Nov : | Two articles appeared in the "Hungarian Astronomical Calendar 2004"
(in Hungarian). The first one is an ISOPHOT-based review of
our current knowledge on the infrared sky background for the public
(P. Kiss Csaba - Ábrahám Péter: Az infravörös égi háttér, p. 216).
The second paper is on meteor astronomy (Csizmadia Szilárd:
Meterorcsillagászat, p. 249).
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Nov 6: | Delivery of our 2nd Highly Processed Data Product (HPDP) catalogue
"Far-infrared observations of compact solar-system objects measured
with ISOPHOT in mini-map mode" (Moór et al.) to the ISO Data Archive.
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Oct 20-24: | P. Ábrahám visits Arcetri Observatory (Florence) as a guest of
A. Natta. Topic: joint analysis and publication of ISOPHOT
observations of T Tauri stars.
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Oct 6-16 : | P. Ábrahám visits ISOPHOT Data Centre (Heidelberg). Topic:
an ISOPHOT-S spectrophotometric atlas of young stellar objects.
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Oct 1-3 : | Timo Prusti (Herschel Observatory, ESTEC, The
Netherlands) visits Konkoly Observatory. Topic:
joint publication of ISOPHOT observations of
FU Ori-type pre-main sequence stars.
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Sep 25 - Oct 5 : | Visit of Guy Stringfellow (Univ. Colorado, Boulder, USA)
at Konkoly Observatory. Topic: joint publication of
ISOPHOT observations of EX Lup-type pre-main sequence stars.
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Sep 22-24 : | Dániel Apai (MPIA, Heidelberg) visits the group. Topic:
preparation of a VLT/NACO observing proposals on an
FU Orionis-type star.
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Aug 31 : | Csaba Kiss temporary leaves Konkoly Observatory for a postdoc
position at the ISOPHOT Data Centre (Heidelberg). His work is to
refine the calibration of certain ISOPHOT observing modes, and to
develop a formalism to predict the cirrus confusion noise for
different far-infrared instruments.
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Aug 26 : | Csaba Kiss delivers a highlight talk at the annual meeting
of the European Astronomical Society (JENAM) in Budapest. Title:
"The cosmic far-infrared background"
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Aug 26-27 : | Minisymposium "Early phases of stellar evolution" as part
of the annual meeting of the European Astronomical Society (JENAM)
in Budapest. Presentations: "An ISOPHOT-S spectral atlas
of young stellar objects" (P. Ábrahám, oral
contribution); "Long term evolution of FU Orionis objects"
(Á. Kóspál et al., poster); "Star formation in the L1188
dark cloud" (V. Könyves et al., poster).
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Jul : | Renaming "ISOPHOT Hungarian Subnode" to "Konkoly Infrared
Space Astronomy Group" (KISAG)
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Jun 30 - July 11 : | Visit of P. Ábrahám at the ISOPHOT Data Centre, Heidelberg.
Topics: an IDL-based processing tool for ISOPHOT-S observations;
an ISOPHOT-S spectrophotometric atlas of young stellar objects.
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Jun 23-27 : | 2nd progress meeting of the ESA-Konkoly project
"Technical assistance for ISO Active Archive Phase", VilSpa, Spain
(participants: A. Moór, Sz. Csizmadia, Cs. Kiss).
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Apr 21-25 : | A poster entitled "The long term evolution of FU Orionis objects"
is presented at the workshop "Magnetic fields and star
formation: theory versus observations" in Madrid
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Apr 15 : | Ágnes Kóspál wins the 2nd prize at the biannual national
competition of students. (Homepage of the competition in
Hungarian:
http://www.asko.uni-miskolc.hu/~askmf/hpage/otdk26/otdk.html)
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May : | Delivery of the first Highly Processed Data Product (HPDP)
to the ISO archive ("A catalogue of far-infrared
observations of normal stars in mini-map mode", Moór et al.)
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May : | Public talk at the Hungarian Association of Amateur
Astronomers on the Infrared Space Observatory (P. Ábrahám).
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May : | Visit of Ulrich Klaas (ISOPHOT Data Centre, Heidelberg) at
Konkoly Observatory. Topic: refinement of the absolute surface
brightness calibration of ISOPHOT
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Mar 10-14 : | Visit of Eva Verdugo Rodrigo (ISOPHOT specialist at ISO
Data Centre, VilSpa), at Konkoly Observatory. Topic: definition
of quality flags for the ISOPHOT Highly Processed Data Product
to be delivered to the ISO Data Archive.
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Feb : | Ágnes Kóspál starts her graduate thesis at the infrared group
(supervisor: P. Ábrahám). Title: "An optical/infrared study
of the early phases of stellar evolution and of the structure
of circumstellar matter.
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Jan : | 1st progress meeting of the ESA-Konkoly project
"Technical assistance for ISO Active Archive Phase", VilSpa, Spain
(Participants: P. Ábrahám, A. Moór, Sz. Csizmadia)
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