Welcome to Dr. Alon Retter's web site
Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park,
Pennsylvania
16802, USA
Office: 514 Davey Lab
Phone: +1-814-863-9553
Fax: +1-814-863-3399
Email: retter@astro.psu.edu
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Since 2004 April I have been a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Pennsylvania State University (USA). Previously I was a post-doctoral researcher in the Institute of Astronomy of the Physics Department at the University of Sydney (Australia), and in the Astrophysics group at the Keele University (UK). I have a PhD in Astronomy from the Astronomy and Astrophysics Department at the Tel Aviv University (Israel), a Masters in General Relativity and B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Israel).
I am a member of the NASA Swift gamma-ray burst Team and regularly serve as a Burst Advocate specialist. This telescope is dedicated to the detection of gamma-ray bursts with follow-up observations in X-ray, optical and ultraviolet bands.
Research interests:
| Gamma ray bursts I (please click) |
Gamma ray bursts II (neutron stars merger) |
 Nova outbursts I |
Nova outbursts II (please click) |
| Exo-solar planets I (please click) |
 Exo-solar planets II |
 Collimated Jets |
 Stellar pulsations |
 Accretion disks |
 Interacting binaries |
Press release (BBC article): V838 Mon - the star that swallowed planets
Further details can be found in my Vitae.
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 HEASARC |
 HET |
 CBA |
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 Ritter & Kolb Catalogue |
Pictures of my family and me:
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 Shaked |
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