Press releases
- Ils réinventent la roue pour une mission spatiale
UNIGE Press Release, 29 October 2013
UNIGE has successfully completed its hardware activities for ASTRO-H, and the filter wheel has been delivered to SRON.
- Les amas de galaxies appelés à témoigner à propos de l’énergie sombre et de la matière noire
UNIGE Press Release, 13 January 2013
The baryonic mass fraction of 18 clusters is estimated from X-ray and Sunyaev-Zeldovich observations, showing that cool-core clusters are unbiased cosmological probes.
- Dark and bright: ESA chooses next two science missions
Un satellite pour traquer l'énergie sombre de l'Univers
ESA and UNIGE Press Release, 4 October 2011
ESA has selected Euclid as the Cosmic Vision M2 mission.
- ESA spacecraft reveal new anatomy around a black hole
ESA Press Release, 29 September 2011
A team led by J. Kaastra performed an unprecedented monitoring campaign on an AGN, MRK 509, using ESA's XMM-Newton and Integral spacecrafts. This led to the publication of several papers in A&A related to the absorber properties and the emission mechanisms in this object. More papers are in preparation.
- INTEGRAL observations suggest unified model for AGN requires a rethink
ESA Press Release, 2 August 2011
A study (Ricci et al. 2011) of stacked AGN INTEGRAL spectra revealed suprising properties among the most absorbed objects.
- New Light on Dark Energy
ESO Press Release 04/08, 30 January 2008
The Vimos-VLT Deep Survey led to a Nature paper (Guzzo et al. 2008) which showed that large-area spectroscopic surveys can constrain the cosmological parameters and the nature of gravity through the analysis of redshift distortions in the radial projection of the correlation function.
- X-rays betray giant particle accelerator in the sky
Un accélérateur de particules au ciel - Des astronomes de l'UNIGE traquent des rayons X à haute énergie
ESA and UNIGE Press Release, 24 January 2008
An INTEGRAL study of the Ophiuchus cluster (Eckert et al. 2008) showed for the first time convincing existence of non-thermal emission in the hard X-rays, meaning that these objects can be the site of particle acceleration
- Do Galaxies Follow Darwinian Evolution?
ESO Press release 45/06, 6 December 2006
The VVDS has shown the influence of environment on the evolution of galaxies. In particular, the color-density relation was markedly different 7 billion years ago, showing the importance of the initial conditions on the galaxy properties.
- Integral catches a new erupting black hole
ESA Press Release, 27 November 2006
- A Cosmic Baby-Boom
ESO Press Release 24/05 as well as CNRS and INAF, 22 September 2005
- New distant comet headed for bright encounter
ESO Press Release 10/95, 25 August 1995
Interviews
- Le 21 décembre marque le premier jour de l'hiver et le jour le plus court de l'année
TJ soir on RTS 1, 21 December 2013
- Cannibalisation d'une étoile
Radio interview, Impatience, Radio Suisse Romande, 9 May 2012
- Le 29 février, une particularité calendaire qui fait beaucoup parler
TJ soir on RTS 1, 29 February 2012
- La Suisse et l'Agence spatiale européenne
TJ midi on TSR1, 31 January 2012
- Switzerland in ESA's Euclid mission
Radio interview, WRG, 7 October 2011
- Le dernier vol de la navette spatiale
Radio interview, Forum, TSR, 8 July 2011
- Le solstice
TV interview, Léman-bleu, 21 June 2011
- Les enjeux de la recherche spatiale
Radio interview, main guest of "3D d'info", Radio-Cité, Carouge, 11 May 2009
- Portrait TSR Découverte
TSR Découverte, January 2009
- La fin des dinosaures
Radio interview, Impatience, Radio Suisse Romande, 5 May 2008
- Un accélérateur dans le ciel
Radio interview, Impatience, Radio Suisse Romande, 31 January 2008
Public conferences
- Matière noire, énergie noire et Euclid
Société d'astronomie du Nord Vaudois, Yverdon-les-Bains, 23 August 2013
- Les trous noirs
Astropléïades, Blonay, 21 May 2013
- Récréations relativistes
AstroChablais, Monthey, 29 March 2012
- Récréations relativistes
Société d'astronomie du Valais romand, Sion, 3 December 2010
- Les trous noirs
Lycée Denis-de-Rougemont, Neuchâtel, 8 December 2009
- Les trous noirs en cosmologie
Collège de St-Maurice, St-Maurice, 17 November 2009
- La vie des galaxies
Société d'astronomie du Nord Vaudois, Yverdon-les-Bains, 30 October 2009
- La Terre dans le Cosmos
Salon du Livre, 22 April 2009
- L'univers après la troisième minute
Société neuchâteloise d'astronomie, Malvillier, 3 April 2009
- Une brève histoire de l'Univers
Gymnase de Chamblandes, Pully, 1 April 2009
- Récréations relativistes
Société genevoise d'astronomie, Vernier, 21 February 2009
- Les grandes extinctions: des causes astrophysiques ou terrestres?
Société fribourgeoise d'astronomie, Fribourg, 12 November 2008
- La fin des dinosaures
'Impacts!', 4ème conférence publique UNIGE-EPFL, Lausanne and Geneva, 7 and 8 May 2008
- Les quasars
Société valaisanne d'astronomie, Sion, Switzerland, October 1999
- La relativité dans notre Univers
Société fribourgeoise d'astronomie, Fribourg, Switzerland, May 1998
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