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18 February 2020

A dusty object approaching SgrA*

Le 20 décembre 2013 Andreas Eckart Universität zu Köln A fast moving infrared excess source (G2) which is widely interpreted as a core-less gas and dust cloud approaches Sagittarius~A* (SgrA*)  on a presumably elliptical orbit. VLT Ks-band and Keck K'-band data result in...

18 February 2020

Multiple accretion events as a trigger for past Sagittarius A* activity

Le 13 décembre 2013 Devaky Kunneriath Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Prague Gas clouds are present in the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way, where they orbit around the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*. Collisions between these clumps reduce their...

18 February 2020

Photometric binaries from space-borne survey missions

Le 29 novembre 2013 De 10h30 à 11h30 Lev Tal-Or Tel Aviv University (Israel) The photometric space-borne survey missions CoRoT and Kepler were designed mainly to discover transiting planets. However, they are capable of much more. Thousands of eclipsing binaries were detected...

18 February 2020

How to publish a paper in Nature

Le 8 novembre 2013 De 10h30 à 12h00 Amphithéâtre - Grande Coupole Leslie Sage University of Maryland (USA) Nature is one of the world's leading scientific journals, publishing many papers that receive wide attention by the general public. But, Nature is very selective-- less...

18 February 2020

Probing gravity with radio pulsars

Le 25 octobre 2013 De 10h30 à 12h00 Amphithéâtre - Grande Coupole Norbert Wex Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn   Before the 1970s, precision tests for gravity theories were constrained to the weak gravitational fields of the Solar system. Hence, only the...