Personal Webpage of Ansgar Gaedke

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[Personal Information]

[Education]

[Research Interests]

[Publications]

[Working Experience]

[Others]

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Personal Information

name:	Ansgar
surname:	Gaedke
date of birth:	17.09.1979
born in:	Schoenebeck (Germany)
citizenship:	German
address:	Hamburger Sternwarte
	Gojenbergsweg 112
	21029 Hamburg
	Germany
phone:	+0049 (0)40-42891-4015
email:	agaedke(at)hs.uni-hamburg.de

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Education

Elementary School:	POS W. Komarow, POS August Bebel, Schoenebeck, Germany (1986-1991)
Highschool:	Dr. Tolberg Gymnasium, Schoenebeck, Germany (1991-1998)
University:	Friedrich Schiller University (FSU) Jena, faculty of Physics & Astronomy, department of physics (04/2000-05/2005)
	thesis: "Proper Motion and Multiplicity of Young Brown Dwarfs and Low-Mass Stars in Chamaeleon"
current status:	since August 2005 PhD-student at Hamburger Sternwarte in the research group of Prof. Guenter Wiedemann

Languages

German: native language

English: fluent in oral and written form, studied for 8 years

Russian: basics in oral and written form, studied for 6 years

Dutch: basics in oral and written form

Computer Skills

practical knowledge in MIDAS, GAIA, DS9

UNIX (Linux), Windows 98/2000/XP

programming: HTML, basics in FORTRAN, IRAF, IDL, LaTex

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Research Interests

evolution of low mass (sub)stellar objects and brown dwarfs

search for extrasolar planets

observational techniques: imaging radial velocity adaptive optics (high resolution) spectroscopy astrometry

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Conferences

2006	International Conference on Cool Stars 14
	with a poster presentation on "An Absorption Cell for Near-Infrared High-Resolution Spectroscopy"
2006	3rd NAHUAL Spectroscopy Workshop in Dornburg/Saale
	talk on the "Development of a Gas Absorption Cell for the Near-Infrared"
2004	Joint Meeting of the 'Czech Astronomical Society' and 'Astronomische Gesellschaft' in Prague
	with poster presentation of first results of my diploma thesis

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Publications

talk on "A Status Report on an Absorption Cell for the Near-Infrared" at the Hanse-Kolloquium at the Hamburger Sternwarte in February 2008 Rotational Period of GQ Lupi, C.Broeg, T.O.B.Schmidt, E.Guenther, A.Gaedke, A.Bedalov, R.Neuhaeuser, F.M.Walter, A&A 468, 2007, pp1039-1044 lunch talk at the ESO Headquarter in Santiago de Chile in May 2005 about my diploma thesis talk at the science seminar in the Astrophysical Institute at the University of Bochum in April 2005 about my diploma thesis poster-presentation of first results of my diploma thesis at the "Joint Meeting of the 'Czech Astronomical Society' and 'Astronomische Gesellschaft'" in Prague (September 2004) "Proper Motion and Multiplicity of Young Brown Dwarfs and Low-Mass Stars in Chamaeleon"

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Working Experience

FTS measurements at ESO in Garching b. München

observations on the ESO-NTT with EMMI at La Silla (Chile)

observations for 2nd epoch imaging of substellar companions at Calar Alto Observatory (Spain) with ALFA (Adaptive Optics)

supervising the astronomical practica at the AIU Jena

working in a team of the AIU Jena that reinitialized the 90cm Schmidt Telescope

installing and testing the fiber spectrograph FIASCO in Grossschwabhausen Observatory

student representative in the council of physics department at the FSU

participant on the 26th Parabolic Flight Campaign in Bordeaux as a member of the astrophysical laboratory group at FSU within the ICAPS program

"Analysis of Stellar IR-Spectra with different Methods" - a scientific work done at the AIU Jena

assisting student in the astrophysical laboratory group at FSU leaded by PD Dr. Juergen Blum and Dr. Torsten Poppe working in an ESA program on the influence of electrical charging of micron-sized dust particles on the ROSETTA comet space probe

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Other Interests

(non)digital photography and image-editing

sports, e.g. cycling, rowing

cooking

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Calar Alto Observatory, October / November 2004

Parabolic Flight Campaign at Bordeaux, October 2001

On Safari in Botswana (2004)

A Safari to the Kaokoveld in northern Namibia (2005)

Zambia - The Real Africa (2006) [english]

Namibia - Into the desert (2007 & 2008) (in progress)

Europameisterschaft der Ballonfahrer 2007 in Magdeburg & Umgebung

Near-Infrared Imaging

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created by Ansgar Gaedke, last update: 03.06.2008