The Department for Physics of Planetary Systems - Research

Main areas of research:

Collaborators of our Department research Solar system planets and their satellites, planetary systems around stars of Milky Way and stars having disc structures.

Experimental explorations are carried out by the methods of optical spectrometry, photometry and polarimetry.

Observations are realized on the base of three telescopes of our Department: AZT-2 with apertureof 70 cm (optical system of Newton/Cassegrain)[link] and two telescopes Celestron-14��� (optical system of Cassegrain)located at MAO NASU[link]and Lisnyky Observational Station of the Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University[ KIT ].

Also much attention is given to the theoretical calculations in the fields of task solving theradiative transfer theory and process modeling in planetary atmospheres, mathematics modeling of spectral energy distributions in the disc structures around stars and substars, and light scattering processes by atmospherelessSolar system bodies.

In 2012 the working group"Observations at small telescopes of exoplanets, Solar system bodies and other objects" was created at MAO NASU. Researches of chromospherical activity of stars having exoplanets and transit systems are carried out in the frames of thistopic. Also some collaborators take part in the program of exoplanet search in close eclipse binaries "DWARF project".

Main scientific fields:

• Researches of Solar system bodies, variations in planetary atmospheres and on their satellites, remote methods of researches the vertical structures of planetary atmospheres.
• Development of analytical and numerical methods of calculations the radiative transfer in planetary atmospheres and radiation reflectedby rough surfaces, and processes of electromagnetic radiative scattering by environments consisting of morphologically composite groups of particles and by atmosphereless surfaces.
• Researches of planetary systems around Milky Way stars and stars having disc structures by the methods of spectrometry, photometry and polarimetry observations and numerical modeling.
• Numerical modeling of spectral energy distributions in disc structures around stars and substars.
• Spectroscopy of Solar system bodies, their satellites, stars having exoplanets and stars having disc structures.
• Astronomy instrumentation.