ESO - Research Area: STELLAR STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION

Research Area: STELLAR STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION

Topics covered in this research area

Stellar evolution, especially the late stages, for example:
- Mass loss
- Planetary nebulae
- Supernovae
Stellar surface abundances
Stellar surface structures
Stellar pulsations
Stellar magnetic fields and magnetic activity
Low mass stars
Black holes and neutron stars

These research topics are covered using observations from X-rays to Infrared, and with many different techniques, e.g., high resolution optical/IR spectroscopy, optical interferometry and polarimetry.

People working on this research area also meet regularly in so-called "stellar coffee".

Thesis topics offered on Stellar Structure and Evolution

Thesis topic	Thesis supervisor(s)
Constraining Stellar Interiors and Mixing via Depletion Sequences of Light Elements	Francesca Primas
Magnetic fields and interaction in binary systems	Gaitee Hussain (Home page)
Evolution of Solar-type Stars using ALMA	Liz Humphreys
The dawn of planets: structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks with ALMA	Leonardo Testi
The role of magnetic fields in the intermediate-mass star formation process	Markus Sch��ller
Magnetic fields in massive stars	Markus Sch��ller
Interferometric studies of the mass-loss process from cool evolved stars	Markus Wittkowski

Scientific Staff in Garching working on Stellar Structure and Evolution

Baade, Dietrich

Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty

Pulsations and mass loss of early type stars
Light atomic elements in the interstellar medium
Late stages of stellar evolution

Gilmozzi, Roberto

Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty

Novae Supernovae
UV astronomy
Future Telescopes

Beccari, Giacomo

Planets and Star Formation · Stellar Populations · Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty

Pre-main Sequence Stars in massive star-burst Clusters
Stellar Population in Clusters
Stellar dynamics in Globular Clusters
Exotica in Globular Clusters (BSS, MSP, IMBH)
Resolved stellar populations in dSph

Humphreys, Liz

Cosmology and the Early Universe · Planets and Star Formation · Stellar Populations · Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty

Central Parsecs of AGN
High-Mass Star Formation
Evolved Star Mass Loss
Millimetre and Submillimetre Astronomy

Hussain, Gaitee

Planets and Star Formation · Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty

Magnetic activity in cool stars and stellar clusters
Optical, NIR and X-ray spectroscopy of stars and circumstellar environments
T Tauri and pre-main sequence stars
Stellar surface imaging

Personal Homepage

Kerber, Florian

Stellar Structure and Evolution · Scientists

Planetary nebulae
Late stages of stellar evolution
Stellar mass loss and interaction with the interstellar medium

Diaz Trigo, Maria

Stellar Structure and Evolution · Scientists

X-ray binaries
Stellar mass black-holes
Neutron stars
Disc accretion outflows: winds and jets

Moehler, Sabine

Stellar Structure and Evolution · Scientists

Galactic globular clusters
Horizontal branch stars
Late stages of stellar evolution

Personal Homepage

Pasquini, Luca

Planets and Star Formation · Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty

Precision Spectroscopy, direct measurement of the cosmic acceleration
Light Element Abundances (Li and Be): Primordial Nucleosynthesis, Galactic Enrichment, Stellar Mixing
Globular Clusters: light elements anti-correlations
Chemical Abundance of stars in the local group, in clusters and in the field
Exo-Planets, planets around evolved stars

Patat, Ferdinando

Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty

Supernovae
Statistical Data Analysis
Monte Carlo Simulations

Personal Homepage

Primas, Francesca

Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty

Galactic chemical evolution
UV and optical astronomy
High-resolution spectroscopy

Sch��ller, Markus

Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty

Optical Long Baseline Interferometry
Stellar magnetic fields
Star formation and stellar evolution

Testi, Leonardo

Planets and Star Formation · Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty

High mass star formation
Young (proto-)stellar clusters
Young brown dwarfs
Circumstellar disks and their evolution

Valenti, Elena

Stellar Populations · Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty

Resolved stellar populations
Star Clusters
Galactic Bulge
Chemical Abundances
Adaptive optics - NIR Imaging and Spectroscopy

Walsh, Jeremy

Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty

Planetary nebulae
HII regions
Polarimetry

Personal Homepage

Wittkowski, Markus

Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty

Optical interferometry
Stellar surfaces
AGN

Personal Homepage

Kerzendorf, Wolfgang

Stellar Structure and Evolution · Fellows

Progenitors of Supernovae
Radiative Transfer
Stellar Spectroscopy and Analysis
Data Mining

Personal Homepage

Grunhut, Jason

Stellar Structure and Evolution · Planets and Star Formation · Faculty

Incidence and structure of magnetic fields of massive stars
Magnetism and pulsations of early type stars
Stellar surface and circumstellar imaging
High-resolution, optical spectropolarimetry of stars and their circumstellar environment

Dhawan, Suhail

Stellar Structure and Evolution · Cosmology and the Early Universe · Students