Publications:   Hot dust in interacting galaxies and active galactic nuclei.


In collaboration with the infrared group at Cornell and the ISOCAM group at CEA/Saclay, France, Vassilis Charmandaris is examining the mid-infrared properties of a number of interacting and active galaxies.
  • "Mid-Infrared observations of the ultraluminous galaxies IRAS 14348-1447, IRAS 19254-7245, and IRAS 23128-5919"
    V. Charmandaris, O. Laurent, E. Le Floc'h, I.F. Mirabel, M. Sauvage, S.C. Madden, P. Gallais, L. Vigroux, & C. Cesarsky, 2002, Astron. Astroph., 391, 429
  • "Extended Mid-Infrared emission from VV 114: probing the birth of a ULIRG"
    E. Le Floc'h, V. Charmandaris, O. Laurent, I.F. Mirabel, P. Gallais, M. Sauvage, L. Vigroux, & C. Cesarsky, 2002, Astron. Astroph., 391, 417
  • "Resolving the burried starburst in Arp299",
    V. Charmandaris, G. J. Stacey, & G. Gull, 2002, Astrophys. J., 571, 282
  • "Mid-IR and CO Observations of the IR/X-Ray Luminous Seyfert I Galaxy NGC985: The Making or Breaking of a ULIRG?"
    P.N. Appleton, V. Charmandaris, Y. Gao, F. Combes, F. Ghigo, C. Horellou, & I.F. Mirabel, 2002, Astrophys. J., 566, 682
  • "Mid-Infrared observations of NGC 1068 with the Infrared Space Observatory"
    E. Le Floc'h, I.F. Mirabel, O. Laurent, V. Charmandaris, P. Gallais, M. Sauvage, L. Vigroux, & C. Cesarsky, 2001, Astron. Astroph.,372, 527
  • "The mid-infrared view of star formation in collisional ring galaxies"
    V. Charmandaris, O. Laurent, I.F. Mirabel, P. Gallais, M. Sauvage, L. Vigroux, & C. Cesarsky, 2001, Astroph. & Space Science, Vol. 276, 553
  • "A new mid-infrared diagnostic between AGNs and starbursts"
    O. Laurent, I.F. Mirabel, V. Charmandaris, P. Gallais, M. Sauvage, L. Vigroux, & C. Cesarsky, 2001, Astroph. & Space Science, Vol. 276, 569
  • "A mid-infrared diagnostic to distinguish AGNs from starbursts"
    O. Laurent, I.F. Mirabel, V. Charmandaris, P. Gallais, S. Madden, M. Sauvage, L. Vigroux, & C. Cesarsky 2000, Astron. Astroph., 359, 887
  • "Plasma and Warm Dust in the Collisional Ring Galaxy VIIZw466 from VLA and ISO Observations"
    P.N. Appleton, V. Charmandaris, C. Horellou, I.F. Mirabel, F. Ghigo, J. Higdon, & S. Lord 1999, Astrophys. J., 527, 143
  • "A barred spiral at the center of the giant elliptical radio galaxy Centaurus A"
    I.F. Mirabel, O. Laurent, D.B. Sanders, M. Sauvage, V. Charmandaris, M. Tagger, P. Gallais, L. Vigroux, C. Cesarsky, & D.L. Block 1999, Astron. Astroph., 341, 667
  • "Dust in the Wheel: The Cartwheel Galaxy in the Mid-IR"
    V. Charmandaris, O. Laurent, I.F. Mirabel, P. Gallais, M. Sauvage, L. Vigroux, C. Cesarsky,. & P.N. Appleton, 1999, Astron. Astroph., 341, 69
  • "The dark side of star formation in the Antennae galaxies"
    I.F. Mirabel, L. Vigroux, V. Charmandaris, M. Sauvage, P. Gallais, D. Tran, C. Cesarsky, S. Madden, & P.-A. Duc, 1998, Astron. Astroph., 333, L1