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Stanimir Metchev
Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy

Department of Physics and Astronomy
452 Earth and Space Sciences Building
State University of New York
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800
1 631 632 1302 (office)
1 631 632 1745 (fax)
metchev 'at' astro.sunysb.edu (e-mail)



What's New

  • I am looking for a postdoc to work on brown dwarf and/or debris disk observational research at Stony Brook. If interested, please apply by April 1, 2009.
    • UPDATE (May 1, 2009): Search is now closed
    • UPDATE (Nov 1, 2009): Kerstin Geissler (Heidelberg PhD) arrives
  • Fall 2009: I am teaching the undergraduate Astronomy course AST443: "Observational Techniques"

  • Hubble Space Telescope Optical Imaging of the Eroding Debris Disk HD 61005
    (Maness et al. 2009) [PDF, astro-ph]
  • Pre-Discovery 2007 Image of the HR 8799 Planetary System
    (Metchev et al. 2009) [PDF, astro-ph]
  • A Substantial Dust Disk Surrounding an Actively Accreting First-Ascent Giant Star
    (Melis et al. 2009) [PDF, ADS]
  • The Palomar/Keck Adaptive Optics Survey of Young Solar Analogs: Evidence for a Universal Companion Mass Function
    (Metchev & Hillenbrand 2009) [PDF, ADS]

Research Interests

  • Brown dwarfs: see new and recent publications
  • Circumstellar disks: see new and recent publications
  • Formation and evolution of planets: I collaborate with members of the former FEPS Spitzer Legacy team
  • Adaptive optics

Selected publications (see ADS for a full listing)

  • Pre-Discovery 2007 Image of the HR 8799 Planetary System [PDF, astro-ph]
      S. Metchev, C. Marois, & B. Zuckerman 2009, ApJL, 705, L204
  • The Palomar/Keck Adaptive Optics Survey of Young Solar Analogs: Evidence for a Universal Companion Mass Function [PDF, ADS]
      S. Metchev & L. Hillenbrand 2009, ApJS, 181, 62
  • A Cross-Match of 2MASS and SDSS: Newly-Found L and T Dwarfs and an Estimate of the Space Density of T Dwarfs [PDF, ADS]
      S. Metchev, J.D. Kirkpatrick, G.B. Berriman, & D. Looper 2008, ApJ, 676, 1281
  • First High-Contrast Science with an Integral Field Spectrograph: the Sub-Stellar Companion to GQ Lup [PDF, ADS]
      M. McElwain, S. Metchev, J. Larkin, et al. 2007, ApJ, 656, 505
  • Integrated-Light Two Micron All Sky Survey Infrared Photometry of Galactic Globular Clusters [PDF, ADS]
      J.G. Cohen, S. Hsieh, S. Metchev, S.G. Djorgovski, & M. Malkan 2007, AJ, 133, 99
  • HD 203030B: an Unusually Cool Young Sub-Stellar Companion near the L/T Transition [PDF, ADS]
      S.A. Metchev & L.A. Hillenbrand 2006, ApJ, 651, 1166
  • Dynamical Evolution in the AU Mic Debris Disk [PDF, ADS]
      S.A. Metchev, J.A. Eisner, L.A. Hillenbrand, & S. Wolf 2005, ApJ, 622, 451
  • Ten Micron Observations of Nearby Young Stars [PDF, ADS]
      S.A. Metchev, L.A. Hillenbrand, & M.R. Meyer 2004, ApJ, 600, 435

Teaching

Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

Ph.D. thesis (defended Aug 18, 2005)

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Last modified on Jan 16, 2009