Nami Mowlavi

Dr Nami Mowlavi

Specific Object Studies

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obtained his PhD in 1995 at the French University of Brussels, Belgium, on the structural and chemical evolution of Asymptotic Giant Branch stars. He continued his research as a postdoc in the Stellar Evolution group at the Geneva Observatory until 1999. At that time, he joined the High Energy Astrophysics team of the Observatory at the ISDC in the preparation of the INTEGRAL mission. He was responsible to set up and coordinate the real time operations at the ISDC. In 2007, he joined the Gaia team for the preparation of the analysis of variable stars.

Current Activities

Nami is coordinating the analysis of specific variable objects within the Gaia Coordination Unit 7 on Variability Processing and Analysis.

Research Interests

Nami’s initial interests have been the structural and chemical evolution of stars, particularly of low- and intermediate-mass stars, and the modeling of those stars. His interest has broadened to include the analysis of stellar variability, and in particular of objects whose variability results from their secular evolution, allowing us to witness their evolution in real time. He is also interested in stellar populations and Galactic structure, in the reduction of astronomical images, and in the analysis of time series.

People

Publications

All refereed publications on ADS
- Selected publications covering different fields of studies:
  - Mowlavi, Kreykenbohm, Shaw et al. 2006, A&A 451, 187 “INTEGRAL observation of the high-mass X-ray transient V 0332+53 during the 2005 outburst decline”
  - Mowlavi, Knödlseder, Meynet et al. 2005, NuPhA 758, 320 “²⁶Al production in gamma2 Velorum”
  - Mowlavi, Meynet 2000, A&A 361, 959 “Aluminum 26 production in asymptotic giant branch stars”
  - Mowlavi 1999, A&A 350, 73 “Sodium production in asymptotic giant branch stars”
  - Mowlavi 1999, A&A 344, 617 “On the third dredge-up phenomenon in asymptotic giant branch stars”
  - Mowlavi 1998, A&A 335, 573 “On some properties of very metal-rich stars”
  - Mowlavi, Jorissen, Arnould 1998, A&A 334, 153 “Correlated nucleosynthesis of ?uorine and s-process elements in asymptotic giant branch stars”
  - Jorissen, Mowlavi, Sterken, Manfroid 1997, A&A 324, 578 “The onset of photometric variability in red giant stars.”
  - Mowlavi 1997, NewAstrRev 43, 389 (Invited review) “Stellar Evolution in Real Time: Single Star Evolution.”
All publications on ADS