UKRAINIAN
Prof. Leonid O. AkimovLeading research scientist of Department of Solar, Lunar and Planetary Physics
of Astronomical Institute of Kharkiv V.N. Karazin National University, 35 Sumskaya St., Kharkov, 61022, Ukraine
tel. +38 (057) 707-5064
e-mail: akimov@astron.kharkov.ua
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January 28, 2013
Prof. Leonid O. Akimov
Date of Birth: November 8, 1937.
Place of Birth: Kaprizka Orlovsky region, Russia.
Marital status: Married.
Academic degrees:
- Doctor, Physics and Mathematics Sci. Octob. 1989, Main Astronomical Observatory of Ukrainian National Academy of Science, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- M. Sci., Astronomer, June 1960, Kharkov State University, USSR.
Employment:
- Leading research scientist of Astronomical Institute of Kharkov University, 2001-presens.
- Head of Department of Solar, Lunar and planetary physics of Astronomical Observatory of Kharkov National University, 1978-2000.
- Senior research scientist of Astronomical observatory of Kharkov State University, 1963- 1978.
- Graduate student of the astronomical faculty, 1960-1963.
- Student of the Physics Department (Astronomy) of Kharkov State University, 1955-1960.
Scientific Work:
- Photometric and polarimetric study of the Moon, planets and asteroids (1960-2011).
- The indicatometric investigation of terrestrial samples and the lunar soil. (1962-1986).
- The study of the photosphere and the chromosphere of the Sun. (1968-2013).
- The study of the day astroclimate (1998-2004).
- Observations of solar activity (1965-2013).
- Observations of total solar eclipses.(1968, 1972, 1981, 1990, 2006).
- Statistical studies of series of solar activity indices (2000-2012)
Area of Expertise:
- Investigation of the Sun and Solar System bodies.
- Advisor of PhDs.
Academic and professional honors and awards
- The academician N.P. Barabashov prize laureate.
Selected peer-reviewed papers:
- Akimov L.A. (1988) Light scattering of the Moon. I Kinematika i fisika nebesnykh tel. 1988 v.4, No 1, p. 3-10.
- Akimov L.A. (1988) Light scattering of the Moon. II Kinematika i fisika nebesnykh tel. 1988 v.4, No 2, p. 10-16.
- V.V.Korokhin, L.A.Akimov (1994) Mapping of the phase dependence of lunar surface brightness: reduction of the observations to standard conditions, construction of the equigonal albedo maps. Kinematika Fizika Nebeshykh Tel, 1994, v. 10, No 2, p. 56-64 (in Russian).
- V.V.Korokhin, L.A.Akimov (1997-1) Mapping of the phase parameters of the lunar surface brightness. Astronomicheskii Vestnic, 1997, v. 31, No 2, p. 143-152 [Solar System Research (Engl. transl.), 1997, v. 31, No 2, p. 128-136]
- Akimov L.A., Velikodsky Yu.I., Korokhin V.V. (1999) Dependence of Lunar Highlands Brightness on Photometric Latitude. Kinematika i fisika nebesnykh tel. 1999. v. 15, No 4. p. 304-309 (in Russian).
- Akimov L.A., Velikodsky Yu.I., and Korokhin V.V. (2000) Dependence of Latitude Brightness Distribution Over the Lunar Disk on Albedo and Relief. Kinematika i fisika nebesnykh tel. -2000. v. 16, No 2. p. 181-187 (in Russian).
- Starodubtseva O.M., Akimov L.A., Korokhin V.V. Seasonal variation of the North-South asymmetry of polarized light of Jupiter. Icarus. 2002. v. 157, No2, p. 419-425.
- Akimov, L. A.; Belkina, I. L.; Bushueva, T. P.(2003) Investigation of X-ray and optical solar flare activities during solar cycles 22 and 23 Kinematika i Fizika Nebesnykh Tel, vol. 19, no. 1, p. 3-12.
- Akimov, L. A.; Belkina, I. L.; et al (2008) Quasi-synchronism of bursts in solar coronal structures in the Mg XII 0.84-nm line from CORONAS-F/SPIRIT experimental data Astronomy Letters, Volume 34, Issue 12, pp.851-862.
- Yu.
I. Velikodsky, N. V. Opanasenko, L. A. Akimov, V. V. Korokhin, Yu. G.
Shkuratov, V. G. Kaydash, G. Videen, C. Pieters, Sh. A. Ehgamberdiev,
N. E. Berdalieva. New earth-based absolute photometry of the Moon // Icarus. -2011. v.214, Issue 1, p. 30-45 (doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2011.04.021).
- Akimov, L. A.; Belkina, I. L (2012) Rieger quasi-periodicity in solar indices Solar System Research, Volume 46, Issue 3, pp.243-252.