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Gunnlaugur Björnsson - Research Scientist
–
School of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Gunnlaugur Björnsson
Íslenska
Research Scientist
Location
Tæknigarður / Tg-322
Phone
525 - 4792
Email
gulli [at] hi.is
Unit
The Institute of Physical Sciences, Physics Division
Website
https://notendur.hi.is/gulli/
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1800-6382
Research portal – Gunnlaugur Björnsson
Courses 2024 - 2025
EÐL625M - Astronomical Observations, Data Reduction and Analysis
Collaboration
Dr. Guðlaugur Jóhannesson
,
University of Iceland
Dr. Stéphanie Courty
,
University of Central Lancashire
Dr. Páll Jakobsson
,
University of Hertfordshire
Dr. Johan Fynbo
,
University of Copenhagen
,
University of Copenhagen
Prof. Einar H. Guðmundsson
,
University of Iceland
Education
1990
,
Ph.D.
,
University of Illinois
,
Astrophysics
1986
,
MS
,
University of Illinois
,
Astrophysics
1982
,
BS
,
University of Iceland
,
Physics
Professional Experience
2000 -
,
Research professor,
Science Institute
1996 -
1999,
Associate Professor,
University of Iceland
1999 -
1999,
Professor,
University of Iceland
1991 -
1996,
Research scientist,
Science Institute
1986 -
1990,
Research Fellow,
Nordita, Copenhagen
Published works
2021
GRB host galaxies with strong H
2
absorption
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2019
Gamma-Ray Burst Host Galaxies
Astrophysical Journal
2018
Low-energy Electrons in Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow Models
Astrophysical Journal Letters
2016
Study of high-latitude ionosphere
Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
2015
THE OPTICALLY UNBIASED GRB HOST (TOUGH) SURVEY. VII. the HOST GALAXY LUMINOSITY FUNCTION
Astrophysical Journal
Development of conjugate aurora observation in Iceland
Advanced Science Letters
Interhemispheric Symmetries and Asymmetries of Aurora from Ground-Based Conjugate Observations
2014
GRB 120422A/SN 2012bz
Astronomy and Astrophysics
2013
Ground-Based Aurora Conjugacy and Dynamic Tracing of Geomagnetic Conjugate Points
Dynamics of basaltic glass dissolution - Capturing microscopic effects in continuum scale models
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
Large flow shears around auroral beads at substorm onset
Geophysical Research Letters
2012
Galaxy counterparts of intervening high-z sub-DLAs/DLAs and Mg ii absorbers towards gamma-ray bursts
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Rapid-response mode VLT/UVES spectroscopy of super iron-rich gas exposed to GRB 080310
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Ground-based aurora conjugacy and dynamic tracing of geomagnetic conjugate points
Geophysical Monograph Series
2011
Magnetic local time dependence of geomagnetic disturbances contributing to the AU and AL indices
Annales Geophysicae
TEC variations at GPS stations over high-latitude and at the equatorial region
Probing gamma-ray burst environments with time variability
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
GRB070125 and the environments of spectral-line poor afterglow absorbers
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Midnight sector observations of auroral omega bands
Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
The circumburst density profile around GRB progenitors
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Super iron-rich gas towards GRB 080310
The circumburst density profile around GRB progenitors
2010
Varying interplanetary magnetic field B
y
effects on interhemispheric conjugate auroral features during a weak substorm
Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
Plasma irregularities adjacent to auroral patches in the postmidnight sector
Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
Erratum
Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
2009
Solar-terrestrial observations at bipolar conjugate points using global positioning system
Permanent Carbon Dioxide Storage into Basalt
Energy Procedia
Monitoring of GPS PWV variability at bipolar conjugate points
Low-resolution spectroscopy of gamma-ray burst optical afterglows
Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
2008
Numerical counterparts of GRB host galaxies
Electric field modulation behind pulsating aurora
Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
2007
GRB Host Galaxies and Galaxy Evolution
EAS Publications Series
Luminosity functions of gamma-ray burst afterglows
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Numerical counterparts of GRB host galaxies
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Luminosity distribution of GRB afterglows
2006
Afterglow light curves and broken power laws
Astrophysical Journal
Probing cosmic chemical evolution with gamma-ray bursts: GRB060206 at z=4.048
Astronomy and Astrophysics
H I column densities of z > 2 Swift gamma-ray bursts
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Energy injection in gamma-ray burst afterglow models
Astrophysical Journal
Numerical simulations of host galaxies of gamma-ray bursts
2005
GRB 021004 modelled by multiple energy injections
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Star formation efficiency and host galaxies of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Nuovo Cimento della Societa Italiana di Fisica C
Energy injection episodes in GRBs
Nuovo Cimento della Societa Italiana di Fisica C
Modelling GRB 021004 by multiple energy injections
Nuovo Cimento della Societa Italiana di Fisica C
Spectro-photometric study of the GRB 030329 host galaxy
Nuovo Cimento della Societa Italiana di Fisica C
Low energy response of a prototype detector array for the PoGO astronomical hard X-ray polarimeter
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Host Galaxies of Gamma-Ray Bursts and Galaxy Formation
Modelling the afterglow of GRB 021004 with multiple energy injections
PROPERTIES OF LY-α AND GAMMA RAY BURST SELECTED STARBURSTS AT HIGH REDSHIFTS
Lyα and UV emission from high-redshift GRB hosts: To what extent do GRBs trace star formation?
