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CURRICULUM VITAE

Noah Brosch

March 23, 2009

1 Personal information

• Name: Noah Brosch, PhD, Id. card No. 068692060.

• Faculty of Exact Sciences, School of Physics and Astronomy Phones [972]-3-640-7413, Fax [972]-3-640-8179.

• Home Address: 6, Olesh Matsui St., Nataniya 42201 Phone numbers [972]-9-885-6689/6690 (home), [972]-54-752-912 (mo- bile).

• Date and place of birth: Jan. 27, 1948, Romania.

• Date of arrival in Israel: 1963.

• Zahal military service: 31.8.1966 - 10.11.1971. ID number 987945.

• Nationality: Israeli.

• Familial status: Married, with two daughters.

1.1 Education 1971-1974 Tel Aviv University Physics BSc, 1975 1974-1976 Tel Aviv University Physics MSc, 1977 1976-1980 Tel Aviv University Astronomy — 1980-1983 University of Leiden Astronomy PhD, 1983 The Netherlands

MSc thesis: The spectrum of the Be star MWC342 in 1974-1975 Supervisor: Prof. E. M. Leibowitz, Tel Aviv University

1 PhD thesis: Galaxies in low density regions of the Universe Supervisors:

• Prof. Dr. J. Mayo Greenberg, University of Leiden

• Prof. Dr. W. W. Shane, University of Nijmegen

1.2 Academic and Professional Experience Period Institution Department Rank 1974-1976 Tel Aviv Municipality Popular University Lecturer 1974-1976 Tel Aviv University Physics and Astron. Teaching Assistant 1976-1979 Museum Haaretz Lasky Planetarium Director 1980-1983 University of Leiden Lab. Astrophys. Research Assistant 1982-1992 Tel Aviv University Wise Observatory Technical Director 1987-1988 Tel Aviv University Physics and Astron. Research Associate 1988-1999 Tel Aviv University Physics and Astron. Senior Research Associate 1990- Tel Aviv University Physics and Astron. TAUVEX Principal Investigator 1997-1998 STScI RPO Sabbatical Visitor 1999- Tel Aviv University Physics and Astron. Principal Research Associate 2000-2006 Tel Aviv University Wise Observatory Director 2006 Cornell University Astronomy Department Sabbatical visitor 2007 South Africa Astronomical Observatory Sabbatical visitor 2007 Istituto Nazionale de Astroﬁsica Catania Sabbatical visitor 2007 Michigan Technological University Sabbatical visitor 2007– Tel Aviv University Wise Observatory Director

1.3 Visiting Astronomer at the following institutions: • Kitt Peak National Observatory, U.S.A.

• European Southern Observatory, Chile and Garching

• Westerbork Radio Synthesis Telescope, The Netherlands

• Villafranca Satellite Tracking Station, Spain (IUE)

• Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, England (Senior Research Fellow)

• Dr. Remeis Sternwarte, Bamberg, F. R. Germany

• Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico, U.S.A.

2 • Very Large Array, Socorro NM, U.S.A.

• Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sci- ences, Zelenchuskaya, Russia.

• Korean Astronomical Observatory

• Southern Africa Large Telescope, SA

3 1.4 Editorial boards, committees, etc. Highlights are membership in a number of international committees working under the International Astronomical Union, and on one National Com- mittee. A specially-interesting activity was the organization of the Israeli campaign to observe the Leonid meteor shower in 1999, which included close cooperation with NASA and the US Air Force in bringing to Israel a number of NASA observation aircraft that operated in conjunction with military radars. An itemized list follows:

• 1993–1997 Israel Educational Television, Scientiﬁc advisor

• 1993– Scientiﬁc advisor for MABAT (Science in a Technological Soci- ety) program for astronomy teaching in elementary schools

• 1995–1997 Member of Editorial Board of “BIAF–Israel Aviation and Space Magazine”.

• 1995–1996 Member of the Scientiﬁc Organizing Committee of IAU Symposium 179, Baltimore (USA).

• 1996 Research proposal evaluator for the Ministry of Science.

• 1997– Member, Commission E (Radio Astronomy), Israel National Committee for Radio Sciences of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Union of Radio Science Institutions.

• 1997 Research proposal evaluator for the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation.

• 1997–2000 Chairman, Working Group on Sky Surveys, Commission 9 of the International Astronomical Union.

• 1997–2000 Member, Organizing Committee, Division X of the IAU (High Energy and Space Astrophysics).

• 1997–1999 Member, Astronomy collaboration, European-Mediterranean (EuroMed) Forum.

• 1997–1998 Member of the Scientiﬁc Organizing Committee of IAU’s Colloquium 171, Cardiﬀ, UK.

• 1998, 2005, 2006 Research proposal evaluator for INTAS.

4 • 1999-2000 Member, Scientiﬁc Organizing Committee, meeting on “New Era of Wide-Field Astronomy” (Preston, UK; August 2000).

• 1999 Israel National Coordinator for observing the Leonid meteor shower (cooperation with the Israel Space Agency)

• 1999-2000 Member, Organizing Committee, international workshop on “The Leonid Multi-aircraft Campaign” (Tel Aviv, Israel; April 2000).

• 2000– Member, Scientiﬁc Organizing Committee, Working Group on Sky Surveys, Commission 9 of the International Astronomical Union.

• 2000–2003 Member, Scientiﬁc Organizing Committee, IAU Commis- sion 9 (Instrumentation).

• 2000-2003 Member, INTAS Council of Scientists.

• 2000, Co-Editor of the proceedings of the Leonid MAC Workshop, special issue of the Earth, Moon, and Planets journal.

• 2001–, Member of the Implementation Committee, the World Space Observatory spacecraft. In charge of the design of the imaging focal plane until 2005.

• 2001–2004, Advisor to the National Tourism Company for the scientiﬁc content of a popular astronomical observatory in Mizpe Ramon

• 2003–, Member, organizing committee of IAU Division XI/Comission 44

• 2005–, Member, steering committee of the ALFALFA Sky Survey

• 2005– Research proposal evaluator for Bologna University, Italy

• 2006– Member, steering committee of the Network for Ultraviolet As- tronomy (NUVA)

• 2006–2007 co-Chair, Scientiﬁc Organizing Committee ”The UV Uni- verse” conference in El Escorial, Spain (to take place in May 2007)

• 2006– Research proposal evaluator for the Georgian Academy of Sci- ences

5 1.5 Participation in Scientiﬁc Meetings and Workshops Year Meeting 1977 XX COSPAR Meeting, Tel Aviv, Israel. 1978 NATO Advanced Study Institute on Digital Image Processing, Bonas, France. 1979 International Workshop on Digital Image Processing of Astronomical Objects, Trieste, Italy. 1981 First UKIRT Symposium, Edinburgh, Scotland. 1981 “Chemical Evolution and Exobiology”, Council of Europe meeting, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 1981 XVI Young European Radio Astronomers’Conference, Bad Honnef, F.R.Germany. 1982 IAU Symposium 104, “Early Evolution of the Universe and its Present Structure”, Crete, Greece. 1984 “X-ray and UV Emission of Active Galactic Nuclei”, Garching, F.R.Germany. 1984 12-th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Jerusalem Israel. 1985 “Cosmical Gas Dynamics”, Manchester, England. 1987 “Dust in the Universe”, Manchester, England. 1988 “Large Scale Structure of the Universe”, Trieste, Italy. 1989 “Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation” - IAU Symposium 139 , Heidelberg, F.R. Germany. 1990 “Observatories in Earth Orbit and Beyond” - IAU Colloquium 123, Goddard Space Flight Center, U.S.A. 1992 American Astronomical Society 179th meeting, Atlanta, USA 1992 World Space Congress and COSPAR, Washington, USA 1993 International Workshop on “Galaxy clusters and large scale structures in the Universe”, Bolzano, Italy 1993 “Hot Stars in the Halo”, Schenectady, USA. 1994 NATO Advanced Study Institute on “The Cosmic Dust Connection” Ettore Majorana Center, Italy. 1994 IAU General Assembly, the Hague, Holland. 1994 IAU Symposium 164 “Stellar Populations”, the Hague, Holland. 1994 IAU Symposium 168 “Examining the Big Bang and Diﬀuse Background Radiation”, the Hague, Holland.

6 Year Meeting 1995 International Workshop on “Observational Cosmology: From Galaxies to Galaxy Systems”, Sesto (It). 1995 “From Stars to Galaxies”, Crete (Greece). 1996 “Dust Morphology-New Extragalactic Perspectives in the New South Africa”, Johannesburg (SA). 1996 7th Asian-Pacific Regional Meeting of the IAU Pusan (Korea), August 19-23 1996. 1996 “New Horizons from Multi-wavelength Sky Surveys”, IAU Symposium 179, Baltimore, USA (member of the Scientific Organizing Committee) 1996 “Astronomical Time Series”, Wise Observatory 25th Anniversary Symposium 1997 “The UV Universe at low and high redshifts”, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt (MD, USA) May 2-4, 1997 1997 General Assembly of the IAU, Kyoto (Jp) 1997 Nordic Symposium for Theoretical Astrophysics, Copenhagen (Dk). 1997 “Ultraviolet Astrophysics - Beyond the IUE Final Archives” Sevilla (Sp) 1998 “The Low Surface Brightness Universe”, Cardiff (UK) (Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee) 1998 “Intergalactic Medium and Galactic Halos”, XVI Cracow Summer School of Cosmology, Lodz (Pl) [invited speaker] 1999 Triennial Conference of the International Union for Radio Sciences, Toronto, Canada, member of the official Israel delegation. 2000 “Databases for European Plate Archives”, Brussels, Belgium 2000 “Ninth UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Sciences” Toulouse, France 2000 “New Era of Wide Field Astronomy”, Preston, UK 2001 “The World Space Observatory and Ultraviolet Astronomy”, Beijing, China 2001 “Meteoroids 2001”, Kiruna, Sweden 2001 JENAM 2001, JD-4, Muenchen, Germany 2002 Ringberg Castle Workshop on the Virgo Cluster, Germany 2002 ”Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2002”, Berlin (Germany) 2002 ”Position Sensitive Detectors”, Leicester (UK)

7 Year Meeting 2003 ”Radar Meteors”, Arecibo (PR) 2003 ”ALFA-extragalactic HI consortium meeting, Arecibo (PR) 2003 JENAM 2003, Budapest (Hungary) ”Synergies in Wide Field Observations” 2003 JENAM 2003, Budapest (Hungary) ”The UV sky: linking the present to the future” 2004 JENAM 2004, Granada (Spain) ”Neighbourhoods of isolated star-forming dwarf galaxies” 2005 ALFALFA workshop, Cornell University (USA) 2005 ”Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2005”, Buzios (Brazil) 2006 IAU General Assembly, Prague, Czech republic) 2007 Space Astronomy: The UV window to the Universe”, El Escorial, Spain (co-chair) 2008 MEARIM IAU Regional Meeting for the Middle East and Africa, Cairo, Egypt

8 1.6 Research grants at Tel Aviv University Highlights are the TAUVEX project, which was granted a cumulative amount of ∼1M$ to Tel Aviv University and more than 12M$ to the prime contractor, El-Op, from the Ministry of Science, through the Israel Space Agency. Another highlight is the Center of Excellence for Multi-Spectral As- tronomy, combining all the astrophysicists of Tel Aviv University, which was granted ∼1.3M$ by the Israel Science Foundation. Finally, a small group of Tel Aviv scientists formed a Solar System research group concentrating on small bodies; this was supported as the National Knowledge Center for Near-Earth Bodies (Israel Spaceguard) and resulted in the addition of a second telescope to the Wise Observatory. A summary table and a detailed list of grants follow.

