ASTROPHYSICS
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Major Graduate Level Research Activities

• Pregalactic-Primordial low-mass stars.
• Evolution of rotating stars and of binary stars, solar evolution.
• Wolf-Rayet star models, stellar oscillations.
• Age determination of certain clusters.
• Close binary stars.
• X and gamma ray astronomy.
• Neutron star dynamics and pulsars.
• Quasiperiodic oscillations from low-mass x-ray binaries.
• Observational astronomy.

Group Members and Field of Interest

Selcuk Bayin

Non-singular cosmological models. Constructing a physical model for the dimensional reduction in the early universe and studying the effects on the observable parameters of the universe. Black-hole thermodynamics and its extention to other geometries.

Altan Baykal

Pulsar timing noise, compact objects.

Halil Kirbiyik

Stellar pulsations, rotating stars.

Nilgun Kiziloglu

Structure and evolution of stars

Umit Kiziloglu

Close binary stars. x/gamma-ray astronomy, compact objects.

Rikkat Civelek

Evolution of stars.

Akif Esendemir

Close binary systems.

Solen Balman

X/Gamma-ray astronomy, compact objects, NOVA and shells.

Murat Alev

Close binary systems.

Sinan Kaan Yerli

Binary stars: observation, evolution; Observational astronomy; Amateur astronomy

Graduate Students

Çagdaş İnam, PhD

 

Aybüke Küpçü, PhD

 

Özgür Taşkın, PhD

 

Efe Yazgan, PhD

 

Elif Beklen, MSc

 

Arif Emre Erkoca, MSc

 

Nesibe Ozel, MSc

 

Mehmet Burhan, MSc