscopy of DR21 Main: energetics of the spatially-resolved outflow from a high-mass protostar

16:15  Thanh Dat Hoang:
Velocity-resolved high-J CO emission from high-mass star-forming regions

SNR - Supernova remnants and the hot interstellar medium (H 2035)

14:00  Jonathan Mackey:
X-rays from shocked stellar winds in single and binary star systems

14:20  Ekaterina Makarenko:
X-ray emission from cooling supernova shocks in (M)HD simulations

14:40  Martin Krause:
Tracing massive star ejecta through the Galaxy with radioactive decay lines

15:00  Michael Yeung:
Decomposing the diffuse soft X-ray emission with eROSITA

15:20  Rohit Dokara:
Milky Way's missing supernova remnant problem

15:40  Christoph Pfrommer:
Supernova remnants as laboratories for studying cosmic ray acceleration and transport

16:00  Mohamad Shalaby:
The mechanism of efficient electron acceleration at parallel non-relativistic electron-ion shocks

JungeAG - Junge AG - Young AG (H 3007)

14:00  Markus Hundertmark:
An introduction to the Junge Astronomische Gesellschaft

14:30  Maximilian Alt:
Youth's research talk: Determination of the Hubble Constant by 1a supernovae

15:00  Katharina Egg:
Dark matter decay feature search toward the galactic bulge and halo

15:30  Pierre Colin Nürnberger:
Sink formation criteria on galaxy scale simulations

EScience - EScience, Machine Learning and Virtual Observatory (H 3005)

14:00  Harry Enke:
Two years PUNCH4NFDI

14:30  Matthias Steinmetz:
DZA and infrastructure perspectives in German Astronomy

15:00  Michael Kramer:
Effelsberg data for PUNCH

15:15  Nicola Malavasi:
Reduction of MeerKAT interferometric data in PUNCH4NFDI

15:40  Yori Fournier:
SciTrace: an approach to reuseability for scientific workflows in astronomy

16:00  Kirill Makan:
SciTrace Use-Case: Reusability of a Custom Data Reduction Pipeline

Compact - Physics of compact objects: From observations to theoretical investigations (H 2036)

14:00  Michael Kramer:
Quasi-periodic sub-pulse structure: a unifying feature for radio-emitting neutron stars

14:25  Jacob Cardinal Tremblay:
Wide-band observations of pulsar radio emission

14:50  Jan Benáček:
Linear acceleration emission of interacting and overlapping plasma bunches in magnetospheres of neutron stars

15:15  Christian Fromm:
Probing the radiation microphysics around spinning black holes and relativistic jets

15:40  Ainara Saiz-Pérez:
Modelling the jet asymmetry in radio galaxies

16:05  Gh. Saleh:
A new explanation for dense and compact bodies in terms of softness and hardness

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break (Old Cafeteria)

17:00-19:00 AG Mitgliederversammlung (H 0104)


Wednesday, 13. September 2023

09:00-10:30 Plenary Talks (H 0104 / virtual plenum)

09:00  Lena Noack:
Physics of planetary interiors

09:30  Kevin Heng:
Theory of Exoplanet atmospheres

10:00  Kathryn Kreckel:
Resolving the Baryon Cycle on Nearby Galaxies

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break (Old Cafeteria)

11:00-12:00 Plenary Talks (H 0104 / virtual plenum)

11:00  Volker Heesen:
Recent insights on galactic magnetic fields and cosmic ray electron transport from LOFAR

11:30  Elisa Resconi:
A new view on the Universe: Neutrino Astronomy with IceCube

12:00-14:00 AstroFrauenNetzwerk Lunch

12:00-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-15:45 Splinter Session

Denkschrift - Perspektiven der Astrophysik in Deutschland 2025-2035 (H 0104)

14:00  Kramer/Wilms/Walch:
Denkschrift Process 2024/2025

14:30  Wilms for Geier/Roth:
Stellar Astrophysics (coord: Geier/Roth)

14:55  Rauer/Reiners:
Planetary Systems and Habitability (coord Rauer/Reiners/Poppenhaeger)

15:20  Sasaki/Wolf:
Circuit of Cosmic Matter (coord: Sasaki/Wolf)

15:45-16:15 Coffee Break (Old Cafeteria)

16:15-18:00 Splinter Session

Denkschrift - Perspektiven der Astrophysik in Deutschland 2025-2035 (H 0104)

16:15  NN:
Milky Way and Local Group (coord: Walcher)

16:40  Kadler:
Galaxies and AGN (coord: Kadler/Foerster-Schreiber)

17:05  Reiprich:
Cosmology, Large Scale Structure, and young universe (coord: Reiprich/Komatsu)

