Introducing MetroPSF, an open source astronomical photometry program. It’s goal is providing a convenient and intuitive graphical user interface to algorithms implemented in photutils, in…
Type II SN in NGC 3310 in UMa. Astrometrica photometry reports V = 15.77 ± 0.05, although correct PSF fit is a little difficult. Observatory: …
My latest work has just been published in Astronomische Nachrichten, early access link below. It suggests that an asteroid from the Main Belt likely impacted…
My latest publication (2018) abstract: Multi-wavelength variability, arising due to the supermassive black hole accretion instabilities, is one of the intrinsic characteristics of active galactic…
This is a tour of my FreeBSD laptop. I’ve set a goal of configuring a Unix laptop with focused and efficient user interface, suitable for…
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga (1st generation). Pardon me for this unrepresentative and beaten up Ikea table.
Do you know a difference between a dwarf spheroidal and a dwarf elliptical? This poster shows all the major morphological and other types of galaxies based…
A poster about our universe, in particular the LambdaCDM cosmology and galaxies. Evolution of the universe via hierarchical clustering can be tracked from the primordial photon-baryonic fluid at the…
A poster about the solar system. Evolution is shown from a protoplanetary disk (center left) towards planet growth. The Grand Tack and the Nice models are presented, as…
A poster with the most common objects you will find in a galaxy, most are of stellar mass. Evolution can be tracked from left to right.…
Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) represent an important aspect of galaxy evolution theory that remains at the frontier of modern research. Like their stellar-mass versions, SMBHs…