9 Table 1: Summary list of grants by years Year Grant title Sum No. of co-Is 1978 Ben Gurion Research Grant $2,000 1 1985 Adler Space Research Grant $12,000 2 1987 VATAT $71,290 4 1988 TAU internal $4,500 1 1989 TAUVEX phase A $100,000 5 1991 TAUVEX phase A+ $80,000 3 1992 Polarization studies $15,000 3 1992 TAUVEX phase B, C $167,000 3 1993 TAUVEX phase C $100,000 3 1994 TAUVEX $100,000 3 1994 Center of Excellence $300,000 5 1995 TAUVEX $175,000 3 1995 BSF year 1 $34,500 2 1996 TAUVEX $85,000 3 1996 Center of Excellence 2nd year $300,000 5 1996 BSF year 2 $32,500 2 1997 TAUVEX $100,000 3 1997 Center of Excellence 3rd year $250,000 5 1997 INTAS ECU 40,000 7 1998 TAUVEX $100,000 3 1998 INTAS 2nd year ECU 40,000 7 1998 BSF year 3 $34,500 2 1998 Center of Excellence 4th year $200,000 5 1999 Internal Research Grant, TAU $11,000 1 1999 TAUVEX $81,000 3 1999 Center of Excellence 5th year $200,000 5 2000 TAUVEX $78,000 3 2000 Israel Science Foundation (Meteor studies) $134,000 3 2001 TAUVEX $78,000 3

10 Year Grant title Sum No. of co-Is 2002 Israel Science Foundation (Meteor studies) $34,000 3 2003 Israel Space Agency NEOs center $70,000 5 2003 Israel Science Foundation (Meteor studies) $34,000 3 2003 Israel Space Agency Phase A of WSO/UV $30,000 1 2004 Israel Science Foundation (Meteor studies) $34,000 3 2004 Israel Science Foundation (Panoramic camera) $85,000 2004 Israel Space Agency NEOs center $70,000 5 2004 Israel Space Agency (TAUVEX on GSAT-4) $45,000 1 2005 Israel Space Agency WSO/UV $20,000 1 2005 Israel Space Agency NEOs center $47,000 5 2005 Israel Space Agency (TAUVEX on GSAT-4) $45,000 1 2005 INTAS 77,200 Euro 12 2006 Israel Space Agency (TAUVEX on GSAT-4) $45,000 1 2007 Tel Aviv University (internal grant) $8,000 1 2007 Israel Space Agency (TAUVEX on GSAT-4) $45,000 1 $50,000 height Total ∼$3,500,000

The detailed list of grants follows:

1. 1978: “Ben Gurion Research Grant” for PhD students, The Histadrut, [$2,000.-].

2. 1985: ”Observations of P/Halley and other comets”, Adler Space Re- search Grant [$12,000.-], with E.M.Leibowitz.

3. 1987: ”A fast spectrometer for the Wise Observatory”, VTT Grant [$71,290.-], with H. Netzer, E. M. Leibowitz and T. Mazeh.

4. 1988: ”Dust in early-type galaxies”, Internal Research Grant [$4,500].

5. 1989: ”An imaging ultraviolet payload”, Phase A study of an Israeli scientiﬁc satellite [$100,000.-], with E.M. Leibowitz, H. Netzer, S. Beck and E. Ribak.

6. 1991: ”An imaging ultraviolet payload”, Phase A+ study of an Israeli scientiﬁc satellite [$80,000.-], with E.M. Leibowitz and H. Netzer.

7. 1992: ”Polarization studies with the Faint Object Spectrometer-Camera” with Yu. Mekler and Y. Goldberg [$15,000.-]

11 8. 1992: ”An imaging ultraviolet payload”, Phase B, C study (development) of a UV space experiment [$167,000.-], with E.M. Leibowitz and H. Netzer.

9. 1993: ”An imaging ultraviolet payload”, Phase C (development) of a UV space experiment [$100,000.-], with E.M. Leibowitz and H. Netzer.

10. 1993: ”Polarization studies with the Faint Object Spectrometer-Camera” with Yu. Mekler and Y. Goldberg [$18,000.-]

11. 1994: ”TAUVEX–the UV space telescope” [$100,000] with E.M. Leibowitz and H. Netzer.

12. 1994: ”Multi-wavelength astronomy center”, ﬁrst year [$300,000] Israel Science Foundation, Center of Excellence Grant, with H. Netzer, E.M. Leibowitz, T. Mazeh and S. Beck.

13. 1995: ”TAUVEX–the UV space telescope” [$175,000] with E.M. Leibowitz and H. Netzer.

14. 1995: ”Space and Ground-Based Astrophysics in UV and Optical Bands” [$34,500] United States–Israel Binational Science Foundation Grant with Prof. S. Bowyer from the University of California, Berkeley.

15. 1996: ”TAUVEX–the UV space telescope–preparations for launch” [$85,000] with E.M. Leibowitz and H. Netzer.

16. 1996: ”Space and Ground-Based Astrophysics in UV and Optical Bands”, second year [$32,500] United States–Israel Binational Science Foundation Grant with Prof. S. Bowyer from the University of California, Berkeley.

17. 1996: ”Multi-wavelength astronomy center”, second year [$300,000] Israel Science Foundation, Center of Excellence Grant, with H. Netzer, E.M. Leibowitz, T. Mazeh and S. Beck.

18. 1997: ”TAUVEX–the UV space telescope–preparations for launch” [$100,000] with E.M. Leibowitz and H. Netzer.

12 19. 1997: ”Multi-wavelength astronomy center”, third year [$250,000] Israel Science Foundation, Center of Excellence Grant, with H. Netzer, E.M. Leibowitz, T. Mazeh and S. Beck.

20. 1997-2000: ”Hamburg-SAO survey of emission-line galaxies” [40,000 ECU] INTAS grant with S.A. Pustilnik (Russia), Yu.I. Izotov (Ukraine), J.- M. Martin (France), D. Engels (Germany), J. Masegosa (Spain), and U. Hopp (Germany) N. Brosch, grant coordinator.

21. 1998: ”TAUVEX–the UV space telescope–preparations for launch” [$100,000] with E.M. Leibowitz and H. Netzer.

22. 1998: ”Multi-wavelength astronomy center”, fourth year [$200,000] Israel Science Foundation, Center of Excellence Grant, with H. Netzer, E.M. Leibowitz, T. Mazeh and S. Beck.

23. 1998: ”Space and Ground-Based Astrophysics in UV and Optical Bands”, third year [$32,500] United States–Israel Binational Science Foundation Grant with Prof. S. Bowyer from the University of California, Berkeley.

24. 1999: ”The GIMI UV Sky Survey”, internal grant of Tel Aviv Univer- sity [$11,000]

25. 1999: ”TAUVEX–the UV space telescope–preparations for launch” [$81,000] with E.M. Leibowitz and H. Netzer.

26. 1999: ”Multi-wavelength astronomy center”, ﬁfth year [$200,000] Israel Science Foundation, Center of Excellence Grant, with H. Netzer, E.M. Leibowitz, T. Mazeh and S. Beck.

27. 2000: ”TAUVEX–the UV space telescope–preparations for launch” [$78,000] with E.M. Leibowitz and H. Netzer.

28. 2000-1: ”Meteor studies in Israel”-ﬁrst year [$64,000] Israel Science Foundation grant with D. Prialnik.

13 29. 2000: ”TAUVEX–the UV space telescope–preparations for launch” [$78,000] with E.M. Leibowitz and H. Netzer.

30. 2002-3: ”Meteor studies in Israel”-second year [$35,500] Israel Science Foundation grant with D. Prialnik.

31. 2003: ”Knowledge Center on Near Earth Objects”-ﬁrst year [$70,000] Israel Space Agency grant with D. Prialnik, M. Podolak, E., Leibowitz, and M. Meidav.

32. 2003: ”Phase A of the World Space Observatory/UV project” [$30,000] Israel Space Agency grant with H. Netzer.

33. 2003-4: ”Meteor studies in Israel”-third year [$35,500] Israel Science Foundation grant with D. Prialnik.

34. 2004: ”Knowledge Center on Near Earth Objects”-second year [$47,700] Israel Space Agency grant with D. Prialnik, M. Podolak, E., Leibowitz, and M. Meidav.

35. 2004: ”Israeli participation in the Phase A study of the World Space Observatory/UV project” [$22,800] Israel Space Agency grant with H. Netzer.

36. 2004: Israel Science Foundation Institutional Equipment Grant (Panoramic camera) [$85,000]

37. 2004: Israel Space Agency (TAUVEX on GSAT-4) [$45,000]

38. 2004: ”A dome for the NEO telescope” [$9,000] internal grant of Tel Aviv University, with E. Leibowitz.

39. 2005: Israel Space Agency (TAUVEX on GSAT-4) [$45,000]

40. 2005: ”Israeli participation in the Phase A study of the World Space Observatory/UV project” [$22,800] Israel Space Agency grant with H. Netzer.

41. 2005: ”Knowledge Center on Near Earth Objects”-third year [$47,700] Israel Space Agency grant with D. Prialnik, M. Podolak, E., Leibowitz, and M. Meidav.

14 42. 2005: ”Development and manufacture of an optical position sensitive detector with high time resolution” [77,200 Euro] INTAS 04-78-7366

43. 2006: Israel Space Agency (TAUVEX on GSAT-4) [$45,000]

44. 2007: Internal research grant Tel Aviv University [$ 8,0000]

45. 2007: Israel Space Agency (TAUVEX on GSAT-4; third year) [$50,000]

15 1.7 Honors • “Sonol study award” for graduate students 1977.

