Thomas Kupfer

A big thank you also to Martin M. Roth for giving us a quick tour of the Zentrum für Technologieentwicklung (ZTE). I can only say: Very impressive! @uni-hamburg.de

The conference was held in the Synagogue Kulturzentrum; one of the most beautiful buildings I had ever given a presentation. Deutsches Zentrum für Astrophysik congratulations to a great conference!

I had so much fun presenting our @eso.org Expanding horizons idea for the Time Domain Telescope and its connection to multi-messenger astrophysics at the @germanastrosoc.bsky.social meeting organized by the Deutsches Zentrum für Astrophysik in the really pretty town Görlitz. 🔭🧪

Thanks a lot for organizing a great town hall about the different ideas for the ESO Expanding horizons program 🔭

We also had the opportunity to spend some fun hours together and even show the team parts of the beautiful city of Hamburg @uni-hamburg.de

This week we welcomed the BlackGEM collaboration for a team meeting at Hamburg Observatory. We had lots of exciting science presentations and many fruitful conversations about the amazing science we already have been doing with BlackGEM and will be doing in the future.

We also had to say goodbye to two amazing RISE students, Bennett Kirby and Isabel Jackson, who spend the summer in Hamburg working with us on radial mode pulsators and supernova Ia progenitors @uni-hamburg.de

Group picture of the research group of Prof. Kupfer in front of the main building at Hamburg Observatory

Three weeks ago my close collaborator and friend Brad N. Barlow came to visit us at the observatory with one of his graduate students. We had a great collaboration meeting with lots of inspiring discussions!

Picture shows the front of the Max Planck Institute of Astrophysics

Looking Forward to great 3 day visit at @maxplanck.de for Astrophysics to give the Joint Astro Colloquium.

The picture shows the presenter giving the talk in the historic library at Hamburg observatory

Today, we had a very inspiring Colloquium on the incredible things we will be able to do with @lisacommunity.bsky.social Valeriya certainly sparked lots of interest about the mission here at Hamburg observatory

Ausschreibung

I am looking for a PhD student to join us at Hamburg observatory to work on compact binaries, LISA sources and supernova Ia progenitors. The position is funded through my ERC starting grant. Application deadline is February 28th and you can apply follow the link:
www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

I'm a Professor of Astronomy at the university of Hamburg. I work on compact binaries, LISA sources, Supernova progenitors and large scale surveys.

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The second project is offered by my student Eric Stringer and the goal is to do kinematic studies of the known compact sdB+WD systems to understand their Galactic kinematics (thin disc, thick disc, halo).
www.rise-germany.de/offer/offers...

The first project is offered by my student Corey Bradshaw and the goal is to use TESS data to search for companions of BLAPs and radial mode sdB pulsators by doing timing measurements of the pulsations.
www.rise-germany.de/offer/offers...

We have two projects in my group. The project descriptions are attached and the links to the applications are given below. Application deadline is November 30th.

Students from North American, British and Irish universities, here is something for you. The RISE program provides funding for a summer internship at a German research institute. See here for more details: www.daad.de/rise/en/rise...

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

I am excited that I am part of the Definition Committee for the Galactic Plane Survey. If you have ideas for a survey strategy to conduct interesting science in the Galactic Plane, we are still collecting pitches or white papers. Just follow the instructions here:
roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/gala...

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Following a recommendation from the Early-Definition Astrophysics Survey Assessment Committee, the Nancy Roman Space telescope will conduct a community-defined Galactic Plane General Astrophysics Survey, of up to approximately 700 hours.

The images show the photometric measurements for this object taken with the Oskar Luehning Telescope. The dips occur when one object of the binary moves in front of the other component which happens on a regular binary period of 39 minutes. Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe

This source is also expected to be directly dected in gravitational waves by LISA - a future large ESA mission measuring gravitational waves from space.

@uni-hamburg.de Master student Paul Teckenburg took data of a gravitational wave source with the Oskar Luehning Telescope located at Hamburg Observatory in Hamburg-Bergedorf. With this data he is able to measure the orbital decay of the system and predict its gravitational wave strength.

Hamburg has a reputation for Schietwetter but that is not true. We have plenty of wonderful clear nights where we can observe gravitational wave sources. As these sources radiate gravitational waves they lose angular momentum which causes the orbit to shrink slowly.

I'm super excited for a week full of LISA science at the gorgeous UCD campus #LISASymposiumXV

I had a blast talking about the incredible science we will do with LISA at the @uni-hamburg.de Wissen vom Fass event in this cozy bar in Hamburg

Super excited about the adoption of LISA. Looking forward to the years ahead of us at @uni-hamburg.de

Excited for the science we are going to do with BlackGEM

Congratulations to my former Master Student Corey Bradshaw for his first 1st author paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2312.067.... We studied a prominent member of a new class of pulsators to derive its evolutionary history . Corey will continue this study on a large sample at @uni-hamburg.de as PhD student.