Very soon, in August, I will have the honor to visit and use a radio dish of 30 meter diameter on Pico Vileta in the Spanish Sierra Nevada, the IRAM 30-m telescope. I will be able to use it for unraveling a long-standing mystery related to an extremely energetic object within our own Galaxy. While […]
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With my post, I would like to summarize work that my colleagues and I published recently (Beuchert et al. 2019, A&A, 610, 32). Let me start with a general introduction to provide the necessary context needed to understand what “jets” are. One of the major open questions in astrophysics deals with the most powerful objects in
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Given that our group has been growing significantly over the last years, annual group retreats are the ideal occasion to get to know each other better and talk about important topics that don’t necessarily find their way in usual working days. So, just recently, we spent a whole day at a beautiful little farm in
In this blog-post, I want to share my experience in the field of science communication and give you my personal perspective of things. I would be very happy to receive your feedback. Maybe, you disagree with what I say? Maybe, I missed something in my discussion? Feel free to contact me ([email protected]) or post a
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My name is Tobias Beuchert. I recently joined this group as a postdoc. My research interests are to expand our knowledge about accreting compact objects (black holes or neutron stars), their energy consumption and energy release. Disclaimer: this blogpost may contain one or two elements of slightly exaggerated content. This is an attempt to make
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