• Chairman of the Israel Astronomical Association, 1979, 1983, 1984, 1987

• Commendation for Excellence in Technical Communication, Laser Fo- cus World, 1991

1.8 Membership in Professional Societies 1970- Israel Astronomical Society 1977-1979 International Society of Planetarium Educators 1980- Israel Physical Society 1980- Netherlands Astronomers’Club 1988- International Astronomical Union 1990-1993 The Planetary Society 1994- Israel Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics

16 1.9 Research Students 1. 1986-1988 Mr. Elchanan Almoznino, Tel Aviv University, School of Physics and Astronomy, MSc thesis: Elliptical and Lenticular Galaxies with Dust Lanes 2. 1992-1994 Ms. Drora Ianovich, Tel Aviv University, Dept. of Geo- physics and Planetary Sciences, MSc thesis: Chiron 2060: an asteroid or a comet? Cum Laudae 3. 1992-1994 Mr. Benjamin Bilenko, Tel Aviv University, School of Physics and Astronomy, MSc thesis: A study of dust in the Solar Neighborhood Cum Laudae 4. 1988-1995: Mr. Elchanan Almoznino, Tel Aviv University, School of Physics and Astronomy, PhD thesis: Blue Compact Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster 5. 1993-2001 : Ms. Susanna Steindling, Tel Aviv University, School of Physics and Astronomy, PhD thesis subject: The Butcher-Oemler eﬀect 6. 1994-2001 : Mrs. Ana Heller, Tel Aviv University, School of Physics and Astronomy, PhD thesis subject: Low surface brightness dwarf galaxies in the Virgo Cluster and in the ﬁeld 7. 1996-2000 : Mr. Alan Brook, Tel Aviv University, Dept. of Geo- physics and Planetary Sciences MSc thesis subject: A study of UV sources in the fourth quadrant of the Milky Way 8. 2000-2003: Mr. Lior Shamir, The Open University, Dept. of Mathe- matics MSc thesis subject: Fish-eye Lens Correction Using Fuzzy Logic 9. 1999-2004: Mr. Young-Jun Choi, Tel Aviv University, Dept. of Geo- physics and Planetary Sciences PhD thesis subject: Observational and Theoretical Studies of Kuiper Belt Objects 10. 1999–2006 : Mr. Alexander Sirotkin, Tel Aviv University, School of Physics and Astronomy and School of Mathematics

17 MSc thesis subject: Data mining techniques applied to the INES data base 11. 2000–2006 : Mr. Samuel Schijvarg, Tel Aviv University, Dept. of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences PhD thesis subject: Electromagnetic activity of meteors 12. 2000-2003 : Ms. Victoria Rashkovan, Tel Aviv University, School of Physics and Astronomy MSc thesis subject: Neural-network analysis of color indices for galaxies in clusters Cum Laude 13. 2000–2003 : Mrs. Carmyia Weingarten, Tel Aviv University, School of Physics and Astronomy MSc thesis subject: The local star formation density from a blind survey of star forming dwarf galaxies 14. 2002–2005 : Mr. David Polishook, Tel Aviv University, Dept. of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences MSc thesis subject: Photometry of ATENs: On the Properties of Near Earth objects Summa Cum Laudae 15. 2004–2007 : Ms. Meirav Na’aman, Tel Aviv University, School of Physics and Astronomy MSc thesis subject: Simulation of the TAUVEX telescopes 16. 2005– : Mr. David Polishook, Tel Aviv University, Dept. of Geo- physics and Planetary Sciences PhD thesis subject: Photometry of ATENs: On the Properties of Near Earth objects 17. 2006–2008 : Mr. Adi Zitrin, Tel Aviv University, School of Physics and Astronomy MSc thesis subject: Star formation properties of a nearby dwarf galaxy group 18. 2006– Mr. Oded Spector, Tel Aviv University, School of Physics and Astronomy PhD thesis subject: Star formation in isolated galaxies in voids 19. 2006– Mr. Alon Shaham,Tel Aviv University, Dept. of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences MSc thesis subject: Observations of Near-Earth asteroids

18 20. 2006– Mr. Ido Finkelman, Tel Aviv University, School of Physics and Astronomy PhD thesis subject: Early-type galaxies with dark lanes: Nature of the dust and of the galaxies

21. 2007–2009 Mr. Evgeny Gorbikov, Tel Aviv University, School of Physics and Astronomy MSc thesis subject Distribution of the interstellar extinction in the direction of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies Cum Laude

22. 2008– Mr. Boaz Ron-Zohar, Tel Aviv University, School of Education MSc thesis subject High-school student investigations using robotic telescopes

23. 2009– Mr. Yehuda Benudiz, Ben Gurion University, School of Engi- neering PhD thesis subject: Electromagnetic detection and characterization of meteors

24. 2009– Mr. Evgeny Gorbikov, Tel Aviv University, School of Physics and Astronomy PhD thesis subject: TBD

19 2 List of Publications

2.1 Books 1. M. Meidav, N. Brosch and H. Netzer “The Universe - an introduction to astrophysics” Tel Aviv: Ramot Publishing Co., in Hebrew.

(a) 1988, ﬁrst edition, 211p. (b) 1989, second edition (reprinting, Ramot), 211p. (c) 1992, third edition (reprinting, Ramot), 211p. (d) 2000, fourth revised edition, Tel Aviv: The Open University, 351p. (e) 2009, ﬁfth revised edition (in preparation), Tel Aviv: The Open University, XX p.

2. Liliana Formiggini & Noah Brosch “INES Guide No. 2: Normal Galax- ies” ESA SP-1239, 2000, Noordwijk: ESA Publishing Department, 429 pages.

3. Peter Jenniskens (Editor), Frans Rietmeijer (Editor), Noah Brosch (Editor), Mark Fonda (Editor) “Leonid Storm Research” 2000, Kluwer Academic Publishers, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 606 pages.

4. N. Brosch ”The Sun as a star”, unit 6 of a course on Astrophysics for the Open University, Israel (in Hebrew), 2006, Tel Aviv: The Open University, 97 pages.

5. N. Brosch ”Sirius Matters” 2008, Springer Science and Business Media, Astrophysics and Space Sciences Library no. 354, 225 pages.

6. Ana I. G´omezde Castro and Noah Brosch “Space Astronomy: the UV window to the Universe” 2009, Springer (in press)

20 2.2 Scientiﬁc Papers 1. N. Brosch, E.M. Leibowitz and N. Spector The emission line spectrum of MWC 342 in 1974-1975 1978, Astron. Astrophys. 65, 259-263.

2. N. Brosch and I. Nevo A search for nebulosity around Sirius 1978, Observatory 98, 136.

3. N. Vidal, N. Brosch and M. Livio Photoelectric photometry at the Wise observatory 1978, Observatory 98, 60-62.

4. N. Brosch The processing of electronographic plates at the Wise Observatory 1979, A.A.S. Photobulletin no.22, p.14.

5. N. Brosch, E. M. Leibowitz and T. Mazeh A spectroscopic study of WZ Sagittae during the 1978 outburst 1980, Astrophys. J. 236, L29-L31.

6. A. Eviatar, Yu. Mekler, N. Brosch and T. Mazeh Anomalous plasma injection and diﬀusion during the Voyager I en- counter with Io 1981, J.Geophys.Res.Lett. 8, 249-252.

7. T. Mazeh and N. Brosch Photometry of X Persei in late 1978 1981, Astron. Astrophys. 95, 3-4.

8. N. Brosch and G. Shaviv Multiaperture photometry of isolated galaxies 1982, Astrophys. J. 253, 526.

9. N. Brosch Spectrophotometry of Nova Coronae Austrinae 1981 1982, Astron. Astrophys. 107, 300-304.

10. N. Brosch Accurate positions of isolated galaxies 1982, Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. 48, 63-69.

21 11. N. Brosch A new ring galaxy in Canes Venatici 1982, Astron. Astrophys. 112, 388-390.

12. N. Brosch and R. Isaacman Multiaperture photometry of galaxies. II: Infrared photometry of six isolated objects 1982, Astron. Astrophys. 113, 231-236.

13. N. Brosch and J. Mayo Greenberg High redshift objects as probes of nearby cosmic voids 1983, Astrophys. Space Sci. 90, 457-460.

14. N. Brosch and N. Krumm 5 GHz observations of isolated and group galaxies 1984, Astron. Astrophys. 132, 80-88.

15. N. Brosch, J. Mayo Greenberg, J. Rahe and G. Shaviv Ultraviolet spectrophotometry of ﬁve isolated galaxies 1984, Astron. Astrophys. 135, 330-336.

16. N. Krumm and N. Brosch Neutral hydrogen in cosmic voids 1984, Astron. J. 89, 1461-1463.

17. N. Brosch and P. M. Gondhalekar Gas in cosmic voids 1984, Astron. Astrophys. 140, L43-L46.

18. N. Brosch, J. Mayo Greenberg and P.J. Grosbol Extragalactic dust : I. NGC 7070A 1985, Astron. Astrophys. 143, 399-407.

19. N. Brosch The nature of Hoag’s Object: the perfect ringed galaxy 1985, Astron. Astrophys. 153, 199-206.

20. S. M. Scarrott, N. Brosch, D. Ward-Thompson and R. F. Warren- Smith An optical polarization study of two possible bipolar nebulae 1986, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc. 223, 505-511.

22 21. E. M. Leibowitz and N. Brosch Periodic photometric variations in the near-nucleus zone of P/Giacobini- Zinner 1986, Icarus 68, 430-441.

22. E. M. Leibowitz and N. Brosch Photoelectric discovery of a 52-hr periodicity in the nuclear activity of P/Halley 1986, Icarus 68, 418-429.

23. N. Brosch Extragalactic dust. II. Far-infrared properties of early-type galaxies with dust lanes 1987, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc. 225, 257-266.

24. N. Brosch Hoag’s object - the cosmic donut 1987, Mercury, XVI, 174-178 (contribution invited by the editor).

25. S. Beck and N. Brosch MCG06-45-001: a possible new member of the Local Group 1988, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 232, 27P-30P.

26. Stern, S.A., Skinner, T.E., Brosch, N., van Santvoort, J. & Trafton, L.M. UV spectrocopy of Triton and Pluto: comparative results 1989, BAAS, 21, 766.

27. N. Brosch A search for neutral hydrogen in cosmic voids 1989, Astrophys. J., 344, 597-603.

28. S. A. Stern, T.E. Skinner, N. Brosch, J. van Santvoort and L. M. Trafton The ﬁrst UV spectrum of Triton: IUE observations from 2600-3200A 1989, Astrophys. J.Lett. 341, L107-L110.

