Kristian Pedersen
Director / Associate Professor
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Director of the Space Science Center, University of Copenhagen, and staff scientist at the Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute.
Manager of the Instrument Center for Danish Astrophysics.
Research: X-ray astrophysics and cosmology – in particular dark matter, clusters of galaxies, astro-particle physics, and gamma-ray bursts.
Space missions and instrumentation: Euclid, NuSTAR, new instrument for the Nordic Optical Telescope.
Selected recent publications
Reconstructing the triaxiality of the galaxy cluster Abell 1689: solving the X-ray and strong lensing mass discrepancy
A. Morandi, K. Pedersen, M. Limousin, 2011, Astrophysical Journal, 729, 37.
Hot Gas Halos Around Disk Galaxies: Confronting Cosmological Simulations with Observations
J. Rasmussen, J. Sommer-Larsen, K. Pedersen, S. Toft, A.J. Benson, R.G. Bower, L.F. Grove, 2009, Astrophysical Journal, 697, 79-93.
Probing the nature of dark matter with Cosmic X-rays: Constraints from "Dark blobs" and grating spectra of galaxy clusters
S. Riemer-Sørensen, K. Pedersen, S.H. Hansen, and H. Dahle, 2007, Physical Review D, 76, 043524.
Calibration of the Mass-Temperature Relation for Clusters of Galaxies Using Weak Gravitational Lensing
K. Pedersen and H. Dahle, 2007, Astrophysical Journal, 667, 26-34
23 May – Euclid Mission Conference in Copenhagen May 15–16 featured in Ingeniøren.
