S. Bose: S. Bose of Oxford University, UK, came to MPIA for a Summer internship. He worked on the preliminary PanSTARRS1 proper motion catalogue to study its characteristics (accuracy, purity), with the goal of looking for wide common proper motion binaries.
S. Marsat: S. Marsat of École Polytechnique, France, stayed four months to analyse the methane imaging of UKIDSS brown dwarf candidates, previously obtained at the Calar Alto 3.5m telescope using Omega2000. We identified a dozen new T-type dwarfs. The results are partly published in a MNRAS paper. He went on studying for a Master.
C. Knight: C. Knight came from BYU, Utah, to analyse the CAFOS polarimetric data of field brown dwarfs, obtained at the Calar Alto 2.2m telescope. The analysis is on-going. She went on to finish her Bachelor studies.
J. Pitann: I supervised the Diploma (final year) project of J. Pitann, of the University of Heidelberg, on polarisation of brown dwarfs. He wrote a pipeline to reduce Wollaston-prism images and analysed FORS 1 data. The results are published in a A&A paper. He continued his work at MPIA as a Ph.D. student.
M. Voelkl: M. Voelkl of the University of Marburg for an Internship in September 2008 to search for wide binary pairs in proper motion catalogues.
C. Listowski: C. Listowski of École Normale Supérieure, Paris, came for an internship to study brown dwarf variability using spectra obtained at the SOFI near-infrared spectrograph on the ESO NTT. He went on with a Master.
J. Datson: I supervised the Diploma (final year) project of J. Datson, of the University of Heidelberg. She studied spectra obtained at the Calar Alto 3.5m telescope using MOSCA in multi-object spectroscopic mode. |