Benjamin Markarjan
Benjamin Markarjan ( Armenian Բենիամին Մարգարյան ; Russian Вениамин Егишевич Маркарян / Weniamin Yegischewitsch Markarjan; born November 29, 1913 in Schulawer, today Schaumiani , Georgia ; † September 29, 1985 ; in English transcription Markarian was incorrectly also a Makarian in some academic works ) Armenian astrophysicist .
Markarjan has been working at the Byurakan Observatory since it was founded in 1946 , working on theories about star formation , galaxy clusters and superclusters. He dealt with star associations in general and wrote the first systematic catalog with O-associations. For this work he received the Stalin Prize in 1950 together with Viktor Hambarzumjan .
In the 1960s he intensively observed a group of galaxies with active nuclei that emit particularly bright, blue light with a high UV continuum from the center ( Seyfert galaxies , blasars and quasars ). He combined a few hundred of these objects into a catalog, which today bears the name Markarjan catalog and contains around 1500 objects. The galaxies are now called Markarian galaxies .
In the 1970s, he observed several galaxies of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster , which have been named Markarian's Chain .
See also
Web links
- Publications by BE Markarian / BJ Markarjan in the Astrophysics Data System
- Biography of Benjamin Markarjan (English)
- The Markarjan catalog at VizieR
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| SURNAME | Markarjan, Benjamin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Markarjan, Benjamin Jegischewitsch; Մարգարյան, Բենիամին (Armenian); Маркарян, Вениамин Егишевич (Russian); Markarjan, Weniamin Yegishevich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Armenian astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shulaver , Tbilisi Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 29, 1985 |