Marianna Dafčíková


Marianna Dafčíková

Marianna is a Master student at Masaryk University working with data from the GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2 CubeSats. The main focus of her bachelor work was to study the effects of space weather events at low Earth orbit using observations from these nanosatellites, and to investigate the possibility of GRBAlpha's radio loss caused by solar energetic particles.

Besides the scientific analysis of the data, Marianna also participates in their acquisition by helping with operations of the GRBAlpha CubeSat.

EDUCATION:
 
 
since 09/2022 MSc in Astrophysics
 
2019 - 2022 BSc in Astrophysics: “Modeling the Low Earth Orbit Particle Background of GRBAlpha using Space Weather Data” at Masaryk university, Brno, Czech republic; Supervisor: Mgr. Jean-Paul Breuer; Advisor: RNDr. Jakub Řípa, Ph.D.
 
 

Selected Publications

Characterization of more than three years of in-orbit radiation damage of SiPMs on GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2 CubeSats (arXiv).
J. Ripa, M. Dafcikova, P. Kosik, F. Münz, M. Ohno, G. Galgoczi, N. Werner, A. Pal, L. Meszaros, B. Csak, Y. Fukazawa, H. Takahashi, T. Mizuno, K. Nakazawa, H. Odaka, Y. Ichinohe, J. Kapus, J. Hudec, M. Frajt, M. Rezenov, V. Daniel, P. Svoboda, J. Dudas, M. Sabol, R. Laszlo, M. Koleda, M. Duriskova, L. Szakszonova, M. Kolar, N. Husarikova, J.-P. Breuer, F. Hroch, T. Vitek, I. Vertat, T. Urbanec, A. Povalac, M. Kasal, P. Hanak, M. Smelko, M. Topinka, H.-K. Chang, T.-C. Liu, C.-H. Lin, C.-P. Hu, C.-C. Tsao, November 2024, ArXiV preprint.

GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2: GRB observations with CubeSats after 3 years of operations (arXiv).
F. Münz, J. Řípa, A. Pál, M. Dafčíková, N. Werner, M. Ohno, L. Meszáros, V. Dániel, P. Hanák, J. Hudec, M. Frajt, J. Kapuš, P. Svoboda, J. Dudáš, M. Kasal, T. Vítek, M. Kolář, L. Szakszonová, P. Lipovský, M. Ďuríšková, I. Veřtát, M. Sabol, M. Junas, R. Maroš, P. Kosík, Z. Frei, H. Takahashi, Y. Fukazawa, G. Galgóczi, B. Csák, R. László, T. Mizuno, N. Husáriková, K. Nakazawa, August 2024, SPIE.

GRBAlpha: The smallest astrophysical space observatory. I. Detector design, system description, and satellite operations (arXiv).
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, Y. Ichinohe, K. Kapás, L.L. Kiss, H. Matake, H. Odaka, H. Poon, A. Povalač, J. Takátsy, K. Torigoe, N. Uchida, Y. Uchida, August 2023, A&A.


For a complete list of publications see here.