Belyakina Tamara Sergeevna General data:
14.01.1934 - 13.06.2016
Place of birth: Arsentievsky Vysilky village, Central Chernozem region, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (now Stanovlyansky district, Lipetsk region, Russian Federation)
Studied in: M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (1950-1956);
Key interests: stellar catalogues, non-stationary stars, stellar systems. PhD Thesis: Photometric studies of symbiotic stars (1972 );
Biography:
She was born on January 14, 1934 in the Arsentievsky Vysilki illage of Central Chernozem region of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (now Stanovlya district of Lipetsk region of the Russian Federation).
In 1950 she graduated from high school in Pavlovsky Posad, Moscow region and entered the astronomy department of MV Lomonosov Moscow State University. After graduating from university in 1956 she was sent to work at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, where she spent her entire working life.
She was hired in the Department of Vision Physics, T. S. Belyakina participated in compiling catalogs of photovoltaic quantities and colors close to the Sun of stars and in determining the true dispersion of colors on a two-color chart in the UBV system. In the course of these works, she mastered all the intricacies of stellar electrophotometry. Then T. S. Belyakina took part in the spectral and spectrophotometric studies of New Hercules in 1960 and in the development of criteria for the spectral classification of metal stars (in particular, she together with the staff of the observatory I. M. Kopylov and E,. A. Vitrichenko performed a quantitative spectral classification for 26 "metal" Ami 23 standard stars of luminosity classes II-V in the spectral range A2-F5), thus mastering the technique of spectroscopic research. As a result, it was formed as an independent and multifaceted researcher of non-stationary stellar objects.
In the 1960s, T. S. Belyakina has done a long series of work on electrophotometry of symbiotic stars, which formed the basis of her PhD thesis "Photometric studies of symbiotic stars", successfully defended in 1972. These studies were included in the concept of symbiotic stars and other close binary systems in the later stages.
In the following years, T.S. Belyakina continued photometric and colorimetric studies of various nonstationary and peculiar objects: many symbiotic stars and related objects, New Swan 1975, PU Vul (Kuvano-Honda object), double system XX Oph, myrid NM and FG Sgr . Numerous publications on estimating the parameters of the components of these systems and tracking their variation over time have been devoted to many symbiotic stars, the XX Oph system, and especially PU Vul. The number of works published by T. S. Belyakina in Soviet and foreign publications exceeds six dozen.
She died on June 13, 2016 in the Nauchniy village.
Main publications:
1. Belyakіna T.S., Bondar N.І., Chochol D., Chuvaev K.K., Efіmov Y.S., Gershberg R.E., Grygar J., Hrіc L., Krasnobabtsev V.І., Shakhovskoj N.N., Shenavrіn V.І. Kuwano-Honda pecular object (PU Vul) // Astron. and Astrophys. –1984. – V.132. – P.L12–L14.
2. Белякина Т.С., Бондарь Н.И., Гершберг Р.Е., Ефимов Ю.С., Краснобабцев В.И., Петров П.П., Саванов И.С., Чуваев К.К., Шаховская Н.И., Шаховской Н.М., Шенаврин В.И. Исследование пекулярного объекта Кувано-Хонда (PU Vul). І. // Известия Крымск. астрофиз. обс. – 1985. – Т.72. – С.3–72.
3. Belyakіna T.S., Bondar N.І., Chochol D., Chuvaev K.K., Efіmov Y.S., Gershberg R.E. , Grygar J., Hrіtz L., Krasnobabtsev V.І., Pііrola V., Poutanen M., Savanov І.S., Huovelіn J., Tuomіnen І., Shakhovskaya N.І., Shakhovskoj N.N., Shenavrіn V.І., Shcherbakov A.G. The Kuwano-Honda’s pecular object (PU Vulpeculae) іn 1983 -1986 // Astron. and Astrophys. – 1989. – V.223. – P.119–135.
4. Белякина Т.С., Бондарь Н.И., Гершберг Р.Е., Гриц Л., Грыгыр Г., Ефимов Ю.С., Краснобабцев В.И., Пиирола В., Поутанен М.., Саванов И.С., Туоминен И., Хохол Д., Чуваев К.К., Шаховская Н.И., Шаховской Н.М., Шенаврин В.И., Щербаков А.Г. Исследование пекулярного объекта Кувано-Хонда (PU Vul). ІІ. // Известия Крымск. астрофиз. обс. – 1990. – Т.81. –С.28–112
Sources:
1 Телескоп Zeiss-50 в Крыму. II/Т.М. Рачковская//Изв. Крымской Астрофиз. Обс. 109,No 2, С. 119(2013)
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