Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

The dynamic research at the Niels Bohr Institute spans Astronomy, Geophysics, Nanophysics, Particles Physics, Quantum Physics and Biophysics. We explore the smallest sub-atomic particles to stars and planets, gamma rays and distant galaxies in the universe.

Ground based optical telescopes

• European Southern Observatory in Chile: UVES, XSHOOTER spectrographs at the Very Large Telescope (VLT)
  https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/
  
  UVES: high resolution spectra.  UVES is a two-arm cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph covering the wavelength range 300 - 500 nm (Blue) and 420 - 1100 nm (Red).
  http://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/paranal/instruments/uves/inst.html
  
  XSHOOTER is a multi-wavelength (300-2500 nm), medium resolution spectrograph mounted at the UT2 Cassegrain focus. It consists of three spectroscopic arms, each with optimized optics, dispersive elements, and detectors.
  http://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/paranal/instruments/xshooter/overview.html

• Nordic Optical Telescope at La Palma, Canary Islands
  FIES is a cross-dispersed high-resolution echelle spectrograph with a maximum spectral resolution of R = 67000.
  http://www.not.iac.es/instruments/fies/

• Radio (submillimeter):
  Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atacama_Large_Millimeter_Array

Satellite based telescopes

We also make use data from the research satellites of European Space Agency (ESA):

• Gaia
• Planck
• Cheops
• etc.

Further Activities

• Mass spectroscopy of grains
• Star and planet formation (theory)
• AGN
• GRB, Kilonovae
• NSM
• High z galaxies

Web page

• http://www.nbi.ku.dk/

ChETEC contact person

• Birgitta Nordström (birgitta[at]nbi.ku.dk)

Further contacts

• Hans Kjeldsen (hansphys.au.dk)
• Instrument center for Danish astrophysics (IDA) (idaphys.au.dk)