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

Apr 2021 'Discovering strongly lensed QSOs from unresolved light curves'
We present a new method of discovering galaxy-scale, strongly lensed QSO systems from unresolved light curves using the autocorrelation function

Mar 2021 'Weighing Milky Way satellites with LISA'
White dwarf stars are a well-established tool for studying Galactic stellar populations

Mar 2021 'The mass of the Milky Way out to 100 kpc using halo stars'
We use a distribution function analysis to estimate the mass of the Milky Way (MW) out to 100 kpc using a large sample of halo stars

3 most recent ArXiv papers

2021-07-30 'Radialization of satellite orbits in galaxy mergers'

2021-06-23 'Kinematics of Antlia 2 and Crater 2 from The Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S5)'

2021-06-21 'Evidence for sub-Chandrasekhar Type Ia supernovae from the last major merger'

Photos

Some are on the old Oxford homepage

Cambridge
Barcelona, June 2006
Santa Fe, March 2006
Moscow, June 2005
NYC, May 2005
Moscow, January 2005
Snow in Cambridge, 03/03/2005
21, 22, 23 January 2005
Itai's leaving do, November 2004
Windows, 2004
Paris, October 2004
colour | B/W | B/W 2
Graduation, October 2004
Moscow, July 2004