Publications

Refereed Publications


  • Junk, V., Walch, S., Heitsch, F., Burkert, A., Wetzstein, M., Schartmann, M., Price, D., 2010
    "Modelling shear flows with SPH and grid based methods",
    accepted by MNRAS, astro-ph: 1004.1957J

  • Schartmann, M., Burkert, A., Krause, M., Camenzind, M., Meisenheimer, K., Davies, R.I., 2010,
    "Gas dynamics of the central few parsec region of NGC 1068 fuelled by the evolving nuclear star cluster",
    MNRAS, 403, 1801, astro-ph: 0912.4677

  • Alig, Ch., Burkert, A., Johansson, P. H., Schartmann, M., 2009,
    "Nuclear Disk Formation by Direct Collisions of Gas Clouds with the Central Black Hole",
    submitted to MNRAS, astro-ph: 0908.1100

  • Schartmann, M., Meisenheimer, K., Klahr, H., Camenzind, M., Wolf, Henning, Th., 2009,
    "The effect of stellar feedback on the formation and evolution of gas and dust tori in AGN",
    MNRAS, 393, 759

  • Meisenheimer, K., Raban, D., Tristram, K., Schartmann, M., Jaffe, W., Röttgering, H., Burtscher, L., 2008,
    "Mid-infrared Interferometry of Active Galactic Nuclei: an Outstanding Scientific Success of the VLTI",
    The ESO Messenger 133, 36

  • Schartmann, M., Meisenheimer, K., Camenzind, M., Wolf, S., Tristram, K.R.W., Henning, Th., 2008,
    "Three-dimensional radiative transfer models of clumpy tori in Seyfert galaxies",
    Astronomy & Astrophysics, 482, 67

  • Tristram, K.R.W., Meisenheimer, K., Jaffe, W., Schartmann, M., Rix, H.-W., Leinert, Ch., Morel, S., Wittkowski, M., Röttgering, H., Perrin, G., Lopez, B., Raban, D., Cotton, W.D., Graser, U., Paresce, F., Henning, Th., 2007,
    "Resolving the complex structure of the dust torus in the active nucleus of the Circinus galaxy",
    Astronomy & Astrophysics, 474, 837

  • Menut, J.-L., Gendron, E., Schartmann, M., Tuthill, P., Lopez, B., Danchi, W.C., Wolf, S., Lagrange, A.-M., Flament, S., Rouan, D., Clénet, Y., Berruyer, N., 2006,
    "The carbon star IRC+10216: linking the complex inner region with its spherical large scale structures.",
    MNRAS Letters, 376, L6

  • Schartmann, M., Meisenheimer, K., Camenzind, M., Wolf, S., Henning, Th., 2005,
    "Towards a physical model of dust tori in Active Galactic Nuclei. Radiative transfer calculations for a hydrostatic torus model",
    Astronomy & Astrophysics, 437, 861

    • Conference Proceedings


  • Schartmann, M., Alig, Ch., Krause, M., Burkert, A.,
    "Physics of Galactic Nuclei",
    in "High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering", Springer, 2009

  • Schartmann, M., Burkert, A., Krause, M., Camenzind, M., Meisenheimer, K., Davies, R.I., 2009,
    "Obscuring and Feeding Supermassive Black Holes with Evolving Nuclear Star Clusters",
    Proceedings of the IAU meeting 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  • Davies, R. I., Hicks, E., Schartmann, M., Genzel, R., Tacconi, L. J., Engel, H., Burkert, A., Krause, M., Sternberg, A., Mueller Sanchez, F., Maciejewski, W., 2009,
    "Hydrodynamic studies of turbulent AGN tori",
    Proceedings of the IAU meeting 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  • Schartmann, M., Meisenheimer, K., Klahr, H., Camenzind, M., Wolf, S., Henning, Th., Burkert, A., Krause, M., 2008,
    "Hydrodynamic studies of turbulent AGN tori",
    EAS Publications Series

  • Schartmann, M., Meisenheimer, K., Klahr, H., Camenzind, M., Wolf, S., Henning, 2008,
    "3D-Models of Clumpy Tori in Seyfert Galaxies",
    Relativistic Astrophysics Legacy and Cosmology - Einstein's, ESO Astrophysics Symposia, Volume . ISBN 978-3-540-74712-3. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg (2008) 283

  • Schartmann, M., Meisenheimer, K., Klahr, H., Camenzind, M., Wolf, S., Henning, 2008,
    "Turbulent AGN Tori",
    Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana 79 (2008)

  • Schartmann, M., Meisenheimer, K., Camenzind, M., Klahr, H., Wolf, S., Henning, Th., 2007,
    "Hydrodynamic models of obscuring tori",
    Astronomische Nachrichten, 328, 671

  • Schartmann, M., Meisenheimer, K., Camenzind, M., Wolf, S., Henning, Th., 2005,
    "Towards a physical model of dust tori in Active Galactic Nuclei",
    The Spectral Energy Distributions of Gas-Rich Galaxies: Confronting Models with Data; International Workshop, held 4-8 October, 2004 in Heidelberg, Germany. Edited by Cristina C. Popescu and Richard J. Tuffs. AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 761, 2005., p.277

  • Schartmann, M., Meisenheimer, K., Camenzind, M., Wolf, S., Henning, Th., 2005,
    "Three-dimensional models of clumpy tori in Seyfert galaxies",
    Astron. Nachr., 326, 555-555 (2005)

