Filip Hroch


Filip Hroch

Mr. Filip Hroch is man who is counting the photons. His interest is focused on astronomical photometry, specially on base of photon counting detectors, as well as on all the fundamental principles (astro-)physics; He works on field of robust statistical methods.

Mr. Hroch studied on Masaryk university (Moravia); his final thesis was focused on study of meteor showers, and gamma-ray bursts.

Mr. Hroch has worked for Astronomical Institute in Ondřejov (Bohemia), and Integral Space Data Centre in Versoix (Helvetia).

Mr. Hroch is developer of Munipack and related software. He is also proud Debian Maintainer.

EDUCATION:
 
 
2004 PhD in Optical afterglows
 
 
1996 MSc in Showers of meteors
 
 

POSITIONS:
 
 
1997 - 2004  Astronomical Institute in Ondřejov, Czech Republic
 
2003 - 2004  ISDC, Versoix, Confoederatio Helvetica
 

Selected Publications

Characterization of more than three years of in-orbit radiation damage of SiPMs on GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2 CubeSats (arXiv).
J. Řípa, M. Dafčíková, P. Kosík, F. Münz, M. Ohno, G. Galgóczi, N. Werner, A. Pál, L. Mészáros, B. Csák, and collaborators including F. Hroch, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 170513, 2025.

Science with a Small Two-Band UV-Photometry Mission I: Mission Description and Follow-up Observations of Stellar Transients (DOI).
N. Werner, J. Řípa, C. Thöne, F. Münz, P. Kurfürst, M. Jelínek, F. Hroch, J. Benáček, M. Topinka, G. Lukes-Gerakopoulos, M. Zajaček, M. Labaj, and collaborators, Space Science Reviews, vol. 220, 2024.

GRBAlpha: the smallest astrophysical space observatory - Part 1: Detector design, system description and satellite operations (adsabs).
A. Pál, M. Ohno, L. Mészáros, N. Werner, J. Řípa, B. Csák, M. Dafčíková, M. Frajt, Y. Fukazawa, P. Hanák, J. Hudec, N. Husáriková, J. Kapuš, M. Kasal, M. Kolář, M. Koleda, R. Laszlo, P. Lipovský, T. Mizuno, F. Münz, K. Nakazawa, M. Rezenov, M. Šmelko, H. Takahashi, M. Topinka, T. Urbanec, J-P. Breuer, T. Bozóki, G. Dálya, T. Enoto, Z. Frei, G. Friss, G. Galgóczi, F. Hroch, and collaborators, A&A, vol. 677, A40, 2023.

The peak-flux of GRB 221009A measured with GRBAlpha (adsabs).
J. Řípa, H. Takahashi, Y. Fukazawa, N. Werner, F. Münz, A. Pál, M. Ohno, M. Dafčíková, L. Mészáros, B. Csák, N. Husáriková, M. Kolář, G. Galgóczi, J-P. Breuer, F. Hroch, and collaborators, A&A, vol. 677, L2, 2023.


For a complete list of publications see here.