Wyrzykowski Łukasz - Gaia
Gaia contributors
Gaia was proposed in 1993 and since then, many people have been involved in the Gaia mission, whether at ESA, at industry side or at one of the institutes involved in the Gaia data processing. The Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC) is a collaboration which consists of around 450 scientists and engineers.
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Łukasz Wyrzykowski Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory |
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Lukasz Wyrzykowski (pronounced: woo-cash vi-shi-kov-ski) obtained his PhD in 2005 at the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw in Poland on studies of various aspects of gravitational microlensing towards the Galactic Centre with OGLE data. His research interests have been linked with the OGLE project (he is the member of OGLE project since 2000) and include studies of variable stars, quasars, supernovae and other transients, and search for dark matter and black holes with gravitational microlensing. He is also interested in machine learning approaches to the vast astronomical data sets. In years 2006-2015 he was a postdoc at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, where in 2008 he joined Gaia DPAC/CU5/DU17. Together with Simon Hodgkin, Sergey Koposov, Guy Rixon and other researchers from Cambridge and Warsaw, he designed, developed and implemented the Gaia Photometric Science Alerts system, called AlertPipe. The system is operational since 2014 and detects various transient astrophysical events like supernovae and microlensing events. Lukasz has also initiated the ground-based network of telescopes to conduct follow-up of Gaia alerts, the network is organised under the umbrella of EC's OPTICON grant. He was also the main organiser of a series of seven Gaia Science Alerts workshops, held in Cambridge, Paris, Warsaw and other places. Currently he is back in Poland as a Lecturer at the Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory and continues his involvement in Gaia Alerts. He is looking for on-going microlensing events in Gaia and exploring the possibility of using Gaia's astrometric time-series to find black holes in the Milky Way via astrometric microlensing effect. Recently he has led the observing campaign of a spectacular binary microlensing event, Gaia16aye, see ESA's note and Gaia Image of the Week. He is also leading OGLE's search for supernovae and tidal disruption events. [Published: 03/10/2008, Updated: 21/12/2016] |
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