Interests and Research#
The main research interests of Prof. Charmandaris are in the area of observational extragalactic astrophysics. Over the past 30 years he has been using observations mainly with infrared and millimeter telescopes in order to probe the properties of the dust, molecular gas depletion, and star formation in interacting galaxies and starbursts, as well as galactic nuclei hosting super-massive black holes.
He was a member and have been closely collaborating over the years, with the team at CEA/Saclay (France) which built ISO/CAM, the camera on board the Infrared Space Observatory, launched by ESA in 1995 as well as with the team at Cornell University, which built the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) of Spitzer Space Telescope, launched by NASA in 2003. Upon his return to Greece, he joined a number of large Spitzer and Herschel Space Telescope observing programs, including GOALS and Herschel-GOODS and he established an active group in observational infrared extragalactic astrophysics, addressing outstanding problems in the following two areas:
- Developing mid-IR diagnostics, which enable us to detect and quantify the contribution of supermassive black holes to the energy of local and distant infrared luminous galaxies.
- Studying the global properties of local Luminous Infrared Galaxies (LIRGs) and how these are related to the high-z dust enshrouded galaxies that have been discovered by deep surveys and are responsible for the bulk of the luminosity production of the Universe.
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