Speaker
Hans Zinnecker
(Deutsches SOFIA Institut)
Description
I will present a short summary of the status of SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. SOFIA has been deployed to the Southern Hemisphere in July 2013 and completed 9 successful flights out of Christchurch, New Zealand. Some amazing results from from these FIR observations with GREAT are emerging, including detection of the 2.5 THz OH and 2.7 THz HD ground state rotational lines against strong continuum sources. The major HII regions in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds have also been mapped in the [CII] line at $158\mu$.
Author
Hans Zinnecker
(Deutsches SOFIA Institut)