George Helou

Title: Senior Science Advisor

Room Number: KS-323B

Office Phone: 626-395-8585

Mail Code: 314-6

Email (@ipac.caltech.edu): gxh

Research Interests: Helou's research has ranged from interstellar communications to cosmology, with an abiding interest in understanding galaxies, the formation of stars out of gas and dust, and the evolution of the first generation of galaxies and quasars into today's universe. He has discovered some basic properties of galaxies, mostly relating to their infrared and radio emission behavior, and identified the physics underlying these properties. His more recent foray into time-domain astronomy and Solar System objects led to the discovery of ꞌAylóꞌchaxnim, the first asteroid whose orbit is entirely confined within the orbit of Venus.