Korsun Pavel Pavlovich General data:
15.01.1957 - 09.09.2022
Place of birth: Teleshivka village, Rokytnyansky district, Kyiv region, Ukrainian SSR
Studied in: T. G. Shevchenko Kyiv Order of Lenin State University (since 1999 Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University) (1979);
Key interests: physics of comets. PhD Thesis: Physical parameters of the atmospheres of Halley and Brorsen-Metcof comets (1996 Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine); ScD Thesis: Physical properties of remote comets by observation and numerical simulation (2018 Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine);
Biography:
He was born January 15, 1957, in the Teleshivka village of Rokitnyansky district of Kyiv region of Ukrainian SSR.
In 1979 he graduated from the T. G. Shevchenko Kyiv Order of Lenin State University (since 1999 Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University), specializing in astronomy, and he was awarded a qualification as an astronomer, teacher.
During August 1979 - July 1981 he was in regular military service in the ranks of the Soviet Army in the Penza city of the Russian SSR. Served as Lieutenant Air Defense.
Since September, 1981 he has been working at Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In continuation of the scientific career he worked consecutively as an engineer, junior researcher, researcher, senior research assistant since 2005 and latter he became head of the laboratory of physics of comets.
In 1985, together with Seyzonenko Yu.V. and Nazarchuk G.K., they were observing the comet of the Galilee. He conducted observations at the observatory at the peak of Terskol.
In 1996, he defended his PhD thesis "Physical Parameters of the Atmospheres of the Halley Commisses and the Brothers-Metcophy" at the Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
In June 2018 he defended a doctoral dissertation at the Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on the topic "Physical properties of remote comets based on observations and numerical simulation" on the specialty 01.03.03 - Helium physics and physics of the Solar system.
Died on September 9, 2022.
The field of scientific work of the astronomer is the physics of comets. Among the scientific achievements of the scientist, a series of works on observations of active comets at long heliocentric distances should be noted. According to the data of observations on large telescopes of the world, he discovered that in the spectra of two such objects, located outside the zone of sublimation of ice, there are emission lines of nitrogen. This was a significant result, since there were no similar observations in world practice at that time. The works of the astronomer on modeling the distribution of the surface brightness of comets and the results of other scientific studies are also well known. He published more than 100 scientific works in leading scientific publications, participated in the preparation of scientific change, making a significant contribution to the development of comet research in Ukraine and the world.
Main publications:
1. Distant active comets: some results of long-lasting spectrophotometric monitoring /I. Kulyk, P. Korsun, O. Ivanova// Seventh Conference "Selected questions of astronomy and astrophysics" memory of B.T. Babiy, - Lviv National University named Ivan Franko -Lviv, 2014
2. Парусимов В.Г., Корсун П.П., Есипов В.Ф., Мамадов О. Спектральные наблюдения кометы Брорзена- Меткофа 1989Х в обсерватории Санглох.//Астрон. вестн.- 1995.- Т.29.- N 5.- C. 435-438.
3. Парусимов В.Г., Корсун П.П., Есипов В.Ф., Мамадов О. Относительная спектрофотометрия кометы Галлея в ближней ИК- области.//Астрон. вестн.- 1991.- Т.25.- N 5.- C. 599-602
4. Парусимов В.Г., Корсун П.П. Спектрофотометрия кометы Галлея по наблюдениям на пике Терскол.//Кинемат. и физ. небес. тел.- 1990.- Т.6.- N .- C. 35-41.
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