Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard

Personal data:

     Name: Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard
    Title: Professor 
	   Head, Danish AsteroSeismology Centre

    Email: 
      Fax: +45 8612 0740
    Phone: +45 871 55604
Secretary: +45 871 55605

  Private: +45 86 27 58 21
  Address: P. S. Krøyers Vej 14
	   DK-8270 Højbjerg
	   Denmark

     Born: Oct. 6, 1950
   Spouse: Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard
 Children: Karen Christensen-Dalsgaard
           Signe Christensen-Dalsgaard
 Grandchildren: Clara, born 10/5/06.
                Anna, born 6/11/08.
		Liv, born 7/1/12

Research

Much of this activity is organized in the Danish AsteroSeismology Centre (DASC). This in part serves to prepare our participation in the asteroseismic analysis of data from the NASA Kepler satellite, with planned launch in 2008.

A major activity has been to serve as scientific leader of the MONS project (for Measuring Oscillations in Nearby Stars) on the planned Danish satellite Rømer. This page gives information about the project. Unfortunately, the funding of the Danish Small Satellite Programme has been terminated, thus blocking for the completion of the project.

Teaching

Pages relevant to ongoing or recent courses

• Advanced Stellar Evolution, Spring 2005
• Astrofysik, Autumn 2004

Research students

• Motee Phorah (PhD, with University of Morth-West, Mmabatho, and University of Cape Town, South Africa). Project: oscillations in stellar atmospheres.
• Niels Høck Andersen (MSc). Project: computation of frequencies of delta Scuti stars.
• Hans Staugaard Nielsen (MSc). Project: modelling of stars and stellar pulsations.
• Tine Bjørn Nielsen (MSc). Project: stellar modelling, to fit oberved colour-magnitude diagrams and eclipsing binaries.

Some former students:

• Regner Trampedach (MSc). Projects:
  • Equation of state for stellar models.
  • Hydrodynamical simulations of stellar convection.
  Now postdoc in Canberra, Australia.

• Rasmus Munk Larsen (PhD, Department of Computer Science). Project: Efficient parallel algorithms for helioseismic inversion.
  Now postdoc in Stanford, California
• Thomas Pedersen (MSc). Project: inversion for turbulent diffusion coefficient in the Sun.

• Lars Peter Rasmussen (MSc). Project: Simulation of MDI response to solar oscillations.

• Jesper Munk Jensen (PhD, with Department of Geophysics). Project: time-distance helioseismology. Now postdoc in Lund, Sweden.

• Thebe Medupe (PhD, with University of Cape Town). Project: oscillations in stellar atmospheres. Now at South African Astronomical Observatory, and University of Cape Town.

Some potentially interesting material:

Aarhus Adiabatic Pulsation Package. Programmes for computing adiabatic stellar oscillations, with fairly extensive documentation.

Reference solar model. This is Model S of Christensen-Dalsgaard et al. (1996) which has been used fairly extensively as reference in helioseismic inversion.

Non-technical description of helio- and asteroseismologi (in English).

Populær beskrivelse af helio- og asteroseismologi (på dansk).

Home page for the Astronomy Group, Aarhus University.

Beskrivelse af danske videnskabelige og tekniske aktiviteter i forbindelse med rumforskning.

Extensive set of references in TeX format, for download.