29. S. Alan Stern, T.E. Skinner, N. Brosch, J. Van Santvoort and L.M. Trafton The UV spectrum of Pluto-Charon: IUE observations from 2600-3050A 1989, Astrophys. J. 342, 533-538.

23 30. W.B. Hubbard, D.M. Hunten, H.J. Reitsema, N. Brosch, Y. Nevo, E. Carreira, F. Rossi, and L. Wasserman Results from the occultation of 28 Sgr by Titan 1990, Nature 343, 353-355.

31. D. Maoz, H. Netzer, E. Leibowitz, N. Brosch, A. Laor, H. Mendelson, S. Beck, T. Mazeh, and E. Almoznino High rate spectroscopic monitoring of AGN at the Wise Observatory: I. Mrk279. 1990, Astrophys. J., 351, 75-82.

32. H. Netzer, D. Maoz, A. Laor, H. Mendelson, N. Brosch, E. Leibowitz, E. Almoznino, S. Beck, and T. Mazeh, High rate spectroscopic monitoring of AGN at the Wise Observatory: II. NGC 5548 1990, Astrophys. J., 353, 100-113.

33. N. Brosch, E. Almoznino, P. Grosbol and J. Mayo Greenberg Extragalactic dust III: the extinction law in three southern galaxies 1990, Astron. Astrophys., 233, 341-347.

34. J. Clavel, G.A. Reichert, D. Alloin, G. Kriss, et al. (a total of 57 authors including N. Brosch) Steps toward determination of the size and structure of the broad-line region in active galactic nuclei. (I) An eight month monitoring campaign of NGC 5548 with IUE 1991, Astrophys. J., 366, 64-81.

35. D. Maoz, H. Netzer, T. Mazeh, S. Beck, E. Almoznino, E. Leibowitz, N. Brosch, H. Mendelson and A. Laor High rate active galaxy monitoring at the Wise Observatory: III. The broad line region of NGC 4151 1991, Astrophys. J., 367, 493-506 (erratum 1993 ApJ 413, 445).

36. N. Brosch A model of the ultraviolet Galaxy 1991, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 250, 780-785.

37. N. Brosch and F. Loinger Extragalactic dust IV: NGC 7625 1991, Astron. Astrophys., 249, 327-336.

24 38. N. Brosch Extragalactic dust V: NGC 801 1991, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 251, 24-27.

39. S. Alan Stern, N. Brosch, E.S. Barker and G. Randal Gladstone Rotationally resolved vacuum-ultraviolet studies of Pluto and Triton I: IUE results 1991, Icarus, 92, 332-342.

40. N. Brosch A stellar diamond in Virgo 1991, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 253, 545-548.

41. N. Brosch Star formation systematics from colour images 1992, Astrophys. Space Sci., 188, 289-298.

42. N. Brosch Observing conditions at the Wise Observatory 1992, Q. Jl. R. astr. Soc., 33, 27-32.

43. N. Brosch and J. Topaz Space astronomy in the ultraviolet - a ﬁrst Israeli experiment 1992, J. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. 45, 497-500.

44. T. Augusteijn, K. Karatasos, M. Papadakis, G. Paterakis, S. Kikuchi, N. Brosch, E. Leibowitz, P. Hertz, K. Mitsuda, T. Dotani, W.H.G. Lewin, M. van der Klis, and J. van Paradijs Coordinated X-ray and optical observations of Sco X-1 1992, Astron. Astrophys. 265, 177-182.

45. W.B. Hubbard, B. Sicardy, and 44 other co-authors, including N. Brosch The occultation of 28 Sgr by Titan 1993, Astron. Astrophys. 269, 541–563.

46. E. Almoznino, F. Loinger, and N. Brosch, A procedure for calculating background in images 1993, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc. 265, 641.

47. G.A. Reichert and 74 other authors, including N. Brosch Steps toward determination of the size and structure of the broad-line

25 regions in active galactic nuclei. V. Variability of the ultraviolet continuum and emission lines of NGC 3783 1994, Astrophys. J. 425, 582–608. 48. N. Brosch, and Y. Goldberg “The star that moved”–a nearby M dwarf 1994, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc. 268, L27–L28. 49. Y. Goldberg and N. Brosch Imaging polarimetry of comet P/Swift-Tuttle 1994, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 273, 431. 50. N. Brosch, E. Almoznino, E.M. Leibowitz, H. Netzer, T. Sasseen, S. Bowyer, M. Lampton and X. Wu A study of ultraviolet objects near the North Galactic Pole 1995, Astrophys. J., 450, 137. 51. N. Brosch The 1985 stellar occultation by Pluto 1995, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc. 276, 571-578. 52. N. Brosch The ﬁrst UV spectrum of 2060 Chiron 1995, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc. 276, 1185-1190. 53. D. Prialnik, N. Brosch and D. Ianovici Modelling the activity of 2060 Chiron 1995, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc. 276, 1148-1154. 54. N. Brosch The UV content of Virgo Cluster galaxies 1995, in “Stellar Populations” (P.C.van der Kruit & G. Gilmore, eds.), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp.450-451. 55. N. Brosch and G. Lyle Hoﬀman VIII Zw 105: a starbursting galaxy at z'0.06 ? 1996, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc. 279, 191-196. 56. A.J. Loan, S.J. Maddox, O. Lahav, M. Balcells, R.C. Kraan-Korteweg, A. Assendorp, E. Almoznino, N. Brosch, E. Goldberg, and E.O. Ofek Optical observations of Dwingeloo 1, a nearby barred spiral galaxy be- hind the Milky Way 1996, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc. 280, 537-549.

26 57. N. Brosch, A. Shemi, A. Blasberger and J. Topaz The TAUVEX space astronomy experiment 1996, Acta Astronautica, 38, 815-820.

58. N. Brosch The TAUVEX UV imager 1996, J. Korean Astr. Soc. 29 (Supplement), S421-S423.

59. N. Brosch and E. Almoznino Extragalactic dust VI: Arp 155 1997, Astrophys. Lett. and Communications 35, 371-381.

60. N. Brosch, L Formiggini, E. Almoznino, T. Sasseen, M. Lampton and S. Bowyer FAUST observations of UV sources toward the Virgo cluster 1997, Astrophys. J. Suppl. 111, 143.

61. N. Brosch and E. Almoznino Star formation in BCD galaxies of the Virgo cluster 1997, Astrophys. Lett. and Communications, 36, 303-309.

62. N. Brosch Dwarf Galaxies 1997, Reports on Astronomy, Trans. of the IAU XXIIIA, 455-457.

63. N. Brosch Ultraviolet sky surveys 1998, in “New horizons from multi-wavelength sky surveys” (B.J. McLean, D.A. Golombek, J.J.E. Hayes, and H.E. Paine, eds.), Dor- drecht: Kluwer, pp. 57-67.

64. N. Brosch, E. Almoznino and G. Lyle Hoﬀman VCC 144: a star-bursting dwarf galaxy in the Virgo cluster 1998, Astron. Astrophys., 331, 873-883.

65. N. Brosch, E.O. Ofek, E. Almoznino, T. Sasseen, M. Lampton, and S. Bowyer FAUST observations of ultraviolet sources in the direction of Coma 1998, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 295, 959-969.

66. P.M. Gondhalekar, L.E.B. Johannson, N. Brosch, I. Glass & E. Brinks

27 CO in blue compact galaxies 1998, Astron. Astrophys., 335, 152-160.

67. E. Almoznino and N. Brosch Late-type dwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster. I: The Samples 1998, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 298, 920-930.

68. E. Almoznino and N. Brosch Late-type Dwarf Galaxies in the Virgo cluster. II: Star formation properties 1998, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 298, 931-940.

69. N. Brosch TAUVEX - a wide ﬁeld UV imager 1998, in “Ultraviolet Astrophysics - Beyond the IUE Final Archive” (R. Gonzales-Riestra, W. Wamsteker & R.A. Harris, eds.), ESA SP- 413, 789-796.

70. N. Brosch, A. Heller and E. Almoznino Star formation in dwarf galaxies 1998, Astrophys. J., 504, 720-724.

71. O. Lahav, N. Brosch, E. Goldberg, G.K.T. Hau, R.C. Kraan-Korteweg, and A.J. Loan Galaxy candidates in the Zone of Avoidance 1998, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 299, 24-30.

72. N. Brosch, A. Heller, & E. Almoznino Morphology of star formation regions in irregular galaxies 1998, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 300, 1091-1097.

73. N. Brosch, M. Shara, J. MacKenty, D. Zurek & B. McLean Far-Ultraviolet Imaging of the Field Star Population in the Large Mag- ellanic Cloud with HST 1999, AJ, 117, 206-224.

74. A. Heller, E. Almoznino, & N. Brosch Late-type dwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster. I. Hα and red continuum data 1999, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 304, 8-26.

28 75. N. Brosch & Y. Hoﬀman The shape of the LoTr 5 planetary nebula 1999, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 305, 241-245.

76. N. Brosch, A. Heller & E. Almoznino Morphological aspects of star formation in dwarf galaxies 1999, in ”The Low Surface Brightness Universe” (J.I. Davies, C. Impey & S. Phillipps, eds.) San Francisco: The Astronomical Society of the Paciﬁc, pp. 261-273.

77. A. Heller, E. ALmoznino & N. Brosch Testing environmental inﬂuences on star formation with a sample of low surface brigthness dwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster 1999, in ”The Low Surface Brightness Universe” (J.I. Davies, C. Impey & S. Phillipps, eds.) San Francisco: The Astronomical Society of the Paciﬁc, pp. 282-290.

78. N. Brosch Ultraviolet sky surveys 1999, Experimental Astronomy, 9, 119-187.

79. N. Brosch, E. Almoznino, B. Wszolek, & K. Rudnicki The nature of a dusty ring in Virgo 1999, MNRAS, 308, 651-663.

80. B. Sicardy, F. Ferri, F. Roques, J. Lecacheux, S. Pau, N. Brosch, Y. Nevo, W.B. Hubbard, H.R. Reitsema, C. Blanco, S. Cristaldi, E. Carreira, F. Rossi, W. Beisker, C. Bittner, H.J. Bode, M. Bruns, H. Denzau, M. Netzel, E. Reidel, H. Struckmann, G. Appleby, R. Forrest, I.K.M. Nicolson, R. Miles, & A.J. Hollis The structure of Titan’s stratosphere from the 28 Sgr occultation 1999, Icarus, 142, 357-390.

81. Y.-J. Choi, W. Han, J.-H. Park & N. Brosch UV stellar distribution model for the derivation of payload design con- straints 1999, J. Astron. Space Sci. (Korea) 16(2), 131-138.

