DanielAsmus

European Southern Observatory Casilla 19001, Santiago 19, Chile

T +56-2-463 3059 B dasmus@eso.org
Birthdate: 02.06.1983 Nationality: German

Research Interests
Galactic nuclei: dust structure & evolution, accretion & jet structure, spectral energy
distributions, gas kinematics & black hole masses
Infrared observations: high-spatial resolution, mid-infrared, ground-based methods, dust & PAH emission

Employment
2014present
20122014

Fellow, Santiago/Paranal, European Southern Observatory, Chile.

Postdoctoral researcher, Infrared group, Max-Planck-Institut fr Radioastronomie,
Supervisor: Prof. G. Weigelt.

Education
20092012

PhD in astrophysics, Mid-infrared properties of local active galactic nuclei, Institut fr Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik (ITAP), Christian-Albrechts-Universitt
(CAU) Kiel, Supervised by: Prof. W.J. Duschl.

20072008

Diploma in astrophysics (corresponds to masters degree), The Inner Region of

Accretion Disks around Black Holes, ITAP, CAU Kiel, Supervised by: Prof. W.J.
Duschl.

Granted Studentships
Jan.Mar. 2011
2009 2011
Jul.Sep. 2006

DGDF Short Term Studentship, An Atlas of OH lines at R100000, ESO, Vitacura,

Santiago de Chile, Supervised by: Dr. Alain Smette & Dr. Jonathan Smoker.
ESO Studentship, ESO, Santiago, Chile, Supervised by: Dr. Alain Smette.
DESY Summer Student, ILC Group, DESY, Hamburg, Germany, Supervised by: Dr.
Jenny List.

Teaching Experience
20112012

Leading of exercise groups in mathematical methods of physics, under-grad

Other Activities
2015present

ESO Fellow representative in Chile

2014present

Organizer of the AGN research group Santiago.

2014present

VISIR instrument fellow.

20132014

Co-organizer of the in-house lunch colloquium at MPIfR, Bonn

20102011

Organizer of the student meetings at ESO, Vitacura, Santiago de Chile.

Sep.Nov. 2010

Creation of an asteroid search tool for VISIR calibration for the ESO web pages

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20072008

Design and support of the web pages of astrophysics department at CAU, Kiel.

20062007

Research assistant in theoretical plasma physics group of Prof. Bonitz, CAU Kiel.

Computer Skills
Programming
Languages
Data Handling

PYTHON, IDL, PERL, FORTRAN, C/C++, and HTML

Esorex, Gasgano, Topcat, Gnuplot, Aladin, SPLAT, Matlab

Observing Experience
Ground-based:

VLT/I: 16 programs (160 hours service mode as PI; 8 nights visitor mode as PI)
VLT/UT3: 100 nights of support astronomer (VISIR, VIMOS, SPHERE)
VLT/UT3: 40 nights of VISIR commissioning
Gemini North: 1 programme (2 nights visitor mode)

Space-based:

Herschel: 1 programme (20.6 hours)

Refereed Publications
D. Asmus, S. F. Hnig, P. Gandhi: The subarcsecond mid-infrared view of local active galactic nuclei:
III. Polar dust emission, ApJ, 822, 109, May 2016. Online available: http://adsabs.harvard.
edu/abs/2016ApJ...822..109A
D. Asmus, P. Gandhi, S. F. Hnig, A. Smette, W. J. Duschl: The subarcsecond mid-infrared view
of local active galactic nuclei: II. The mid-infraredX-ray correlation, MNRAS, 454, 766, Nov. 2015.
Online available: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015MNRAS.454..766A

P. Gandhi, S. Yamada, C. Ricci, D. Asmus, R. Mushotzky, Y. Ueda, Y. Terashima, V. La Parola: A

Compton-thick AGN in the barred spiral galaxy NGC 4785, MNRAS, 449, 1845, May 2015. Online
available: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015MNRAS.449.1845G

D. Asmus, S. F. Hnig, P. Gandhi, A. Smette, W. J. Duschl: The subarcsecond mid-infrared view of

local active galactic nuclei: I. The N- and Q-band imaging atlas, MNRAS, 439, 1648, Feb. 2014.
Online available: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014MNRAS.439.1648A

S. F. Hnig, P. Gandhi, D. Asmus, R. F. Mushotzky, R. Antonucci, Y. Ueda, K. Ichikawa: What obscures

low-X-ray-scattering active galactic nuclei, MNRAS, 438, 647, Feb. 2014. Online available: http:
//adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014MNRAS.438..647H
S. F. Hnig, M. Kishimoto, K. Tristram, A. Prieto, P. Gandhi, D. Asmus, S. Antonucci, L. Burtscher,
W. Duschl, G. Weigelt: Dust in the Polar Region as a Major Contributor to the Infrared Emission of
Active Galactic Nuclei, ApJ, 771, 87, July 2013. Online available: http://adsabs.harvard.

edu/abs/2013ApJ...771...87H
A. Palau, I. de Gregorio-Monsalvo, . Morata, D. Stamatellos, N. Hulamo, C. Eiroa, A. Bayo,
M. Morales-Caldern, H. Bouy, . Ribas, D. Asmus, D. Barrado: A search for pre-substellar cores and
proto-brown dwarf candidates in Taurus: multiwavelength analysis in the B213-L1495 clouds, MNRAS,
424, 2778, Aug. 2012. Online available: http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr/abs/2012MNRAS.

