Thus determining the abundances of these elements in di. Cfa software for downloading saoimage ds9 saoimage ds9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualization application. Fwhm at a position angle pa of 75 n to e for both continuum and line data. A glossary containing over 770 entries astronomy news. You can travel throughout our solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars or even beyond the galaxy. Galaxy collision debris as a laboratory to study star formation date. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Unlike most planetarium software, celestia doesnt confine you to the surface of the earth.
Ds9 supports fits images and binary tables, multiple frame buffers, region manipulation, and many scale algorithms and colormaps. Iris is an image processing software for astrophotography. Department of astrophysical sciences 4 ivy lane princeton university, princeton, nj 08544 click for directions to peyton hall administrative phone. Galaxy collision debris as a laboratory to study star formation. Neliota lunar impact flash detection and event validation alexios liakos1, alceste bonanos1, emmanouil xilouris1, ioannis bellasvelidis1, panayotis boumis1, vassilis charmandaris2, anastasios dapergolas1.
Nasas hubble space telescope has taken a family portrait of young, ultrabright stars nested in their embryonic cloud of glowing gases. Pages in category astronomy software the following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total. Join facebook to connect with vassilis charmandaris and others you may know. Personnel of the section the staff associated with the section of astrophysics and space physics consists of 18 phd research scientists, 4 graduate students, and 4 technicians.
In 1999 he moved back to the us and spent 6 years as a research associate at the astronomy department of cornell university. Madore,2,10 jason melbourne,11 bernhard schulz,6 vivian u,5 tatjana vavilkin,12 sylvain veilleux, kevin xu6 abstract the great observatories allsky lirg survey goals consists of a complete sam. Frayer,6 sebastian haan,1 hanae inami,1 dongchan kim,3 steven lord,6 barry f. Standard idl aperture photometry codes were used to measure the total uv. Vassilis charmandaris university of crete, greece gave a special lecture at scass on feb. Vasiliki pavlidou caltech, usa was elected as an assistant professor of theoretical astrophysics and it is expected that she will join the group in the fall of 2011. A software pipeline has been developed for the purposes of the project. Vassilis charmandaris university of crete greece prof.
The institute for astronomy, astrophysics, space applications and remote sensing iaasars of the national observatory of athens invites applications for two positions related to software and engineering support for the instrumentation of the 2. I briefly present the institutions where professional astronomers are pursuing research, along with some notes of their history, as well as the major astronomical facilities currently available within greece. Co oct 2011 preprint typeset using latex style emulateapj v. Galaxy collision debris as a laboratory to study star.
Vassilis charmandaris celebrated his 50th anniversary. Vassilis tsiolis department of astrophysical sciences. However, the development of huge astronomical databases presents challenges of scale, and has initiated an active use of newlydeveloped statistical techniques in astronomy, notable examples being sparsity and compressed sensing. Astronomy astronomy is the center of the universe a star map to the galaxy of astronomical knowledge astronomy forums. Vassilis charmandaris iau international astronomical union. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the astrophysics section of ceasaclay in france in 1996. Vassilis charmandaris is currently a staff astronomer at the astronomy department of cornell university vassilis grew up in greece and came to the united states in 1989, after obtaining a b. The physical properties of luminous infrared galaxies. Space talk for both amateurs and professionals astronomy 101. On thursday, 11 january, the astrophysics source code library ascl and astronomical data group at the flatiron institute organized a special session at the 231st aas meeting in national harbor, md, entitled astronomy software publishing. Nearby massive star cluster yields insights into early. May 10, 2007 astronomers studying dwarf galaxies formed from the debris of a collision of larger galaxies found the dwarfs much more massive than expected, and think the additional material is missing mass.
Tracing abundances in galaxies with the spitzer space telescope infrared spectrograph shannon laura gutenkunst, ph. In this web page i provide a script i started developing back in. Wikimedia commons has media related to astronomy software. This post is adapted from one originally appearing on. Vassilis charmandaris obtained his bsc in physics from the university of thessaloniki in 1989 and his phd in astrophysics from iowa state university usa in 1995. A crash course in astronomy for beginners astronomy glossary. Charmandaris joined the faculty of the department of physics of the university of crete and he is currently a professor of observational astrophysics. Vassilis charmandaris currently works at the department of physics, university of crete, teaching undergraduate and graduate physics courses, as well as. The american astronomical society aas, established in 1899 and based in washington, dc, is the major organization of professional astronomers in north america.
Mar 17, 2006 in astronomy, such galaxies are said to have low metallicity. Astronomy software publishing special session at aas 231. View vassilis charmandaris profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. The main tools for comparing theoretical results with observations in astronomy are statistical. Nearby massive star cluster yields insights into early universe.
D elbaz, m dickinson, hs hwang, t diazsantos, g magdis, b magnelli. A dedicated software processes the images and automatically detects. Vassilis karamanavis max planck institute for radio. The main observational programs currently running at the observatory include the study of. Charmandaris was on sabbatical leave in the fall semester of 2010. Free, secure and fast astronomy software downloads from the largest open source applications and software directory. The celestial maternity ward, called n81, is located. View vassilis charmandaris profile on linkedin, the worlds largest. As of september 20 he serves as the director of the institute for astronomy, astrophysics, space applications and remote sensing of the national observatory of athens. Their distance from earth is about 11 billion light years, or. Vassilis charmandaris obtained his bsc in physics from the university of thessaloniki in 1989 and his phd in astrophysics from iowa state university usa in. Vassilis charmandaris director institute of astrophysics, forth.
Kevin xu1, yu gao2,3, tanio diazsantos4,5, vassilis charmandaris6,7,8, hanae inami9. May 06, 2015 vassilis karamanavis 201215 phd thesis. Compare the best free open source astronomy software at sourceforge. A pointandgo interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit. Astronomers have shown that debris formed when two galaxies. Member of division b facilities, technologies and data science member of division c education, outreach and heritage member of division d high energy phenomena and fundamental physics member of division j galaxies and cosmology member of commission b3 astroinformatics and astrostatistics. Director of the institute for astronomy, astrophysics, space applications, and. The astronomical measuring instruments of the ancient greeks. Cornell university 2008 as a galaxy evolves, its stars change the amounts abundances of elements within it. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext.
Search the leading research in optics and photonics applied research from spie journals, conference proceedings and presentations, and ebooks. A cornell universityled team operating the infrared spectrograph irs, the largest of the three main instruments on nasas spitzer space telescope, has discovered a mysterious population of distant and enormously powerful galaxies radiating in the infrared spectrum with many hundreds of times more power than our milky way galaxy. Vassilis charmandaris april 15th 2000 ithaca, ny, usa sites using xiraf include. Astronomers studying dwarf galaxies formed from the debris of a collision of larger galaxies found the dwarfs much more massive than expected. Institute for astronomy, astrophysics, space applications. From 20 until 2018 he served as the director of the institute for astronomy, astrophysics, space applications and remote sensing iaasars of the national observatory of. The physical properties of luminous infrared galaxies by. Image aligning and stacking, calibration, correction and enhancement, dslr control. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. Vassilis charmandaris 50 on august 14, aras member prof. Vassilis charmandaris phd uoc department of physics. Section has its own masters and phd programs with 12 graduate courses. In astronomy, such galaxies are said to have low metallicity. Vassilis karamanavis max planck institute for radio astronomy.
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