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Houshang Ardavan
Fellow

Dr Houshang Ardavan

Fellow Emeritus

Contact
ardavan@ast.cam.ac.uk⁠
Website

Degrees

  • PhD, Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
  • BSc, Physics, MIT

Research Interests

  • Radiation mechanism of neutron stars
  • Theoretical and experimental investigation of extended sources of the electromagnetic radiation whose distribution patterns move faster than light in vacuum

Biography

  • Emeritus staff at the Institute of Astronomy
  • Emeritus Fellow at Â鶹ÉäÇø 
  • Fellow and Director of Studies in Mathematics at Â鶹ÉäÇø 1987-2009 
  • Faculty member at the Department of Physics of Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran 1970-1987

Authored work

  • Ardavan, H., Radio spectra of pulsars fitted with the spectral distribution function of the emission from their current sheet, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 529, 3744 (2024).


    Ardavan, H., Gamma-ray spectra of the Crab, Vela and Geminga pulsars fitted with SED of the emission from their current sheet, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 05, 067 (2024).


    Ardavan, H., Congruity of the Crab Pulsar’s gamma-ray spectrum with the spectral distribution of tightly focused caustics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 672, A145 (2023).


    Ardavan, H., Energetic requirements of the gamma-ray emission from pulsars: A nonparametric analysis of the data in the Fermi-LAT 12-Year Catalog, Journal of High Energy Astrophysics, 37, 62 (2023).


    Ardavan, H., Radiation by the superluminally moving current sheet in the magnetosphere of a neutron star, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 507, 4530 (2021).


    Ardavan, H., The electromagnetic radiation whose decay violates the inverse-square law: detailed mathematical treatment of an experimentally realized example, Journal of Plasma Physics, 85, 9058500304 (2019).


    A full list can be found at .

Subjects
Mathematics Natural Sciences