Home page of Filip Hroch

Image of Hippo: Do not wonder about craizy the picture above. But I am really a hippo - at least regarding the meaning of my family name (in Czech, hippo - hroch).

I'm the astronomer. I am interesing in optical variability of the Active galactic nuclei, especially blazars and their connection to gamma-ray bursts. I computed a light curve of optical afterglow. I am working in field of advanced methods for the processing of astronomical images. I works in INTEGRAL team. I cooperate with Rene Hudec. Bio.

Some links: links. My another web page on Physics server

I have been interested in following problems during last years:

Meteors.
My diploma research was done on field of statistical methods of determining radiant of meteor streams using the method known as 'Probability Distribution Function' from RADIANT code by R. Arlt. Display map.
KW method.
I have coded Kwee-Woerden method for evaluating time of minima of eclipsing binary stars. The package is available here. I have also main and dataset with gaussian noise N(0,0.1) for function y = 1 + |x|, description in Czech and old Pascal sources in great chaos.
CCD photometry.
I work with DAOPHOT and ROMAFOT procedures for crowded fields stellar photometry. I have coded package MUNIPHOT for aperture photometry of our CCD frames. More information about MUNIPHOT (in Czech) is here and here in English.
Matching algorithms.
I have coded a MUNIMAT program for finding cross- references between CCD frames or stellar catalogue and CCD frames. MUNIMAT package description and source code links are available here.
Munipack
I have developed the simple package for the time series photometry. This package Munipack is available for UNIX user at my office computer (sources + docs + binaries). See also Munipack Home page.
Utilites for CCD frames reduction.
The another link to this utilites is here.
Midas.
I use MIDAS package from ESO for reducing our CCD frames. Example: I made astrometry of the comet 1996B2 (Hyakutake) with my friends from Brno here.
Nova Cygni 1992.
I have observed it with my friends D. Hanzl and E. Safarova-Neureiterova. See IAU Circ. No. 5520 and 5537.
FITS.
FITS is a flexible image transport system. Description can be found in : Wells et al.: Astron. Astrophys.Suppl.Ser. 44,363-370, (1981). More info about general FITS package here.
My seminary on KTFA (in Czech).
Postscript file (100k)
Elliptic Integrals and Functions.
Main file is eliptfun.f.
Simulated sky
I was developed OMC simulator.
A First Course in Fortran 90 Programming
in HTML format in Czech is here
The robust detection of stars on CCD images
This link contains electronic version of this paper.
Photometric study of eclipsing binary RV Tri
This link contains electronic version of this paper.
NightView
The NightView is a software package to control of the SBIG's CCD cameras under Linux.