    • Popular Writing


  • Schartmann, M.,
    Wie drei Galaxien miteinander verschmelzen
    Sterne und Weltraum, October 2008

  • Schartmann, M.,
    Book review: Silk, J.,
    Das fast unendliche Universum
    Sterne und Weltraum, 2007

  • Schartmann, M.,
    Book review: Tielens, A.G.G.M.,
    The Physics and Chemistry of the Interstellar Medium
    Sterne und Weltraum, December 2006

  • Schartmann, M.,
    Die stärksten Magnetfelder im Universum
    Sterne und Weltraum, September 2006

  • Schartmann, M.,
    Neue Beobachtungen aktiver galaktischer Kerne
    Sterne und Weltraum, May 2006

  • Schartmann, M.,
    Massenobergrenze für Sterne entdeckt
    Sterne und Weltraum, August 2005

  • Keil, B. & Schartmann, M.,
    Ein Satellit auf Einsteins Spuren
    Sterne und Weltraum, January 2005

  • Schartmann, M.,
    Rekordquasar gewogen
    Sterne und Weltraum, September 2003

    • Other


  • Hydrodynamical models of AGN tori
    Contribution to Fachbeirat at MPIA, 2007

  • Ph.D. Thesis,
    Models of Dust and Gas Tori in Active Galactic Nuclei
    University of Heidelberg & MPIA, 2007

  • Diploma Thesis,
    Modelle für Staubtori in Aktiven Galaktischen Kernen,
    University of Heidelberg & MPIA, 2003

  • Models of AGN tori,
    Contribution to "Fachbeirat", 2003




    • Conferences & Talks


  • "HLRB Results Workshop"
    Leibniz supercomputing centre, Garching (Germany), December 8-9, 2009
  • "Physics of Galactic Nuclei"
    Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee (Germany), June 15-19, 2009
  • "Models of gas and dust tori in Seyfert Galaxies"
    Astronomical Colloquium, Kiel university (Germany), Februar, 2009
  • "JENAM / AG-Tagung: New Challenges to European Astronomy"
    Wien (Austria), September 8-12, 2008
  • "Frontiers in Computational Astrophysics: The Origin of Stars, Planets and Galaxies"
    Ascona (Switzerland), July 13-18, 2008
  • "The central kpc: AGN and their hosts"
    Ierapetra, Crete (Greece), June 4-6, 2008
    oral presentation
  • "HLRS/ZIH workshop: Parallel Programming with MPI, OpenMP and Petsc"
    ZIH Dresden, (Germany), February 11-14, 2008
  • "Simulations of AGN tori"
    Talk at the Excellence Cluster Area F meeting, (Germany), January 23, 2008
    oral presentation
  • "The Physics of Galactic Nuclei - Startup Workshop"
    Max-Planck-Institute for extraterrestrial Physics, (Germany), December 14, 2007
    oral presentation
  • "Cosmic Matter 2007"
    University of Würzburg, (Germany), September 24-29, 2007
    oral presentation
  • "Obscured AGN Across Cosmic Time"
    Kloster Seeon, (Germany), June 5-8, 2007
  • "The Impact of AGN feedback on galaxy formation: theoretical modelling and observational signatures"
    Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee (Germany), May 20-26, 2007
    oral presentation
  • "Models of AGN dust tori"
    Seminar at the Univerity of Turin, May 18, 2007
  • "MPIA student workshop"
    Lago di Como, (Italy), March, 2007
    oral presentation
  • "Models of AGN dust tori"
    Talk in the Hauskolloquium of MPIA & LSW, March 23, 2007
    PhD thesis report
  • "The History of Nuclear Black Holes in Galaxies"
    Cambridge, MA (USA), May 15-18, 2006
    poster presentation
  • "Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology: Einstein's Legacy"
    Munich (Germany), November 7-11, 2005
    poster presentation
  • "The many facets of the universe - Revelations by New Instruments"
    (79th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft)
    Cologne (Germany), September 26 - October 1, 2005
    oral presentation
  • "Surveying the Universe (SISCO winter school"
    Obergurgl (Austria), February, 12-19, 2005
  • "The Spectral Energy Distribution of Gas Rich Galaxies:
    Confronting Models with Data"
    Heidelberg (Germany), October, 4-8, 2004
    poster presentation
  • "The central parsec of galaxies"
    Heidelberg (Germany), October, 6-8, 2004
    oral presentation
  • "The many scales in the Universe (JENAM)"
    Granada (Spain), September, 13-17, 2004
    poster presentation
  • "Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics"
    HLRS, Stuttgart (Germany), March 29 - April 2, 2004
  • "The structure and composition of AGN"
    Leiden (Netherland), January, 12-14, 2004
    oral presentation
  • "Long Baseline Interferometry in the Mid-Infrared"
    Ringberg Castle (Germany), September 1-5, 2003
    oral presentation
  • "Black Holes in the Universe"
    Cargese (Corsica), May 12-24, 2003



    • Teaching

  • Supervisor of the experiment "CCD - Photometry" for undergraduate students
    University of Heidelberg, winter term 2004/2005 and winter term 2005/2006

  • Hands-on training "CCD-camera & Data Reduction" for highschool students
    BOGY (BerufsOrientierung and GYmnasien) @ MPIA, 2004, 2005 and 2006