Department of Astronomy

Chair – Sergei M. Andrievsky, ScD, professor    Department specialization Code – 8.070105 astronomy Divisions: 1 – “Physics of the stars and galaxies” 2 – “Cosmic geoinformative technologies”

Area of activity for graduate students:

a –    work in astronomical institutions,

b – work in related institutions (geodesic, geophysical, physical and mathematical),

c – astronomy teaching in the high school of the various profiles,

d – astronomy teaching in the ordinary schools and colleges,

e – work in the popularization area (planetariums, astronomical groups of young people and amateurs).

Department members (teachers):

Valentin G. Karetnikov,  ScD, professor

Vladimir A. Pozigun, PhD, associate professor

Alexander A. Bazei, PhD, associate professor

Alexander V. Halevin, PhD, associate professor

Mikhail I. Ryabov, PhD, associate professor

General and special lecture courses

General:

General astronomy

General astrometry

Computing methods

Radio-electronics

Mathematical statistics

Celestial mechanics

General astrophysics

Stellar astronomy

Theoretical astrophysics

Geophysics

History of astronomy

Practical astronomy

Special functions

Special:

Computing methods in astronomical observations

Planning of the extremal experiments

Relativistic astrophysics

Indirect methods of the astrophysical imaging

Astrospectroscopy

High-energy astrophysics

Multicolor photometry

Physical variable stars

Double interacting stars

Radioastronomy

Magnetic hydrodynamics

Theory of the random processes

Nuclear astrophysics

Computing methods of the astrophysical researches

Theory of the dimensions and similarity

Problems in modern astronomy

Complementary parts of astrometry and celestial mechanics

The scientific activity of the astronomy department includes:

1.Stellar physics (physics and evolution of the eclipsing, eruptive, pulsating variables and stationary stars, astroseismology).

2.Physics of asteroids, comets, meteors and near-Earth dust shell, observation and investigation of the Earth’s artificial satellites.

3.Astrometry (determination of the precise position of all celestial bodies, and investigation of their kinematics.

4.Radioastronomy (analysis of the radioemission of the Sun and stars, stellar remnants, nebulae, and extragalactic objects.

5.Elaboration and creation of the astronomical instrumentation (telescopes, photometers, spectrometers etc).

Educational activity and methodic work of the department.

The list of the methodic educational accessories:

1. Programmes of the general courses of the astronomy department, 1987.

2. Programmes of the special courses of the astronomy department, 1987.

3. Schulberg A.M., Methodic guidelines on the task resolving for the course

"Eclipsing binary stars", Part I. Orbital elements for systems with distorted components.

4. Schulberg A.M., Methodic guidelines on the task resolving for the course

"Eclipsing binariry stars", Part II. 

5. Karetnikov V.G., Andronov I.L., Methodic guidelines on practical astronomy.

The determination of spectral- and visual binary star characteristics, 1988

6. Pozigun V.A., Methodic guidelines and BASIC computer programs for  "Electronics D3-28".

7. Andronov I.L. Methodic guidelines for "Relativistic astrophysics. The principles of tensor analysis".

8. Kramer E.N., Shestaka I.S., Photographical methods of the meteor astronomy, 1989

9. Karetnikov V.G., Andrievsky S.M., Spectroscopic investigation of the stars (methodic guidelines), 1990

10. Karetnikov V.G., Andronov I.L., Photoelectric observations of the stars (methodic guidelines), 1990

11. Kabanova T.I., Panishko S.K., Ryabov M.I., Galactic and extragalactic sources of

radioemission (methodic guidelines), 1991.

12. Pozigun V.A., Methodic guidelines on the BASIC programming, 1991.

13. Andronov I.L., Visual and photoelectric observations of the variable stars, 1991.

14. T.I., Panishko S.K., Ryabov M.I., Catalogues of the radiosources and their use (methodic guidelines), 1992.

15. Andronov I.L., The data preparing for the personal computers, 1992.

16. Andrievsky S.M., Relativistic astrophysics. Physics of the white dwarfs, 1997.

17. Andronov I.L., The principles of the tensor analysis (methodic guidelines), 2000.

18. Chinarova L.L., Double stars and their evolution, 2000.

19. Andronov I.L., Marsakova V.I., Chinarova L.L., Computer modeling of the scientific information, 2001.

20. Bazei A.A., Methodic guidelines for “Celestial mechanics”, 2001.

21. Myalkovsky M.I., Bazei N.V., Dedov V.A., Methodic guidelines for laboratory works on “General astrometry”, 2001.

22. Pozigun V.A., Training appliance on “Special functions”, 2002.

23. Andrievsky S.M., Theoretical astrophysics. The structure of the normal stars (methodic guidelines), 2003.

24. Andrievsky S.M., General course of astronomy. Galactic physics (methodic guidelines), 2004.

25. Murnikov B.A., The sky map. Methodic indication on “General astronomy”, 2004.

26. Andrievsky S.M., Klimishin I.A., “Course of general astronomy” (the book), 2007.