Lipovetsky Valentin Alexandrovich General data:
10.06.1945 - 22.09.1996
Place of birth: Kyiv City, Kyiv region, Ukrainian SSR
Studied in: T. G. Shevchenko Kyiv Order of Lenin State University (since 1999 Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University) (1968);
Key interests: extragalactic astronomy. PhD Thesis: The first Buracan spectral survey of the sky (1986 );
Biography:
He was born on June 10, 1945 in Kyiv City of Kyiv region of Ukrainian SSR.
He is a graduate of the Department of Astronomy of the T. G. Shevchenko Kiev Order of Lenin State University of 1968.
During 1968-1970 he worked at the Astronomical Observatory of the T. G. Shevchenko Kiev Order of Lenin State University.
During 1970-1996 he worked at the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the USSR Academy of Sciences (since 1991 SAO RAS). He passed a career as an astronomer from a junior researcher to the head of the laboratory.
In 1986 he defended his dissertation on the topic: "The first Buracan spectral review of the sky."
He was a member of the International Astronomical Union.
He died on September 22, 1996.
The main scientific works of the scientist belong to the fields of extragalactic astronomy: reviews of the sky with an objective prism; study of galaxies with active nuclei and quasars, galaxies with active star formation, the content of heavy elements in galaxies and determination of the content of primary helium. He is author of about 250 scientific papers that have gained widespread recognition in the astronomical community. He laid a large line of extragalactic research at the Special Astrophysical Observatory and other observatories in Russia, which has been successfully developed by his colleagues and students for 20 years after his departure.
Since 1969 to 1985 he was led by B.Ye. Markarian took an active part in the survey of galaxies with an ultraviolet excess in the spectrum. Spectral gap-free inspection was performed on the Schmidt Buracan 1-meter telescope in combination with objective prisms. As a result, the first catalog of 1,500 galaxies with ultraviolet-surplus (known today as Markarian galaxies) was created. As a continuation of this project, he and Markarian, Stepanyan and Yerastova conducted a much deeper Second Buracan Review. Together with colleagues he worked on slit spectroscopy of selected candidates in order to classify and determine their properties. The objects identified in these two surveys formed the gold fund for many studies in several areas of extragalactic and stellar astronomy.
He actively used the new possibilities of observations related to the progress of light receivers and computer technology to develop this area. He introduced new methods of spectral observations on the 6-meter Large Azimuthal Telescope. Since the mid-1990s, he has initiated a systematic search for galaxies with active star formation, based on data from scanned spectral plates of the Hamburg Quasar Survey. Slit spectroscopy of selected candidates at the Large Azimuth Telescope and other telescopes led to the creation of the largest sample of 500 galaxies of this type (Hamburg-SAO review). He was also one of the initiators and co-authors of a fundamentally new international review of this type of KISS (at the Kitt Peak Observatory) with registration of prism spectra on the wide-format CCD receiver.
In the 1990s, together with Yu. Izotov (Kyiv City) and T.Kh. Thuan (USA) and colleagues from the Special Astrophysical Observatory conducted in-depth studies of the blue compact galaxies found in these surveys, studying the content of heavy elements and gas, and using the lowest metal galaxies to estimate the primary helium content. With his active participation, a unique galaxy with a record low metal content (Z -0.02 Zo) was discovered and studied - an analogue of galaxies of the early Universe. One of the main tasks of this project was to understand the connections between the evolution of galaxies and their local and global environment.
Main publications:
1. Шульман Л. М., Назарчук Г. К., Липовецкий В. А., Афанасьев В. Л. Спектральные наблюдения кометы Галлея 1982 і на 6- метровом телескопе.//Кометный циркуляр.- К.: Киев.ун-т.- 1986.- .- N 352.- C. .
2. Shulman L.M., Nazarchuk G.K., Lipovetskiy V.A., Afanasiev V.L. Comet Halley spectrum observed by the 6- meter telescope.//20th ESLAB Symp. on the Exploration of Halley's Comet.,1986: Abstr./ SP- 250.- 1986.- .- N .- C.
Sources:
1 Астрономы России 1917-2017/ науч. ред. А.М.Черепащук, Казань, Казан. фед. ун-т, 2017.- 568с- C. 272
2 Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка. Кафедра астрономії та фізики космосу. Випускники
