Contact: eva.hackmann[AT]zarm.uni-bremen.deLocation: Garching, Germany
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the splinter session about “Relativistic Astrophysics” as part of the annual meeting of the German Astronomical Society (Astronomische Gesellschaft, AG), hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Astrophyics from September 7 to 11, 2026, in Garching, Germany.
This session covers the observational and theoretical aspects of the physics in strong gravitational fields and of the emergence of high energy phenomena. Strong gravity and relativity will be important for the formation and nature of white dwarfs, Neutron Stars and Black Holes. Physical phenomena in the vicinity of compact objects are lensing and shadows, the motion of stars in strong gravitational fields, gravitational waves, accretion disks, jets, and Gamma-Ray-Bursts. Also the aspects of relativity in cosmology and dark matter search will be part of this session.
For more details please visit the website of the AG meeting (https://ag2026.astronomische-gesellschaft.de) and the website of the splinter session (https://ag2026.astronomische-gesellschaft.de/view_splinter.php?session=Relativistic).
We kindly invite your contributions. In addition to invited talks our session will include contributed talks as well as posters.
Please circulate this announcement to all colleagues you may think could be interested.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Garching!
The session organisors,
Odele Straub, Claus Laemmerzahl, and Eva Hackmann