Events and Activities - 2003

 

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).
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.
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.
Oct 6-16 : P. Ábrahám visits ISOPHOT Data Centre (Heidelberg). Topic: an ISOPHOT-S spectrophotometric atlas of young stellar objects.
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.
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.
Sep 22-24 : Dániel Apai (MPIA, Heidelberg) visits the group. Topic: preparation of a VLT/NACO observing proposals on an FU Orionis-type star.
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.
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"
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).
Jul : Renaming "ISOPHOT Hungarian Subnode" to "Konkoly Infrared Space Astronomy Group" (KISAG)
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.
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).
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
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)
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.)
May : Public talk at the Hungarian Association of Amateur Astronomers on the Infrared Space Observatory (P. Ábrahám).
May : Visit of Ulrich Klaas (ISOPHOT Data Centre, Heidelberg) at Konkoly Observatory. Topic: refinement of the absolute surface brightness calibration of ISOPHOT
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.
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.
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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