Yakiv Pavlenko
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2014: State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology
2016: Basic Science Book Award of the International Academy of Astronautics
Yakiv Volodymyrovych Pavlenko | |
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Павленко Яків Володимирович | |
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| Born | 24 January 1954 Makalevichi, Ukraine |
| Died | 19 October 2024 (aged 70) Ukraine |
| Alma mater | Kyiv University |
| Awards | 2009: Prize after Barabashov of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 2014: State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology 2016: Basic Science Book Award of the International Academy of Astronautics |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astrophysics, astronomy |
| Institutions | MAO NASU |
| Thesis | Formation of lithium lines in atmosheres of late-type stars without LTE (1996) |
| Website | mao |
Yakiv Volodymyrovych Pavlenko (24 January 1954 – 19 October 2024) was a Ukrainian astronomer and astrophysicist, who researched low-mass stars and exocomets.
He was born in 1954 in Makalevychi village, Zhytomyr region, Ukraine.[1] Pavlenko graduated from Kyiv University in 1976 with a Master's degree in Astronomy and Physics.[2] He was a student of Mykola Avenirovych Yakovkin, a son of Avenir Aleksandrovich Yakovkin.[3]
Pavlenko was an Aspirant at Tartu Observatory (Estonia) in 1979–1982, where he received a Candidate of Sciences degree in Astrophysics and Radioastronomy in 1984.[4][5] He received a Doctor of Science degree in Astrophysics and Radioastronomy at MAO NASU in 1996.[1]
Career and research
Pavlenko worked at the Main Astronomy Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (MAO NASU) from 1983.[citation needed] From 1994, he was a Senior Research Fellow.[1] From 2017, Pavlenko headed the Department of Physics of Substellar and Planetary Systems of MAO NASU.[6] In 2023, Pavlenko become Chief Research Fellow at the Department of Physics of Substellar and Planetary Systems of MAO NASU.[7]
Beginning in 1989, Pavlenko collaborated with the research group on Exoplanets and Astrobiology of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC).[8][9]
In January 2020, Mario Damasso and colleagues published a paper[10] on the discovery of Proxima Centauri c, the second exoplanet near Proxima Centauri.[11] To exclude fluctuations in spectrum resulted of red dwarf flare activity, Damasso used research work[12] by Pavlenko and others at IAC on analysing spectrography data of HARPS mission.[13][14][15]
In 2022, a paper with the results of exocomets research and discovery of 5 new exocomets,[16] written by Pavlenko together with others at MAO NASU, was published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.[17][18] In autumn of that year, he visited IAC to model the atmospheres of brown dwarf and exoplanets objects.[9][19]
In addition to his research work, Pavlenko was a lecturer[20] and examiner,[21] and was one of editors of the journal Kinematics and Physics of Celestial Bodies.[22][23][24] From 2023, he was an expert adviser to the Science at Risk! project,[25] a Ukrainian digital platform that disseminates information on the effects of war on scientific research in Ukraine.[26]
Personal life
Pavlenko's wife, Larysa Yakovina, has a PhD in astrophysics; they have a daughter.[1]
Yakiv Pavlenko died on 19 October 2024, at the age of 70. Yaroslav Yatskiv published an obituary on the MAO NASU site.[27]
Awards
- Barabashov prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2009)[28][29]
- State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (2014)[30][31]
- Basic Science Book Award of the International Academy of Astronautics (2016),[32][33] for the "Dark energy and dark matter in the Universe : in three volumes" (2013–2015) book series[34] (Vol 2[35] co-authored by Yakiv and Olena Pavlenko).[36][37]
