Zoltán Balog (born on October 10, 1972, in Szolnok, Hungary) is an astronomer with the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.Max Planck Institute for Astronomy Zoltan Balogh retrieved 18 Aug, 2010 In 2006, while at the Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona, Balog's team was the first to observe the complete process of photoevaporation of a protoplanetary disk.Linda Vu, Spitzer Science Center (3 Oct, 2006) Planets Prefer Safe Neighborhoods retrieved 18 Aug, 2010
Observations Balog's team was the first to observe protoplanetary disk photoevaporation and the resulting dust tail using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.Spitzer Space Telescope Image (5 Oct, 2006) retrieved 8 Jan, 2007 The resulting paper was published in Astrophysical Journal.Abstract of Paper: Spitzer MIPS 24 μm Detection of Photoevaporating Protoplanetary Disks (Oct, 2006) retrieved 8 Jan, 2007 Balog's collaborators and co-authors are astronomers James Muzerolle, Erick T. Young, George Rieke and Kate Su, (5 Oct, 2006) retrieved 8 Jan, 2007 all of the University of Arizona at Tucson. Balog is a member of the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) Guaranteed Time Observations (GTO) team led by George Rieke.
Publications Balog earned his PhD in Physics in 2005 from the University of Szeged, Hungary. He was also a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory pre-doctoral fellow between 1999 and 2002 at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian.
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