82. U. Hopp, D. Engels, R.F. Green, A. Ugryumov, Y. Izotov, H.-L. Ha- gen, A. Kniazev, V.A. Lipovetsky, S.A. Pustilnik, N. Brosch, J. Masegosa, & J.-M. Martin

29 The Hamburg/SAO survey for emission-line galaxies. III. The third list of 81 galaxies 2000, A&AS, 142, 417-423.

83. N. Brosch, A. Brook, L. Wisotzki, E. Almoznino, D. Prialnik, S. Bowyer & M. Lampton FAUST Observations in the Fourth Galactic Quadrant 2000, MNRAS, 313, 641-655..

84. A. Kniazev, S. Pustilnik, J. Masegosa, A. Ugryumov, J.-M. Martin, Y. Izotov, D. Engels, N. Brosch, U. Hopp, S. Merlino, & I. Marquez HS 0822+3542 — a new nearby extremely metal-poor galaxy 2000, A&A, 357, 101-110.

85. N. Brosch, E. Almoznino, D. Engels, S. Bowyer & M. Lampton FAUST Observations Near the North Galactic Pole 2000, MNRAS, 316, 58-70.

86. A. Heller, N. Brosch, E. Almoznino, L. van Zee, & J.J. Salzer Lopsidedness in irregular galaxies 2000, MNRAS, 316, 569-587.

87. S. Steindling, N. Brosch, & K. Rakos Rest-frame photometry and morphology of cluster galaxies from z=0 to z=1. I: The method 2001, ApJS, 132, 19.

88. P. Brown, M.D. Campbell, K.J. Ellis et al. (41 authors, including N. Brosch) Global ground-based electro-optical and radar observations of the 1999 Leonid shower 2000, Earth, Moon, and Planets 82-83, 167-190.

89. N. Brosch & O. Shemmer Airglow and meteor rates over Israel during the 1999 Leonid shower 2000, Earth, Moon, and Planets 82-83, 535-543.

90. N. Brosch The 1999 Leonid campaign in Israel 2000, Earth, Moon, and Planets 82-83, 47-56.

91. J. Daniels, N. Brosch, E. Almoznino, O. Shemmer, S. Bowyer & M. Lampton FAUST observations of ultraviolet sources in the directions of NGC

30 4038-39 and NGC 6752 2001, MNRAS, 324(3), 580-598. 92. A. Kniazev, D. Engels, S.A. Pustilnik, A.V. Ugryumov, T.F. Kniazeva, A.G. Pramsky, N. Brosch, H.-L. Hagen, U. Hopp, Y.I. Izotov, V.A. Lipovetsky, J. Masegosa, I. Marques and J.-M. Martin The Hamburg/SAO survey for emission-line galaxies. IV. The fourth list of 119 galaxies 2001, A&A, 366, 771-787. 93. A.V. Ugryumov et al. (13 authors including N. Brosch The Hamburg/SAO survey for emission-line galaxies: overview and preliminary results 2001, in The New Era of Wide Field Astronomy (R.G. Clowes, A.J. Adamson, and G.E. Bromage, eds.) ASP Conference Series, Vol. 232, p.205-207. 94. N. Brosch, R. Hudec, P. Kroll & M. Tsvetkov Saving astronomical treasures 2001, in The New Era of Wide Field Astronomy (R.G. Clowes, A.J. Adamson, and G.E. Bromage, eds.) ASP Conference Series, Vol. 232, p.265-271. 95. A. Heller and N. Brosch Broad-band colors of Virgo cluster LSB dwarf irregular galaxies 2001, MNRAS, 327, 80-114. 96. Schnopper, H.W. et al. (including N. Brosch XRASE: The X-ray Spectroscopic Explorer 2001, Ap&SS, 276, 49-65. 97. de Cuyper, J.-P.; Elst, E., Hensberge, H., Lampens, P., Pauwels, T., van Dessel, E., Brosch, N., Hudec, R., Kroll, P., Tsvetkov, M. The Uccle Direct Astronomical Plate Archive Centre UDAPAC–A New International Facility for Inherited Observations 2001, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems X, ASP Con- ference Series, Vol. 238. (F. R. Harnden, Jr., F. A. Primini, and H. E. Payne, eds.). San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Paciﬁc, p.125. 98. Ugryumov, A.V., Engels, D., Kniazev, A.Y., Green, R.F., Izotov, Y.I., Hopp, U., Pustilnik, S.A., Pramsky, A.G., Kniazeva, T.F., Brosch,

31 N., Hagen, H.-L., Lipovetsky, V.A., Masegosa, J., M´arquez,I. & Mar- tin, J.-M. The Hamburg/SAO Survey for Emission-Line Galaxies V. The Fifth List of 161 Galaxies 2001, A&A 374, 907-913.

99. L. Formiggini, N. Brosch, E. Almoznino, S. Bowyer & M. Lampton Hidden subluminous stars among the FAUST UV sources in Ophiuchus 2002, MNRAS 332, 441-455.

100. S.A. Pustilnik, J.-M. Martin, W. Huchtmeier, N. Brosch, V.A. Lipovet- sky & G.M. Richter Studies of galaxies in voids: I. HI observations of blue compact galaxies 2002, Astron. Astrophys. 389, 405-418.

101. Y.J. Choi, N. Brosch & D. Prialnik Rotation and cometary activity of KBO (29981) 1999 TD10 2003, Icarus, 165, 101-111.

102. N. Brosch The Wise Observator: Wide Field Astronomy 2003, Baltic Astronomy, pp. 87–92

103. G. Lyle Hoﬀman, N. Brosch, E.E. Salpeter & N.J. Carle Neutral hydrogen mapping of Virgo cluster blue compact dwarf galaxies 2003, AJ, 126, 2774-2796

104. N. Brosch, E. Almoznino & A.B. Heller Are interactions the primary triggers of star formation in dwarf galaxies? 2004, MNRAS, 349, 357-366.

105. S. Pustilnik, A. Kniazev, A. Pramskij, Y. Izotov, C. Foltz, N. Brosch, J.-M. Martin, & A. Ugryumov HS 0837+4717 - a metal-deﬁcient compact galaxy with large nitrogen excess 2004, A&A, 419, 469–484.

106. N. Brosch, D. Polishook, R. Helled, S. Schijvarg, and M. Rosenkrantz Radar and optical Leonids 2004, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 4, 1063-1069.

32 107. Liliana Formiggini & N. Brosch Principal component analysis of International Ultraviolet Explorer galaxy spectra 2004, MNRAS, 350, 10671078.

108. Karpov, S. and 28 authors, including N. Brosch FAVOR (FAst Variability Optical Registration) - two-telescope complex for detection and investigation of short optical transients 2004, Astronomische Nachrichten, 3256), p.677.

109. N. Brosch Wide Field Astronomy at the Wise Observatory 2004, Baltic Astronomy, 13, 1-6.

110. N. Brosch, Ravit Helled, D. Polishook, E. Almoznino and N. David Meteor light curves: the relevant parameters 2004, MNRAS 355, 111-119.

111. Pustilnik, S.A., Engels, D., Lipovetsky, V.A., Kniazev, A.Y., Pram- sky, A.G., Ugryumov, A.V., Masegosa, J., Izotov, Y.I., Chaﬀee, F., Marquez, L., Teplyakova, A.L., Hopp, U., Brosch, N., Hagen, H.-L. & Martin, J.-M. The Hamburg/SAO Survey for Emission-Line Galaxies VI. The Sixth List of 126 Galaxies 2004, A&A 402, 109-116

112. E. Almoznino, N. Brosch, M. Shara and D. Zurek The deepest HST FUV observations in the LMC 2005 , MNRAS 357, 645-655

113. Beskin, G.; Bad’in, V.; Biryukov, A.; Bondar, S.; Chuntonov, G.; De- bur, V.; Ivanov, E.; Karpov, S.; Katkova, E.; Plokhotnichenko, V.; and 18 coauthors including N. Brosch, FAVOR (FAst Variability Optical Registration)—A two-telescope complex for detection and investigation of short optical transients, 2005, Nouvo Cimento 28, 751-754

114. Giovanelli, R. and 38 co-authors, among which also N. Brosch The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA survey: I. Science Goals, Survey De- sign and Strategy 2005, AJ, 130, 2613

33 115. Giovanelli, R. and 19 co-authors, among which also N. Brosch The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA survey: II. Results of Precursor Ob- servations 2005, AJ, 130, 2598

116. Brosch, N., Bar-Or, Carmiya, and Malka, D. Neighbourhoods of isolated star-forming dwarf galaxies 2006, MNRAS, 368, 864

117. Auld, R., and 27 colleagues, among which also N. Brosch 2006. The Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey: precursor observations of the NGC 628 group. MNRAS 371, 1617-1640.

118. G´omezde Castro, A. I., and 13 colleagues, among which also N. Brosch 2006. Fundamental Problems in Astrophysics. Ap&Sp.Sci. 303, 133-145.

119. Brosch, N., Davies, J., Festou, M. C., G´erard,J.-C. 2006. A View to the Future: Ultraviolet Studies of the Solar System. Ap&Sp.Sci. 303, 103-122.

120. M.M. Shara, C.D.Martin, M. Seibert, D. Schiminovich, C. Delyannis, A.R. Sarrazine, G. Jacoby, N. Brosch, D. Zurek, O. De Marco & R.M. Rich Direct imaging and characterization of ejecta from a dwarf nova: Z Camelopardalis 2007, Nature, 446, 159-162.

121. R. Giovanelli, M. Haynes, and 20 colleagues, among which also N. Brosch The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey: III. HI Source Catalog of the Northern Virgo Cluster Region 2007, AJ 133, 2569-2583.

122. Kent, B.R., Giovanelli, R., Haynes, M.P., Saintonge, A., Stierwalt, S., Balonek, T., Brosch, N., Cattinella, B., Koopmann, R. A.,Momjian, E. and Spekkens, K. Optically Inert HI Detections towards the Virgo Cluster detected in the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey 2007, ApJ 665, L15-L18.

