Gergö Popping
Graduate Student Astronomy at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute in Groningen
Hello. For some strange reason you've found my website. I'm Gergö Popping, a graduate student astronomy at the Kapteyn Institute in Groningen. Currently I'm working on my PhD thesis titled "Gas evolution in the blue cloud" under the supervision of Scott Trager, Marco Spaans and Rachel Somerville. Currently I don't have many results to show, I will try to do this as soon as possible though.
On this webpage you'll find results of some of the projects I carried out during my bachelor and master education. I will try to put some information about my PhD research progress on the web as soon as possible. Any remarks or questions on my work can be sent to g.popping@astro.rug.nl. Have fun browsing through my work!
Masters thesis
Together with Isabel Perez, Almudena Zurita and Thijs van der Hulst we carried out a multiwavelength study on the bar of NGC 2903 to reveal the recent star formation history in the bar and its surrounding area. We also tried to get insight in the origin of strong UV emitting complexes near the nucleus of the galaxy perpendicular to the bar, without Hα and 24 μm emission countepart. The results of the photometric study are presented in Popping et al. (2010). In a follow up study we tried to link the kinematics of the neutral and ionized gas in the galaxy to the star formation using the HI 21 cm line and Hα Fabry-Perot interferometer data cubes.
Have a look at my paper presenting the results of the multiwavelength study on the bar of NGC 2903:
Popping et al. (2010)
and the master report, also including the kinematical study of NGC 2903:
A comprehensive study of star-formation along the strong NGC 2903 bar
Bachelor thesis
For my bachelor thesis I studied the ages of HII regions in the bar of NGC 2903 and how they compare to some general dynamical features. Please have a look at the thesis Star formation in the bar of NGC 2903
Projects
- The website I made for the first year course Actueel Onderzoek. The site is about cluster formation. click here
- A paper I wrote for the second year course wetenschapscommunicatie, also about cluster formation. click here
- A paper I wrote for a philosophy course I took. click here
- A paper I wrote on Supernovae type I for the High Energy Astrophysics course I took. click here
- A paper about AGN host galaxies I wrote for the AGN course I took. click here
- A review paper about the Sunyaev - Zel'dovich effect as a part of the 'Large Scale Structure' course. The paper is a cooperation between me and Jouke Jensma. click here
- I wrote a paper on feedback processes in the early Universe for the 'Galaxies at high redshift' course. click here
- As a part of the HI in the Universe course I wrote a small review paper on Damped Lyα systems. click here
- A paper about the efficiency of star-formation in starburst galaxies. click here
Underneath is a picture of NGC 2903 in NUV with Hα contours laid on top of it. Notice the peak in the NUV without a counterpart in the H&alpha, indicated with the white arrow. More information on this can be found in Popping et al. (2010).
The Hα observation was done by me with the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT), part of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes at the Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, Spain. NUV contours are from the Nearby Galaxies Survey of GALEX.
