![Markus Wittkowski](markus2023.jpg)
ESO | European Southern Observatory
Karl-Schwarzschild-Straße 2, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany
Phone: +49 89 320 06-769
Email: mwittkow at eso.org
Website: www.eso.org/~mwittkow
Scientific Interests:
- Fundamental stellar properties
- Atmospheres and mass-loss of cool evolved stars
- Circumnuclear environment of active galactic nuclei
- Optical long-baseline interferometry
- Synergy of optical and radio interferometry
CV:
- Since 2023: Head of the User Support Astronomers Group, ESO Garching
- Since 2003: User Support Astronomer, ESO Garching
- 2001-2003: VLTI Astronomer, ESO Chile
- 2000-2001: Feodor-Lynen Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation at the U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, DC, USA
- 1998-1999: Staff Astronomer at the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany
- 1998: PhD (Dr. rer. nat, Physics, Astronomy), University of Bonn, Germany
Press releases:
![A red giant sheds its skin (2018)](potw1807a.jpg)
![Understanding how stars die](eso1239c.jpg)
![VLTI Revisits the Largest Yellow Hypergiant Ever Discovered](potw1740a.jpg)
![Chronicle of a Death Foretold](eso0725b.jpg)
Organisation of ESO workshops:
![Imaging of Stellar Surfaces](imaging_stellar_surfaces.jpg)
![Stellar End Products: The Low Mass - High Mass Connection](1423197205778.jpg)
![The Origin and Fate of the Sun](poster-LowRes.jpg)
Publications:
ADS ORCID Google Scholar ResearchGate![VLTI-GRAVITY measurements of cool evolved stars](aa33029-18-fig1.jpg)
![Multi-epoch VLTI-PIONIER imaging of the supergiant V766 Cen](aa31569-17-fig1.jpg)
![Aperture synthesis imaging of the carbon AGB star R Sculptoris](aa30214-16-fig14.jpg)
![VLTI/AMBER spectro-interferometry of late-type supergiants](aa29349-16-fig10.jpg)
![Near-infrared spectro-interferometry of Mira variables and comparisons to 1D dynamic model
atmospheres and 3D convection simulations](aa27614-15-fig3.jpg)
![Fundamental properties and atmospheric structure of the red supergiant VY Canis Majoris](aa19126-12-fig1.jpg)
![Inhomogeneities in molecular layers of Mira atmospheres](aa17411-11-fig1.jpg)
![J, H, K spectro-interferometry of the Mira variable S Orionis](img37.gif)
![The Mira variable S Orionis](img119.gif)
![Tests of stellar model atmospheres by optical interferometry](img105.gif)
![Tests of stellar model atmospheres by optical interferometry](img33.gif)
![VLTI/VINCI observations of the nucleus of NGC 1068](img43.gif)
![Tests of stellar model atmospheres by optical interferometry.](img111.gif)
![Direct multi-wavelength limb-darkening measurements of three late-type giants](img70.gif)
![Diffraction-limited speckle-masking interferometry of the red supergiant VY CMa](vycma.png)
![Diffraction-limited 76mas speckle masking observations of the core of NGC 1068 with the SAO 6m telescope](n1068.png)
![The effect of winds on atmospheric layers of red supergiants II](AH-sco.png)
![The effect of winds on atmospheric layers of red supergiants I](aa44503-22-fig1.jpg)
![Tomography of cool giant and supergiant star atmospheres III.](aa38581-20-fig4.jpg)
![VLTI-PIONIER imaging of the red supergiant V602 Carinae](aa36734-19-fig3.jpg)
![What causes the large extensions of red supergiant atmospheres?](aa25212-14-fig7.jpg)
![New insights into the dust formation of oxygen-rich AGB stars](aa22376-13-fig3.jpg)
![The atmospheric structure and fundamental parameters of the red supergiants AH Scorpii, UY Scuti, and KW Sagittarii](aa20920-12-fig1.jpg)
![Near-infrared spectro-interferometry of three OH/IR stars with the VLTI/AMBER instrument](aa17994-11-fig1.jpg)
![Mid-infrared interferometric monitoring of evolved stars](aa16527-11-fig1.jpg)
![The K-band intensity profile of R Leonis probed by VLTI/VINCI](img28.gif)
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