astronomy

Press release: “Intruder” caught redhanded in rarely detected stellar flyby eventPress release:

An international team of astronomers, including Péter Ábrahám, Lei Chen, and Ágnes Kóspál from the Konkoly Observatory of the ELKH Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (Budapest, Hungary), published their latest results on the Z Canis Majoris (Z CMa) pre-main sequence binary system in the prestigious Nature Astronomy journal. The team claims that their images obtained with three powerful telescopes (the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, the Jansky Very Large Array in the US, and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile) imply that the circumstellar dust and gas disk was disturbed by an external body. Read more in … Read more »

The 10th VLTI School of Interferometry

VLTI schools of interferometry have been organized roughly every two years since the opening of the ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer in 2002. They have helped to train hundreds of astrophysicists in using interferometry and the instruments at VLTI and other facilities for their research. The aim of these VLTI schools is to offer Ph.D. students, post-doctoral and permanent researchers an introduction to the technique of long-baseline optical/infrared interferometry, an overview of the current generation of instruments, and lectures and practice sessions in data reduction, modeling, and image reconstruction. Seminars and reviews on astrophysical results in various fields ranging from stellar physics to … Read more »

Cool Stars 20.5

Cool Stars 20.5 – virtually cool on March 2-4 2021 − in Memory of John Stauffer The “Cambridge Workshops of Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun” are held biennially and have evolved to be the premier conference series for cool star research. With the ongoing pandemic, the organizers of Cool Stars 21 consider it unlikely we will be able to meet in person in the summer of 2021. This would put a four year gap between our meetings for the first time. Therefore we have decided to hold a virtual conference to keep everyone in our field up to date. But … Read more »

Kundan Kadam’s talk at GPU DAY 2020

SACCRED postdoc Kundan Kadam gave a talk at he Wigner GPU DAY 2020 entitled “Hydrodynamic Modeling of Protoplanetary Disks with GFARGO2.” You can watch the talk on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aokbzAj6108

COOL STARS 21

UPDATE: Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Cool Stars 21 was postponed to July 4 – 9, 2022! The “Cambridge Workshops of Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun” are held biennially and have evolved to be the premier conference series for cool star research. The next edition of the conference series “Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun” (CS 21) will be held in Toulouse from June 22 to 26, 2020 July 4 – 9, 2022, 40 years after its first edition in Cambridge (USA). This first edition was shortly followed that same year by a workshop on “Solar Phenomena … Read more »

Planet formation enters the observational era – an EAS 2020 SYMPOSIUM

Aims and scope Traditionally, planet formation was mostly a theoretical field, with rather loose observational constraints coming from proto-planetary disc observations and the Solar System. The field is now rapidly transforming thanks to ALMA and extreme adaptive optic systems, which recently made it possible to detect for the first time forming planets in proto-planetary discs and study in detail the structure and chemical composition of the planet building-blocks. Some of these ingredients, such as planetesimals, persist across the main sequence as debris discs, allowing us to study the architectures of (proto)planetary systems across both space and time as they evolve. … Read more »

JWST Master Class Budapest 2020

UPDATE: due to the postponement of the JWST proposal deadline, our workshop is also postponed. More information will be posted here and at the workshop webpage as soon as available. Konkoly Observatory is happy to announce a small (40-45 participants) focused workshop on the James Webb Space Telescope. This 2-day intense workshop will take place on 16-17 March 2019 at Konkoly Observatory, Budapest, Hungary. The workshop will have a mixture of lecture-style talks and practical hands-on sessions. The aim is to train the participants on JWST proposal planning tools and resources so they can be as efficient as possible in writing their … Read more »

This project has reveived funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agrement No 716155).