Dr. Leonid Piliugin (Pilyugin)

Dr. Leonid Piliugin (Pilyugin)

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Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy (ITPA)

Structure and (chemical) evolution of galaxies

researcher professor

galaxies spiral and irregular interstellar matter chemical composition determination relations between characteristics of galaxies peculiar galaxies

ORCID 0000-0001-7133-9210

• Pilyugin L.S., 1994, The chemical evolution of irregular galaxies with mass loss. Astronomy and Astrophysics, v. 287, p. 387.

• Pilyugin L.S., 2000, On the oxygen abundance determination in HII regions: The problem of the line intensities - oxygen abundance calibration.
  Astronomy and Astrophysics, v. 362, p. 325.

• Pilyugin L.S., Vilchez J.M., Contini, T., 2004, Oxygen and nitrogen abundances in nearby galaxies. Correlations between oxygen abundance and macroscopic properties.
  Astronomy and Astrophysics, v. 425, p. 849-871.

• Pilyugin L.S., Thuan T.X., 2005, Oxygen abundance determination in HII regions: The strong line intensities - abundance calibration revisited.
  Astrophysical Journal, v. 631, p. 231

• Pilyugin L.S., 2013, Ionized gas in galaxies: physical conditions and chemical composition. Kyiv, Naukova dumka, 288 p., ISBN 978-966-00-1267-7 (monograph in russian)

• Pilyugin L.S., Grebel E.K., Zinchenko I.A., Kniazev A.Y., 2014,
  The Abundance Properties of Nearby Late-Type Galaxies.
  The Relation between Abundance Distributions and Surface Brightness Profiles Astronomical Journal, v.148, p. 134 - 158.

• Pilyugin L.S., Grebel E.K., 2016,
  New calibrations for abundance determinations in HII regions, Monthly Notices of Royal Astronomical Society, v.457, p. 3678 - 3692.

• Pilyugin L.S., Grebel E.K., Zinchenko IA., Nefedyev Y.A., Vilchez J.M., 2019, Relations between abundance characteristics and rotation velocity for star-forming MaNGA galaxies Astronomy and Astrophysics, v. 623, A122, pp. 1 - 28

• Pilyugin L.S., Grebel E.K., Zinchenko I.A., Lara-Lopez M.A., Nefedyev Y.A., Shulga V.M., 2020, Circumnuclear regions of different BPT types in star-forming MaNGA galaxies: AGN detectability Astronomy and Astrophysics, v. 639, A96, pp. 1 - 17

Supervision of three aspirants (Main Astronomical Observatory of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, MAO NANU) each of them is awarded by the PhD degree

Participation in the national/international governing bodies, commissions, committees, boards etc.

• editor-in-chief of the journal “Kinematics and Physics of Celestial Bodies”
• member of the editorial board of the journal "Advances in Astronomy and Space Physics"
• member of the editorial board of the journal "Odessa Astronomical Publications"

member of the Specialized Academic Council D26.208.01 at MAO NASU

• Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (2014),
• Honor of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of Ukraine “For professional successes” (2008),
• Honor of the NAS of Ukraine “For education of the next scientific generation” (2019)