IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division A Fundamental Astronomy
• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Commission A1 Astrometry
• Member of Commission B2 Data and Documentation
• Member of Commission F4 Asteroids, Comets & Transneptunian Objects
• Member of Cross-Division A-F Commission Solar System Ephemerides

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Inter-Division A-F WG Near Earth Objects (until 2021)
• Past Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 30 Radial Velocities (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division IX Optical & Infrared Techniques (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.1 - Editorials notices, 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.4 - Miscellaneous, 1.5 - Publications, bibliography, 1.11 - Standards
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.26 - Polarization
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.1 - Atmospheric effects, 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.5 - Methods, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.2 - Atlases, 4.3 - Catalogs, 4.4 - Surveys, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.2 - Celestial mechanics, 5.4 - Ephemerides, 5.8 - Reference systems, 5.9 - Time
6 - The Sun: 6.2 - Sun: activity, 6.7 - Sun: evolution, 6.11 - Sun: fundamental parameters, 6.12 - Sun: general, 6.21 - Sun: photosphere
7 - Planetary systems: 7.3 - Comets, 7.4 - Oort Cloud, 7.6 - Kuiper belt, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids, 7.9 - Near Earth Objects
8 - Stars: 8.6 - Stars: brown dwarfs, 8.13 - Stars: general, 8.34 - Stars: solar-type
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.14 - ISM: magnetic fields
10 - The Galaxy: 10.7 - Galaxy: fundamental parameters, 10.12 - Galaxy: local insterstellar matter, 10.16 - Galaxy: solar neighborhood, 10.18 - Galaxy: structure
11 - Galaxies: 11.14 - Galaxies: high-redshift
12 - Cosmology: 12.2 - Cosmology: cosmological parameters, 12.4 - Cosmology: observations, 12.6 - Cosmology: dark matter, 12.7 - Cosmology: dark energy, 12.12 - Cosmology: inflation