Dr. Helmut Jerjen

Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics Mt Stromlo Observatory Australian National University Cotter Road, Weston ACT 2611 Australia Fax : +61 (0)2 6125 02 60 Tel : +61 (0)2 6125 80 38 e-mail:

The Stromlo Milky Way Satellites (SMS) Survey

Publications: ADS (chronologically) or ADS (citation order)

International Meetings

Courses I teach/taught at the ANU: Physics of Galaxies, Galaxies and Cosmology (ASTR3002), Stars and Stellar Systems (ASTR3007).

RSAA Honours Program:
RSAA Honours Program Info
RSAA Honours Courses and Rules for 2011
RSAA Honours Courses and Rules for 2012

Research Projects for undergraduate Astronomy/Physics Students: link

Field Trip for Monash University Students: September 2008

Observing Utilities
DAOPHOT Primer
2.3m instructions

My PhD students:

Main Supervisor

Emma Kirby, *PhD completed August 2010*, now at ANU

David Nicholls , May 2009, on-going

Tammy Roderick , March 2011, on-going

Shane Walsh, *PhD completed October 2008*, now as Magellan Fellow at Las Campanas Observatory

Brad Warren, *PhD completed May 2005*, now at The University of Western Australia

Co-Supervisor

Bonita de Swardt, *PhD completed July 2009*, now at SAAO

Frederic Vogt, February 2011, on-going

Advisor

Sebastian Gurovich, *PhD completed August 2006*

Se-Heon Oh, *PhD completed June 2009*, now at University of Cape Town (South Africa)

Rami Rekola, *PhD completed December 2004*, now at Tuorla Observatory (Finland)

Eduard Westra, *PhD completed December 2007*

Research Interests and International Projects I am involved:

Dwarf Galaxies: Formation and evolution, morphology, stellar and gas contents, photometric properties
Your meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, You common people of the skies; What are you when the moon shall rise? love poem by Henry Wotton (17th century)	The First Spiral Structure ever discovered in a Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy
Type-specific luminosity functions of galaxies:	Build your own Galaxy LF
Extragalactic distance indicators:	Surface Brightness Fluctuations, SAPAC, TRGB
The 10 Mpc Sphere:	The Local Sphere of Influence , Galaxies in the Local Volume
The dark side of the local universe:	The HIPASS Survey, The Local Volume HI Survey (LVHIS)
The bright side of the dark universe:	Optical properties of HI galaxies , Einstein Ring at z=3.773
Galaxy clusters:	3D-Structure of the Virgo cluster , the Fornax cluster
Near-field cosmology:	Search for optically elusive Milky Way satellites

Amusement: A New Element Detected

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