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Harald Kuntschner is affiliated with the European Southern Observatory in Germany and has established a research profile primarily within the fields of Physics and Astronomy. Their work focuses on Astronomy and Astrophysics, with significant contributions in related subfields such as Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

Their research topics encompass several areas including Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, and Stellar, Planetary, and Galactic Studies. Additional interests include Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies, Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories.

Harald Kuntschner has participated in publications appearing predominantly in the following venues:

  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics

Frequent collaborators include M. A. Zwaan, Céline Péroux, Simon Weng, Arjun Karki, and Ramona Augustin, reflecting ongoing partnerships sustained across multiple publications.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Harald Kuntschner include:

  • Asymmetric spatial distribution of subsolar metallicity stars in the Milky Way nuclear star cluster, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Stellar population gradients in the cores of nearby field E+A galaxies, 2024, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Mapping accreted stars in early-type galaxies across the mass-size plane, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • MAVIS on the VLT: A Powerful, Synergistic ELT Complement in the Visible, 2021, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • MUSE-ALMA haloes VII: survey science goals & design, data processing and final catalogues, 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Best Publications

  • The SAURON project - IV. The mass-to-light ratio, the virial mass estimator and the Fundamental Plane of elliptical and lenticular galaxies

    M Cappellari;R Bacon;M Bureau;MC Damen

  • The ATLAS3D project – I. A volume-limited sample of 260 nearby early-type galaxies: science goals and selection criteria

    Michele Cappellari;Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Davor Krajnović;Richard M. Mcdermid

  • The ATLAS3D project – XX. Mass–size and mass–σ distributions of early-type galaxies: bulge fraction drives kinematics, mass-to-light ratio, molecular gas fraction and stellar initial mass function

    Michele Cappellari;Richard M. McDermid;Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz

  • The SAURON project—V. Integral-field emission-line kinematics of 48 elliptical and lenticular galaxies

    Eric Emsellem;Michele Cappellari;Reynier F. Peletier;Reynier F. Peletier;Richard M. McDermid

  • The SAURON project – IX. A kinematic classification for early‐type galaxies

    Eric Emsellem;Michele Cappellari;Michele Cappellari;Davor Krajnović;Glenn Van De Ven;Glenn Van De Ven

  • The ATLAS3D project – III. A census of the stellar angular momentum within the effective radius of early‐type galaxies: unveiling the distribution of fast and slow rotators

    Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Michele Cappellari;Davor Krajnović;Katherine Alatalo

  • The SAURON project – I. The panoramic integral-field spectrograph

    Roland Bacon;Yannick Copin;G. Monnet;Bryan W. Miller

  • The SAURON project. II. Sample and early results

    P.T. de Zeeuw;M. Bureau;E. Emsellem;R. Bacon

  • Systematic variation of the stellar initial mass function in early-type galaxies

    Michele Cappellari;Richard M. McDermid;Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz

  • The ATLAS3D project XV: benchmark for early-type galaxies scaling relations from 260 dynamical models: mass-to-light ratio, dark matter, fundamental plane and mass plane

    Michele Cappellari;Nicholas Scott;Nicholas Scott;Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz

  • The SAURON project — II. Sample and early results

    P. Tim de Zeeuw;M. Bureau;Eric Emsellem;R. Bacon

  • The SAURON project – X. The orbital anisotropy of elliptical and lenticular galaxies: revisiting the (V/σ, ɛ) diagram with integral‐field stellar kinematics

    Michele Cappellari;Michele Cappellari;Eric Emsellem;R. Bacon;M. Bureau

  • The SAURON project - III. Integral-field absorption-line kinematics of 48 elliptical and lenticular galaxies

    M. Sarzi;J. Falcon-Barroso;R. L. Davies;R. Bacon

  • The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey VLT/FORS2 spectroscopy in the GOODS-South Field

    P. Popesso;M. Dickinson;M. Nonino;E. Vanzella;E. Vanzella

  • The Atlas3D project -- XIII. Mass and morphology of HI in early-type galaxies as a function of environment

    Paolo Serra;Tom Oosterloo;Raffaella Morganti;Katherine Alatalo

  • The ATLAS3D project - II. Morphologies, kinemetric features and alignment between photometric and kinematic axes of early-type galaxies

    Davor Krajnović;Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Michele Cappellari;Katherine Alatalo

  • The ATLAS3D project - VII. A new look at the morphology of nearby galaxies: the kinematic morphology-density relation

    Michele Cappellari;Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Davor Krajnović;Richard M. McDermid

  • The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey - VLT/VIMOS Spectroscopy in the GOODS-South Field: Part II

    I. Balestra;V. Mainieri;P. Popesso;M. Dickinson

  • Discovery of an AGN-Driven Molecular Outflow in the Local Early-Type Galaxy NGC 1266

    Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz;Lisa M. Young;Timothy A. Davis

  • The SAURON project XVI: On the Sources of Ionisation for the Gas in Elliptical and Lenticular Galaxies

    Marc Sarzi;Joseph C. Shields;Kevin Schawinski;Hyunjin Jeong

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger L. Davies
Roger L. Davies University of Oxford
Richard M. McDermid
Richard M. McDermid Macquarie University
Michele Cappellari
Michele Cappellari University of Oxford
Marc Sarzi
Marc Sarzi Armagh Observatory
Martin Bureau
Martin Bureau University of Oxford
Tom Oosterloo
Tom Oosterloo Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
Raffaella Morganti
Raffaella Morganti Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
Reynier Peletier
Reynier Peletier University of Groningen
P. T. de Zeeuw
P. T. de Zeeuw Leiden University
Jesús Falcón-Barroso
Jesús Falcón-Barroso University of La Laguna

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