34 123. Noah Brosch, Elhanan Almoznino, Hagai Netzer and Meirav Naaman Calibrating TAUVEX: turning space hardware into a scientific instru- ment 2007, Bull. Indian Astronomical Society, 35, 187-208 124. Noah Brosch and Elhanan Almoznino Galaxy surveys and science with TAUVEX 2007, Bull. Indian Astronomical Society, 35, 283-293 125. D. Polishook and N. Brosch Photometry of Aten Asteroids - More Than a Handful of Binaries 2007, Icarus, 194, 111-124 126. Noah Brosch, Alexei Y. Kniazev, David Buckley, Darragh O’Donoghue, Yas Hashimoto, Nicola Loaring, Encarni Romero, Petri Vaisanen, Eric B. Burgh, Kenneth Nordsieck The polar ring galaxy AM1934-563 revisited 2007, MNRAS, 382, 1809–1822 127. A. Saintonge, Giovanelli, R., Haynes, M.P., Lyle Hoffman, G., Kent, B.R., Martin, A.M., Stierwalt, S. and Brosch, N. The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey: V. HI Source Catalog of the Anti-Virgo Region at δ = 27◦ 2007, AJ, 135, 588-604 128. Noah Brosch, David Polishook, Avi Shporer, Shai Kaspi, Assaf Berwald, Ilan Manulis The Centurion 18 telescope of the Wise Observatory 2008, Astrophysics and Space Science, 314, 163-176 129. Gavazzi, G., Giovanelli, R., Haynes, M. P., Fabello, S., Fumagalli, M., Kent, B. R., Koopmann, R. A., Brosch, N., Hoffman, G. L., Salzer, J. J., Boselli, A. HI content and other structural properties of galaxies in the Virgo cluster from the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey 2008, A&A 482, 43-52 130. Rebecca A. Koopmann, R. Giovanelli, M. P. Haynes, B.R. Kent, T. J. Balonek, N. Brosch, J. J. Salzer, and O. Spector A 500 kpc HI tail of the Virgo pair NGC4532/DDO137 detected by the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA (ALFALFA) survey 2008, Ap.J.Lett., 682, 85-88.

35 131. Kent, B.R., Giovanelli, R., Haynes, M.P., Martin, A.M., Saintonge, A., Stierwalt, S., Balonek, T., Brosch, N. and Koopmann, R.A. The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey: VI. HI Source Catalog South of the Virgo Cluster Region 2008, AJ, 136, 713-724.

132. A. Zitrin and N. Brosch, The NGC 672 and NGC 784 Galaxy Groups: Evidence for Galaxy Formation and Growth Along a Nearby Dark Mat- ter Filament 2008, MNRAS, 390, 408-420.

133. Ido Finkelman, Noah Brosch, Alexei Y. Kniazev, David Buckley, Darragh O’Donoghue, Yas Hashimoto, Nicola Loaring, Encarni Romero, and Petri Vaisanen Determining the extragalactic extinction law with SALT 2008, MNRAS, 390, 969-984.

134. D. Polishook and N. Brosch, Photometry and Spin Distribution of Small-Sized Main Belt Asteroids 2009, Icarus, 199, 319-332(arXiv0811.1223)

135. N. Brosch Exotic UV astronomy 2009, Astrophys. Space Sci. (Special issue on UV astronomy), 320, 207-215

136. Elhanan Almoznino, Noah Brosch, Ido Finkelman, Hagai Netzer, Erez R. Yacoby, Jeremy Topaz and Nachman Saar Ground-based calibration of the TAUVEX ﬂight model 2009, Astrophys. Space Sci., 320, 321-341

36 2.3 Papers submitted for publication 1. A. Zitrin, N. Brosch and B. Bilenko Star-Formation Properties of Iso- lated Blue Compact Galaxies 2008, submitted to MNRAS

2. Alexei Y. Kniazev, Noah Brosch, G. Lyle Hoﬀman, Eva K. Grebel, Dan Zucker and Simon Pustilnik The Faint Outer Regions of the Pega- sus Dwarf Irregular Galaxy: A Much Larger and Undisturbed Galaxy 2008, submitted to MNRAS

37 2.4 Chapters in Books • N. Brosch “Life and intelligence in the Universe” in The Essence and Value of Life, (Symposium of the Department of Bible, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, January 6 and 13, 1991, in Hebrew), L. Mazor (ed.), Mt. Scopus Publications, the Magnus Press, The Hebrew University, pp. 33-55.

2.5 Items in Encyclopaedias • N. Brosch 1995 Astronomy (in Hebrew), item for the third Supplement volume of the Hebrew Encyclopaedia (Encylopaedia Ivrit)

2.6 Short Communications 1. N. Brosch and E.M. Leibowitz WZ Sagittae 1979, I.A.U. Circular no.3313.

2. N. Brosch The development of the 1979 outburst of WZ Sagittae 1979, I.B.V.S. no.1693.

3. N. Brosch and E.M. Leibowitz Nova Cr.A. 1981 1981, I.A.U. Circular no.3596.

4. N. Brosch Nova Cr.A.1981 1981, I.A.U. Circular no.3601.

5. N. Brosch On the location of Nova Cr.A.1981 1981, I.B.V.S. no.2003.

6. N. Brosch An occultation by Pluto 1985, I.A.U. Circulars no.4097 and no.4117.

38 7. E. Leibowitz and N. Brosch Periodic Comet Halley 1986, I.A.U. Circular no.4162.

8. E. M. Leibowitz, A. Laor, T. Mazeh and N. Brosch VY Aquarii 1987, I.A.U. Circular no.4418.

9. H. Netzer, D. Maoz, A. Laor, H. Mendelson, N. Brosch, E. Leibowitz, E. Almoznino, S. Beck and T. Mazeh NGC 5548 1989, I.A.U. Circular no.4780.

10. H. Mendelson, E.M. Leibowitz, N. Brosch and E. Almoznino HV Virginis 1992, I.A.U. Circular 5509.

39 2.7 Papers Presented at Meetings 1. N. Brosch and I. Nevo Ptolemy’s report on the color of Sirius and modern observations 1977, Bull. Isr. Phys. Soc. 23, 111.

2. N. Brosch Improved detectivity of faint features via an iterative probabilistic ap- proach 1979, Image Processing in Astronomy, proceedings of the ﬁfth Collo- quium on Astrophysics, Trieste, p.252.

3. N. Brosch Some properties of central regions of isolated galaxies 1981, Bull. Isr. Phys. Soc. 27, 49.

4. J. Mayo Greenberg and N. Brosch A direct measure of the extinction law in an external galaxy- NGC 2685 1981, Bull. Isr. Phys. Soc. 27, 49.

5. N. Brosch Preliminary infrared multiaperture photometry of six isolated galaxies 1981, First UKIRT Symposium (proceedings not published).

6. N. Brosch A search for 6 cm continuum emission from nuclei of isolated galaxies 1981, XVI YERAC (proceedings not published).

7. N. Brosch Properties of galaxies in low density regions 1982, in ”Early Evolution of the Universe and its Present Structure”, proceedings of the IAU Symposium 104, G.O.Abell and G.Chincarini(eds.), p. 207-209.

8. N. Brosch Active inner regions of isolated galaxies 1984, in ”X-ray and UV Radiation from Active Galactic Nuclei”, Pro- ceedings of conference at MPIf Extraterrestrische Physik, W. Brinkmann and J. Trumper (eds.), p. 21.

40 9. P.M. Gondhalekar and N. Brosch Gas in voids 1986, in ”Quasars - IAU Symposium 114” (G. Swarup and V. K. Ka- pahi, eds.) D.Reidel Publishing Co., p. 575.

10. P.M. Gondhalekar and N. Brosch Gas in cosmic voids 1986, Ann. N.Y. Acad.Sciences vol.470, p.380 (12-th Texas Sympo- sium on Relativistic Astrophysics, proceedings of a conference held in Jerusalem, 17-21 December 1984, M. Livio and G. Shaviv, eds.)

11. N. Brosch and J. Mayo Greenberg The Cone nebula 1985, Cosmical Gas Dynamics, F. Kahn (ed.). The VNU Press, pp. 213-221.

12. N. Brosch, H. Mendelson and P.A. Ibbetson The atmosphere of Pluto 1985, Pluto Workshop at the annual meeting of American Astronom- ical Society Division for Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, October 28. Read by E. Tedesco.

13. E. M. Leibowitz and N. Brosch Periodic light variations in the near-nuclear zone of comets P/Halley and P/Giacobini-Zinner 1986, 20th ESLAB Symposium on the exploration of Halley’s comet Heidelberg, ESA SP-250, pp. 605-607.

14. N. Brosch Matter in cosmic voids 1987, invited paper at the annual meeting of the Israel Physical Soci- ety.

15. N. Brosch The UV albedo of Pluto 1987, Pluto Workshop at the annual meeting of American Astronom- ical Society Division for Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, November 9. (Read by E. Tedesco).

16. N. Brosch Dust in early-type galaxies

41 1987, Dust in the Universe meeting in Manchester, England. (1988, in ”Dust in the Universe”, M.E. Bailey and D.A. Williams (eds.) Cam- bridge University Press, pp. 501-507).

17. S. Beck and N. Brosch A new member of the Local Group ? 1987, Dust in the Universe meeting in Manchester, England. (1988, in ”Dust in the Universe”, M.E. Bailey and D.A. Williams (eds.) Cam- bridge University Press, p.560.

18. N. Brosch Dynamics of dust in M101 1987, Dust in the Universe meeting in Manchester, England. (1988, in ”Dust in the Universe”, M.E. Bailey and D.A. Williams (eds.) Cam- bridge University Press, pp. 559-560.

19. S. Beck and N. Brosch A new member of the Local Group ? 1988, Bull.Israel Phys.Soc. 34, 27.

20. N. Brosch Matter in cosmic voids 1988, ”Large Scale Structure of the Universe” meeting in Trieste, Italy.

21. S.A. Stern, T.E. Skinner, N. Brosch, J. van Santvoort and L.M. Trafton The UV Spectrum of Pluto: 2550-3100A 1988, American Astronomical Society Meeting, Austin U.S.A.

22. T.E. Skinner, S.A. Stern, N. Brosch, J. van Santvoort and L.M. Trafton The UV Spectrum of Triton: 2550-3150A 1988, American Astronomical Society Meeting, Austin U.S.A.

23. N. Brosch Wide-ﬁeld imaging in the UV for the Israeli satellite 1989, Bull. Israel Phys.Soc. 35, 1.2. Israeli Physical Society annual meeting, Bar Ilan University, (April 17), invited talk at the Astrophysics session.

24. Stern, S.A., Skinner, T.E., Brosch, N., van Santvoort, J. & Trafton, L.M.

42 UV spectrocopy of Triton and Pluto: comparative results 1989, BAAS, 21, 766, American Astronomical Society Meeting.

25. H. Reitsema, W. Hubbard, D. Hunten, C. Porco, N. Brosch, Y. Nevo, E. Carreira, F. Rossi and L. Wasserman Preliminary results from the occultation of 28 Sgr by the Saturn system: Titan 1989, American Astronomical Society, Division for Planetary Sciences, Providence RI, USA (annual meeting: Oct.31 to Nov.3, 1989).

