Activity

Published work related to the EXWINGS project: Link to ADS page.

Recent and upcoming events


• Invited talk by Susanne Höfner at the MATISSE Science Meeting, 6-8 November 2024, Observatoire Côte d’Azur, Nice (online presentation at hybrid meeting). Link to conference.


• Contribution during Astronomdagarna 2024, Lund Observatory, Lund, 2-3 October 2024. Link to conference.

Poster - Emelie Siderud: The effect of stellar pulsations on the mass loss of AGB stars. Link.
Poster - Joachim Wiegert: Time dependent 3D radiative transfer of AGB stars and their dust. Link.


• EXWINGS Workshop, Uppsala, 18-20 September 2024. Link to workshop program.


• Contribution during Advances in Cool Evolved Stars, Monash, Melbourne, Australia, 8-12 July 2024. Link to conference.

Contributed talk - Joachim Wiegert: From 3D RHD models of AGB stars and dusty winds to synthetic observables.
Contributed talk - Bernd Freytag: 3D "star-and-wind-in-a-box" simulations of AGB stars with CO5BOLD.
Contributed talk - Arief Ahmad: Multi-mode pulsations in AGB stars: insights from 3D models.
Contributed talk - Emelie Siderud: Investigating the parameters of stellar pulsations and their effect on the mass loss of AGB stars.
Contributed talk - Ka Tat Wong: Submillimetre HCN masers in carbon-rich AGB stars.


• Contribution to a Nature Astronomy article: A new approach reveals an unexpected companion to W Aquilae. Link to news article, and link to research article.


• Contribution during Origin and Fate of Dust in Our Universe, Chalmers, Gothenburg, 25-29 September 2023. Link to conference.

Contributed talk - Susanne Höfner: Stardust: From micro-physics to global dynamics.
Poster - Emelie Siderud: The effect of dust opacities on winds of carbon-rich AGB stars. Link.
Poster - Joachim Wiegert: Radiative transfer through 3D models of dust clouds around AGB-stars. Link.
Poster - Miora Andriantsaralaza: A new hope for accurate mass-loss rate estimates for AGB stars. Link.


• Talk by Joachim Wiegert: 3D radiative transfer simulations of envelopes around cool giant stars. Joint conference (for early career researchers) between Stockholm University and Uppsala University, Stockholm, 15 September 2023.


• Invited talk by Susanne Höfner at the Hengstberger Symposium on Stellar Yields, 4-8 September 2023, Heidelberg Link to conference.


• EXWINGS Workshop, Uppsala, 31 May - 2 June 2023. Link to workshop program.


• Contribution during IAU Symposium 376: At the cross-roads of astrophysics and cosmology: Period–luminosity relations in the 2020s, Budapest, Hungary, 17-21 April 2023. Link to conference.

Contributed talk - Miora Andriantsaralaza: Distance Estimates for AGB Stars – Gaia DR3 Parallax and PL Relation.
Contributed talk - Arief Ahmad: Self-excited Pulsations in Global 3D Simulations of Cool, Luminous and Evolved Stars.


• Talk by Arief Ahmad: Pulsations of, and the shocks surrounding, asymptotic giant branch stars. Collisionless shock meeting, IRF Uppsala, 26-27 January 2023. Link to meeting.


• Contribution during Astronomdagarna 2022, Chalmers, Gothenburg, 6-8 October 2022. Link to conference.

Contributed talk - Arief Ahmad: Pulsation properties of evolved red giants from 3D models.
Poster - Bernd Freytag: CO5BOLD star-and-wind-in-a-box models of cool giant stars with dust-driven winds.
Poster - Joachim Wiegert: Radiative transfer simulations of dust around AGB-stars.
Poster - Ka Tat Wong: (Sub)millimetre maser line observations towards evolved stars.
Poster - Miora Andriantsaralaza: DEATHSTAR: Better constrained envelope sizes and distances for AGB stars.
Poster - Susanne Höfner: Gradual Fe-enrichment of silicate dust in AGB star winds.


• Lecture by Susanne Höfner: Dust-driven winds of pulsating stars. VISESS Summer School, Vienna, Austria, September 2022. Link to meeting.


• Contribution during NBIA Workshop on Radiation Transfer in Astrophysics. The Niels Bohr Institute, 6-10 June 2022. Link to workshop.

Contributed talk - Arief Ahmad: The handling of radiation transport in 3D simulations of cool giants.
Contributed talk - Miora Andriantsaralaza: DEATHSTAR - A new hope for accurate mass-loss-rate estimates.


• Invited talk by Susanne Höfner: Explaining emergent structures in atmospheres and winds of evolved stars. Joint ESO/ALMA Colloquium, May 2022. Link to meeting.


• Contribution during VLTI+CHARA workshop: Sharpest Eyes on the Sky, University of Exeter, UK, 25-29 April 2022. Link to conference.

Invited talk - Susanne Höfner: Dynamical atmospheres and winds of evolved stars: Explaining emergent structures. Link to talk.
Poster - Joachim Wiegert: Simulating scattering and emission from dust around luminous cool giant stars. Link to poster presentation.


• Invited talk by Susanne Höfner: Explaining the winds of asymptotic giant branch stars: Recent progress. ITC Colloquium, Institute for Theory and Computation, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA, January 2022. Link to meeting.


• Contribution during The Origin of Outflows in Evolved Stars (IAU Symposium 366): Virtual Meeting, 1-5 November 2021. Link to conference.

Invited talk - Susanne Höfner: Explaining the winds of asymptotic giant branch stars: Recent progress.
Pitch talk - Miora Andriantsaralaza: DEATHSTAR: Nearby AGB stars with the Atacama Compact Array - CO envelope sizes. Link.
Poster - Arief Ahmad: Self-excited pulsations of AGB and RSG stars in global 3D models. Link.
Poster - Emelie Siderud: Models of C-Type AGB Stars: Dust Opacities and Wind Properties. Link.


• Contributed talk by Emelie Siderud: Models of C-type AGB stars: Dust opacities and wind properties. Digitala Astronomdagarna 2021, 21-22 October 2021. Link.


• Contributed talk by Miora Andriantsaralaza: DEATHSTAR: Nearby AGB stars with the ACA - CO envelope sizes and asymmetries. Asymmetrical Post-main-sequence Nebulae 8 e2021: The Shaping of Stellar Outflows, 4-8 October 2021. Link.


• Contributed talk by Bernd Freytag: Dimming events in evolved stars due to levitated cool gas explored with CO5BOLD models. EAS 2021 (European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting), 28 June 2021. Link to special session.


• Invited talk by Susanne Höfner: Explaining the winds of cool giant and supergiant stars with global 3D models. Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium, 6 May 2021. Link.


• Contribution during DELVE: The Death-Throes of Evolved Stars, a Virtual Encounter: 12-16 April 2021. Link to conference.

Invited talk - Sara Bladh: Dusty winds of AGB stars.
Poster - Arief Ahmad: Self-excited pulsations of AGB and RSG stars in global 3D models. Link.
Poster - Miora Andriantsaralaza: DEATHSTAR: Nearby AGB stars with the Atacama Compact Array - CO envelope sizes and asymmetries: the S-stars. Link.
Poster - Susanne Höfner: Gradual Fe-enrichment of silicate dust in AGB star winds. Link.