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Two CRAQ researchers receive a major grant from the Schmidt Futures Foundation
Laurence Perreault Levasseur and Yashar Hezaveh, both members of the Center for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ) and professors at the Université de Montréal, were awarded a $ 4 million grant by the Schmidt Futures…
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Three CRAQ researchers participate in the discovery of a “surviving” planet, orbiting a white dwarf star
An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and retired Spitzer Space Telescope has reported what may be the first intact planet found closely orbiting a white dwarf, the dense leftover of a Sun-like star, only…
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René Doyon, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
The iREx is very pleased to announce that our Director, René Doyon, is now a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in the Academy of Sciences. The 2020 cohort of new members includes 87 individuals…
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Simon Blouin receives a PhD Prize from IAU
Simon Blouin, who recently completed a doctoral thesis under the supervision of Professor Patrick Dufour, was awarded a PhD Prize from the “Stars and Stellar Physics” division of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) for the year…
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Seeing the light: Professor Anthony Moffat and an international team of astronomers find new way novae light up the sky
A nova, or stella nova the Latin word for “new star,” is an explosion which occurs on the surface of a star. The explosion produces an incredible amount of energy resulting in an increase in the…
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Professor René Doyon receives the 2020 Dunlap Award from the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA)
The Center for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ) congratulates René Doyon of the Université de Montréal, member of the CRAQ and director of the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic (OMM) and the Institute for Research on Exoplanets…
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Simon Blouin receives the 2020 Plaskett Medal
The Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA) and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) awarded the J.S Plaskett Medal for 2020 to Simon Blouin for the best doctoral thesis in astrophysics in Canada. Simon Blouin completed his…
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iREx wins inaugural FRQ DIALOGUE Award
We are very pleased to announce that the iREx has been selected for a DIALOGUE – Researcher Award from the Fonds de recherche du Québec! The DIALOGUE – Researcher program is designed to encourage Quebec researchers to…
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The image entitled Splendors and Miseries of a Supergiant wins a Jury award for the 2019 edition of the Acfas “La preuve par l’image” competition.
An image submitted by professors Laurent Drissen (U. Laval) and Nicole St-Louis (U. de Montréal) as well as the doctoral student Marcel Sévigny (U. Laval), all members of the Center for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec…
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Finaliste du prix Relève scientifique 2019 : Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo
La professeure de l’Université de Montréal Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, est l’une des deux personnes finalistes du prix Relève scientifique 2019. Professeure depuis 2013 au Département de physique de l’Université de Montréal et membre du Centre de recherche…
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An asteroid is named in honor of astrophysicist Gilles Fontaine
Quebec astrophysicist Gilles Fontaine, Professor at the Department of Physics at the Université de Montréal and member of the Center for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ), has just received an unusual honor by having his…
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Inauguration du nouveau campus MIL – Les membres du CRAQ de l’UdeM déménagent dans le nouveau complexe des sciences.
Trois ans après la première pelletée de terre, le Complexe des sciences du campus MIL accueille la communauté universitaire. Le Complexe des sciences de l’Université de Montréal, pierre angulaire du nouveau campus MIL, a été inauguré vendredi,…
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Water detected on an exoplanet located in its star’s habitable zone
An artistic representation of the exoplanet K2-18b. Credit: Alex Boersma Ever since the discovery of the first exoplanet in the 1990s, astronomers have made steady progress towards finding and probing planets located in the habitable zone…
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Probing a new class of exoplanets
An international team led by a UdeM astronomer gets a clearer picture of what is likely the most abundant type of planet in the universe. Artist’s illustration of gas streaming from GK 3470 b. Credit : NASA,…
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Deux nouveaux professeurs pour le CRAQ
Le Centre de recherche en astrophysique du Québec (CRAQ) accueille deux nouveaux professeurs d’astrophysique. Laurence Perreault Levasseur et Yashar Hezaveh se sont joints au groupe d’astrophysique du Département de physique de l’Université de Montréal en aout…
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Annabelle Richard-Laferrière est la récipiendaire de la bourse Gates Cambridge
Annabelle Richard-Laferrière, membre du CRAQ et finissante au programme de maîtrise en physique sous la supervision de la professeure Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, a reçu la prestigieuse bourse Gates Cambridge Scholarship pour poursuivre son doctorat en astrophysique à…
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Too much sodium turns a star blue
An international team of astrophysicists, led by researchers from the Université de Montréal, has identified a star on which a sodium-rich asteroid has crashed, drastically transforming its apparent color. These results raise many questions about the…
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Fortuitous discovery of a new galaxy in the cosmic neighbourhood
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study some of the oldest and faintest stars in the globular cluster NGC 6752 have made an unexpected finding. They discovered a dwarf galaxy in our cosmic backyard,…
