The Laboratory of High Energy Astrophysics was founded in August 2025 as a new division of the FAI to address scientific problems in X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy. The laboratory’s staff conducts research in the following areas related to high-energy processes in the Universe:
– Physics of cosmological gamma-ray bursts.
– Late-stage stellar evolution (formation of X-ray binary systems with degenerate components, formation of isolated neutron stars, formation of X-ray pulsars in binary systems).
– Accretion in binary systems with degenerate components (processes of matter flow from non-degenerate companions to neutron stars, wind and channeled accretion, rotational evolution of neutron stars in binary systems).
– Physics of neutron stars (magnetic fields, evolution of radio pulsars).
Currently, the Laboratory consists of four staff members (see widget on the left). The laboratory is headed by leading researcher, associate professor, PhD Yerlan Aimuratov