Telescopes
and Other Facilities Used for Research
Altogether, we have
observed more than thousand nights with BAO 2.6m, 1m Schmidt, and OHP 1.93m
telescopes, as well as our projects have been accomplished with a number of other
ground-based telescopes at ESO, in USA, France, Spain, Italy, Russia, Mexico,
and China. A number of surveys, databases, reduction and analysis software, and
other facilities have been used too.
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The First Byurakan Survey (FBS) plates, as well as observations have
been carried out to expand the FBS to Milky Way regions. |
Since 1986, BAO-2.6 has been used for spectroscopy of FBS BSOs and SBS
objects, as well as later for BIG objects. |
SAO 6m telescope
(BTA), Russia. We have used BTA for spectroscopic observations
of BIG objects (collaboration with Burenkov, Dodonov, et al. |
OHP-1.93 has been used for spectroscopic observations of FBS BSOs and
BIG objects (collaboration with Verons). |
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Has been used for photometric observations of cataclysmic variable RX J1643.7+3402 (collaboration with Ilovaisky). |
Hamburg 80cm Schmidt
telescope, Calar-Alto, Spain Hamburg Quasar Survey (HQS) plates have been used for optical
identifications of X-ray sources. |
This telescope has been used for observations of Akn 564
(collaboration with Engels) and fine analysis of its spectra. |
Palomar Observatory 5m
Hale telescope. We have observed spectra of SBS candidate BCDGs
(collab. with Houck, Weedman, et al.). |
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INAOE 2.12m
telescope, Cananea, Mexico. We have used this
telescope to observe spectra of ROSAT AGN (collab. with Mujica &
Chavushyan). |
San Pedro Martir 2.12m
telescope, Mexico. We have used this telescope to
observe spectra of ROSAT candidate AGN (coll. with Mujica &Chavushyan). |
Asiago 1.82m Copernico
telescope. This telescope has been used for spectroscopy of
BIS objects (collaboration with Nesci, Rossi, and Gaudenzi). |
Loiano 1.52m Cassini
telescope. This telescope was used for spectroscopy of BIS
objects (collaboration with Nesci, Rossi, and Gaudenzi). |
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ESO
3.58m NTT, La Silla, Chile. We have used this
telescope to observe spectra of FBS late-type stars and 2MASS sources
(collab. with Mauron). |
MPG
/ ESO 2.2m telescope, La Silla, Chile. We have used it to observe
spectra of FBS late-type stars and 2MASS sources (coll. with Mauron). |
Beijing 1.26m IR telescope, Xinglong, China.
This telescope has been used for photometric observations of FBS
late-type stars. |
Telescopio Nazionale Galileo 3.58m. This telescope has been used for spectroscopy of BIS objects (collab.
with Nesci, Rossi, and Gaudenzi). |
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Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), USA. SDSS is much deeper than DSS but covers only the fourth part. It is
extremely useful for deeper research. |
Optical identifications of 1577 IRAS PSC sources and
the list of highest IR/opt flux ratio sources from FSC later observed by SST. |
ROSAT, Germany.
Optical identifications of 3000 ROSAT FSC sources
using HQS and other databases. ROSAT AGN candidates for spectroscopy. |
Spitzer Space Telescope (SST), USA.
Observation of IRAS-FSC selected 28 highest IR/opt flux ratio sources.
SST archives for new research. |
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Northern Sky Variability Survey |
Digitized First
Byurakan Survey (DFBS). Using
DFBS improves selection of blue stellar objects and late-type stars, as well
as opens new opportunities. |
Armenian Virtual
Observatory (ArVO). ArVO is
a project to provide tools and data for new astronomical research using DFBS
database. |
For most of our research we use DSS1/DSS2 providing blue, red and
infrared sky images over the whole sky in FITS format. |
Northern Sky Variability Survey
(NSVS), USA. This database maintains numerous measurements for
variable stars and provides an online access. |
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Vizier, CDS, Strasbourg,
France. A database (catalog) of astronomical catalogs, giving
online access to some 8000 catalogs having more than 1 billion objects. |
SIMBAD, CDS, Strasbourg, France.
This is online database (catalog) of astronomical objects, mostly used
for galactic objects and giving all possible data. |
ALADIN, CDS, France. A tool for visualization of astronomical images and overplotting
catalogs. We have also used it for plotting images and showing structure. |
SMART. It is the dedicated software for reduction of Spitzer IRS spectra. It
was used for observations of our selected sources and archive studies. |
ESO-MIDAS |
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ESO-MIDAS.
One of the most important astronomical packages used for reduction of
images, spectra, calculations and graphics. We mostly use it for spectra. |
SkyBoT VO
software, IMCCE, France. We use
it for search
of asteroids in the DFBS database using its calculations for any epoch of
observations. |
The largest and most important extragalactic database. Most of my
research is related to QSOs and galaxies; I use it very often. |
Second largest extragalactic database, however having more information
on objects compared to NED. I have worked for it too. |