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Thousands of stars turning into crystals
The first direct evidence of white dwarf stars solidifying into crystals has been discovered by an international team of astronomers, and our skies are filled with them. The discovery, led by Dr Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay from the…
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A new star in the sky
The BRITE-Constellation satellites have observed the outburst of a nova in the southern constellation Carina (ship’s keel) with unprecedented time resolution On March 22, 2018, Dr. Rainer Kuschnig, Operations Manager of BRITE-Constellation at Graz University of…
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Professor Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo is appointed to the College of the Royal Society of Canada
The Center for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ) congratulates Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo of the Université de Montréal (UdeM), and member of the CRAQ, for her appointment to the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of…
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Marie-Eve Desrochers, une étudiante du CRAQ, reçoit un Prix Relève étoile Louis Berlinguet
Le Centre de recherche en astrophysique du Québec (CRAQ) félicite Marie-Eve Desrochers qui s’est méritée un Prix Relève étoile Louis Berlinguet des Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ). Marie-Eve Desrochers complète présentement une maitrise sous la…
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Magnetic fields at the heart of the Pillars of Creation
An international team, known as the “BISTRO Consortium” (B-Fields in Star-Forming Region Observations) including Pierre Bastien, professor at the Université de Montréal and member of the Center for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ), has for…
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Noemi Giammichele, une ancienne étudiante du CRAQ, reçoit le Prix Relève étoile Louis Berlinguet
Le Centre de recherche en astrophysique du Québec (CRAQ) félicite Noemi Giammichele, une ancienne étudiante du CRAQ et présentement stagiaire postdoctorale en astronomie et astrophysique à l’Université Toulouse-III-Paul-Sabatier, qui s’est méritée le Prix Relève étoile Louis…
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Professor René Doyon receives a Killam Research Fellowship
The Center for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ) congratulates René Doyon of the Université de Montréal, member of the CRAQ and director of the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic (OMM) and the Institute for Research on Exoplanets…
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Olivier Hernandez: the new director of the Planetarium Rio Tinto Alcan
Olivier Hernandez, director of operations for the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic and iREx coordinator, will start a new position as the director of the Planetarium Rio Tinto Alcan as of May 1st, 2018. M Hernandez had an…
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Deux astrophysiciennes du CRAQ à TLMEP
La professeure Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo et la coordonnatrice scientifique de l’iREx Marie-Eve Naud discutent de la carrière de l’astrophysicien Stephen Hawking, décédé cette semaine, dans le cadre de l’émission « Tout le monde en parle » du…
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Journey to the Center of a White-Dwarf Star
A stellar core that challenges predictions: here is the result of the first cartography of the interior of a white-dwarf star performed by an international team lead by a young researcher from the Institut de Recherche…
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The nanosats of the BRITE space mission reveal the origins of fundamental structures in the wind of the supergiant star Zeta Puppis
A Canadian-led international team of astronomers recently discovered for the first time observational evidence in how some features at the surface of the hot massive supergiant star Zeta Puppis induce the formation of fundamental structures in…
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The image entitled Flamboyant Galaxy wins the public award for the 2017 edition of the Acfas “La preuve par l’image” competition.
An unprecedented image of the Perseus galaxy cluster submitted by Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo and Marie-Lou Gendron-Marsolais, both researcher at the Université de Montréal and the Center for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec, and by the scientific communicator…
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New faculty position in astrophysics at Université de Montréal
The Department of Physics is seeking applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in astrophysics. The appointed candidate will be expected to teach at all three levels of the curriculum, supervise…
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Great success for the eclipse observation at Université de Montréal!
iREx and CRAQ astronomers and students welcomed nearly 1,000 people at UdeM to observe the great North American solar eclipse of 21 August. Members of the academic community as well as the general public gathered on…
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Three CRAQ researchers landed an important FRQNT Team research project grant to study black holes
An inter-university team, led by Professor Julie Hlvacek-Larrondo, from Université de Montréal, and Professors Daryl Haggard and Tracy Webb, from McGill University, successfully landed an important FRQNT Team research project grant to study black holes. The…
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Scientists Solve the Mystery of Blinking Brown Dwarfs
Dim objects called brown dwarfs, less massive than the Sun but more massive than Jupiter, have powerful winds and clouds — specifically, hot patchy clouds made of iron droplets and silicate dust. Scientists recently realized these…
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The CRAQ welcomes two new professors
The Center for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ) welcomes two new professors in astrophysics. Björn Benneke has joined the Université de Montréal’s astrophysics group in June while Jason Rowe joined the group at Bishop’s University…
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CRAQ and CFHT share the stars at the Eureka Festival!
