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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...

18 February 2020

Magnetars in the Fermi Era

Le 27 septembre 2013 De 10h30 à 11h30 Amphithéâtre - Grande Coupole George YOUNES USRA - Huntsville (USA) Magnetars are thought to be isolated neutron stars powered by the most intense magnetic fields known in the universe (B~10^14-10^16 G). These rare objects, with a total...

18 February 2020

The Halo System of the Milky Way and the CEMP Stars Connection

Le 26 septembre 2013 De 12h30 à 13h30 Amphithéâtre - Grande Coupole Daniela CAROLLO Macquarie University - AAO (Australie) I summarize the current view of the nature of the halo of the Galaxy, which comprises at least an inner halo and outer halo population, each with...

18 February 2020

Astrometry Lost and Regained

Le 28 juin 2013 À 10h30 Amphithéâtre - Grande Coupole Erik HOEG Niels Bohr Institute Copenhagen, Danemark From an experiment in Copenhagen in 1925 to the Hipparcos and Gaia space missions. Astrophysicists need accurate positions, distances and motions of stars in order to...