Proceedings SF2A 2010 - Scientific Highlights

21 - 24 June 2010, Marseille

  • Contributions by sessions

  • Contents (PDF)
  • List of participants (PDF)
  • Author index (PDF)
  • The whole book (PDF, 45 Mo)

  • Contributions by sessions:

  • SF2A: Common session
  • ASA: ALMA early science
  • ASGAIA-PNCG: Stellar populations and modelisation of the Galaxy
  • ASHRA-SAIT: High angular resolution
  • ENS: Teaching session
  • GRAAPH: Gravitation and reference systems
  • PCHE: High energy cosmic phenomena
  • PCMI-PNPS-PNP: Gas and dust spectroscopy with Herschel
  • PNPS: Stellar physics
  • PNP: Planets
  • PNST: Sun and Earth
  • PNST-PCHE: Sun, Earth and high energy cosmic phenomena
  • SAIT-PNCG-PNPS-ASGAIA: Resolved stellar populations



  • SF2A: Common session


  • "The European ELT: status report", J.-G. Cuby

  • "Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy", M. Hamidouche, E. Young, P. Marcum, A. Krabbe

  • "A CHANDRA Census of c2d YSOs: evolution of X-ray emission", M. Hamidouche, M. Jacobson, L.W. Looney

  • "Galaxy formation: merger vs gas accretion", B. L'Huillier, F. Combes, B. Semelin

  • "La Sociéte Française d'Exobiologie", F. Raulin


  • ASA: ALMA early science


  • "Protoplanetary disks in the (sub)millimeter: paving the road to ALMA", J.-F. Gonzalez, S. T. Maddison, C. Pinte, É. Pantin, L. Fouchet, F. Ménard


  • ASGAIA-PNCG: Stellar populations and modelisation of the Galaxy


  • "The catalog of radial velocity standard stars for the Gaia RVS: status and progress of the observations", L. Chemin C. Soubiran F. Crifo G. Jasniewicz L. Veltz D. Hestroffer S. Udry J. Berthier A. Vigneron D. Katz et al

  • "SED fitting of nearby galaxies in the Herschel Reference Survey", L. Ciesla A. Boselli V. Buat L. Cortese R. Auld M. Baes G.J. Bendo S. Bianchi J. Bock D.J. Bomans et al

  • "Dynamical modeling of the Galaxy and stellar migration in the disk", B. Famaey, I. Minchev

  • "Population synthesis modelling of luminous infrared galaxies at intermediate redshift ", E. Giovannoli, V. Buat, S. Noll, D. Burgarella, B. Magnelli

  • "Cosmological simulations and galaxy formation: prospects for HST/WFC3", S. Peirani, R.M. Crockett, S. Geen, S. Khochfar, S. Kaviraj, J. Silk

  • "3D tomography of local interstellar gas and dust", S. Raimond, R. Lallement, J-L. Vergely

  • "The Besançon Galaxy model: comparisons to photometric surveys and modelling of the Galactic bulge and disc", C. Reylé, A. C. Robin, M. Schultheis, D.J. Marshall

  • "Galactic Plane image sharpness as a check on cosmic microwave background mapmaking", B. F. Roukema

  • "The Herschel view of HII regions in M 33 (HERM33ES)", S. Verley M. Relaño C. Kramer E.M. Xilouris M. Boquien D. Calzetti F. Combes C. Buchbender J. Braine G. Quintana-Lacaci et al


  • ASHRA-SAIT: High angular resolution


  • "The CAOS problem-solving environment: last news", M. Carbillet, G. Desiderà, É. Augier, A. La Camera, A. Riccardi, A. Boccaletti, L. Jolissaint, D. Ab Kadir

  • "The multi-conjugate adaptive optics module for the E-ELT", E. Diolaiti J.-M. Conan I. Foppiani E. Marchetti A. Baruffolo M. Bellazzini G. Bregoli C. R. Butler P. Ciliegi G. Cosentino et al

  • "Simulations of wave front measurements and tomography for Extremely Large Telescopes", M. Chebbo, B. Le Roux, J.F. Sauvage, T. Fusco

  • "Some results on disturbance rejection control for an adaptive optics system", J.-P. Folcher, A. Abelli, A. Ferrari, M. Carbillet

  • "Utilization of the Ensemble Kalman Filter: an optimal control law for the adaptive optics of the E-ELT", M. Gray, B. Le Roux

  • "Space active optics: in situ compensation of lightweight primary mirrors' deformations", M. Laslandes, M. Ferrari, E. Hugot, G. Lemaitre

  • "Visible spectroscopy of terrestrial exoplanets with SEE-COAST", A.-L. Maire, R. Galicher, A. Boccaletti, J. Schneider, P. Baudoz, the SEE-COAST team

  • "Experimental advances in phase mask coronagraphy", M. N'Diaye, K. Dohlen, S. Cuevas, R. Soummer, C. Sánchez

  • "Exoplanet characterization using angular and spectral differential imaging", A. Vigan, C. Moutou, M. Langlois, F. Allard, A. Boccaletti, M. Carbillet, D. Mouillet, I. Smith

  • "Approximate analytical expression for AO-corrected coronagraphic imaging in preparation of exoplanet signal extraction", M. Ygouf, L. Mugnier, J-F. Sauvage, T. Fusco, D. Mouillet, J-L. Beuzit


  • ENS: Teaching session


  • "Origins: an outreach project towards children", C. Moutou, Association Kaléidoscope


  • GRAAPH: Gravitation and reference systems


  • "Near-Earth Asteroids Astrometry with Gaia and Beyond", D. Bancelin, D. Hestroffer, W. Thuillot

  • "Densification of celestial reference frames: towards new VLBI observing strategies", L. Chemin, P. Charlot

  • "In-orbit data verification of the accelerometers of the ESA GOCE mission", B. Christophe, J.-P. Marque, B. Foulon

  • "GRGS evaluation of the ITRF2008p solution, from SLR data", F. Deleflie, D. Coulot

  • "The MICROSCOPE space mission and the inflight calibration approach for its instrument", A. Levy, P. Touboul, M. Rodrigues, G. Métris, A. Robert

  • "The evection resonance: solar and oblateness perturbations", J. Frouard, M. Fouchard, A. Vienne


  • PCHE: High energy cosmic phenomena


  • "Observations with the High Altitude GAmma Ray (HAGAR) telescope array in the Indian Himalayas", R.J. Britto B.S. Acharya G.C. Anupama N. Bhatt P. Bhattacharjee S.S. Bhattacharya V.R. Chitnis R. Cowsik N. Dorji S.K. Duhan et al

  • "Towards new analysis of Gamma-Ray sources at HImalayan Gamma-Ray Observatory (HIGRO) in northern India", R.J. Britto B.S. Acharya G.C. Anupama N. Bhatt P. Bhattacharjee S. Bhattacharya V.R. Chitnis R. Cowsik N. Dorji S.K. Duhan et al

  • "High-energy radiation from the relativistic jet of Cygnus X-3", B. Cerutti, G. Dubus, G. Henri

  • "Magnetic field dragging in accretion discs", R. de Guiran, J. Ferreira

  • "Properties of phonons in the neutron star crust", L. Di Gallo, M. Oertel

  • "Neutrino detection of transient sources with optical follow-up observations", D. Dornic M. Ageron I. Al Samarai S. Basa V. Bertin J. Brunner J. Busto S. Escoffier F. Schussler B. Vallage et al

  • "Fermi Gamma-ray space Telescope observations of gamma-ray outbursts from 3C 454.3 in December 2009 and April 2010", L. Escande, B. Lott, C. D. Dermer, Y. Tanaka, on behalf of the Fermi-LAT Collaboration

  • "Recent results of the FIGARO collaboration", B. Gendre, A. Corsi, G. Stratta, A. Klotz, J.L. Atteia, M. Boër, S. Cutini, F. Daigne, R. Mochkovitch, L. Piro

  • "The ASI Science Data Center", B. Gendre, P. Giommi, the ASDC team

  • "Effects of a moderately strong magnetic field in core collapse supernovae", J. Guilet, T. Foglizzo, S. Fromang

  • "The cosmic-ray population of nearby galaxies", P. Martin

  • "Simulation of black hole formation in stellar collapse", J. Novak, M. Oertel, B. Péres

  • "An extended equation of state for simulations of stellar collapse", M. Oertel, A. Fantina

