Star Formation and Interstellar Medium

Architectures de bolomètres pour des Télescopes à grand champ de vue dans le domaine sub-Millimétrique au Sol

ArTéMiS est une caméra dédiée à la recherche en astrophysique dans le domaine submillimétrique. Elle est installée sur le télescope APEX, dans le désert d’Atacama au Chili, à 5100 m d’altitude. ArTéMiS est le seul instrument imageur disponible pour ces longueurs d’onde (observations simultanées à 350 et 450 microns) dans l’hémisphère sud.

ArTeMiS bolometer array

Wide-field submm imager for next generation telescopes

Latest news : Artemis installed on APEX (25 sept. 2013) The Artemis camera has been successfully installed on APEX telescope during the summer 2013. The new camera has already delivered a spectacularly detailed view of the Cat’s Paw Nebula. APEX telescope at 5100 m on Llano Chajnantor in Chile (Credit ESO). The commissioning team that installed ArTeMIS had to battle against extreme weather conditions to complete the task.

CASSINI-CIRS

An infrared spectrometer of the CASSINI probe

CASSINI-CIRS An infrared spectrometer of the CASSINI probe The Composite InfraRed Spectrometer (CIRS for "Composite InfraRed Spectrometer") is one of the instruments on board the Cassini probe. The Cassini probe was inserted in orbit around Saturn on July 2004, six and half years after its launch.

DGS

The Herschel Dwarf Galaxy Survey

"The ISM in Low Metallicity Environments: Bridging the Gap Between Local Universe and Primordial Galaxies" The Herschel Dwarf Galaxy Survey is a Guaranteed Time Key Program led by Suzanne Madden.

ELT Metis

Spectro-imageur dans l'infrarouge au foyer du télescope géant ELT. Infrared spectral imager made to be installed in the ELT.

HERSCHEL

Herschel An Infrared and Sub-millimetre Observatory The Herschel telescope is a scientific space mission developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) dedicated to observing the Universe in the infrared and sub-millimetre ranges (wavelengths between 60 et 670 µm), a window of the electromagnetic spectrum that is still largely unexplored. It measures 9 m in length, 4 m in diameter and will weigh over 3 metric tons upon launch.

JWST

The James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched on 25 December 2021 is the successor of the Hubble Space Telescope. This is a NASA led mission with the participation of Europe, under the responsibility of the European Space Agency (ESA), and of Canada through the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). The telescope has a collecting area 7 times larger than that of the HST and is dedicated to observe the Universe in the infrared radiation (from 1 to 27 micrometers).

MagneticYSO

Title of ERC projec: Interpreting Dust Polarization Maps to Characterize the Role of the Magnetic Field in Star Formation Processes PI: Anaelle Maury

NIKA

NIKA (New IRAM KID Arrays): une camera continuum pour l'astronomie millimétrique. Continuum camera for milimetrical astronomy.

Oristars

Étudier la formation des étoiles en confrontant simulations numériques et observations. Confronting star formation studies with space observations and computer simulations.

PEBBLES

The PEBBLES project consists of developing an innovative methodology to characterise the properties of dust around very young stars in the process of forming their proto-planetary disks. Dust is one of the key elements in the physical processes regulating the formation of stars and their planetary systems, but recent observations are overturning the models used until now to describe its evolution from submicron grains to pebbles.

PILOT

Mesurer l’émission polarisée des grains de poussière du milieu interstellaire. Measuring polarized emission of dust particles in interstellar medium.

Spectroscopic atlas of the Spitzer infrared telescope

Publication of the pipeline and complete database in open-source, free-access and offline formats

NASA's Spitzer space telescope, JWST's predecessor, was a very successful mission, observing in particular the spectra of several tens of thousands of sources at wavelengths ranging from around 5µm to 38µm. These observations complement JWST/MIRI data for long-wavelength diagnostics, and provide valuable diagnostics in conjunction with JWST or in preparation for future infrared missions.

Spectroscopic atlas of the Spitzer infrared telescope

STARFICH

Comprendre la formation stellaire dans les galaxies avec les observations de Herschel. Understanding star formation in galaxies using Herschel observations.

SYMPATICO

Etudier l'interaction des étoiles massives avec leur environnement. Studying massive stars in their environment.

TALC

Thin Aperture Light Collector

Concept de télescope déployable pour l'observation dans l'infrarouge lointain. Concept of a deployable telescope for far-infrared observation.

VISIR

Camera infrarouge installée sur le Very Large Telescope au Chili. Infrared camera based on the VLT in Chili.

VISIR

The mid-Infrared instrument of the ESO VLT program

VISIR The mid-Infrared instrument of the ESO VLT program VISIR is the mid-infrared instrument installed in 2004 at the Cassegrain focus of MELIPAL, one of the four 8-meter telescopes of the European Very Large Telescopes program.

Division of Electronics, Detectors and Computing for Physics (DEDIP)

Institute of Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe