Dr. Rolf Kuiper
Research interests
How do massive stars overcome the radiation pressure and actually accrete matter on the luminous central protostar? The most likely way to solve this problem is to leave spherical symmetry and accrete the matter via accretion disks. In this work I study the massive-accretion-disk scenario within 3D-hydrodynamical models to figure out fundamental properties of the massive protostellar system.
working on...
Modeling the formation of massive stars
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| 2000-2005: | Study of Physics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany |
| 2005-2006: | Diploma thesis at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg, Germany |
| 2006-2009: | PhD studies at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany |
| 01/2009-04/2010: | Post-Doc at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany |
| since 05/2010: | Post-Doc at the Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Bonn, Germany |
Publications
All publications can be found here.