  • "Fundamental physics in observational cosmology", P. Peter

  • "The pertinence of jet emitting discs in microquasars theory and comparison to observations", P.-O. Petrucci, J. Ferreira, G. Henri, J. Malzac, C. Foellmi

  • "Joint searches for gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos with the ANTARES, LIGO and VIRGO detectors", V. Van Elewyck, the ANTARES and VIRGO Collaborations and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration


  • PCMI-PNPS-PNP: Gas and dust spectroscopy with Herschel


  • "Dust silicate emission in FIR/submm", A. Coupeaud, K. Demyk, C. Mény, C. Nayral

  • "The first step of interstellar chemistry revealed by Herschel/HIFI", E. Falgarone, M. Gerin, B. Godard, M. De Luca

  • "SPIRE spectroscopy of the interstellar medium", E. Habart, E. Dartois, A. Abergel, J.-P. Baluteau, D. Naylor, E. Polehampton, C. Joblin, SAG 4 consortium

  • "Herschel/HIFI reveals the first stages of stellar formation", F. Herpin, S. Bontemps, L. Chavarria, F. van der Tak, F. Wyrowski, E. van Dishoeck

  • "Initial highlights of the Herschel imaging survey of OB Young Stellar objects (HOBYS) ", T. Hill, F. Motte, S. Bontemps, A. Zavagno, N. Schneider, M. Hennemann, J. di Francesco, The HOBYS consortium

  • "Preliminary work to ALMA, HERSCHEL, SOFIA: submillimeter wave spectroscopy of complex organic molecules", L. Margulès, M. Goubet, R. Motiyenko, S. Bailleux, T.R. Huet, G. Wlodarczak

  • "Dust in molecular clumps from the Hi-GAL survey", D.J. Marshall, L.A. Montier, I. Ristorcelli, L. Anderson, J.P. Bernard, C. Brunt, P. Martin, J. Mottram, D. Paradis, J. Rodon

  • "Detection of atomic iron and other metals in the circumstellar envelope of IRC+10216", N. Mauron, P.J. Huggins

  • "The KInetic Database for Astrochemistry", V. Wakelam, The KIDA Team


  • PNPS: Stellar physics


  • "Stellar rotation in the Hyades and Praesepe: gyrochronology and braking timescale", P. Delorme, A. Collier Cameron, L. Hebb, J. Rostron, T.A. Lister, A.J. Norton, D. Pollacco, R.G. West

  • "Shock induced polarized hydrogen emission lines in omicron Ceti", N. Fabas, A. Lèbre, D. Gillet

  • "Thermohaline instability and rotation-induced mixing in low- and intermediate-mass stars", N. Lagarde, C. Charbonnel

  • "Hydrodynamical simulations of Pinwheel nebula WR 104 ", A. Lamberts, S. Fromang, G. Dubus

  • "The three-dimensional structure of vortices in protoplanetary disks and dust trapping", H. Meheut, P. Varniere, F. Casse, M. Tagger

  • "Long-term magnetic field monitoring of the sun-like star xi Bootis A", A. Morgenthaler P. Petit M. Aurière B. Dintrans R. Fares T. Gastine J. Lanoux F. Lignières J. Morin J. Ramirez et al

  • "How to use and to publish with the free available code Cesam2k", B. Pichon

  • "Validation of M-dwarf atmosphere models and effective temperature scale of M dwarfs", A.S. Rajpurohit, C. Reylé, M. Schultheis, F. Allard


  • PNP: Planets


  • "Irradiated disks and planet population synthesis", N. Cabral, L. Fouchet, Y. Alibert, C. Mordasini, W. Benz

  • "Search and characterization for extrasolar planets with the SOPHIE Consortium", I. Boisse F. Bouchy G. Hébrard S. Udry X. Delfosse A.-M. Lagrange D. Queloz C. Moutou L. Arnold X. Bonfils et al

  • "A new model of cometary non-gravitational forces", L. Maquet, F. Colas, J. Crovisier, L. Jorda


  • PNST: Sun and Earth


  • "Automated detection of filaments in SDO data", É. Buchlin, C. Mercier, S. Engin, S. Parenti, J.-C. Vial

  • "Nonlinear diffusion equation for Alfvén wave turbulence", S. Galtier, É. Buchlin

