February 2026

26/02/26 (Thursday)
15:15, Auditorium Eridanus (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Talk — ICM Kinematics in the New Era of High-Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy: First Results from XRISM
Irina Zhuravleva (University of Chicago)

Abstract

The recently launched XRISM (JAXA/NASA/ESA) observatory has provided long-awaited high-resolution spectra of extended X-ray sources, including clusters of galaxies. These spectra enable direct measurements of gas kinematics in the intracluster medium (ICM). I will present XRISM results from observations of well-known bright galaxy clusters and discuss their implications for the physics of AGN feedback, ICM turbulence, cluster mergers and their assembly history, and cluster mass measurements for cosmology. Finally, I will compare these measurements with cosmological simulations, highlighting both what they reproduce and remaining challenges.

March 2026

05/03/26 (Thursday)
15:15, Auditorium Eridanus (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Talk — to be announced
Feng Long (Peking University)
12/03/26 (Thursday)
15:15, Auditorium Eridanus (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Talk — to be announced
Phil Hopkins (Caltech)
19/03/26 (Thursday)
15:15, Auditorium Eridanus (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Talk — to be announced
Wenbin Lu (Berkeley)
26/03/26 (Thursday)
15:15, Auditorium Eridanus (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Talk — to be announced
Oliver Gressel (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP))

April 2026

02/04/26 (Thursday)
15:15, Auditorium Eridanus (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Talk — to be announced
Jaime Ruiz (University College London)
16/04/26 (Thursday)
15:15, Auditorium Eridanus (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Talk — to be announced
James Chibueze (University of South Africa)
23/04/26 (Thursday)
15:15, Auditorium Eridanus (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Talk — New Perspectives onto the Universe in the Multi-messanger astronomy era
Samaya Nissanke (University of Amsterdam)