N. Tyurina
Papers
11
Total Citations
184
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About
N. Tyurina is a pioneering astrophysicist whose career has been defined by the development and scientific exploitation of the MASTER Global Robotic Network, a system of fully automated optical telescopes. Her key research areas encompass the rapid follow-up of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the polarimetric and photometric study of their afterglows, and the long-term monitoring of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Tyurina’s major contributions include co-authoring the foundational papers on the MASTER system’s equipment and algorithms (over 100 combined citations), which enabled the first Russian robotic observations of GRB optical counterparts and the discovery of an optical flare from GRB 060926. Her work on the changing-look AGN NGC 2617, involving multiwavelength reverberation mapping from 2016-2022, has been highly influential, as has her spectropolarimetry of GRB 191221B using the Southern African Large Telescope. With a publication record spanning over two decades, Tyurina’s research has not only advanced our understanding of high-energy transients and supermassive black hole physics but also established a lasting robotic observatory infrastructure that continues to yield critical data.
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- 2MASTER: The Mobile Astronomical System of Telescope-Robots28 citations · 2004
- 3Optical polarization observations with the MASTER robotic net22 citations · 2013
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- 7DISCOVERY OF MORE CHANGING LOOK EVENTS IN NGC 15667 citations · 2019
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