Alexander Kashlinsky

{{short description|Latvian astronomer and cosmologist}}

Alexander (Sasha) Kashlinsky (born 1957 in Riga) is an astronomer and cosmologist working at NASA Goddard-Space-Flight-Center, known for work on dark flow{{cite journal

| author = A. Kashlinsky

| author2 = F. Atrio-Barandela

| author3 = D. Kocevski

| author4 = H. Ebeling

| name-list-style = amp

| title = A measurement of large-scale peculiar velocities of clusters of galaxies: results and cosmological implications

| journal = Astrophys. J.

| volume = 686

| date = 2008

| issue = 2

| pages = 49–52

| url = http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/pdf/276176main_ApJLetters_20Oct2008.pdf

| accessdate = 2010-07-15

| doi=10.1086/592947|arxiv = 0809.3734 |bibcode = 2008ApJ...686L..49K | s2cid = 16335692

}} Also, {{cite journal

| author = A. Kashlinsky

| author2 = F. Atrio-Barandela

| author3 = D. Kocevski

| author4 = H. Ebeling

| name-list-style = amp

| title = A measurement of large-scale peculiar velocities of clusters of galaxies: technical details

| journal = Astrophys. J.

| volume = 691

| date = 2009

| issue = 2

| pages = 1479–1493

| url = http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/pdf/276175main_ApJ_inpress.pdf

| accessdate = 2010-07-15

| doi=10.1088/0004-637X/691/2/1479

| bibcode=2009ApJ...691.1479K|arxiv = 0809.3733 | s2cid = 11185723

}}

and the cosmic infrared background.

Kashlinsky has been interviewed by Morgan Freeman in season 2 of Through the Wormhole.