Welcome to the Home page of Asaf Pe'er

Asaf Pe'er 

You can reach me: Tel: (1)-410-338-5055
                  FAX: (1)-410-338-2519
                email: apeer _AT_ stsci.edu
                 mail: Space Telescope Science Institute,
		       3700 San Martin Drive,
                       Baltimore, MD, 21218 
		       USA
            in person: Room 301

A few professional details:

I am currently holding the Riccardo Giacconi fellowship at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), as of October 2007. Earlier, I was a postdoctoral member at the Astronomical Institute "Anton Pannekoek", in the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Between 1999 -2004 I was a Ph.D. student at the Weizmann Institute of Science .


You can look at my CV (Updated: April 2009)
and my list of publications (Updated: April 2009)

Accreting Compact Objects discussion group Homepage

Research Interests

My main research focuses on emission from compact objects, such as Gamma-ray bursts (GRB's). The science includes a wide range of physical disciplines, ranging from nuclear processes (such as proton-proton collisions, production and annihilation of electron-positron pairs), radiative processes (synchrotron emission, Compton scattering, bremstrahlung), relativistic gas dynamics (including creation and interaction of shock waves traveling at relativistic speeds), as well as significant phenomenological work (e.g., identification and quantification of temporal behavior of thermal emission in relativistically expanding plasma jets). My research is both theoretical - analytical and numerical, and phenomenological. Some highlights of my research are listed below; others can be found in my publications list.

GRB Prompt and afterglow emission

Thermal Emission Component in GRB prompt emission:Identification, Theory and Implications

Radiative processes

Relativistic gas dynamics

High energy emission in compact objects

What can we learn from GRB941017 ? Detailed calculations

Collaborators

Peter Mészáros ; Martin J. Rees; Ralph A.M.J. Wijers; Bing Zhang ; Eli Waxman; Felix Ryde; Hylke Koers;

Useful links

apod
Weiz-Physics

Interesting Pages

Cosmology: CMB, Ly-alpha, LSS, Lensing, etc (BERKELEY)

Cosmology distance calculator (Ned Wright)

Introduction to plasma physics: A graduate course (Richard Fitzpatrick)

Application of classical physics (A course given by Kip Thorne & Roger Blandford at Caltech)

Homepage of Yossi Nir at the Weizmann Institiute (with on-line material of some courses he gave)

Conferences and workshops

The Shocking universe (Venice Italy, Sep. 14-18, 2009)

Physics of Relativistic flows (NORDITA program) (Stockholm, Sweden, May 4 - June 13, 2009)

KIAA program on GRB physics (Beijing, China, May 4 - June 19, 2009)

The Sixth Huntsville Gamma-Ray Bursts Symposium 2008 (Huntsville, AL, Oct. 20-23, 2008)

7th Microquasar workshop (Izmir, Turkey, Sep. 1-5, 2008)

2008 Nanjing GRB conference (Nanjing, China, June 23-27, 2008)

Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers (Penn. State, PA, June 9-14, 2008)

Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays, Neutrinos and Photons Workshop (Penn. State, PA, May 16-17, 2007)

30th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC07; Yucatan, Mexico, July 3-11, 2007)

Supernova 1987A: 20 Years After Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursters (Aspen, Colorado, Feb 19-23, 2007)

First GLAST Symposium (Stanford, CA, Feb 5-8, 2007)

Swift and GRBs: unveiling the relativistic universe (San Servolo, Venice, June 5-9, 2006)

GAMMA-RAY BURSTS: THE FIRST THREE HOURS(Santorini, Greece, Aug. 29 - Sep. 2, 2005)

International School on AstroParticle Physics (ISAPP 2003) (Conca Specchiulla, Otranto, Italy, June 15-21, 2003), Lecture Series on Neutrinos in Particle Physics

Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Brightest Explosions in the Universe (Harvard, MA, May 20-23, 2002)

Course

Topology and Geometry for physicists (2002/3)

Downloads

C program for PC

Personal - pictures

Pictures can be found here 



First created: Nov. 12th, 2002. 
update: May. 5th, 2004, Nov.24th, 2004
Last update: June 12th, 2008