The Center for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ) and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation (CFHT), were present at the 2017 Eureka Festical! Enthusiastic CRAQ students took part in this 11th edition of the festival which took…
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Paul Charbonneau, professor at UdeM and CRAQ researcher, publishes an introductory work on the modeling of complex system
NATURAL COMPLEXITY: A Modeling Handbook, by Paul Charbonneau, provides a short, hands-on introduction to the science of complexity using simple computational models of natural complex systems—with models and exercises drawn from physics, chemistry, geology, and biology….
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CRAQ’s researchers used the VLA to get new insight into galaxy cluster’s spectacular “mini-halo”
An international team of astronomers, led by Professor Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo and her PhD student Marie-Lou Gendron-Marsolais, both from the Center for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ) and Université de Montréal, used the National Science Foundation’s…
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CRAQ’s researcher Pierre Bergeron is part of the team of astronomers that developed a new use for a century-old relativity experiment to measure a white dwarf’s mass
An international team of astronomers, including Professor Pierre Bergeron from the Center for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec and Université de Montréal, used the sharp vision of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to repeat a century-old test…
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Two researchers from the CRAQ contribute to the discovery of a giant wave rolling through the Perseus Galaxy Cluster
Combining data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory with radio observations and computer simulations, an international team of scientists has discovered a vast wave of hot gas in the nearby Perseus galaxy cluster. Spanning some 200,000 light-years,…
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David Lafrenière and Pierre Chastenay receive prestigious honors from the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA)
David Lafrenière David Lafrenière of the Université de Montréal, and member of the CRAQ, is the 2017 recipient of the inaugural Harvey B. Richer Gold Medal from CASCA. David Lafrenière earned his PhD in 2007 from…
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L’Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic recevra 1 M$.
L’Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic recevra un financement de 1 M$ du gouvernement du Canada pour un projet de développement technologique et scientifique, et pour l’entretien de ses installations. La ministre du Développement international et de la Francophonie…
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Deux astrophysiciens du CRAQ à TLMEP
Robert Lamontagne et Marie-Eve Naud discutent de la découverte récente d’un système planétaire, formé de sept planètes semblables à la Terre, autour de l’étoile TRAPPIST-1 dans le cadre de l’émission « Tout le monde en parle »…
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Professor Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo is part of an international team to understand how black-hole powered jets are forging fuel used in star formation.
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a surprising connection between a supermassive black hole and the galaxy where it resides. Powerful radio jets from the black hole — which normally suppress star…
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Massive comet-like object pollutes the atmosphere of a white dwarf
Scientists have witnessed, for the first time, a massive, comet-like object being ripped apart and scattered in the atmosphere of a white dwarf, the burned-out remains of a sun-like star. The destroyed object had a chemical…
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Bonne nouvelle pour l’environnement – la ville de Montréal réduit l’augmentation de la pollution lumineuse.
Le Centre de recherche en astrophysique du Québec (CRAQ) et l’Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic (OMM) se réjouissent de l’annonce faite mercredi le 18 janvier par la Ville de Montréal dans le dossier de l’éclairage urbain. Dans son…
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Le professeur Patrick Dufour figure dans le top 10 des découvertes de l’année 2016 de Québec Science.
