Prof. Irakli Simonia

The list of selected publications

Here is presented the list of selected articles and papers in astrophysics  and archaeoastronomy.
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1.Simonia.I. On the necessity of a cosmic mission to Encke's comet. Comet circular No. 370. Kiev, Ukraine, 1987.

2.Simonia.I. Feasibility of luminescence analysis in the study of comet samples. Transactions of the conference on the physics of minor bodies of the Solar System Dushanbe, Tajikistan. August, 1989.

3.I.Simonia.Feasibility of luminescence analysis in the study of minerals and meteorites. Astronomic circular, 1538, Moscow, Russia, 1989.

4.Simonia I. Velocity of Gas Rejection in the Heads of Borelly (1903 YI) and Delavan (1914) comets. Cometary circular, N413, Kiev, Ukraine, 1990.

5.Simonia I. Dependence of Gas Out flow Velocity in Comet Heads from Heliocentric Distance. Cometary circulal, N420. Kiev, Ukraine, 1990.

6.Simonia I.Changing gas out flow rates in comet heads. Trans. International Conference "Second Vsekhsvyatski Memorial Session", Kiev, Ukraine, 1990.

7.Simonia I. Simonia Ts. The East and the West and Astronomy in Georgia. Proceedings of the International Symposium held in April-May, 1992 in Frombork, Poland. Warshawa, Poland, 1994.

8.Churyumov K.I., Simonia I.A., Taxonomy of Cometary Nuclei. Trans. of International S.Vsekhsvyatski and V.Bogorodski. Memorial Workshop "Small bodies of the Solar system, physics of the Sun, relativistic astrophysics" (Kiev, 14-17, 1994) and Third International S.Vsekhsvyatski Memorial Session "Physics, dinamics and cosmology of small bodies of the Solar system, physics of Sun and heliosphere" (Kiev, June 26-30, 1995), 1998, Kiev, Ukraine.

9.Simonia I. The luminescence Flow Detection as a Method for Revealing Iron Meteorites Microstructure Features. Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions, 1995, Vol.7.

10.Simonia I., Simonia Ts. The Dust around Cool Stars "The Carbon Star Phenomenon" Proceedings of the 177th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Antalia, Turkey, May,1996.

11.Simonia I., Simonia Ts. On the Variation of Neutral Gas Outflow Rate in Comet Heads with the Variations of their Heliocentric distance. JENAM 6th European and 3rd Hellenic Astronomical Society Conference, Greece, July, 1997 (Abstract volume).

12.Simonia I.Churyumov K.I On the outflow rate in the heads of six bright comets. Trans. International S.Vsekhsvyatski and V.Bogorodski. Memorial Workshop "Small bodies of the Solar system, Solar physics, relativistic astrophysics" (Kiev, Nov.14-17, 1994)and Third International S.Vsekhsvyatski Memorial Session "Physics, dinamics and cosmology of small bodies of the Solar system, physics of Sun and heliosphere" (Kiev, June 26-30, 1995), 1998, Kiev, Ukraine.

13.Simonia I. Luminescence of Cometary Hydrocarbons. Comments on Modern Physics (Comments on Astrophisics), Number 1, Vol.1, Part E, 1999, USA.

14.Simonia I. Ancient Georgian Cosmogram. Circular of the Shamakhy Astrophysical Observatory named after N.Tousi, N99, 2000. Baku, Azerbaijan.

15.Simonia I. Latitudinal Distribution of the Craters of Mars Containing the Dark Matter. 32d Vernadsky-Brown Microsymposium on Comparative Planetology. Moscow, Russia, 2000 (volume of abstract).

16.Simonia I. Little Known Aspects of the History of Georgian Astronomy. Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, Vol., 4, No. 1, 2001.

17.Simonia I. Simonia Ts. Triton Surface Evolution. Astronomical and astrophysical Transactions, vol. 22(1), 2003.

18.Simonia I. Abuserisdze Tbeli in Context of the Development of Ancient Georgian Astronomy. Bulletin of the Georgian Academiy of Sciences vol., 168, 3, 2003.

19.Simonia I. Old Georgian Astronomical manuscripts. Journal of Astronomical Data, Vol.10,7, 2004.

20.Simonia I. Luminescence of Dust in the Nebula CED 201. Astrophysics, vol. 47, No. 4, 2004.

21.Simonia I. Unidentified Cometary Emission Lines as the Photoluminescence of Frozen Hydrocarbon Particles. Astronomy Letters, Vol. 30,No. 12, 2004.

22.Simonia I. Frozen hydrocarbon Particles as a Luminescent Dust Component of nebular Matter. Astrophysics, Vol.48, No. 3, 2005.(Download)

23.Simonia I., Simonia T. Metal artifacts as a Mirror of ancient Georgian Astronomical World View. Current Studies in Archaeoastronomy. Selected Papers from the Fifth Oxfoed International Conference at Santa Fe, 1996. Edited by J.W. Fountain, R.M. Sinclair. Carolina academic press, 2005.

24.Simonia I. Frozen Hydrocarbon Particles of Cometary Halos as Carriers of Unidentified Emissions. J. Astrophys. Astr. 26, 2005. (Download)

25.Simonia.I Mikailov Kh. Photoluminescence and Cathodoluminescence by Cosmic Dust. Astronomy Reports, vol. 50, ¹12, 2006, pp. 960-964.

26.Simonia.I On the Nature of Unidentified Cometary Emission Lines. Solar System Research, vol. 41, ¹ 2, 2007, pp. 129-131.

27. Simonia, I. On the Possible Luminescence Nature of Unidentified Cometary Emissions. Astrophys.Space Sci., 2007, 312, pp. 27-33.

28.Simonia, I., Ruggles, C., Chagunava, R. Ethnographic and Literary Reflections on Ancient Georgian Astronomical Heritage. Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 2008, 11 (3), pp. 213 – 218.


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