Ralf Bender

ad personam ...

• Curriculum Vitae
• ADS Publication List

Science

• Group Homepage

  Diploma and PhD Projects

frequently requested data ...

• Isophote shapes of ellipticals: data from Bender et al.: 1988, Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. 74, 385, Bender et al.: 1989, Astron. Astrophys. 217, 35, and other unpublished data (not ZP calibrated, typical seeing = 2 arcsec)
• Global parameters of hot stellar systems from Bender, Burstein and Faber: 1992, ApJ 399, 462, and 1993, ApJ 411, 153
• Kinematic data (LOSVDs) of ellipticals from Bender, Saglia and Gerhard: 1994, MNRAS 269, 785
• Surface brightness profiles of Virgo elliptical galaxies from Kormendy, Fisher, Cornell, Bender: 2009, ApJS 182, 216

Lectures/Vorlesungen

• Astrophysics Introductory Course (Kursvorlesung):
  mondays, thursdays, 14-16, Lecture Hall E7, physics building, Schellingstr. 4
• Lecture Notes of the Astrophysics Introductory Course for the IMPRS on Astrophysics at the LMU
• Probestudium: Informationsvorlesung fuer Schueler, Sommer 2007

Seminars

• Extragalactic Group Seminar: mondays 11:00, lecture hall of the University Observatory, Scheinerstr. 1
  (also during the semester breaks)
• Extragalactic Journal Club: thursdays, 12:00, seminar room at the MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching
  (also during the semester breaks)

Talks/Vortraege

• Ein populaer-wissenschaftlicher Vortrag ueber massereiche schwarze Loecher in Galaxienkernen.
• An inventory of the local universe (introduction from a course on galaxy formation).

Conferences/Workshops

• Talks presented at the Ringberg Workshop on Secular Evolution, May 17-21, 2004
• Talks presented at the Leopoldina/TR33 Conference on Dark Energy, October 7-11, 2008

on M31 ...

• ApJ Paper on: 'The triple nucleus of M31: two nested disks in Keplerian rotation around a supermassive black hole' (Sep 20, 2005);
• Discussion of this paper in Nature, News and Views, Oct 20, 2005.
• NASA/ESA Press Release