Une équipe internationale d’astronomes a découvert qu’un objet céleste rocheux de grande taille se désagrège et tourbillonne dans une spirale funeste autour d’une étoile naine blanche. La découverte confirme une théorie de longue date sur les…
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Eta Carinae: Violent stellar wind collision in the binary star monster
Eta Carinae: Violent stellar wind collision in the binary star monster Eta Carinae is a massive, bright stellar binary system. The more massive component is one of the largest and most luminous stars known. In the…
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Jonathan Gagné reçoit le prix 2016 de l’ADÉSAQ
Jonathan Gagné, membre de l’Institut de recherche sur les exoplanètes de l’Université de Montréal, a reçu le prix 2016 de l’Association des doyens des études supérieures au Québec (ADÉSAQ). Le prix, remis conjointement avec le Fonds…
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La vie des étoiles au Festival Eurêka
Le Centre de recherche en astrophysique du Québec (CRAQ) était présent à l’édition 2016 du Festival Eurêka! C’est avec enthousiasme que des étudiants du CRAQ ont pris part à la 10e édition du Festival Eurêka! qui…
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Planet-devouring star reveals possible limestone crumbs
A group of researchers using the W. M. Keck Observatory have discovered a planet-like body that may have been encrusted in limestone and is having its surface layers devoured by its deceased host star. In addition…
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Le professeur Gilles Fontaine reçoit la médaille de l’ACP
L’Association canadienne des physiciens et physiciennes (ACP) décerne la Médaille de l’ACP pour contributions exceptionnelles à la physique 2016 à Gilles Fontaine, Université de Montréal, pour son apport à la compréhension des étoiles de type naines…
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Jonathan Gagné receives the 2016 Plaskett Medal
The Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA) and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) awarded the J.S Plaskett Medal for 2016 to Jonathan Gagné for the best doctoral thesis in astrophysics in Canada. Jonathan Gagné completed his…
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Paul Charbonneau reçoit le Prix d’excellence en enseignement de la Faculté des arts et des sciences
MONTRÉAL le 4 novembre 2015 – Paul Charbonneau, professeur au Département de physique de l’Université de Montréal, membre du CRAQ, et titulaire de la Chaire de recherche de l’Université de Montréal en astrophysique solaire, a reçu…
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Disintegrating Asteroid is Raining Dust Onto a White Dwarf Star
Astronomers announced today that they have spotted a large, rocky object disintegrating in its death spiral around a distant white dwarf star. The discovery also confirms a long-standing theory behind the source of white dwarf “pollution”…
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Un million $ pour trouver de la vie extraterrestre
La Fondation Trottier fait don d’un million de dollars à l’Institut de recherche sur les exoplanètes de l’Université de Montréal, dont le lancement a lieu aujourd’hui. Les chercheurs de l’Université de Montréal sont déterminés à être…
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Marilyn Latour récipiendaire d’une très prestigieuse bourse Alexander von Humbolt
Marilyn Latour a reçu une très prestigieuse bourse postdoctorale de la Fondation Alexander von Humboldt qui lui permettra, à partir de septembre 2015, de poursuivre son apprentissage au sein du groupe d’astrophysique stellaire du Professeur Ulrich…
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Des astronomes photographient une exoplanète géante gazeuse plus jeune que Jupiter
Une des meilleures façons de comprendre comment notre système solaire a évolué est d’étudier des systèmes extrasolaires beaucoup plus jeunes que le notre. C’est ce qu’ont accompli des astrophysiciens de l’institut de recherche sur les exoplanètes…
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Alexandre Fortier remporte deux prix au Congrès annuel de la CASCA à Hamilton.
Alexandre Fortier de l’Université de Montréal a reçu deux prix pour la meilleure affiche scientifique lors du dernier congrès annuel de la Société canadienne d’astronomie (CASCA) qui a eu lieu du 24 au 27 mai…
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Jonathan Gagné est le récipiendaire du Carl Sagan Fellowship
Jonathan Gagné, doctorant à l’Institut de recherche sur les exoplanètes (iREx) à l’Université de Montréal et membre étudiant du Centre de recherche en astrophysique du Québec (CRAQ), est le premier Québécois à recevoir le prestigieux «…
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Marilyn Latour reçoit la Médaille d’or 2015 du Gouverneur Général
Marilyn Latour s’est méritée la Médaille d’or 2015 du Gouverneur Général pour l’excellence de son dossier académique au cours de ses études aux cycles supérieurs à l’Université de Montréal. Marilyn a poursuivi ses études de maitrise…
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Top-10 of this year’s scientific discoveries by Québec Science.
