Jeremiah P. Ostriker
Paul Jeremiah Ostriker ( born April 13, 1937 in New York City ) is an American astrophysicist.
Life and work
Ostriker studied at Harvard University (Bachelor 1959) and in 1964 received his doctorate in Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar at the University of Chicago for the Ph. D.. In 1966 he was appointed Assistant Professor in 1971 and Professor at Princeton University. In 1979 he became its board of the Faculty of astrophysics and director of the observatory. In 1982, he was Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy at Princeton. From 1995 he was Provost of the Division Astrophysics and director of the observatory at Princeton. From 2001 to 2003 he had the Plumian Professorship of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge University held. Then he returned to Princeton.
Ostriker is a theoretical astrophysicist. He dealt with many areas of astrophysics. In particular, he focused on dark matter and dark energy, galaxy formation and black hole growth, interaction of quasars with their surroundings and warm- Hot Intergalactic Medium. Next he dealt with the structure and oscillations of rotating stars, the dynamics of galaxy clusters, stability of galaxies, evolution of globular clusters and other clusters, pulsars, X-ray binaries, gravitational lensing, active galactic nuclei, astrophysical shock waves, large-scale structure of the galaxy distribution.
With P. Bode 2003, he developed the TPM code ( Tree Particle Mesh code) for cosmological simulations.
He is author and co- author of over 500 publications (2012 ). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1970 to 1972 he was a Sloan Fellow.
Awards
- Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society ( AAS) (1972 )
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the AAS (1980 )
- Karl Schwarzschild Medal ( 1999)
- National Medal of Science by U.S. President Bill Clinton ( 2000)
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2004)
- James Craig Watson Medal ( 2012)
Publications
- New Light on Dark Matter, Science, 300, pp 1909-1914 (2003)
- The Probability Distribution Function of Light in the Universe: Results from Hydrodynamic Simulations, The Astrophysical Journal 597, 1 (2003)
- Cosmic Mach Number as a Function of Density Over and Galaxy Age, Astrophysical Journal, 553, 513 (2001)
- Collisional Dark Matter and the Origin of Massive Black Holes, Physical Review Letters, 84, 5258-5260 ( 2000).
- Hydrodynamics of Accretion ontological Black Holes, Adv Space Res, 7, 951-960 (1998).