Zoltán Balog (astronomer)
Zoltán Balog (born on October 10, 1972, in Szolnok, Hungary) is an astronomer with the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.[1] In 2006, while at the Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona, Balog's team was the first to observe the complete process of photoevaporation of a protoplanetary disk.[2]
Observations[edit]
Balog's team was the first to observe protoplanetary disk photoevaporation and the resulting dust tail using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.[3] The resulting paper was published in Astrophysical Journal.[4] Balog's collaborators and co-authors are astronomers James Muzerolle, Erick T. Young, George Rieke and Kate Su,[5] all of the University of Arizona at Tucson. Balog is a member of the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) Guaranteed Time Observations (GTO) team led by George Rieke.
Publications[edit]
Balog earned his PhD in Physics in 2005 from the University of Szeged, Hungary. He was also a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory pre-doctoral fellow between 1999 and 2002 at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.
References[edit]
- ^ Max Planck Institute for Astronomy Zoltan Balogh retrieved 18 Aug, 2010
- ^ Linda Vu, Spitzer Science Center (3 Oct, 2006) Planets Prefer Safe Neighborhoods retrieved 18 Aug, 2010
- ^ Spitzer Space Telescope Image Archived November 30, 2006, at the Wayback Machine (5 Oct, 2006) retrieved 8 Jan, 2007
- ^ Abstract of Paper: Spitzer MIPS 24 μm Detection of Photoevaporating Protoplanetary Disks (Oct, 2006) retrieved 8 Jan, 2007
- ^ The University of Arizona Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory (5 Oct, 2006) retrieved 8 Jan, 2007