IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Member of Commission G1 Binary and Multiple Star Systems
• Member of Commission G2 Massive Stars
• Member of Inter-Division G-H-J Commission Stellar Clusters

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 26 Double & Multiple Stars (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 37 Star Clusters & Associations (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 41 History of Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 45 Stellar Classification (until 2015)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.11 - Standards
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.17 - Lines
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.8 - Space instruments, 3.9 - Techniques, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.2 - Atlases, 4.3 - Catalogs, 4.4 - Surveys
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.6 - Parallaxes, 5.7 - Proper motions
8 - Stars: 8.4 - Stars: binaries, 8.9 - Stars: distances, 8.12 - Stars: fundamental parameters, 8.36 - Stars: supergiants, 8.40- Stars: Wolf-Rayet
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.4 - ISM: clouds, 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.9 - ISM: HII regions, 9.12 - ISM: kinematics and dynamics, 9.13 - ISM: lines and bands
10 - The Galaxy: 10.12 - Galaxy: local insterstellar matter, 10.13 - Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics, 10.15 - Galaxy: open clusters and associations, 10.16 - Galaxy: solar neighborhood