Julien Girard
experimental astronomer
I am a physicist/astronomer
currently
working as
Operations Staff Astronomer
at ESO,
spending my time between Santiago
and the Paranal
Observatory
in northern Chile.
Disclaimer: the content of this page is independant of ESO's standpoint.
Some news
Bye Bye Mexico! Since
August 2009, I started at ESO-Chile and I am on duty (science operations)
about 135 nights/year at Paranal Observatory, mostly on VLT/UT4
where most adaptive optics systems are (NaCo, SINFONI,
MACAO-VLTI, Future AOF, etc.). I am progressively supporting the NaCo
instrument and building up a new AO group. The remaining time is
dedicated to my personal research or R&D projects,
collaborations, etc.
I
will also keep working closely with my colleagues at the Instituto
de Astronomía (IA-UNAM) in Mexico.
- Observing run(s):
- co-PI of a run at SPM on lambda-Ori scheduled for Dic. 2009.
- First time in Paranal scheduled for Aug. 29 - Sept 4 2009!
- I was PI of observations we carried out in April 24-30 2008 at San Pedro Martírto observe three large spiral galaxies (bars of NGC6946, NGC4314, & M83) with the 2.1m equiped with the Boller & Chivens echelle spectrograph. The science/analysis work is lead by Dr. Kambiz Fathi of the Stockholm Observatory.
- I participated to observations at Lick Observatory with the 3m telescope (with AO and Laser Guide Star!) with Dr. Hervé Bouy in April 2007. An article partially based on these data was just accepted in A&A:
- (Quite) recent publication(s):
- The Synoptic All-Sky Infrared (SASIR) Survey. Bloom et. al. Whitepaper submitted to the "Optical and IR Astronomy from the Ground" Program Prioritization Panel of the Astro2010 Decadal Survey
- GUILEOA, the Mexican Adaptive Optics system (SPIE and SF2A 2008)
- Follow-up observations of binary ultra-cool dwarfs (A & A 2008)H. Bouy, E. L. Martin, W. Brandner, T. Forveille, X. Delfosse, N. Huelamo, G. Basri, J. Girard, M.-R. Zapatero Osorio, M. Stumpf, A. Ghez, L., Valdivielso, F. Marchis, A.J. Burgasser, K. Cruz
- Public Outreach: I think that sciences and astronomy in particular aren't completly useless in the society. I am more and more interested in public outreach and therefore I will try to provide interesting informations and links hereby. You can also read about this photographic exhibition "Ella es Astrónoma" I produced about Women astronomers in Mexico.