Torsten Böker

    Instrument Scientist

     

    Main Research Fields

    Extragalactic astronomy at optical and infrared wavelengths, in particular the nuclear regions of spiral galaxies.

     


    Keywords

    • nuclear star clusters, their formation mechanisms, and their effect on host galaxy evolution
    • molecular gas in galaxy centers, especially high-resolution CO observations
    • near-infrared integral-field studies of circumnuclear starburst rings
    • dust structures in spiral galaxies
    • mid-infrared observations of AGN/starburst nuclei

    Ongoing collaborations

    • MPIA Heidelberg (Neumayer, Schinnerer, Walter)
    • University of Utah (Seth)
    • George Mason University (Satyapal)

    Publications

    Publications

    Project/mission at ESA

    JWST (MIRI & NIRSpec instrument scientist)

    for more information, see my page at STScI