Mkrtchyan David Yetishevich General data:
Born: 12.03.1956
Place of birth: Batumi City, Adjara Autonomous SSR, Georgian SSR
Studied in: I. I. Mechnikov Odessa State University (since 2000, I. I. Mechnikov Odessa National University) (1973-1974, 1976-1977, 1978-1981);
Key interests: decameter radio astronomy, astrophysics, astrometry, photometry, variable stars, radiophysics, stellar systems. PhD Thesis: Photometric and spectral manifestations of the pulsation activity of the stars of the lower part of the instability band (1993 I. I. Mechnikov Odessa State University);
Biography:
He was born on March 12, 1956 in Batumi City of Adjara Autonomous SSR of Georgian SSR.
He received his secondary education at Batumi Secondary School No. 8 named after Belinsky in 1973.
He served in the ranks of the Soviet Army in 1974-1976. He was an expert engineer on ground communication systems during missile testing at the Kapustin-Yar range in Russia.
In 1973-1974, 1976-1977 he was a student of the Faculty of Physics of Odesa State University named after I. I. Mechnikov.
In 1981, he graduated from the Department of Astronomy of the Physics Faculty of I. I. Mechnikov Odesa State University which he entered in 1978, majoring in "astronomy", receiving a master's degree.
During 1981-1985, he was a researcher at the astronomical observatory of I. I. Mechnikov Odesa State University.
During 1985-1988, he studied at the graduate school of the Department of Astronomy of Odesa State University.
In 1993, he defended his candidate's thesis "Photometric and spectral manifestations of the pulsational activity of stars of the lower part of the instability band" at the I.I. Mechnikov Odessa State University, majoring in "01.03.02 - Astrophysics, radio astronomy". Yu. S. Romanov was his scientific supervisor.
During 1988-2002, he worked as a senior researcher, researcher at I. I. Mechnikov Odesa State University. During 1985-1995, he taught the courses "General Astronomy" and "Variable Stars" at the Faculty of Physics and the Department of Astronomy.
In 1996, he received the title of senior researcher (equivalent to associate professor) by decision of the I. I. Mechnikov Odesa State University and the Higher Attestation Commission of Ukraine.
In 1985-2002, he conducted a series of observations with the NES echelle spectrograph (the 6-m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences), an observation run with the echelle spectrograph 2.1 m telescope of the MacDonald Observatory (USA), observations with the CORAVEL type radial velocity spectrometer 1.0 m telescope of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, and a series of observations with the Kude spectrograph of the 2.6m telescope of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.
During 2004-2008, he was a research professor at ARCSEC of Sejong University in South Korea, where he held a post. doctor in 2003-2004. In February 2004, he participated in the "ARCSEC Winter School" as the Chief Teacher. In 2006, he read the course "Variable Stars" for students.
In November 2008, he became an invited lecturer at the Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Faculty of Physics, Masaryk University in Brno city of Czech Republic.
During 2003-2008, he performed numerous observations using the BOES Echelle spectrograph with a 1.8-meter telescope (BOAO, South Korea), the Kude-Echelle MAESTRO spectrometer (2.0 m telescope of the Terskol Peak Observatory in the Russian Federation), observations using spectrograph HARPS (3.6 m telescope in La Silla in Chile), observation using the spectrograph UCLES (3.9 m AAT, Australia).
During 2009-2012, he was a leading researcher at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.
Since 2014, he has been working at the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand as a senior researcher, where he was a guest astronomer during 2012-2014.
In 2016, he worked as a teacher at Chiang Mai University in Thailand.
During 2009-2020, he performed numerous observations with the help of Kud and Nesmith spectrographs, the 2.6 m telescope of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, the 2.4 m telescope of NARIT (Thailand), HARPS ESO, SALT.
He is a member of the Ukrainian Astronomical Association, a member of the International Astronomical Union where he includes to the Scientific and organizational committee 27 "Changing Stars" during 2009-2015, the European Astronomical Union, the Korean Astronomical Society, Korean Space Science Society and the Armenian Astronomical Society.
He left the Euro-Asian Astronomical Society in 2022 as a sign of protest against the reluctance of the society's board to condemn Russia's aggression in Ukraine.
During 2002-2020, he was a member of scientific and organizing committees of numerous international conferences.
He is a member of the editorial boards of the magazines "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society", "Astronomical Journal", "Astronomy and Astrophysics", "Astrophysics and Cosmonautics", "Publications of the Japanese Astronomical Society", "Information Bulletin for Variable Stars".
His scientific interests relate to observational astrophysics, the study of variable pulsating, magnetic, and eclipsed binary stars using the methods of asteroseismology, photometry, and high-resolution spectroscopy. He is the discoverer and classifier of a new group of accreting matter of pulsating components in semi-separated eclipsed systems, named this group oEA stars, this name is now generally accepted.
Main publications:
1. Multimode pulsations of the λ bootis star 29 cygni: The 1995 and 1996 multiside campaigns / D. E. Mkrtichian, A. V. Kusakin, A. V. Lopez de Coca,.. V. Burnashev // The Astron. Journ.- 2007.- No. 4.- P. 1713.
2. 1995-1998 Large-scale campaigns on Lambda Boo star 29 cygni / D. E. Mkrtichian, A. V. Kusakin, V. A. Koval,.. V. I. Burnashev et al. // The Impact of Large-scale Surveys on Pulsating Star Research: IAU Coll. No. 176.- B. m, 2000.- P. 494 - 495.- (ASP Conf. Ser.; Vol. 203).
3. 1996 multisite photometric and spectral campaign on the lambda Boo star 29 CYG / D. E. Mkrtichian, A. V. Kusakin, V. P. Malanushenko,.. V. I. Burnashev et al. // Contr. of the Astron. Obs. Skalnate Pleso.– 1998.- Vol. 27, No. 3.- P. 476 - 478
4. Savanevych, V. E., Khlamov, S. V., Vavilova, I. B., Briukhovetskyi, A. B., Pohorelov, A. V., Mkrtichian, D. E., Kudak, V. I., Pakuliak, L. K., Dikov, E. N., Melnik, R. G., Vlasenko, V. P., Reichart, D. E. A method of immediate detection of objects with a near-zero apparent motion in series of CCD-frames. (accepted to Astron. & Astrophys., 2017, eprint arXiv:1712.02425).
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