Artur Avakyan

ORCID: 0000-0001-7502-7951

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Greetings and welcome to my website! My name is Artur and I am astrophysicist, working in High Energy Astrophysics (HEA) area. Currently, I am a 3rd year Doctoral researcher from Universität Tübingen working with Dr. Victor Doroshenko and Prof. Dr. Andrea Santangelo.

I focus on identification and characterization of population of the Galactic X-ray binaries (XRBs). This includes tight work with facilities such as eROSITA, XMM-Newton, NuSTAR, etc. I am interested in the application of machine learning (ML) methods in analysis of multi-wavelength (MWL) data, mainly in terms of sources identification, surveys cross-matching, and origin type classification.

Together with Marvin Neumann (Doctoral researcher, Universität Tübingen) I also worked on construction of the two up-to-date catalogues of XRBs in the Galaxy, which you can access through dedicated website (XRBcats: Galactic XRB Catalogues). I strongly recommend to check it out=)

Some of the ongoing works:

  • eROSITA_DE first Data Release (DR1)
  • XRBs in eROSITA DR1: identification and classification
  • X-ray luminosity function of XRBs: construction and modelling
  • XMM-Newton follow-up observation of XRB candidates found in eROSITA and archive data
  • Search for a postdoctoral position=)

Contact me at artur.avakyan@astro.uni-tuebingen.de if you have any ideas, suggestions or questions.

You can also find me at any working week day at the Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics Tübingen (IAAT), here at Sand 1, 72076 (office A124):