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lyα and ultraviolet emission from high-redshift gamma-ray burst hosts
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
The GRB 030329 host
Astronomy and Astrophysics
2004
Swift identification of dark gamma-ray bursts
Astrophysical Journal
Líkan af glæðum gammablossa
RAUST - Tímarit um raunvísindi og stærðfræði
Host Galaxies of Gamma-Ray Bursts
RAUST - Tímarit um raunvísindi og stærðfræði
Dispersion of Light and the Geometric Structure of the Universe
RAUST - Tímarit um raunvísindi og stærðfræði
The line-of-sight towards GRB 030429 at z = 2.66
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Host galaxies of gamma-ray bursts and their cosmological evolution
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Energy injection episodes in gamma-ray bursts
Astrophysical Journal
2003
An HST study of three very faint GRB host galaxies
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Polarization in GRB Afterglows
2002
Afstæðilegir strókar í gammablossum
Hulduorka og þróun hins sýnilega heims
Dark energy and the observable universe
Astrophysical Journal
The afterglow and complex environment of the optically dim burst GRB 980613
Astrophysical Journal
The afterglow of GRB 010222
Astrophysical Journal
2001
The host galaxy and optical light curve of the gamma-ray burst GRB 980703
Astronomy and Astrophysics
The Jet and the Supernova in GRB~990712
A Deep, High-Resolution Imaging Survey of GRB Host Galaxies
The afterglow of the short/intermediate durtation gamma-ray burst GRB 000301C: A jet at z=2.04
Astronomy and Astrophysics
The jet and circumburst stellar wind of GRB 980519
Astrophysical Journal
The jet and the supernova in GRB 990712
Astrophysical Journal
2000
The polarization variability in the optical afterglow of GRB 990712
Astrophysical Journal
Hubble Space Telescope Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph imaging of the host galaxy of GRB 980425/sn 1998bw
Astrophysical Journal
Accretion disks phase transitions
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
The broken light curves of gamma-ray bursts GRB 990123 and GRB 990510
Astronomy and Astrophysics
1999
Sýnilegir glampar gammablossa
Polarimetric constraints on the optical afterglow emission from GRB 990123
Science
Decay of the GRB 990123 optical afterglow
Science
1998
Sólir og Svarthol
The role of electron-positron pairs in accretion flows
1996
Structure of Accretion Disks with Optically Thick-Optically Thin Transitions
Astrophysical Journal
Modified Newtonian Potentials for the Description of Relativistic Effects in Accretion Disks Around Black Holes
Astrophysical Journal
Hot Accretion Disks Revisited
Astrophysical Journal
1995
Cosmological Observations in a Closed Universe
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Optically thin accretion disks in the Kerr metric
Astrophysical Journal
A General Formula for Radiative Cooling and Global Structure of the Accretion Disk
1994
Stjarnfræðilegar athuganir í hrynjandi veröld
1992
Heitar gasskífur umhverfis svarthol
Hot pair-dominated accretion disks
Astrophysical Journal
Limit Cycles in Pair Dominated Accretion Disks
1991
On the stability of electron-positron pair equilibria and the X-ray variability of active galactic nuclei
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
A recipe for making hot accretion disks
Astrophysical Journal
A New Approach to Hot Accretion Disks
A Recipe for Making Hot Accretion Disks
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