Contact:
Sergey E. Koposov
Reader in Observational Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
Affiliated associate professor, University of Cambridge
Office: C24, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ
Phone: +44 131 668 8452
Email: skoposov (AT) ed (DOT) ac (DOT) uk
To students
I am accepting new PhD students. I am also happy to chat to any PhD or undergraduate students interested in galactic archaelogy, statistics or machine learning.To postdocs
If you are looking to apply for one of the fellowships (Rutherford, Royal Society or others) and are interested in doing it in Edinburgh and work in the general area of Galactic archaeology, please check this page for a list of opportunities, and feel free to contact me to help with the application process and sponsor your application. Keep in mind that many of the applications have an internal (within Edinburgh) selection process, so please contact me in advance. On top of fellowships listed there are also Chancellor fellowship.Featured recent papers
Unravelling the mass spectrum of destroyed dwarf galaxies with the metallicity distribution functionS5 : Probing the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds potentials with the 6-D map of the Orphan-Chenab stream
DESI Observations of the Andromeda Galaxy: Revealing the Immigration History of our Nearest Neighbor
Constraining the shape of Milky Way satellites with distance gradients
S5: The Orbital and Chemical Properties of One Dozen Stellar Streams
All publications:
CV
PDFResearch interests:
- Dwarf galaxies
- Stellar streams (See S5 project)
- Milky Way structure
- Gaia
- Binary stars
- Hyper-velocity stars
- Large surveys
- Databases
- Data mining
- Statistics
Press coverage/releases of some of work that I have been involved in
- One dozen streams; Covered by c|net, Sky and Telescope APS (PR materials)
- VVV-WIT-08: thegiant star that blinked; Covered by Guardian, CNN, Independent)
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The discovery of 1700 km/s star ejected from the Galactic center; Covered by NYTimes,
Newsweek,
Forbes,
Guardian
The images/videos are available here. - Discovery of two star clusters in the Gaia data. Press release
- Sharper view of Pal 5 tail. Press release
- New satellites in the Dark Energy survey. Press release
- Sagittarius stream tails. Press release
Resources:
I created and support the large SQL database of all astronomical surveys called WSDB (whole sky database). If you are interested in using it, have big data/data mining ideas, please contact me.
Some software I've written or have been involved in developing:
q3c
astrolibpy
sqlutilpy
pg hist
pg healpix
arxiv-rank
rvspecfit
minimint
dynesty
