Dr. Helmut Jerjen

Fellow of the Australian National University

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
(Fred Hoyle)

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 Missing Satellites (SMS) Survey

Publications: A list and on-line access to some of my publications.
See also ADS (chronologically) or ADS (citation order)

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

RSAA Honours Program:
RSAA Honours Courses 2008
RSAA Honours Program Info 2007
RSAA Honours Rules 2007
RSAA Honours Marking Criteria 2008

Research Projects for undergraduate Astronomy/Physics Students: link

Field Trip for Monash University Students: September 2007

Observing Utilities
DAOPHOT Primer
2.3m instructions

My PhD students:

Primary Supervisor

Laura Dunn, *PhD completed December 2007*

Emma Kirby, May 2006, on-going

Shane Walsh , June 2005, on-going

Brad Warren, *PhD completed May 2005*, now at McMaster University (Canada)

Co-Supervisor

Antoine Bouchard, *PhD completed June 2006*, now at Centre de Recherche Astronomique de Lyon (France)

Bonita de Swardt (University of Cape Town, South Africa), April 2005, ongoing

Advisor

Emily McNeil , January 2008, on-going

Sebastian Gurovich, *PhD completed August 2006*

Se-Heon Oh, March 2005, on-going

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

Eduard Westra, *PhD completed in December 2007*

Research Interests and International Projects I am involved:

Dwarf Galaxy Newsletter

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 the missing MW satellites

Amusement: A New Element Detected

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