17:30  NN:
Extreme conditions in the cosmos, fundamental astrophysics (coord:Tjus/Rezzola/Elsässer)

19:00-22:00 Evening with Reception at Zeiss-Großplanetarium Berlin (Planetarium)

19:00  Programm:
Polnischer Abend


Thursday, 14. September 2023

09:00-10:30 Plenary Talks (H 0104 / virtual plenum)

09:00  Adriaan Raap:
Karl Schwarzschild and Ejnar Hertzsprung in Potsdam: 1910-1916

09:30  Laura Kreidberg:
Planets are Places: Exoplanet Atmosphere Characterisation in the JWST

10:00  Anthony Brown:
Gaia: supermarket for astronomers

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break (Old Cafeteria)

11:00-12:00 Plenary Talks (H 0104 / virtual plenum)

11:00  Michael Schulreich:
The supernova link between the Local Bubble and deep sea radioisotopes

11:30  Miguel A. de Avillez:
Numerical Simulations of the Dynamical and Ionic Evolution of the Interstellar Medium

12:00-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-15:45 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)

Protection - Protection of astronomy from anthropogenic electromagnetic interference (H 2035)

14:05  Andreas Hänel:
Regulations against light pollution in Germany and other European countries

14:25  Gyula I. G. Józsa:
Radio astronomy protection in Germany

14:45  Felicitas Mokler:
Will we lose the sky to megaconstellations or can we still prevent it?

15:05  Gyula I. G. Józsa:
LOFAR observations of Starlink satellites

15:25  Andreas Hänel:
Finding the darkest places in Germany and Central Europe

ATNG - Exploring the power of optical telescope arrays (H 2036)

14:00  Welcome

14:05  Ansgar Reiners:
Activity monitoring telescope network in preparation of PLATO

14:15  Thomas Granzer:
Rebuilding a TCS with Beckhoff PLCs-A hands-on experience of ATNG

14:30  Alexis Smith:
NGTS: A twelve telescope array at Paranal

14:45  Anna Franckowiak:
Wide-field linear optical polarization measurements with an array of small telescopes

15:00  Kalaga Madhav:
MARCOT: A new approach to large aperture telescope

15:15  Lukas Stock:
Improving the accuracy of inexpensive out-of-the-shelf optical echelle spectrograghs

15:30  Marek Kowalski:
Optical Telescope Arrays for Astronomy in Germany

NewAthena - The NewAthena Mission - Science with the next-generation European X-ray observatory (H 3025)

14:00  Matteo Guainazzi:
NewAthena mission status

15:00  Francisco J. Carrera:
The NewAthena X-ray observatory: flagship science on the Energetic Universe

15:40  Luis Abalo:
Athena, the next-generation X-ray observatory: synchrotron facilities for the assembly and characterization of Silicon Pore Optics

Exoplanets - Exploring the diversity of extrasolar planets (H 3007)

14:00  Heike Rauer:
Exploring the Diversity of Extrasolar Planets – A DFG Priority Program

14:15  Gabriel-Dominique Marleau:
Accreting gas giants: Low H alpha emission efficiency

14:30  Ekaterina Ilin:
Resolving the numbers and latitudes of flaring regions on low mass stars with Kepler

14:45  Kristine Lam:
KESPRINT view of small transiting planets and the discovery of TOI-2290b

15:00  René Heller:
Large Exomoons unlikely around Kepler-1625 b and Kepler-1708 b

15:15  Ceren H. Bayraktar:
Photodynamical analysis of the exomoon candidate around Kepler-1513b

15:30  Philipp Baumeister:
Redox state and interior structure control on the long-term habitability of exoplanets

EScience - EScience, Machine Learning and Virtual Observatory (H 3005)

14:00  Ole Streicher:
Maintainance of IRAF legacy code

14:25  Andrea Diercke:
The Science Data Center (SDC) at the Leibniz Institute for Solar Physics (KIS)

14:50  Markus Demleitner:
A Vector Extension for ADQL

15:10  Ondřej Podsztavek:
Predictive uncertainty and probability integral transform (PIT) histogram in astronomy

Education - Astronomy and Education (H 3006)

14:00  Andreas Schulz:
Die Bewohnbarkeit unserer Erde

14:30  Simon Kraus:
Das Moonbounce-Experiment – Didaktische Fragen rund um ein Projekt des Wissenschaftsjahrs 2023

14:50  Markus Pössel:
Der Office of Astronomy for Education der IAU und Bildungsarbeit in Deutschland

15:45-16:15 Coffee Break (Old Cafeteria)

16:15-18:00 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)

EScience - EScience, Machine Learning and Virtual Observatory (H 3005)

16:15  Arman Khalatyan, Harry Enke:
Workflow Organisation wit REANA (Hands-On)

