Kristian Pedersen
Associate Professor / Lektor
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I am an astrophysicist working at the Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. I am also the head of the Space Science Center at the Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, and I am the manager of the national centre without walls Instrument Center for Danish Astrophysics. The main focus of my research is X-ray astrophysics and cosmology. In particular I work with dark matter, clusters of galaxies, astro-particle physics, gamma-ray bursts as well as space instrumentation.
Selected publications
Discovery of a very extended X-ray halo around a quescent sprial galaxy NA, 11, p. 465 (2006)
The host galaxy cluster of the short gamma-ray burst GRB 050509B Apj, 634, p. L17 (2005)
Searching for decaying axion-like dark matter from clusters of galaxies Phys. Rev. Lett., 99 (2007)
March 2 - A worldwide series of exhibitions featuring striking astronomical imagery has won the first Mani Bhaumik prize for excellence in astronomy education and public outreach. This award was given for the best of the tens of thousands of activities conducted during the International Year of Astronomy (IYA) 2009. The Danish exhibition Universet - din oplevelse was part of this global effort.
