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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Astrophysics |
| Keywords | stellar evolution, stellar atmospheres, observational spectroscopy, abundances, cosmic distance scale |
| Honours and awards | 2009: Humboldt Prize AvH 2009: Karl Schwarzschild Prize German Astronomical Society |
Current contact address
| Country | Germany |
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| City | München |
| Institution | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) |
| Institute | Universitäts-Sternwarte München (USM) |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hillebrandt | Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/06/2010 |
Programme(s)
| 2009 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Rolf-Peter Kudritzki is one of the world's leading theorist in stellar model atmospheres and radiative transfer and, in addition, he is also widely acknowledged for his outstanding work as an observational spectroscopist. He has always combined first rate theoretical work with observations using the most powerful telescopes on the ground and in space and has established the new science field of extragalactic stellar astronomy. During his stay in Germany he will continue his work on stellar spectroscopy and on establishing bright stars as precise cosmic distance indicators. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2012 | Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, Miguel A. Urbaneja, Zachary Gazak, et al..: 'Quantitative Spectroscopy of Blue Supergiant Stars in the Disk of M81: Metallicity, Metallicity Gradient, and Distance'. In: Astrophysical Journal, 2012, 15 |
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| 2012 | Ben Davies with Rolf-Peter Kudritzki and eight co-authors: 'The G305 star-forming complex: the central star clusters Danks 1 and Danks 2'. In: Monthly Notices Royal Astronomical Society, 2012, 1871 |
| 2011 | Maria Messioneo, Ben Davies, Don Figer, Rolf-Peter Kudritzki et al.: 'Massive Stars in the Cl 1813-178 Cluster: An Episode Of Massive Star Formation in the W33 Complex'. In: Astrophysical Journal , 2011, 41 |
| 2011 | Chris Evans, Ben Davies, Rolf-Peter Kudritzki et al.: 'Stellar metallicities beyond the Local Group: the potential of J-band spectroscopy with extremely large telescopes'. In: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2011, 50 |
| 2011 | Alceste Bonanos, Norberto Castro, Lucas Macri, Rolf-Peter Kudritzki: 'The Distance to the Massive Eclipsing Binary LMC-SC1-105 in the Large Magellanic Cloud'. In: Astrophysical Journal, 2011, 9L |