SOFIA - SOFIA Scientific Highlights (H 3006)

16:15  Thomas Sperling:
Probing protostellar outflows in the far-infrared [OI] lines with SOFIA/FIFI-LS

16:30  Christian Andreas:
Investigation of periodic maser outbursts in young stars with SOFIA

16:45  Verena Wolf:
A posteriori disclosure of the most powerful protostellar accretion burst with HAWC+

17:00  Andre Beck:
Infrared view of the multi-phase ISM in the nucleus of NGC 253

17:15  Aaron Bryant:
Far-Infrared Imaging Spectroscopy of the Galactic Centre's Circumnuclear Disk

17:30  Cristian Guevara:
The hidden neutral oxygen in M17SW

17:45  Wonju Kim:
HyGAL: Characterizing the Galactic ISM - SOFIA observations of atomic O, OH, and CH

NewAthena - The NewAthena Mission - Science with the next-generation European X-ray observatory (H 3025)

16:15  Aurora Simionescu:
The Hot Universe: thermodynamics, kinematics, and chemistry of the diffuse plasma permeating the cosmic web

16:55  Elisa Costantini:
The Observatory Science of NewAthena: exploring thermal and non-thermal processes in our Galaxy and beyond

17:35  F. Pacaud:
The large-scale-structure of the Universe as seen by Athena

Compact - Physics of compact objects: From observations to theoretical investigations (H 2036)

16:15  Walter Winter:
Multi-messenger signals from Tidal Disruption Events

16:45  Volker Perlick:
Gravitational lensing by a Schwarzschild black hole surrounded by a plasma

17:10  Felix Willenborg:
Wave optical image formation of exact scalar wave scattering in Kerr-de Sitter spacetime

17:35  Mohamad Shalaby:
Towards a Physical Understanding of Plasma Dynamics in the Vicinity of Compact Objects

Exoplanets - Exploring the diversity of extrasolar planets (H 3007)

16:15  Francesco Maria Flammini Dotti:
The role of the star cluster dynamics on the planets

16:30  Jan-Vincent Harre:
The orbit of Warm Jupiter WASP-106 b is aligned with its Star

16:45  Amith Govind:
Close stellar flyby and the evolution of Trans-Neptunian Objects: A Gigayear Perspective

17:00  Leonard Benkendorff:
Hot Jupiter formation in Dense Star Clusters

20:00-21:30 Public Lecture (H 0104 / live stream)

20:00  Andreas Burkert:
Urknall, Sternenstaub und der kosmische Materiekreislauf des Lebens


Friday, 15. September 2023

09:00-10:30 Plenary Talks (H 0104 / virtual plenum)

09:00  Dominik Riechers:
New Insights on Stellar Mass Assembly since the Dawn of Cosmic Time

09:30  Rolf Kuiper:
Advances in high-mass star formation

10:00  Selma de Mink:
Stellar Physics and Binary Evolution in the Era of Gravitational Waves

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break (Old Cafeteria)

11:00-12:00 Plenary Talks (H 0104 / virtual plenum)

11:00  Tim Dietrich:
Interpreting the multi-messenger picture drawn by compact binary mergers

11:30  Silvia Zhu:
Recent results on gamma-ray bursts: What we can learn from the BOAT

12:00-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-18:00 Lehrerweiterbildung (H 3025)

14:00-15:45 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)

ISM - Bridging Theory and Observations of the Interstellar Medium (H 3006)

14:00  Christoph Pfrommer:
Cosmic ray feedback and magnetic dynamos in the interstellar medium

14:20  Maria Werhahn:
A multi-frequency view on simulating galaxy formation with cosmic rays

14:40  Timon Thomas:
Cosmic rays in the interstellar medium: thermodynamics, galactic winds, and observables

15:00  Gordian Edenhofer:
Our dusty Milky Way in 3D at parsec-scale resolution out to 1.25 kiloparsec in distance

15:20  Tassilo Scheffler:
Hydrodynamical Simulations on the Origin and Evolution of the eROSITA Bubbles

Outreach - Public Outreach in der Astronomie (H 2035)

14:00  Begrüßung und Vorstellungsrunde

14:15  Norbert Junkes:
Von der Erde zum Mond - Erweiterungsstationen für die astronomischen Wanderwege am Radioteleskop Effelsberg

14:35  F. Mokler, J. Fohlmeister, T. F. Horn:
Universe on Tour

15:00  Markus Pössel:
Unser größtes Auge im All: eine JWST-Wanderausstellung im Wissenschaftsjahr 2023

15:25  Björn Voss:
New public planetarium materials, communicating recent exoplanet research

