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24MAR 2021
Department of Physics
Can star clusters accelerate particles faster than supernovas?
An international team of researchers has now demonstrated for the first time that high-energy cosmic rays are formed in the area surrounding massive stars. Their observations provide new insights into how cosmic rays are formed and develop. The results of this research, in which an astrophysicist from FAU was involved, have now been published in […]
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10DEC 2020
Department of Physics
eROSITA finds large-scale bubbles in the halo of the Milky Way
Astronomers have detected a remarkable new feature in the first all-sky survey map produced by the eROSITA X-ray telescope on SRG: a huge circular structure of hot gas below the plane of the Milky Way occupying most of the southern sky. A similar structure in the Northern sky, the “North polar spur”, has been known […]
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10DEC 2020
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How do quanta cooperate?
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved the Collaborative Research Center / Transregio 306 (TRR 306). The goal of the scientists is to collectively investigate the behavior of quantum systems. How do quanta cooperate? Starting in 2021, the researchers participating in TRR 306 ‘QuCoLiMa’ (Quantum Cooperativeness of Light and Matter) will be investigating the quantum […]
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16SEP 2020
Department of Physics
Mysterious binary star system in space
Binary stars are well known to astrophysicists. One stellar double-act in particular has drawn their attention, as part of the X-ray radiation that binary star systems usually emit is missing, and the x-rays it did emit seemed to have strange properties. A research team led by FAU observed a binary star system using X-ray satellites […]
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17JUL 2020
Department of Physics
Supernovas shed light onto dark matter
Explosions from stars, so-called supernovas, can shed some light onto the research into dark matter. This has been shown by a study carried out by a team of German and Slovenian researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and the University of Nova Gorica. The researchers’ findings have been published in the journal ‘Physical Review Letters’. Dark matter […]
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23JUN 2020
Department of Physics
Impressive view of the sky
After 182 days, the x-ray telescope eROSITA on board the Spectrum-X-Gamma space probe has completed its first complete survey of the sky. This new map of the hot, energetic universe includes more than one million objects, effectively doubling the number of known x-ray sources discovered in the 60 year history of x-ray astronomy to date. […]
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