Rashid Sunyaev

Rashid Sunyaev ( also Russian Рашид Алиевич Сюняев / Rashid Alijewitsch Sunjajew; born March 1, 1943 in Tashkent) is a Russian astrophysicist of Tatar origin.

Life

Rashid Sunyaev 1943 in Tashkent (Uzbekistan, USSR at that time ) was born. He studied at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and was a PhD student at Yakov Seldowitsch. In 1968 he earned his doctorate at the Moscow State University. 1974-1982 Sunyaev headed the Laboratory of Theoretical Astrophysics at the Space Research Institute ( IKI ), Academy of Sciences of the USSR. 1982-2002 period he founded a department for high -energy astrophysics. Since 1995 he is also Director at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching near Munich. Sunyaev was Project Scientist multiple Satellitenobservatorien in the X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy.

Work

Sunyaev works in many fields of cosmology, relativistic astrophysics, and X-ray astronomy. Together with Seldowitsch (English transcription Zeldovich ), he described the Sunjajew - Seldowitsch effect, the change of the cosmic background radiation as it passes through the hot gas of a galaxy cluster. His work with Nikola Ivanovich Schakura on the structure of accretion disks was an important step in understanding the Materieeinströmung on stellar black holes in X-ray binaries and black holes in active galactic nuclei, and is one of the most cited papers in modern astrophysics. Your result was the model of the standard disc, which was released in 1973.