Donaldistische Publikationen

Main Research Areas

I have worked in particular on:

Outreach activities for the Gaia mission
Visualization of Gaia data
Data access systems for Gaia
First Look for the Gaia mission
One-Day Astrometric Solution (ODAS)
First Look and Science Quick Look for the DIVA astrometry mission
Onboard software for the DIVA satellite
Polarized radiative transfer in magnetized stellar atmospheres
Probing gravitational theories using polarization measurements
Search for weak magnetic fields in white dwarfs, sdB stars, and central stars of planetary nebulae
Interpretation of spectra and polarization of magnetic white dwarfs
Zeeman tomography of magnetic white dwarfs using evolutionary strategies and genetic algorithms
Consistent interpretation of the Zeeman and cyclotron spectra of AM Herculis stars
Search for rapidly rotating magnetic white dwarfs
Testing calculations for atoms and molecules in strong magnetic fields
Interpretation of EUV and X-ray observations of white dwarfs
Chemical abundance analyses of white dwarfs
Chemically stratified atmospheres of white dwarfs
Search for faint blue stars in the Hamburg Quasar Survey, Hamburg/ESO Survey, and Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Hydrodynamical simulations of convection in white dwarf atmospheres
Stellar dynamical investigation of white dwarfs in the proposed Hyades supercluster