The Faculty of Physics

Kaydash Vadym Grigorijevich

    Associated professor of Department of Astronomy and Space Informatics of Kharkiv V. N. Karazin National University;

    Phone: +38 (057) 707-54-70;
    Address: Svobody sq. 4, 2-7, Kharkiv, 61077.
    E-mail: vkaydash@astron.kharkov.ua

   He graduated from the Physics Department of the Kharkov А.M. Gorky State University in astronomy in 1993. After graduation, he attended graduate school of Kharkov National University in 1994-1997. In 1997 he began working at the Kharkov State University as an engineer. After defending his doctoral dissertation in 1999, he was appointed a junior research fellow of the Research Institute of Astronomy. Since 2012 he worked as head of the Department of remote sensing of planets of Institute of Astronomy, and in 2014 was elected to the position of Director of the Institute of Astronomy. Since 2014 ? Associate Professor of the Department of Astronomy and Space Informatics.
He had defended his PhD thesis «Prediction of the Chemical Content and Zoning of the Lunar Nearside Surface by Optical Measurements Data» in 1997. Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Bioastronomy and Division F Commission 15 “Physical Study of Comets and Minor Planets” of International Astronomical Union since 2012. Laureate of the Basic sciences book award of International Academy of Astronautics, 2010. Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (2011). He has 140 scientific publications in leading national and foreign professional journals.
   Field of research – spectrophotometry and polarimetry of atmosphereless space bodies.
   The lectures courses: «Informatics and Programming», «Mathematical modelling».

   Main scientific publications:

1. Zubko E., Videen G., Shkuratov Y., Hines D. C., Kaydash V., Muinonen K., Knight M. M., Sitko M. L., Lisse C. M., Mutchler M., Wooden D. H., Li J.-Y., Kobayashi H. Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) coma composition at ~4 au from HST observations. Planetary and Space Science. 2015, V. 118, P. 138–163.
2. Kaydash V., Shkuratov Y., Wolff M., Videen G. Terrestrial planets. In: Polarimetry of Stars and Planetary Systems / Eds.: L. Kolokolova, J. Hough, and A.-C. Levasseur-Regourd. Cambridge University Press. United Kingdom 2015. 289-302.
3. V. G. Kaydash and Yu. G. Shkuratov, Structural Disturbances of the Lunar Surface near the Lunokhod-1 Spacecraft Landing Site. Solar System Research, 2014, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 167–175.
4. V. Kaydash, Yu. Shkuratov, G. Videen. Dark halos and rays of young lunar craters: a new insight into interpretation. Icarus, 231 (2014) 22–33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2013.11.025.
5. V. Kaydash, Y. Shkuratov, G. Videen, landing of the probes Luna 23 and Luna 24 remains an enigma, Planetary and Space Science, 2013, Volume 89, Pages 172–182
6. Kaydash, V., C. Pieters, Y. Shkuratov, and V. Korokhin (2013), Lunar opposition effect as inferred from Chandrayaan-1 M3 data, J. Geophys. Res. Planets, 118, 1-12, doi:10.1002/jgre.20098.
7. Yu. Shkuratov, V. Kaydash, X. Sysolyatina, A. Razim, G. Videen. Lunar Surface Traces of Engine Jets of Soviet Sample Return Probes: The Enigma of the Luna-23 and Luna-24 Landing Sites, Planet. Space Sc., 75 (2013) 28–36
8. Kaydash V, Shkuratov Y, Zhang H. Phase-ratio imagery of the Moon: Vallis Schroteri (in Chinese). Sci Sin-Phys Mech Astron, 2012, 42: 1–7, doi: 10.1360/132012-375
9. Y. Shkuratov, V. Kaydash, G. Videen. The lunar crater Giordano Bruno as seen with optical roughness imagery. Icarus (2012), doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2011.12.023.
10. V. Kaydash, Yu. Shkuratov. Structural Disturbances of the Lunar Surface Caused by Spacecraft. Solar System Research (2012), Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 108–118.
11. V. Kaydash, Y. Shkuratov, V. Korokhin, G. Videen. Photometric Anomalies in the Apollo Landing Sites as Seen from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Icarus, 211 (2011) 89–96.
12. Y. Shkuratov, V. Kaydash, V. Korokhin, Y. Velikodsky, N. Opanasenko, G. Videen. Optical measurements of the Moon as a tool to study its surface. Planetary and Space Science (2011), V. 59, 13, pp. 1326-1371.
13. Kaydash, V., Kreslavsky, M., Shkuratov, Yu., Gerasimenko, S., Pinet, P., Josset, J.-L., Beauvivre, S., Foing, B., and AMIE SMART-1 Team. Photometric anomalies of the lunar surface studied with SMART-1 AMIE data. Icarus (2009), 202, 2, pp. 393-413..
14. V. Kaydash, M. Kreslavsky, Yu. Shkuratov, G. Videen, J.F. Bell III, M. Wolff, Measurements of winds on Mars with Hubble Space Telescope images in 2003 opposition, Icarus (2006), Volume 185 (1), 97-101.