Anatoly Miroshnichenko

Experience

Observations

• The 6-m telescope with a medium-resolution TV scanner and high-resolution spectrographs, Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russia (1989-present, observing time have been allocated 20 times).
• The 3.0-m NASA Infrared Telescope Facility with a Ge-bolometer (2 nights awarded in February 2000) and with IR-camera MIRLIN (6 half-nights awarded in October 2001).
• The 2.1-m Otto Struve telescope of the McDonald Observatory with the Sandiford echelle-spectrograph (4 nights awarded in October 2001, 5 nights in September 2002, 4 nights in December 2004)
• The 1.5-m Carlos Sanchez Telescope of the del Teide Observatory in Canary Islands (4 observing runs in 1999-2001).
• 1.0-m telescopes with a two-channel optical and near-infrared photometer-polarimeter, Assy and Tien-Shan Observatories, Kazakhstan (1984-2002, more than 80 observational runs, more than 2000 multicolor photometric and polarimetric observations).
• 1.0-m telescope at the Rittrer Observatory (University of Toledo, Ohio, USA) with a high-resolution spectrograph (05/97-06/98, 05/99-present).
• 0.4-m - 0.6-m class telescopes with optical and infrared photometers and polarimeters, Byurakan Observatory, Armenia (1979-1983, 5 observing runs).

Data reduction

• Author of several data reduction FORTRAN codes for photometry and spectroscopy, including algorithms of spectral line separation and analysis.
• Experience in medium- and high-resolution spectroscopic data reduction in different packages.
• Data reduction with the IRAF package: IRAS high-resolution maps, aperture photometry, echelle spectroscopy.

Computers and model calculations

• Calculation of Balmer emission line profiles in gaseous envelopes of early-type stars using the Sobolev approximation (non-LTE case, includes population calculations for 20-level hydrogen atom, all radiative and collisional processes are taken into account) in spherical and axisymmetric geometries.
• Calculation of continuum spectral energy distributions for stars with circumstellar gaseous envelopes in spherical and axisymmetric geometries.
• Calculation of continuum spectral energy distributions with the recently released DUSTY code (Ivezic, Nenkova, Elitzur 1999, Internal report, Univ. of Kentucky) solving radiation transfer equation in spherically symmetric dusty envelopes.
• Calculation of theoretical spectra with the code Synspec (Hubeny, Lanz, Jeffery, 1995, Synspec -- A User's Guide, Version 36).

Teaching and Lectures

• In 1985-1987 I delivered astronomy courses to groups from secondary schools at the Saint-Petersburg Planetarium.
• In 1987-1993 six undergraduate students of the Saint-Petersburg University completed their Diploma Theses under my supervision.
• In 2000 an undergraduate student A. Gault of the University of Toledo worked with me during the summer REU program and complied a new catalog of classical Be stars brighter than V=7.5 mag.
• In 1991-2002 I have been giving different talks in a number of astronomical institutes and observatories in Italy, Spain, Belgium, France, Russia, and USA.
• Since 1997 (twice a year) I have been giving talks on different astronomical subjects at a local Astronomy Seminar at the University of Toledo.
• In 2001 I got an experience in teaching an astronomy course ASTR 4810 at the University of Toledo.
• In the Fall 2003 I taught a course Survey of Astronomy ASTR 1010 at the University of Toledo.
• Two undergraduate courses, Survey of Astronomy and Survey of Natural Sciences, were taught in the Fall 2004.
• General Physics (PHYS2080, Electricity and Magnetism, Light and Optics, and Modern Physics) will be taught in Spring 2005.

Last updated:  2004 December 9