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- 13 Oct 14:00: DAWN Journal Club
- 19 Oct 14:15: Astro Seminar - Dr. Marcelo Barraza Alfaro (NBI)
- 20 Oct 14:00: DAWN Journal Club
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- 3 Nov 14:00: DAWN Journal Club
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Recent DAWN papers
Cameron, Alex J. et al., JADES: evolution of nitrogen abundances in star-forming galaxies from z ~ 1.5-7, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Kreilgaard, Kimi C. et al., BEACON: JWST NIRCam Pure-parallel Imaging Survey. III. Constraints on the Ultraviolet Luminosity Function and the Clustering of z ~ 7-14 Galaxies, The Astrophysical Journal
Li, Zihao et al., First-star imprints in a metal-poor galaxy overdensity near the end of reionization, Nature Astronomy
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The Cosmic Dawn Center
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Staff & students
Some 50 scientists and students are affiliated with the Cosmic Dawn Center. Will you be our next colleague?
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Surveys
The Cosmic Dawn Center is involved in a number of observational surveys, dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of the early Universe.
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Outreach
We enjoy communicating our science to the public, through social media, popular science articles, public talks, interviews in various media, and just answering questions from interested readers.
Welcome to the Cosmic Dawn Center
The Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) is an international basic research center supported by the Danish National Research Foundation.
DAWN is located in Copenhagen at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and at the National Space Institute at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Space).
The center is dedicated to uncovering how and when the first galaxies, stars and black holes formed, through observations with the prime telescopes of the next decade (ALMA, JWST, Euclid, E-ELT, HST) as well as through theory and simulations.
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News
Kasper Elm Heintz awarded prestigious ERC Starting Grant
Congratulations to Kasper Elm Heintz, associate professor at the Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) at both DTU Space and the Niels Bohr Institute, who has just won an ERC Starting Grant to carry out his project “Charting Cosmic Dawn: The impact of primordial matter on galaxy assembly and reionization” (PRIMORDIAL). The grant will allow Heintz to expand his research group with two PhD students and one postdoc.
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James Webb finds surprisingly mature galaxies in early cosmic megastructure
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Viola Gelli wins prize for best PhD thesis in astrophysics
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International collaboration honored with prestigious Into Change Award for uncovering the cosmic origin of heavy elements
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Galactic dust reveals hidden patterns in stunning new images from James Webb
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First light from student-built radio telescope
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