Cesare Barbieri

Cesare Barbieri is a Professor of astronomy at the University of Padova. He was born in S. Giovanni Persiceto, Italy, on November 27, 1942. In 1985–1991, he was Director of Astronomical Observatory Padova; in 1990–1998, Director of Telescopio Nazionale Galileo Canary Islands; in 1980–1987, Italian responsible Halley Multicolour Camera, ESA Mission GIOTTO to comet Halley; in 1985–1987, in the ESA Astronomy Working Group; in 1991–1994, ESA Space Science Advisory Committee and Horizon since 2000; in 1988–1992, in ESO Scientific Technical Committee; in 1977–1994, in the Team Faint Object Camera Hubble Space Telescope; since 2001, in Advisory Panel Astronomical Research, Estonia; in 2004-2005, in Advisory Panel, Belgian Ministry of Research for astronomical project; and since 1995 to date, Italian responsible in OSIRIS/ROSETTA. His current teaching activities and main academic duties include courses of fundamental astronomy, astrophysics of stars and planets, elements of astronomy and astrophysics courses in astronomy and aerospace engineering. He is in Board of Scuola Galileiana di Eccellenza, Director of the Ph.D. School in Space Sciences and Technologies. Barbieri's ongoing research themes include diffuse sodium in the solar system (comets, Mercury, Io); spectrophotometry of comets and asteroids; telescopes and instrumentation; and quantum optics for astronomy. His main conferences and books (in English) are European Satellite Astrometry (ESA Conference, 1977), The Three Galileos: the man, the spacecraft, the telescope (1997, Kluwer), Earth-Moon Relationships (2000, Kluwer), Fundamentals of Astronomy (2006, Taylor and Francis). He shared in many scientific exhibits: 1986 Halley and Giotto (Padova and European cities), 1993 Galileo (Madrid), 1996 from Galileo to the Galileo Telescope (La Palma, Canary Islands), and 1997 Viaggio nel Cosmo (Padova and Rome). He is Member in Accademia Galileiana, Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere Arti, SAIt , IAU, EAS. He received NASA Group Award for FOC/HST, Gold Medal of Italian Ministry for Public Education for Education, Culture and Art.

