Dae-Sik Moon
Assistant Professor
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
University of Toronto
50 St. Geroge Street
Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada
e-mail: moon at astro.utoronto.ca
phone: 1 416 978-6566, fax: 1 416 946-7287
Travel Schedule
Since July 2006 I am an assistant professor in
the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Prior to this position from the fall of 2003,
I was a Robert A. Millikan Postdoctoral Fellow
for Experimental Astrophysics in
the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy (PMA) at
Caltech.
In the PMA division,
I worked in the Space Radiation Laboratory (SRL)
in the Physics Department.
My faculty hosts were Fiona Harrison
in SRL/Physics/ Astronomy
and Shri Kulkarni
in Astronomy.
I also worked with Keith Matthews and
Tom Soifer in
the Infrared Army/Physics.
Before that, I spent 5 years at Ithaca
upstate New York for my PhD from Cornell University
where I worked in the Infrared Astrophysics Group of
the Astronomy Department.
My thesis advisers were
Steve Eikenberry and
Jim Houck.
I'm originally from
Seoul National University at Seoul, Korea,
where I worked with Prof. Bon-Chul Koo in
Astronomy .
Over the past years, I have been working on experimental astrophysics and astronomical instrumentation
(mainly in infrared and optical), together with observational studies
of objects assocated with core-collapse supernovae such as
compact objects (neutron stars, black holes, and X-ray binaries), gamma-ray bursts,
supernovae, supernova remnants, and pulsar wind nebulae. I also began working on highly-obscured
hard X-ray sources and ultra-luminous X-ray sources.
Research Interests
- Experimental Astrophysics and Astronomical Instrumentation
- Compact Objects: Neutron Stars, Black Holes, and X-ray Binaries
- Supernovae and Gamma-ray Bursts
- Supernova Remnants and Pulsar Wind Nebulae
- Highly-obscured Hard X-ray Sources
- Ultra-luminous X-ray Sources
Experimental and Instrumentational Projects
- Calibration Unit of Adaptive Optics System of the Thirty-Meter Telescope (being studied)
- Wide Integral-Field Infrared Spectrograph (being designed)
- Near-InfraRed Echelle Spectrograph for the Keck I Telescope (being finished)
- Echell Integral-Field Imagaing Spectrograph for Infrared for a future Large Korean Telescope (proposed)
- Palomar 60-inch Automation Project (finished)
- Infrared Photon-counting photometer based on the Edge-illuminated Solid-State Photomultiplier (finished)
- High-speed Data Acqusition System for Multi-channel Infrared/Optical Photometry (finished)
Observational Projects
- Near-Infrared and Mid-Infrared Spectrosopy of Highly-obscured Hard X-ray Soruces and X-ray Binaries
- Akari Observations of Supernova Remnants and Pulsar Wind Nebulae in the Galaxy and LMC/SMC
- Near-Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy of Young Galactic Supernova Remnants
- Keck Optical Spectroscopy of Ultra-luminous X-ray Sources
- The Caltech Core-collapse Supernovae Program (CCCP)
Publications in Referred Journals
Teaching
Last Modified: 2006, Sep 4