Vasily Belokurov

	Vasily Belokurov
	Professor of Astronomy at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge Graduated from Moscow State University, Relativistic Astrophysics Department, Sternberg Astronomical Institute. I did my DPhil at the University of Oxford where I worked with Wyn Evans. IDL helpline Most Common IDL Programming Errors In Soviet Russia, stars observe you!! Support gravity, my people would.

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Data/Tools

Milky Way Halo
Put your objects on the map of the MW stellar halo. Also plots various satellites from these lists

Solber
a simple IDL optimization routine loosely based on genetic algorithms

Microlensing maps
Maps of microlensing optical depth towards the Bulge in three different Galaxy models

SOMs for OGLE
Unsupervised classification scheme for a large lightcurve dataset

Press

The Gaia Sausage: the major collision that changed the Milky Way
Cambridge University PR

A bridge of stars connects two dwarf galaxies
Cambridge University PR

Research

Plots/figures/images

Publications

3 most recent refereed papers on ADS

Sep 2022 'A gap in the double white dwarf separation distribution caused by the common-envelope evolution: astrometric evidence from Gaia'
The trajectory of the center of light of an unresolved binary is different from that of its center of mass

Jul 2022 'From dawn till disc: Milky Way's turbulent youth revealed by the APOGEE+Gaia data'
We use accurate estimates of aluminium abundance from the APOGEE Data Release 17 and Gaia Early Data Release 3 astrometry to select a highly pure sample of stars with metallicity -1

Jul 2022 'Astrometric identification of nearby binary stars - II. Astrometric binaries in the Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars'
We examine the capacity to identify binary systems from astrometric deviations alone

3 most recent ArXiv papers