Dr. Enno Middelberg auf der Jahrestagung der VLBI Community in Manchester
Dr. Enno Middelberg works as a junior scientist at the Astronomical Institute of the Ruhr-University Bochum. His field of work is the investigation of radio sources with Very Long Baseline Interferomerty (VLBI) techniques. A significant fraction of these radio sources at cosmological distances are so-called active galactic nuclei (AGNs), i.e. black holes with collimated outflows of relative plasmas that act as accelerators for cosmic ray particles with the highest known energies. The study of such phenomena is considered the main focus of the astrophysical part of our RD. The work of Mr. Middelberg is therefore complementary to the work at LS TP4, where the theoretical description of the corresponding phenomena is in the foreground.
Applications of VLBI technology at the RUB are new and must be publicized accordingly so that the Ruhr-Universität Bochum is also perceived as a new location in the community. Since there is no other site in Germany outside of Bonn with users of VLBI, a RUB presence here is very significant.
In order to strengthen the international visibility of Dr. Middelberg accordingly, he attended the 10th European VLBI Network Symposium and the EVN Users Meeting "VLBI and the new generation of radio arrays" from September 20 to 24, 2010 with the support of the Research Department "Plasmas with Complex Interactions".