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| Oleg Kargaltsev Assistant Scientist PhD 2004 (Penn State University) www.astro.ufl.edu/~oyk100/ 205 Bryant Space Science Center (352) 392 2052 (213)  |
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Areas of Specialty
High-energy astrophysics, compact objects, neutron stars, pulsars, pulsar winds, galactic TeV and GeV sources, GRB afterglows.
Research Interests
My current research focuses on studying X-ray, optical, IR and radio properties of neutron stars and related phenomena (particularly pulsar winds), and galactic TeV and GeV sources in relation to compact objects. I am interested both in observations and theoretical modeling. Other interests include gamma-ray bursts, microquasars, isolated BHs, astrophysical jets and outflows, CMB anisotropy, magnetospheres, and MHD.
Biography
I am currently an Associate Scientist in the Astronomy Department at UF. I earned my MS in theoretical astrophysics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Russia) working with Yakov Istomin at I.E.Tamm Theory Department of LPI. After receiving my PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics under the supervision of George Pavlov at Penn State in 2004, I spent three years as a postdoc and then as a Research Associate at Penn State working on neutron star observations and participating in the activities of the Chandra ACIS team led by Gordon Garmire.
Last Updated 01.Sep.2007
