Basic data
Born: March 12, 1974, in Bergen, Norway
Citizenship: Norwegian
Marital status: Married
Children: None
Present address: Canal Digital AS, Snarøyveien 30, N-1331 Fornebu, Norway
Home address: Bentsegata 2, N-0465 Oslo, Norway
Phone: (+47) 97 66 66 36 (Office/Mobile), (+47) 21 90 85 81 (Home)
Fax: (+47) 96 21 39 03(Office)
E-mail: [send]
Home-page URL: http://www.astro.uio.no/~rirgens/
University degrees
Candidatus Magisterii (B.Sc. equivalent): Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, December 1996.
Candidatus Scientiarum (M.Sc. equivalent): Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, July 1999.
Title of thesis: Virial Mass Determinations of Clusters of Galaxies
Supervisor: Professor Per B. Lilje, University of Oslo
Grade: 1.5 (on a scale from 1.0 to 6.0, 4.0 being the poorest passing grade)
PhD: Maybe sometime...2003 - : Canal Digital AS, CD Tech / Projects & Standardization (Telenor)
2002 - 2003: Zonavi AS, Distribution Systems (Telenor)
2001 - 2002: Telenor Satellite Broadcasting, Product Development - Technology
Academic employment
1997 - 2001: Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate course "A101: Grunnkurs i astronomi" at the University of Oslo.
1999 - 2000: Research Assistant at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, dep. of Electronics. Working with radar satellite image data. Using IDL, ION and IDL DataMiner (Research Systems Inc.), HTML, SQL and Oracle 8 (Database). Windows NT, HP UX.
2000: External examiner for the undergraduate course "A111: Astronomi/Astrofysikk" at the University of Oslo.
2001-2006: External Examiner for the undergraduate courses A101, AST101, AST1010 ("Grunnkurs i astronomi") at the University of Oslo.
2001-2002: External Examiner for the advanced course "UNIKI 322: Satellite Surveilance" at the University of Oslo, Kjeller and NTNU.
2002-2006: External Examiner for the advanced course "UNIK 4530: Surveilance Theory" at the University of Oslo, Kjeller.
Workshop and conference participation
Workshop on Gravitational Lensing: Time Delays, Extra-Galactic Microlensing and Weak Lensing, June 10-12, 1998, Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo, Norway.
Fysikermøtet 1998, June 10-11, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Astrophysics with the NOT, August 12-15 1998, Turku, Finland.
Talks
Cosmology: How Can We Weigh the Dark Matter? Short review talk presented at "Fysikermøtet 1998", June 10-11 1998, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.The Hidden Secrets of the Universe: A presentation of my results from studies of clusters of galaxies. November 1999, at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment.
Publications
- Virial Mass Determinations of Clusters of Galaxies
Cand. Scient. thesis, University of Oslo, July 1999.
R.J. Irgens- Weak gravitational lensing by X-ray luminous clusters of galaxies
Conference proceedings from "Astrophysics with the NOT" (p. 97), Turku, Aug. 1998.
H. Dahle, N. Kaiser, P.B. Lilje, R.J. Irgens, K. Pedersen, S.J. Maddox- Weak gravitational lensing by a sample of X-ray luminous clusters of galaxies - I. The data set
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (ApJS) 2002, Volume 139, Issue 2, pp. 313-368.
H. Dahle, N. Kaiser, R.J. Irgens, P.B. Lilje, S.J. Maddox- Weak gravitational lensing by a sample of X-ray luminous clusters of galaxies - III. Comparison with virial data
The Apstrophysical Journal (ApJ), 1. Nov. 2002, Volume 579, Issue 1, pp 227-235.
R.J. Irgens et al.- IAUC 7163: Supernova 1999cb in Markarian 881
Granslo, B. H.; Trondal, O.; Schwartz, M.; Irgens, R. J.; Holen, H.- Several popular science articles published in "Astro Rapport" and elsewhere.
Telescope time (as Co-I)
March 1997: 3 nights, Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT), Weak gravitational lensing in rich clusters of galaxies
Oct/Nov 1997: 4 nights, NOT, Weak gravitational lensing in X-ray luminous clusters of galaxies
July 1998: 4 nights, NOT, Weak gravitational lensing in X-ray luminous clusters of galaxies
May 1999: 7 nights, NOT, Weak gravitational lensing by X-ray selected clusters of galaxies
August 2003: 2 weeks, Swedish Solar Telescope (SST)
August 2004: 2 weeks, SST
Other relevant information
1993-2006: Assistant editor, Astro Rapport (Norwegian astronomy and spaceflight magazine).
1993-1999: Staff member at the NOVA observatory in Vestfold, Norway. In charge of telescope optics.
1999-2004: Staff member at the NOVA observatory in Vestfold, Norway. In charge of CCD activity.
Have given numerous popular science talks during the past twelve years (2-15 each year).