Biography Updated on 4 February 2008

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. OSIRIS – The Scientific Camera System Onboard Rosetta
    Space Science Reviews, vol. 128, no. 1-4, pp. 433–506, 2007
  2. Observations of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 around the Deep Impact event by the OSIRIS cameras onboard Rosetta
    Icarus, vol. 187, no. 1, pp. 87–103, 2007
  3. Observations of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 around the Deep Impact event by the OSIRIS cameras onboard Rosetta?
    Icarus, vol. 191, no. 2, pp. 241–257, 2007
  4. Entanglement-based quantum communication over 144?km
    Nature Physics, vol. 3, no. 7, Article ID nphys629, 5 pages, 2007
  5. Modeling of the light scattering properties of cometary dust using fractal aggregates
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 461, no. 1, pp. 351–364, 2007
  6. Determination of the light curve of the Rosetta target asteroid (2867) Steins by the OSIRIS cameras onboard Rosetta
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 462, no. 1, pp. L13–L16, 2007
  7. Astronomical applications of quantum optics for extremely large telescopes
    Journal of Modern Optics, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 191–197, 2007
  8. Polarimetric survey of asteroids with the Asiago telescope
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 455, no. 1, pp. 371–377, 2006
  9. First albedo determination of 2867 Steins, target of the Rosetta mission
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 449, no. 2, pp. L9–L12, 2006
  10. The 1966-1967 Outburst of V1647 Orionis and the Appearance of McNeil's Nebula
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 132, no. 3, pp. 1298–1306, 2006
  11. Overcoming the Rayleigh Criterion Limit with Optical Vortices
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 97, no. 16, 2006
  12. Observations of Mercury's exosphere: Spatial distributions and variations of its Na component during August 8, 9 and 10, 2003
    Icarus, vol. 185, no. 2, pp. 395–402, 2006
  13. The F-type asteroids with small inversion angles of polarization
    Icarus, vol. 178, no. 1, pp. 213–221, 2005
  14. A search of outer Trojans on ASTROVIRTEL images
    Planetary and Space Science, vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 643–651, 2005
  15. Asteroid target selection for the new Rosetta mission baseline
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 430, no. 1, pp. 313–317, 2005
  16. A large dust/ice ratio in the nucleus of comet 9P/Tempel 1
    Nature, vol. 437, no. 7061, Article ID nature04236, 3 pages, 2005
  17. 3C 345: the historical light curve (1967-1990) from the digitized plates of the Asiago Observatory
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 356, no. 1, pp. 336–342, 2005
  18. Deep Impact Observations by OSIRIS Onboard the Rosetta Spacecraft
    Science, vol. 310, no. 5746, pp. 281–283, 2005
  19. The History of the Mysterious Eclipses of KH 15D. II. Asiago, Kiso, Kitt Peak, Mount Wilson, Palomar, Tautenburg, and Rozhen Observatories, 1954-1997
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 129, no. 4, pp. 1978–1984, 2005
  20. Water ice on the surface of the large TNO 2004 DW
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 422, no. 2, pp. L43–L46, 2004
  21. The dust environment of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 422, no. 1, pp. 357–368, 2004
  22. Visible spectral properties of asteroid 21 Lutetia, target of Rosetta Mission
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 425, no. 2, pp. L25–L28, 2004
  23. MEMORIS: a wide angle camera for the BepiColombo mission
    Advances in Space Research, vol. 33, no. 12, pp. 2182–2188, 2004
  24. Mass transfer in the satellite system of Neptune: implications for Triton's crater asymmetry
    Planetary and Space Science, vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 671–677, 2004
  25. First observations of the Na exosphere of Mercury with the high-resolution spectrograph of the 3.5M Telescopio Nazionale Galileo
    Planetary and Space Science, vol. 52, no. 13, pp. 1169–1175, 2004
  26. A 0.4–2.5 µm spectroscopic investigation of Triton's two faces
    Icarus, vol. 168, no. 2, pp. 367–373, 2004
  27. Visible and near-infrared spectroscopic investigation of near-Earth objects at ESO: first results
    Icarus, vol. 169, no. 2, pp. 373–384, 2004
  28. Visible spectroscopy of the two largest known trans?Neptunian objects: Ixion and Quaoar
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 408, no. 3, pp. L17–L19, 2003
  29. Digitization and Scientific Exploitation of the Italian and Vatican Astronomical Plate Archives
    Experimental Astronomy, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 29–43, 2003
  30. The 1999 Quadrantids and the lunar Na atmosphere
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 327, no. 1, pp. 244–248, 2001
  31. Collisional processes and transfer of mass among the planetary satellites
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 374, no. 3, pp. 1135–1149, 2001
  32. Earth, Moon, and Planets, vol. 85/86, pp. 487–495, 1999
  33. Earth, Moon, and Planets, vol. 85/86, pp. 479–486, 1999
  34. Osiris—The optical, spectroscopic and infrared remote imaging system for the Rosetta Orbiter
    Advances in Space Research, vol. 21, no. 11, pp. 1505–1515, 1998
  35. Possible detection of meteor stream effects on the lunar sodium atmosphere
    Planetary and Space Science, vol. 46, no. 8, pp. 1003–1006, 1998
  36. Experimental Astronomy, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 257–279, 1997
  37. Veritas Asteroid Family: Remarkable Spectral Differences Inside a Primitive Parent Body,
    Icarus, vol. 127, no. 1, pp. 112–120, 1997
  38. Spectroscopic observations of the sodium atmosphere of the Moon
    Planetary and Space Science, vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 417–420, 1996
  39. Visible Spectroscopy of Dark, Primitive Asteroids
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 110, p. 3058, 1995
  40. Faint Object Camera imaging and spectroscopy of NGC 4151
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 440, p. 151, 1995
  41. High-resolution imaging of the Pluto-Charon system with the Faint Object Camera of the Hubble Space Telescope
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 435, p. L75, 1994
  42. The population of massive stars in R136 from HST/FOC UV observations
    Space Science Reviews, vol. 66, no. 1-4, pp. 69–73, 1994
  43. A stochastic model for the variability of NGC 6814
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 405, p. 163, 1993
  44. Faint Object Camera Far-Ultraviolet Objective Prism Observations of 12 Z > 3 Quasars
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 417, p. 528, 1993
  45. The Population of Massive Stars in R136 from Faint Object Camera Ultraviolet Observations
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 419, p. 658, 1993
  46. Discovery of an optical synchrotron jet in 3C 264
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 402, p. L37, 1993
  47. Detection of an ultraviolet and visible counterpart of the NGC 6624 X-ray burster
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 413, p. L117, 1993
  48. The SA 94 QSO surveys. V - an UVx sample of 97 QSOs with B not greater than 19.9
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 103, p. 1062, 1992
  49. Blue stragglers in the core of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae
    Nature, vol. 352, no. 6333, Article ID 352297a0, 4 pages, 1991
  50. First results from the Faint Object Camera - Images of the gravitational lens system G2237 + 0305
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 369, p. L59, 1991
  51. First results from the Faint Object Camera - SN 1987A
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 369, p. L63, 1991
  52. First results from the Faint Object Camera - Imaging the core of R Aquarii
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 369, p. L67, 1991
  53. First results from the faint object camera - High-resolution imaging of the Pluto-Charon system
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 374, p. L65, 1991
  54. The optical variability of the quasar 3C 446
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 359, p. 63, 1990