26. N. Brosch An imaging ultraviolet payload on the Israeli scientiﬁc satellite 1990, in “The Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation”, IAU Symposium 139, S. Bowyer and C. Leinert (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Holland, pp. 453-456. (Meeting took place in Heidelberg, F.R. Germany.)

27. N. Brosch The UV imager for the Israeli scientiﬁc satellite 1990, in “Observatories in Earth Orbit and Beyond”, IAU Colloquium no. 123, Y. Kondo (ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Holland, pp. 471-474. (Meeting took place at the Goddard Space Flight Center, April 24 to 27, 1990).

28. N. Brosch TAUVEX - Israeli ultraviolet astronomy from space 1991, Bull. Israel Phys.Soc. 37, 20. Israel Physics Society annual meeting at Ben Gurion University (March 27), invited talk at the Astrophysics section.

29. N. Brosch The UV telescopes for the Israeli scientiﬁc satellite 1991, The 17th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, Tel Aviv, April 5-6.

30. M. Postman, L. Siciliano, M. Shara, D. Rehner, N. Brosch, C. Sturch, B. Bucciarelli and C. Lopez The second HST guide star photometric catalog 1992, in “Digitized Optical Sky Surveys”, (H.T. MacGillivray, E.B. Thomson, eds.), Dordrecht: Kluwer, p. 61.

43 31. J. Topaz, O. Braun, N. Brosch TAUVEX - UV Space Telescope SPIE “Ultraviolet Technology IV” 1764, San Diego 1992, pp. 94-105.

32. N. Brosch, A. Shemi, O. Braun and J. Topaz TAUVEX - the Israeli space telescope “Ultraviolet and Visible observations from space”, COSPAR meeting during the World Space Congress, 28 August-5 September 1992, Washington D.C.

33. N. Brosch, A. Shemi, O. Braun and J. Topaz The TAUVEX experiment “Photon Detectors for Space Instrumentation” ESA Symposium, ES- TEC 10-12 November 1992, pp. 243-247.

34. O. Braun, J. Topaz, N. Brosch Calibration of UV imaging sensors in TAUVEX ”Recent advances in sensors, radiometric calibration and processing of remotely sensed data” (Pat E. Chavez and Robert A. Schowengerdt, eds.), 1993 SPIE 1938, pp. 132-140.

35. N. Brosch, A. Shemi, J. Topaz and O. Braun TAUVEX status report, 1993 IPS meeting, (April 4) Tel Aviv Univer- sity.

36. E. Almoznino and N. Brosch UV and optical properties of Virgo cluster dwarf galaxies, 1993 IPS meeting, (April 4) Tel Aviv University.

37. N. Brosch Far-UV astronomy at the North Galactic Pole, 1993 IPS meeting, (April 4) Tel Aviv University.

38. J. Topaz, O. Braun, N. Brosch TAUVEX - UV Space Telescope in “Ultraviolet technology IV” SPIE 1764, 94-105.

39. J. Topaz, O. Braun, N. Brosch TAUVEX - UV astronomical telescope in proceedings of the 8th meeting on Optical Engineering in Israel (M. Oron, I. Shadlov, and Y. Weissman, eds.) SPIE 1971, pp. 212-220.

44 40. B. Bilenko and N. Brosch Properties of galactic dust in the UV, 1993 IPS meeting, (April 4) Tel Aviv University. 41. G. Mersov and N. Brosch The prediction of stellar UV magnitudes, 1993 IPS meeting, (April 4) Tel Aviv University. 42. E. Goldberg and N. Brosch Imaging polarimetry of comet P/Swift-Tuttle, 1993 IPS meeting, (April 4) Tel Aviv University. 43. N. Brosch and E. Almoznino UV and optical observations of the Virgo cluster, 1993 Workshop on Galaxy clusters and large scale structures in the Universe, Sesto-Moos (Bolzano), Italy (June). 44. A. Shemi, G. Mersov, N. Brosch and E. Almoznino The prediction of stellar ultraviolet colors 1994 in “Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems III” (D.R. Crabtree, R.J. Hanisch, and J. Barnes, eds.), pp. 451-454, Astronom- ical Society of the Paciﬁc Conference Series 61, San Francisco, Cali- fornia. 45. N. Brosch UV observations with FAUST and the Galactic model 1994, in “Hot stars in the halo” (S.J.Adelman, A. Upgren, and C.J. Adelman, eds.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 116-123. 46. N. Brosch, A. Shemi, H. Netzer, A. Blasberger and J. Topaz The TAUVEX UV imager on SRG 1994 in “Advances in multilayer and grazing incidence X-ray/EUV/FUV optics” (Richard B. Hoover and Arthur B. Walker, eds.), SIPE 2279, pp. 469-478. 47. S. Larson, J. Scotti, E. Howell, R. Marcialis, M. Nolan, M. A’Hearn, D. Wellnitz, H. Campins, P. Doherty, D. Rabinowitz, H. Butner, S. Tapia, F. Vilas, M. Bessell, N. Brosch, A. Gilmore, P. Kervin, J. Africano, S. Levine, W. Schuster, R. Martin, F. Moreno, A. Molina, R. Rutten, M. Kidger The Comet Impact Network Experiment (CINE) 1994 AAS DPS meeting.

45 48. S. Larson, J. Scotti, E. Howell, R. Marcialis, M. Nolan, M. A’Hearn, D. Wellnitz, H. Campins, P. Doherty, D. Rabinowitz, H. Butner, S. Tapia, F. Vilas, M. Bessell, N. Brosch, A. Gilmore, P. Kervin, J. Africano, S. Levine, W. Schuster, R. Martin, F. Moreno, A. Molina, R. Rutten, M. Kidger Preliminary Results from CINE 1994 AAS DPS meeting.

49. N. Brosch, A. Shemi, A, Blasberger and J. Topaz The TAUVEX UV imager, 45th International Astronautical Federa- tion meeting, Jerusalem, Israel, October 1994.

50. A. Shemi, N. Brosch, H. Netzer, B. Bilenko and E. Almoznino Simultaneous ultraviolet observations, 45th International Astronauti- cal Federation meeting, Jerusalem, Israel, October 1994.

51. Shemi, A., Brosch, N., Almoznino, E., Bilenko, B., and Mersov, M. The ultraviolet sky: Preparation of UV maps for space missions 1994 in “Israel Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 34th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences”, pp. 288-291.

52. N. Brosch The UV content of Virgo cluster galaxies 1995 in “Stellar Populations-IAU Symposium 164” (P.C. van der Kruit and G. Gilmore, eds.), Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 450-451.

53. E. Almoznino and N. Brosch Stellar populations of dwarf galaxies 1995 in “Stellar Populations-IAU Symposium 164” (P.C. van der Kruit and G. Gilmore, eds.), Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 430-431.

54. N. Brosch and E. Almoznino Late-Type Dwarfs in the Virgo Cluster, International Workshop on Observational Cosmology: From Galaxies to Galaxy Systems, Italy 4th July - 7th July 1995.

55. N. Brosch TAUVEX and the nature of the cosmological UV background 1996 Examining the Big Bang and Diﬀuse Background Radiations (M. C. Kafatos & Y. Kondo, eds.), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Pub- lishers, p. 553. (proceedings of the IAU Symposium 168, the Hague, Holland)

46 56. N. Brosch The TAUVEX UV imager and its contribution to the study of dust, 1996 in “The Cosmic Dust Connection” (J.M. Greenberg, ed.), Dor- drecht: Kluwer Academic Press, pp. 247-256. 57. B. Bilenko and N. Brosch Dust properties and distribution in the UV, 1996 in “The Cosmic Dust Connection” (J.M. Greenberg, ed.), Dordrecht: Kluwer Aca- demic Press, pp. 257-264. 58. N. Brosch and E. Almoznino Star Formation Histories of Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, 1996 in “From Stars to Galaxies – The Impact of Stellar Physics on Galaxy Evolution” (C. Leitherer, U. Fritze-von Alvensleben, & J. Huchra, eds.) ASP Conf. Series Vol. 98, pp. 352-353. 59. S. Steindling, K. Rakos and N. Brosch Diagnosing galaxies by Str¨omgren colors, 1996 in “From Stars to Galax- ies – The Impact of Stellar Physics on Galaxy Evolution” (C. Leitherer, U. Fritze-von Alvensleben, & J. Huchra, eds.) ASP Conf. Series Vol. 98, pp. 60-61. 60. A. Heller, E.Almoznino and N. Brosch Morphology of BCD and LSB dwarf galaxies in Virgo, 1996 in “From Stars to Galaxies – The Impact of Stellar Physics on Galaxy Evolution” (C. Leitherer, U. Fritze-von Alvensleben, & J. Huchra, eds.) ASP Conf. Series Vol. 98, pp. 337-338. 61. N. Brosch and B. Bilenko The role of UV observations in understanding dust and its morphology, 1996 in “Dust Morphology-New extragalactic perspectives in the new South Africa” (D. Block, ed.), Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 155-158. 62. N. Brosch Dust in early-type galaxies: New results on the wavelength-dependence of the extinction, 1996 in “Dust Morphology-New extragalactic perspectives in the new South Africa” (D. Block, ed.), Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 521-522. 63. N. Brosch The TAUVEX UV imager (invited paper at the 7th Asian-Paciﬁc Re- gional Meeting of the IAU, Pusan Korea, August 18-23, 1996)

47 1996, Journal of the Korean Astronomical Society 29 (Supplement), S421-S423.

64. N. Brosch Ultraviolet sky surveys 1996, invited review at the IAU Symposium 179 (Baltimore, August 26-30, 1996)

65. N. Brosch TAUVEX and its contribution to time series studies 1997, in “Astronomical Time Series” (D. Maoz, A. Sternberg & E.M. Leibowitz, eds.) Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 285-290.

66. N. Brosch Gazing into the MgF2 ball: UV astronomy for the third millenium 1997, in ”The UV Universe at Low and High Redshift: Probing the Progress of Galaxy Evolution” (W. H. Waller, M. N. Fanelli, and A. C. Danks eds.), New York:AIP.

67. A. Heller, E. Almoznino and N. Brosch Dwarf galaxies: what triggers star formation ? 1997, IAU Symposium 186 ”Galaxy interactions at high and low redshifts” (IAU GA Kyoto), p. 142.

68. N. Brosch, A. Heller and E. Almoznino Virgo and other late-type dwarfs 1997, Joint Discussion no. 2 of the IAU General Assembly in Kyoto.

69. N. Brosch TAUVEX 1997, invited talk at the Nordic Symposium for Relativistic Astro- physics, Denmark (Dk).

70. N. Brosch TAUVEX - a wide ﬁeld UV imager 1997, invited talk at the ”Ultraviolet Astrophysics - Beyond the IUE Final Archive” ESA and NASA meeting, Sevilla (Sp).

