Outreach and press Potsdam Alumni leads the Black Hole Police unit 11 Aug 202211 Aug 2022 Team lead by Tomer Shenar has found a dormant stellar-mass black hole in the LMC' 30 Dor region. This findings appeared in Nature Astronomy. This artist’s impression shows what the…
Outreach and press IRAS 00500 explained to general public interested in astronomy 26 Jan 202126 Jan 2021 This ‘Unusual Star’ Is Unlike Anything Astronomers Have Seen Before Study of nebula IRAS 00500+6713 suggests its central star is unlike any seen before ESA's Cosmic neon lights Strange star…
Scientific events Key ingredients in massive star evolution 19 Jun 201919 Jul 2019 Special Session SS17 during EWASS in Lyon (France) is about to start on Friday, 28th June. As a SOC we assembled an exciting program that follows the current developments in the…
New in arXive Unraveling misteries of low-metallicity massive binaries 11 Aug 2022 Daniel Pauli led the study of the most massive eclipsing O-type binary in the SMC. Detailed comprehensive analysis revealed surprisingly low stellar masses confirming the apparent deficiency of very massive…
New in arXive Young hot massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy 11 Aug 2022 Matthew Richard led the study of O stars in the important cluster NGC 346 located in the metal poor SMC galaxy. The study is based on the unprecedented spectroscopic observations…
Scientific events ULLYSES Sets Sail: Massive Star Spectroscopy with the HST and the ESO VLT 19 Aug 2021 Lorentz Center Workshop -Hybrid- 13 - 17 December 2021 Looking forward to the community broad workshop devoted to massive star spectroscopy !
Observations Deep X-ray look in the heart of a black hole production factory 16 Aug 202116 Aug 2021 Two largest ever X-ray observatories, Chandra and XMM-Newton, will observed the galaxy ESO 338. We believe that this galaxy is the major nearby black hole production factory. Our new deep…
Observations New observations with the Hubble Space Telescope are approved 16 Aug 202116 Aug 2021 Magellanic Bridge is a gas bridge between two nearby galaxies Congratulations to Varsha Ramachandran on winning the observing time with the HST to observed OB-type stars in the Bagellaning Bridge!…
Careers and Jobs Postgraduate (PhD) student applications are welcome 21 Mar 202111 May 2021 PhD student position is available. Applications are invited for a PhD position in the research group on Massive Stars at the University of Potsdam (Germany). The funded 3 years PhD…
Careers and Jobs Odyssey in the Clouds 9 Mar 2021 A new job opening in our group. We are looking for a new team member to work on quantitative spectroscopy of massive stars in the Magellanic Cloud galaxies. We will…
New in arXive Supernova in a Bubble 8 Mar 20218 Mar 2021 Our new paper on a supernova remnant around the X-ray pulsar SXP 1062 is out. This is a next step in uncovering the nature of this enigmatic slow X-ray pulsar.
Dr. Lidia M. Oskinova 