Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard (born 6 October 1950) is a Danish astronomer at
Aarhus University in
Denmark. He specializes in
asteroseismology and
helioseismology. He has made significant contributions to both fields, including predicting the oscillation of Sun-like stars in 1983.[1] He is the head of "Rumudvalget" (the committee of space of the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation)[2] and the Stellar Astrophysics Centre (SAC) supported by the Danish National Research Foundation. He is co-investigator on the
Kepler mission[3] and, with
Hans Kjeldsen in Aarhus, leads the 500+ researchers in the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium (KASC).[4] KASC is responsible for the asteroseismology component of the Kepler mission. Christensen-Dalsgaard has published several papers on this subject.[5] He was also previously the president of Commission 27 of the
International Astronomical Union.[6]
He has been featured on Danish television and radio several times[7] and has given many free public lectures on astronomy and asteroseismology.[8][9][10]
Pijpers, F.P.; Christensen-Dalsgaard, J.; Rosenthal, C.S., eds. (1998). SCORe'96: Solar Convection and Oscillations and their Relationship. Berlin: Springer. p. 324.
ISBN978-0-792-34852-8.
^Christensen-Dalsgaard, J. (2003), "Commission 27: Variable stars (Etoiles variables)", Transactions of the International Astronomical Union, 25A: 271,
Bibcode:
2003IAUTA..25..271C