71. A. Heller, N. Brosch, & E. Almoznino Virgo low surface brightness dwarf galaxies 1998, talk at the Low Surface Brightness Universe meeting, Cardiﬀ (UK).

48 72. N. Brosch, A. Heller & E. Almoznino Morphological aspects of star formation in dwarf irregular galaxies 1998, talk at the Low Surface Brightness Universe meeting, Cardiﬀ (UK).

73. N. Brosch Highlights of dwarf galaxy research 1999, invited talk at the Annual Meeting of the Israel Physics Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

74. H.W. Schnopper, E. Silver, S. Murray, et al., including N. Brosch XRASE: The X-ray Spectroscopic Explorer, 1999, presentation at the Workshop on Science with MINISAT 01 (April 1999, Madrid, Spain)

75. H.W. Schnopper, E. Silver, S. Murray, et al., including N. Brosch XRASE: The X-ray Spectroscopic Explorer, 1999, presentation at the Workshop on Science with MINISAT 01 (April 1999, Madrid, Spain)

76. N. Brosch The 1999 Leonid observational campaign in Israel 2000, invited talk at the ninth UN/ESA workshop on Basic Space Sciences, Toulouse (France).

77. N. Brosch WSO/UV: Planetary and galactic science 2000, invited talk at the ninth UN/ESA workshop on Basic Space Sciences, Toulouse (France).

78. N. Brosch, R. Hudec, P. Kroll & M. Tsvetkov Saving astronomical treasures 2000, presentation at the Conference of New Era of Wide-Field As- tronomy, Preston (UK).

79. W. Wamsteker, R. Gonzalez-Riestra, P.M. Rodriguez-Pascual, J.D. Ponz, A.I. Gomez de Castro, B. Shustov, N. Kappelmann, N. Brosch, A. Talavera, B. Montesinos, A. Cassatella for the WSODac WSO/UV: World Space Observatory/Ultraviolet 2000, presented at the annual meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Association (September).

49 80. N. Brosch The WSO/UV imagers 2001, invited talk at the “World Space Observatory and Ultraviolet Astronomy” meeting, Beijing (China)

81. N. Brosch Dwarf galaxies of the Virgo Cluster 2002, invited review at the Ringberg Castle Workshop on the Virgo Cluster (Germany)

82. Hernanz, M., Gonzalez-Riestra, R. and 14 others including N. Brosch WSO/UV: World Space Observatory/Ultraviolet, 2002, contributed paper at the ”Classical Novae” meeting at Stiges (Spain), 20-24 May. To be published in the proceedings by AIP

83. N. Brosch & I. Manulis Panoramic observations of the 2001 Leonids, 2002, in ”Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2002 (ACM2002)” (B. Warm- bein, ed.) ESA SP-500, pp. 209-212.

84. N. Brosch, Ravit Helled, D. Polishook, S. Schijvarg & I. Manulis Light curves of Geminids in 2001 2002, in ”Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2002 (ACM2002)” (B. Warm- bein, ed.) ESA SP-500, pp. 273-276.

85. E. N. Ribak, A. Laor, D. Faiman, S. Biryukov, & N. Brosch it Converting PETAL,the 25m solar collector, into an astronomical research facility 2003, SPIE Hawaii 2002: Interferometry for Optical Astronomy II, Proc SPIE 4838, Ed. W. A. Traub, pp. 1031-1036.

86. The WSO consortium (including N. Brosch) WSO: a world-class observatory for the ultraviolet 2003, SPIE Hawaii 2002: Interferometry for Optical Astronomy II, Proc SPIE 4854, Eds. J. Chris Blades & O.H.W. Siegmund, pp. 364- 374.

87. Y.-J. Choi, D. Prialnik & N. Brosch Rotation and cometary activity of KBO (29981) 1999 TD10 2002, 8th IAU Asian-Paciﬁc Regional Meeting, July 2-5, 2002, Tokyo, Japan.

50 88. Isabella Pagano, et al. (64 authors, including N. Brosch) The World Space Observatory Project WSO/UV , 2003 Mem. S.A.It. vol. 73, 23-26.

89. Liliana Formiggini & N. Brosch Commonalities in the spectra of normal galaxies 2003, JENAM 2003 ”The UV sky: linking the present to the future”, Budapest (Hungary)

90. N. Brosch Wide ﬁeld astronomy at the Wise Observatory 2003, JENAM 2003 ”Synergies in Wide Field Observations”, Budapest (Hungary)

91. Choi, Y. J., Prialnik, D., Brosch, N. Thermal Structure of Centaur Objects, 2005, DPS 37, 5604

92. Stierwalt, S., Haynes, M. P., Giovanelli, R., Kent, B., Saintonge, A., Karachentsev, I. D., Karachentseva, V. E., Brosch, N., Catinella, B., Hoﬀman, L., Momjian, E. ALFALFA Survey of the Leo Region, 2005, AAS 207, 187.03

93. Saintonge, A., Giovanelli, R., Haynes, M. P., Kent, B. R., Stierwalt, S., Brosch, N., Catinella, B., Momjian, E. A Signal Extraction Utility for the ALFALFA Survey, 2005, AAS 207, 187.02

94. Haynes, M. P., Giovanelli, R., Kent, B. R., Saintonge, A., Stierwalt, S., Catinella, B., Momjian, E. M., Hoﬀman, G. L., Rosenberg, J. R., Brosch, N., and 2 coauthors Complex Structure in the ALFALFA HI Distribution around VirgoHI21, 2005, AAS 207,179.23

95. Giovanelli, R., Haynes, M. P., Kent, B., Saintonge, A., Stierwalt, S., Brosch, N., Hoﬀman, L. G., Rosenberg, J., Catinella, B., Momjian, E. ALFALFA Discovery of an HI Cloud Complex in the Virgo Cluster, 2005, AAS 207, 179.22

96. Kent, B. R., Giovanelli, R., Haynes, M. P., Saintonge, A., Stierwalt, S., Brosch, N., Catinella, B., Hoﬀman, G. L., Momjian, E., Rosenberg, J. L. ALFALFA Observations of the Virgo cluster and its environs, 2005, AAS 207, 179.20

51 97. Brosch, N., Nemiroﬀ, R., Shamir, L. 2006. Panoramic camera systems for meteor tracking and meteorite recovery. Astronomy in Antarctica, 26th meeting of the IAU, Special Session 7, 22-23 August, 2006 in Prague, Czech Republic, SPS7, #12 7, .

98. Polishook, D., Brosch, N. 2006. Observations of binary NEOs at the Wise Observatory. IAU Symposium 236, .

99. Polishook, D., Brosch, N. 2006. Many binaries among NEAs. Pre- sented at NASA workshop on asteroid mitigation and also ArXiv As- trophysics e-prints arXiv:astro-ph/0607128.

100. Brosch, N. 2007 Exotic UV telescopes Presented at the El Escorial, Spain.

101. Pagano, I., Barstow M., Brosch N., Gomez de Castro A.I., Huang M., Kappelmann N., Piotto G., Scuderi S., Sachkov M., Shustov B., Werner K., and Zhao, G. 2008, The World Space Observatory - Ultra- violet Project SCIENCE WITH THE NEW HUBBLE SPACE TELE- SCOPE AFTER SERVICING MISSION 4 JANUARY 29-31, 2008 - CNR CONFERENCE CENTRE, BOLOGNA, ITALY.

102. Noah Brosch & David Polishook 2008, Asteroid Observations at the Wise Observatory, invited contribution to the First Middle East- Africa IAU Regional Meeting, Cairo (Egypt), May 2008

103. N. Brosch, J. Murthy, H. Netzer and E. Almoznino 2008, TAUVEX: Israel-India Collaboration to Map the Ultraviolet Sky, poster contribution to the First Middle East-Africa IAU Regional Meeting, Cairo (Egypt), May 2008

104. N. Brosch, O. Spector, A. Zitrin and E. Almoznino 2008, Star Forma- tion in Various Environments, poster contribution to the First Middle East-Africa IAU Regional Meeting, Cairo (Egypt), May 2008

105. Polishook, D., Brosch, N., Kaspi, S. 2008. Simultaneous Spectroscopic and Photometric Observations of Binary Asteroids. LPI Contributions 1405, 8132.

106. Polishook, D., Brosch, N. 2008. Eﬃcient Photometry of Small Main Belt Asteroids Using a Wide-Field CCD. LPI Contributions 1405, 8064.

52 2.8 Internal Publications of the Wise Observatory 1. N. Brosch A UV imaging payload on the Scientiﬁc OFFEQ satellite - design con- siderations Technical report no. 2, Sept. 1989.

2. N. Brosch Wise Observatory - site and equipment Technical report no. 3.

3. N. Brosch, H. Netzer, E.M. Leibowitz Scientiﬁc Research with TAUVEX Report of the Phase A study for the National Scientiﬁc Satellite Technical report no. 4, January 1990 [submitted to the Israeli Space Research Agency], 161p.

4. N. Brosch and P.A. Ibbetson The faint object spectrometer camera (FOSC) of the Wise Observatory Technical report no.5, July 1990.

5. S. Kaspi, P. Ibbetson, E. Mash’al and N. Brosch Wise Observatory Manual, December 1996 (updated version, available on line at http://wise-obs.tau.ac.il).

53 2.9 Articles in the popular press, most in Hebrew • N. Brosch 1977-1979, short series of 19 articles on popular astronomy in Hebrew, in Sal’it, nature monthly periodical for the young, published by the Israeli Nature Preservation Society.

• N. Brosch 1977-1989, some 30 articles on popular astronomy in Hebrew, in “Col Cochvey Or”, bi-monthly journal of the Israel Astronomical Associa- tion.

• N. Brosch and J. Topaz UV space telescope will provide new capabilities 1991, Laser Focus World 27 (5), 199-203.

• N. Brosch and J. Topaz Space astronomy in the ultraviolet: A ﬁrst Israeli experiment 1991, J. British Interplanetary Society 45, 497.

• J. Topaz and N. Brosch Will the Israeli astronomical telescope go into space ? 1991, Spectrum.

• N. Brosch since 1990, a number of articles in the “Galileo” monthly.

• N. Brosch 1990 to 2007, “Sky and Earth”, a weekly column in Hebrew on Science and Technology, in the Sunday Science Supplement of Ma’ariv. More than 600 articles published.

2.10 Notable public activities Many lectures at schools in the context of the Ba’Shaar organization. Or- ganization of the “Transit of Venus” event at Tel Aviv University, which attracted about 3000 physical visitors and more than 16000 virtual visitors through web access. Organization of the 2005 International Year of Physics activities at Tel Aviv University.