Jeremiah P. Ostriker

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Jeremiah Paul Ostriker (born April 13, 1937 in New York City ) is an American astrophysicist .

life and work

Ostriker studied at Harvard University (Bachelor 1959) and received his Ph. D. in 1964 under Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar at the University of Chicago . In 1966 he became an assistant professor and in 1971 a professor at Princeton University . In 1979 he became head of the faculty for astrophysics and director of the observatory. In 1982 he became Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy at Princeton. From 1995 he was Provost of the Astrophysics Department and Director of the Princeton Observatory. From 2001 to 2003 he held the Plumian Professorship of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge University . Then he returned to Princeton.

Ostriker is a theoretical astrophysicist. He dealt with many areas of astrophysics. In particular, he dealt with dark matter and dark energy , galaxy formation and black hole growth , interaction of quasars with their environment and warm-hot intergalactic medium . He also dealt with the structure and vibrations of rotating stars, dynamics of galaxy clusters, stability of galaxies, evolution of globular clusters and other star clusters, pulsars , X-ray binary stars , gravitational lenses , active galaxy nuclei, astrophysical shock waves and the large-scale structure of the galaxy distribution.

With P. Bode he developed the TPM Code (Tree Particle Mesh Code) for cosmological simulations in 2003.

He is the author and co-author of over 500 publications (2012). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1975) and the American Philosophical Society (1994). In 1999 he was admitted to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences as an external member . In 2007 he was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society . He is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society .

From 1970 to 1972 he was a Sloan Research Fellow .

Awards

Publications

  • New Light on Dark Matter , Science, 300, pp 1909-1914 (2003)
  • The Probability Distribution Function of Light in the Universe: Results from Hydrodynamic Simulations, Astrophysical Journal 597, 1 (2003)
  • Cosmic Mach Number as a Function of Overdensity and Galaxy Age, Astrophysical Journal, 553, 513 (2001)
  • Collisional Dark Matter and the Origin of Massive Black Holes , Physical Review Letters, 84, 5258-5260 (2000).
  • Hydrodynamics of Accretion onto Black Holes, Adv. Space Res., 7, 951-960 (1998).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science . Thomson Gale, 2004
  2. ↑ TPM website ( Memento from February 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Member History: Jeremiah P. Ostriker. American Philosophical Society, accessed November 2, 2018 (with biographical notes).
personal data
SURNAME Ostriker, Jeremiah P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ostriker, Jeremiah Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astrophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City