Global InformationAlexey Vikhlinin information
Alexey Vikhlinin | |
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| Born | September 17, 1970 Ryazan, Russia |
| Occupation | Astrophysicist |
| Employer | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Known for | X-ray Astronomy, Cosmology, Lynx X-ray Observatory |
| Website | https://hea-www.harvard.edu/~alexey/about.html |
Alexey Vikhlinin (born September 17, 1970) is a Russian-American astrophysicist notable for achievements in the astrophysics of high energy phenomenon, namely galaxy cluster cosmology[1] and the design of space-based X-ray observatories.[2] He is currently a senior astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, part of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was recently the Science and Technology Definition Team (STDT) Community Co-chair (along with Feryal Özel) for the Lynx X-ray Observatory, a NASA-funded Large Mission Concept Study under consideration by the 2020 Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics.
- ^ Vikhlinin, A.; Kravtsov, A.; Forman, W.; Jones, C.; Markevitch, M.; Murray, S. S.; Van Speybroeck, L. (April 2006). "Chandra Sample of Nearby Relaxed Galaxy Clusters: Mass, Gas Fraction, and Mass‐Temperature Relation". The Astrophysical Journal. 640 (2): 691–709. arXiv:astro-ph/0507092. doi:10.1086/500288. ISSN 0004-637X. S2CID 18940822.
- ^ "Lynx X-ray Observatory". Lynx X-ray Observatory. Retrieved 2020-01-17.