Ivan Valtchanov (Ph.D.)

Current position:

Instrument and Calibration Scientist for the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) on board of the Herschel Space Observatory.

Herschel Science Centre
European Space Agency (ESA)
European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)
P.O. Box 78
28691 Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid
Spain

Scientific activities and interests:

Clusters and groups of galaxies, large-scale structure of the Universe, Cosmology, multi-wavelength observations, high redshift objects.

To search for my publications in the ADS click here or in the astro-ph click here.

Herschel Guaranteed Time Key Projects:

• PACS Evolutionary Probe (PEP).
• The Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES)

Herschel Open Time Key Projects:

• Herschel-ATLAS (PI: Steve Eales)
• The Herschel Lensing Survey (PI: Eiichi Egami)
• The Herschel survey in GOODS (PI: David Elbaz)

Herschel Guaranteed Time (GT1) Projects:

• Deep SPIRE FTS follow-up of H-ATLAS lensed sub-mm galaxies (PI: Ivan Valtchanov)
• The star formation history of galaxy clusters (PI: Bruno Altieri)
• Herschel imaging photometry of nearby Seyfert galaxies: testing the coexistence of AGN and starburst activity and the nature of the dusty torus (PI: Miguel Sanchez-Portal)
• Herschel In-situ Asteroid & Comet Observation programme (PI: Larry O'Rourke)

Herschel Open Time (OT1) Projects:

• SPIRE Snapshot Survey of Massive Galaxy Clusters (PI: Eiichi Egami)
• Death by Debris: Testing a new picture of Star Formation Quenching in Compact Groups (PI: Michelle Cluver)
• Charting the Cooling Pathways in High-Speed Extragalactic Shocks (PI: Phil Appleton)
• A Star formation oasis in the middle of a "cluster desert" (PI: Paola Popesso)
• Characterising the ISM of bright, lensed star-forming galaxies across cosmic time with the SPIRE-FTS (PI: Rob Ivison)
• THE HERSCHEL-AKARI NEP DEEP SURVEY: the cosmological history of stellar mass assembly and black hole accretion (PI: Stephen Serjeant)

Other (non-Herschel) surveys

• XMM Large Scale Structure Survey (XMM-LSS).
• Spitzer Wide-area Infrared Extragalactic Legacy Survey (SWIRE)
• XXL - the Ultimate XMM Extragalactic Survey

Old works

• My Ph.D. thesis, 2003:
  you may get a PDF copy of my thesis from here.

  My thesis is partially written in French. Although my degree is from Université Paris-Sud XI (Orsay) all the work was performed at the Service d'Astrophysique, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, France (or CEA/Saclay/SAp if you like abbreviations) under the supervision of Dr. M. Pierre.

• Data analysis using the two-points correlation function, 1999, Technical Report, I. Valtchanov and J-L. Starck, CEA/Saclay, Service d'Astrophysique.
  README file
  Link to the package archive (tar.gz file, right click and Save As...)
  
  
• Large-scale clustering in the Universe - a package of codes. Contributed talk at ADASS VIII conference, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1-5 November 1998. I. Valtchanov.
  PDF version.
  Description and link to the package archive
  

Links to personal pages:

My personal pages

• Picasa gallery #1 (ivvv68)
• Picasa gallery #2 (ivvv.free)
• Gallery and web page in free.fr (ivvv@free)
  Attention! This page is in Bulgarian.
• My blog
  Mainly personal things and some cuisine.
  Attention! This page is in Bulgarian.

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