December 9th, 2015 / Comments Off on Voracious vortexes in cataclysmic variables: Multi-epoch tomographic study of HT Cassiopeia / by Vitaly
The paper entitled “Voracious vortexes in cataclysmic variables: Multi-epoch tomographic study of HT Cassiopeia” has been accepted on November 4, 2015 for publication in A&A.
DOI – Preprint
September 1st, 2015 / Comments Off on Workshop on Relativistic Astrophysics / by Vitaly
I participated in an international workshop on Relativistic Astrophysics in Turku (Finland) and have given the talk “Evolution of accretion discs of dwarf novae and low-mass X-ray binary transients through their whole outburst cycle”.
August 27th, 2015 / Comments Off on The future is already here :) / by Vitaly
Two new MAGIC papers have been published in 2016. Oh wait, it’s still 2015! Anyway, the papers are
Aleksić J., …, Neustroev V., et al. (the MAGIC Collaboration):
The major upgrade of the MAGIC telescopes, Part I: The hardware improvements and the commissioning of the system, 2016, APh, 72, 61 (arXiv:1409.6073)
The major upgrade of the MAGIC telescopes, Part II: A performance study using observations of the Crab Nebula, 2016, APh, 72, 76 (arXiv:1409.5594)
July 26th, 2015 / Comments Off on “Survey Of Period Variations Of Superhumps In SU UMa-Type Dwarf Novae. VII” / by Vitaly
The paper “Survey of Period Variations of Superhumps in SU UMa-Type Dwarf Novae. VII: The Seventh Year (2014-2015)” has been accepted for publication in PASJ (preprint).
May 24th, 2015 / Comments Off on MAGIC observations at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory / by Vitaly
I’m in La Palma at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory again, performing observations with MAGIC. Like during the previous visit, there were again some problems with the weather. However, if in 2014 there was an icy storm, this time I was met by a heat wave with calima. Anyway, we survived and now have a very good weather.
April 24th, 2015 / Comments Off on The MAGIC paper on the high-peaked BL Lac object 1ES 0806+524 / by Vitaly
The MAGIC paper entitled “MAGIC detection of short-term variability of the high-peaked BL Lac object 1ES 0806+524” has been accepted for publication in MNRAS [ArXiv]
April 2nd, 2015 / Comments Off on My first paper with MAGIC / by Vitaly
The first paper since I joined the MAGIC collaboration has been published in Astronomy and Astrophysics. This paper entitled “MAGIC observations of MWC 656, the only known Be/BH system″, 2015, A&A, 576, id: A36 (5 pp).
January 25th, 2015 / Comments Off on The research visit to Instituto de Astronomía (UNAM, Mexico) / by Vitaly
The research visit to Instituto de Astronomía (UNAM) and observations in Observatorio Astronómico Nacional at San Pedro Mártir were very productive.
October 22nd, 2014 / Comments Off on Fifth International Fermi Symposium / by Vitaly
I’m participating in Fifth International Fermi Symposium at Nagoya (Japan).
September 15th, 2014 / Comments Off on Spectroscopic evidence for a low-mass black hole in SWIFT J1753.5–0127 / by Vitaly
The paper entitled “Spectroscopic evidence for a low-mass black hole in SWIFT J1753.5-0127” has been accepted for publication in MNRAS. [arXiv] [PDF]