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 2022 'The Photo-Astrometric vertical tracer density of the Milky Way - I. The method'
We introduce a method to infer the vertical distribution of stars in the Milky Way using a Poisson likelihood function, with a view to applying our method to the Gaia catalogue

Mar 2022 'Quenching of satellite galaxies of Milky Way analogues: reconciling theory and observations'
The vast majority of low-mass satellite galaxies around the Milky Way and M31 appear virtually devoid of cool gas and show no signs of recent or ongoing star formation

Feb 2022 'Kinematics beats dust: unveiling nested substructure in the perturbed outer disc of the Milky Way'
We use the Gaia eDR3 data and legacy spectroscopic surveys to map the Milky Way disc substructure towards the Galactic Anticentre at heliocentric distances $d\ge 10\, \rm {kpc}$

3 most recent ArXiv papers

2022-06-15 'Milky Way's eccentric constituents with $Gaia$, APOGEE $\&$ GALAH'

2022-06-11 'The stellar halo in Local Group Hestia simulations III. Chemical abundance relations for accreted and in-situ stars'

2022-06-09 'The stellar halo in Local Group Hestia simulations II. The accreted component'

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