Thomas Kupfer
@thomkupfer.bsky.social
Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Hamburg. Member of the BlackGEM, SDSS-V and LISA collaboration. PI ERC project CompactBINARIES (2023 - 2028)
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. 🔭🧪
September 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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 🔭
✨ Day 3 of #AG2025 ✨
Town Hall explored bold visions: Kilometer Baseline Interferometer, ALMA 2040, wide-field spectroscopy, ATLAST & time-domain astronomy, plus Germany’s role in ESO’s Expanding Horizons. Splinters covered education, gravitational-wave astronomy, planet formation & star formation.
Town Hall explored bold visions: Kilometer Baseline Interferometer, ALMA 2040, wide-field spectroscopy, ATLAST & time-domain astronomy, plus Germany’s role in ESO’s Expanding Horizons. Splinters covered education, gravitational-wave astronomy, planet formation & star formation.
September 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Thanks a lot for organizing a great town hall about the different ideas for the ESO Expanding horizons program 🔭
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.
September 3, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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.
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!
August 29, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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!
Looking Forward to great 3 day visit at @maxplanck.de for Astrophysics to give the Joint Astro Colloquium.
July 23, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Looking Forward to great 3 day visit at @maxplanck.de for Astrophysics to give the Joint Astro Colloquium.
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
January 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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
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...
www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
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www.uni-hamburg.de
January 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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...
www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
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...
November 18, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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...
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.
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
roman.gsfc.nasa.gov
October 10, 2024 at 12:36 PM
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.
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.
September 30, 2024 at 10:38 AM
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
July 8, 2024 at 7:02 AM
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
May 6, 2024 at 9:31 AM
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
Die Entwicklung des Weltraum-Observatoriums „LISA“ hat begonnen. Ab Mitte der 2030er-Jahre sollen damit Gravitationswellen im bisher unerforschten Frequenzbereich erfasst werden. An dem Großprojekt sind auch drei Arbeitsgruppen der UHH beteiligt.
Universität Hamburg beteiligt sich an Entwicklung des Observatoriums „LISA“
www.uni-hamburg.de
February 1, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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
BlackGEM-telescopen op ESO’s La Silla-sterrenwacht in Chili officieel geopend door minister Dijkgraaf van OCW.
www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/black...
www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/black...
January 10, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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.
December 18, 2023 at 11:51 AM
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.