Research Activities

Research Interests

SPECTROSCOPY OF QUASARS AND COSMOLOGY
Analysis of physical conditions and chemical compositions in absorbing material at large cosmological distances from absorption spectra of quasars with large redshifts. In particular:
- Search for molecular H₂ clouds which existed in the early epochs and played key role in formation of stars of the first generation.
- Checking possible variation of fundamental physical constants during the cosmological evolution as predicted by some modern theories (multidimensional cosmologies of Kaluza-Klein type, the supersymmetic Grand Unification theory, the supersstring theory).
PHYSICS OF NEUTRON STARS
Studies of internal structure and thermal evolution; thermal emission from the atmospheres; evolution of magnetic fields; electrodynamics and their magnetospheres; interpretation of multiwavelengh observations.

Scientific Activities

Events (colloquia, conferences)
Seminars
List of our Candidate (PhD) and Doctor Sci. theses
Annual Report on Scientific Activity in 1997: [HTML] [PDF]
Annual Report on Scientific Activity in 1999 [HTML format]
Annual Report on Scientific Activity in 2001 [HTML format]
Historical overview of the work of our department in just Two fields of astrophysical studies: Fundamental constants and neutron stars, published in the jubilee volume "Ioffe Institute: 1918-1998. Development and Research Activities" (St. Petersburg, 1999), is available as a gzipped PostScript file (55 K)

Collaborations and Projects

Relativistic Astrophysics and Gravitational Waves
at the Astronomy Scientific Council of the General Physics and Astronomy Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Activity within the International Project of the Submillimeter Wave Cryogenic Space Telescope SUBMILLIMETRON for the Russian Segment of the International Space Station

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