15:35  Eva Jütte:
Bochumer Aktivitäten im Wissenschaftsjahr

HotStars - Revisiting the nature of (hot) stars, X-ray binaries, and supernova: the main feedback agents in galaxies near and far (H 2036)

14:10  Andreas Sander:
Massive, hydrogen-deficient stars as sources of strong ionizing flux

14:40  Luis Abalo:
Long-term monitoring study of Vela X-1 in the 2–10 keV energy band

15:05  Susanne Blex:
The rotation of single and binary O-stars in the Milky Way

Exoplanets - Exploring the diversity of extrasolar planets (H 3007)

14:00  Andreas Quirrenbach:
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO)

14:30  Sascha P. Quanz:
The LIFE initiative - atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets in the mid-infrared with a large space-based nulling interferometer

15:00  Alexis Smith:
CHEOPS observations of the pulsating planetary system WASP-33

15:15  J. Cabrera:
An enhanced view on the properties of the TOI-178 system

15:30  Heike Rauer:
The PLATO Mission - An Overview

Solar - Exploring the Causes and Consequences of Solar Flares, CMEs, and other Transient Events (H 3005)

14:00  Alexander Warmuth:
Understanding solar flares: prospects and challenges in the era of Solar Orbiter

14:30  Christoph Kuckein:
Chromospheric solar flare dynamics: Insights from the Ca II 854.2 nm and He I 1083.0 nm lines

14:45  Oskar Steiner:
Vortices and Alfvén pulses in the simulated solar atmosphere

15:00  Patricio A. Muñoz:
Electron inertia effects in 3D hybrid-kinetic collisionless plasma turbulence

15:15  Hemanth Pruthvi:
Tautenburg Solar Laboratory (TauSoL) as a pathfinder towards SPRING

15:30  Jens Berdermann:
Consequences of transient solar events for our technological infrastructure and observational requirements to mitigate their impact

15:45-16:15 Coffee Break (Old Cafeteria)

16:15-18:00 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)

Exoplanets - Exploring the diversity of extrasolar planets (H 3007)

16:15  Monika Lendl:
3.5 years of exoplanet characterisation with CHEOPS

16:45  Christiane Helling:
Characterising the diversity of atmosphere regimes of gaseous exoplanets with virtual laboratories

17:15  Rengel, Miriam:
An overview on Radiative Transfer, Inversion codes, and atomic-molecular databases for (exo)planetary atmospheric characterization

17:30  Andreas Bartenschlager:
Investigation of the Influence of Stellar Particle Events and Galactic Cosmic Rays on the Atmosphere of TRAPPIST-1e

Solar - Exploring the Causes and Consequences of Solar Flares, CMEs, and other Transient Events (H 3005)

16:15  Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta:
How small-scale magnetic processes build the solar corona and drive the solar wind

16:45  Jan Benáček:
Electron-cyclotron emission model of solar radio zebras with high gyro-harmonic numbers

17:00  Mohamad Shalaby:
A new Cosmic-ray driven instability

17:15  Bernhard Kliem:
Flux-rope nonequilibrium in the slow-rise phase of solar eruptions

17:17  Andrea Diercke:
Investigating Counter-streaming Flows prior to a Solar Filament Eruption

17:19  Oskar Steiner:
Simulations of the small-scale surface dynamo of cool main-sequence stars

17:21  open discussion at the posters of the splinter session

ISM - Bridging Theory and Observations of the Interstellar Medium (H 3006)

16:15  Jonathan Mackey:
Simulating nebulae around hot stars

16:35  B. Zimmermann:
Feedback and SFE in High Mass Star-Forming Regions - Confronting Simulations and Observations

16:55  T.-E. Rathjen:
Gas kinematics and multiphase galactic outflows of the simulated ISM

17:15  Discussion

Outreach - Public Outreach in der Astronomie (H 2035)

16:15  Manfred Gaida:
Das Schulplanetarium in Köln-Nippes – ein Lernort für Astronomie und Astrophysik

16:35  Janine Fohlmeister:
BEAM ME UP - einmal Milchstraße und zurück

17:00  Jessica Koch:
MoonBounce - Eine Reise zum Mond und zurück

17:35  Markus Pössel (Moderator):
Allgemeine Diskussion: Wissenschaftsjahr 2023, Zukunftsperspektiven

HotStars - Revisiting the nature of (hot) stars, X-ray binaries, and supernova: the main feedback agents in galaxies near and far (H 2036)

16:15  H. Todt:
Wind properties of Wolf-Rayet-type central stars of planetary nebulae

16:40  Daniel Pauli:
Do stars in binaries evolve differently at low metallicity?

17:10  Sabela Reyero Serantes:
Analysis of the UV spectrum of Holmberg II X-1