Kristian Pedersen

Associate Professor / Lektor

Niels Bohr Institute
University of Copenhagen
Juliane Maries Vej 30
DK-2100 København Ø
Denmark

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+45 35 59 32
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kp@dark-cosmology.dk

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)

25 May - A new book on Danish Astronomy is out: "Dansk astronomi i kikkerten". You can read excerpts of the book and purchase it at Forlaget Epsilon.