424.2778P
D. Asmus, P. Gandhi, A. Smette, S. F. Hnig, W. J. Duschl: Mid-infrared properties of nearby lowluminosity AGN at high angular resolution, A&A, 536, 36, Sept. 2011. Online available: http:
//adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011A%26A...536A..36A

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 S. F. Hnig, M. Kishimoto, P. Gandhi, A. Smette, D. Asmus, W. Duschl, M. Polletta, and G. Weigelt:

The dusty heart of nearby active galaxies. I. High-spatial resolution mid-IR spectro-photometry of
Seyfert galaxies, A&A, 515, 23, June 2010. Online available: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/

abs/2010A%26A...515A..23H
H. Baumgartner, D. Asmus, V. Golubnychiy, P. Ludwig, H. Khlert, M. Bonitz: Ground states of finite spherical Yukawa crystals, NJPh, 10, 3019, Sept. 2008. Online available: http://adsabs.
harvard.edu/abs/2008NJPh...10i3019B

Unrefereed Publications
H. U. Kufl, F. Kerber, D. Asmus, P. Baksai, N. Di Lieto, P. Duhoux, et. al.: The Return of the Midinfrared to the VLT: News from the VISIR Upgrade, The Messenger, 159, 15, Mar. 2015. Online
available: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015Msngr.159...15K

D. Asmus, P. Gandhi, S. F. Hnig, A. Smette: The largest mid-infrared atlas of active galactic nuclei
at sub-arcsecond spatial scales, Torus Workshop, 2012, San Antonio, Dez. 2012. Online available:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012toru.work..101A
D. Asmus, S. Hoenig, P. Gandhi, A. Smette, Nuclear mid-infrared properties of nearby low-luminosity
AGN, JPhCS, 372, 2034, Jul. 2012. Online available: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/
2012JPhCS.372a2034A
P. Gandhi, D. Asmus, S. Hoenig, A. Smette, Resolved mid-IR emission as an isotropic probe in AGN
at high & low powers, Aug. 2011, p. 209. Online available: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/
2011xru..conf..209G
D. Asmus and W. J. Duschl, Where do Accretion Disks Around Black Holes End? in Accretion and
Ejection in AGN: a Global View, ASPC, 427, 104, Oct. 2010. Online available: http://adsabs.
harvard.edu/abs/2010ASPC..427..104A
M. Bonitz, D. Asmus, V. Golubnichiy, H. Baumgartner, and P. Ludwig, Structural transitions in spherical
3D screened Coulomb crystals, APS Meeting Abstracts, 8022P, Nov. 2007. Online available: http:
//adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007APS..DPPYP8022B

Invited talks
Torus 2015, conference in Winchester, UK, September 2015
Colloquium in Porto, Portugal, September 2015

Other Conferences, Summer Schools and Workshops

JWST@ROE, conference in Edinburgh, July 2016, contribution: talk. Active Galactic Nuclei: whats in a name?,
tion: talk.

HIRES 2014, conference in Garching, Germany, December 2014, contribution: talk.

IAU S304: Multiwavelength AGN Surveys and Studies, conference in Yerevan, Armenia, October
2013, contribution: poster.

Torus Workshop 2012, conference in San Antonio, USA, December 2012, contribution: talk.
Nuclei of Seyfert galaxies and QSOs - Central engine & conditions of star formation, conference in
Bonn, Germany, November 2012, contribution: talk.

The Central Kiloparsec in Galactic Nuclei Astronomy at High Angular Resolution, conference in Bad
Honnef, Germany, August 2011, contribution: talk.

Black Hole Astrophysics: Tales of Power and Destruction, workshop in Winchester, UK, July 2011,
contribution: poster.

2nd Summer School on Multiwavelength Astronomy, summer school in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Jun
2010.
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 The Infrared/X-ray Connection in Galaxy Evolution, conference at MSSL, UK, July 2010, contribution:
talk.

Astrobio2010, workshop in Santiago, Chile, Jan 2010.

Galaxy Clusters in the Early Universe, meeting in Pucn, Chile, Nov 2009.
IAU XXVII General Assembly, conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, Aug 2009, contribution: poster.
Accretion and Ejection in AGN: a global View, conference in Como, Italy, Jun 2009, contribution:
poster.

JENAM 2008: New Challenges to European Astronomy, conference in Vienna, Austria, Sep 2008,
contribution: poster.

SPP1177 Summer School: Black Holes and Galaxy Evolution, summer school in Bad Honnef, Germany, August, 2008.

DPG Frhjahrstagung des Arbeitskreises Atome, Molekle, Quantenoptik und Plasmen, conference
in Dsseldorf, Germany, Apr 2007, contribution: poster.

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