  • "Science outputs of the CDPP on-line analysis tool AMDA", V. Génot C. Jacquey E. Budnik M. Bouchemit M. Gangloff A. Fedorov B. Lavraud N. André G. Fruit P. Louarn et al

  • "A new turbulence regime in the solar-wind at electron scales", R. Meyrand, S. Galtier

  • "The Sun as a particle accelerator: hard X-ray and gamma-ray diagnostics of energetic particles", N. Vilmer


  • PNST-PCHE: Sun, Earth and high energy cosmic phenomena


  • "Constraints on the cosmic ray diffusion coefficient in the W28 region from gamma-ray observations", S. Gabici, S. Casanova, F. A. Aharonian, G. Rowell

  • "Multiple stellar populations in Galactic globular clusters: observational evidence", A.P. Milone, G. Piotto, L.R. Bedin, A. Bellini, A.F. Marino, Y. Momany


  • SAIT-PNCG-PNPS-ASGAIA: Resolved stellar populations


  • "Dwarf galaxies in the Local Group: cornerstones for stellar astrophysics and cosmology", G. Bono P.B. Stetson M. Monelli M. Fabrizio N. Sanna M. Nonino A.R. Walker F. Bresolin R. Buonanno F. Caputo et al

  • "Open clusters as tracers of the Galactic disk", A. Bragaglia

  • "Photocentric variability of red supergiant stars and consequences on Gaia measurements", A. Chiavassa E. Pasquato A. Jorissen S. Sacuto C. Babusiaux B. Freytag H.-G. Ludwig P. Cruzalèbes Y. Rabbia A. Spang et al

  • "The VIMOS-VLT deep survey: the group catalogue", O. Cucciati, C. Marinoni, A. Iovino, S. Bardelli, C. Adami, A. Mazure, the VVDS Team

  • "Multiple populations in globular clusters: a theoretical point of view", T. Decressin

  • "Massive spectroscopic analysis of the stellar populations in three of the CoRoT/Exoplanet fields", J.-C. Gazzano, M. Deleuil, P. de Laverny, G. Kordopatis, C. Moutou, A. Recio-Blanco, A. Bijaoui, F. Bouchy, C. Ordenovic

  • "Chemically peculiar A/F stars in open clusters of the Milky Way", M. Gebran, R. Monier

  • "Galaxy stellar mass assembly between 0.2 < z < 2 from the S-COSMOS survey", O. Ilbert M. Salvato E. Le Floc'h H. Aussel P. Capak H.J. McCracken B. Mobasher J. Kartaltepe N. Scoville D.B. Sanders et al

  • "Spectral analysis of A and F dwarf members of the open cluster M6: preliminary results", T. Kiliçoglu, R. Monier, L. Fossati

  • "A sparse population of young stars in Cepheus", A. Klutsch

  • "Characterization of the thick disc properties up to 8 kpc through a spectroscopic survey", G. Kordopatis A. Recio-Blanco P. de Laverny G. Gilmore V. Hill R.F.G. Wyse A. Helmi A. Bijaoui C. Ordenovic M. Zoccali et al

  • "Have we seen dark matter annihilation in the cosmic-ray electron and positron spectra", J. Lavalle

  • "The EROS-2 archive: implementation and applications", J.B. Marquette, E. Lesquoy, J.P. Beaulieu, P. Tisserand

  • "Improvement of atomic models for NLTE radiative transfer in atmospheres of late type stars", T. Merle, F. Thévenin, B. Pichon, L. Bigot

  • "A SINFONI integral field spectroscopy survey for Galaxy counterparts to damped Lyman-alpha systems", C. Péroux, N. Bouché, V. P. Kulkarni, D. G. York, G. Vladilo

  • "Stellar rotation in open clusters", L. Santoro

  • "Uncovering the nature of tidal tails in Palomar 14", D. Valls-Gabaud, A. Sollima, D. Martínez-Delgado, J. Pe narrubia

  • "GALEX NUV Lyman break galaxies", G. M. Williger, L. Haberzettl, M. D. Lehnert, N. P. H. Nesvadba, D. Valls-Gabaud

  • "The MATISSE analysis of large spectral datasets from the ESO Archive", C. Worley, P. de Laverny, A. Recio-Blanco, V. Hill, Y. Vernisse, C. Ordenovic, A. Bijaoui