Marie-Eve Naud, étudiante au doctorat à l’Université de Montréal, figure dans le top 10 des découvertes de l’année 2014 de Québec Science. L’équipe, menée par Marie-Eve Naud, étudiante au doctorat au Département de physique de l’Université…
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Prix ACFAS: Preuve par l’image 2014
Nicolas Lawson et Paul Charbonneau de l’Université de Montréal reçoivent tous deux le 3ème prix Acfas 2014 du concours La preuve par l’image. Nicolas Lawson est étudiant à la maîtrise sous la direction de Paul Charbonneau…
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Une nouvelle professeure en astrophysique extragalactique se joint au CRAQ
Imaginez un trou noir de la taille du Système Solaire. Est-ce possible ? Un tel objet peut-il vraiment exister ? La réponse est simple : oui. En fait, de tels trous noirs, appelés trous noirs supermassifs,…
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Two low-cost, car battery-sized Canadian space telescopes
Nanosatellites will form a unique “constellation” aimed at understanding the ecology of the Universe Two nanosatellites were launched from Yasny, Russia, at 15:11:11 Eastern Daylight Time today by Anthony Moffat, of the University of Montreal and…
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Le Soleil actif au Festival Eurêka!
Le Centre de recherche en astrophysique du Québec (CRAQ) était présent au Festival Eurêka! afin d’offrir aux curieux de tous les âges l’occasion d’observer le Soleil sous son meilleur jour. C’est avec fierté que le CRAQ…
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Trois étudiants du CRAQ se démarquent au Congrès annuel de la CASCA à Québec.
Alexandre Alarie de l’Université Laval et Cynthia Genest-Beaulieu de l’Université de Montréal ont respectivement reçu le prix de la meilleure présentation orale et de la meilleure affiche scientifique lors du dernier congrès annuel de la Société…
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Odd planet, so far from its star…
An international team led by Université de Montréal researchers has discovered and photographed a new planet 155 light years from our solar system. A gas giant has been added to the short list of exoplanets discovered…
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World’s Most Powerful Planet Finder Turns its Eye to the Sky
Gemini Planet Imager Obtains First Light Images MONTREAL, January 7, 2014 – After nearly a decade of development, construction, and testing, the world’s most advanced instrument for directly imaging and analyzing planets around other stars is…
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Top 10 des découvertes de l’année 2013 de Québec Science.
Les recherches de Yashar Hezaveh, étudiant à l’Université McGill et membre du CRAQ, dans le top 10 des découvertes de l’année 2013 de Québec Science. L’équipe, composée de chercheurs de McGill dont l’étudiant au doctorat Yashar…
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New tool may unveil inhabitable worlds
SPIRou, a near-infrared spectropolarimeter, will also investigate the birth of Sun-like stars and their planets Funding for SPIRou, a spectropolarimeter and a high-precision velocimeter optimized for both the detection of habitable Earth twins orbiting around nearby…
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Bourse d’excellence académique QS 2013
François-René Lachapelle est le lauréat de la bourse d’excellence académique QS 2013 Cette bourse décernée par Quacquarelli Symonds Limited, artisan du classement mondial des universités, dont la valeur est de 10 000 dollars, a pour but…
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Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay récipiendaire d’un très prestigieux Hubble Fellowship
Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay est le premier étudiant issu d’une université Québécoise à recevoir le prestigieux « Hubble fellowship ». Le programme « Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship », du Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), est offert aux chercheurs postdoctoraux…
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Discovery of the candidate most massive star
An international research team, that includes Anthony Moffat, Professor Emeritus at the physics department of the Université de Montréal and member of the CRAQ, observed a binary star which birth mass was of the order of…
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Astrophysicist Paul Charbonneau writes a book on “Solar and Stellar Dynamos”
Paul Charbonneau, professor at the physics department of the Université de Montréal and member of the Centre de Recherche en Astrophysique du Québec, writes a manual on the theories of Solar and stellar dynamos. This book…
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The nature and technology university research centres occupy a significant place in the world
The nature and technology university research centres are participating in the progress of scientific knowledge, the development of local expertise, and in the attraction of international experts in all fields of natural science and engineering. If…
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Robert Lamontagne receives the grade of Knight from the Order of La Pléiade
Robert Lamontagne, executive director of the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic, lecturer at the physics department of the Université de Montréal, and member of the CRAQ, is one of the recipient of the grade of Knight from the…
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Top-10 of this year’s scientific discoveries by Québec Science.
Gilles Fontaine, professor at the Université de Montréal and member of the CRAQ, in the top-10 of this year’s scientific discoveries by Québec Science. Gilles Fontaine, professor at the Université de Montréal and member of the…
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Recipient of a scholarship from the international internship program of the FRQ-NT
Sebastien Guillot (McGill University, CRAQ) is the recipient of a scholarship from the international internship program of the FRQ-NT With this scholarship, Sebastien will collaborate with the astrophysics group at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics…
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Dorian Pirot is the recipient of the 2012 Eurêka! public prize from the ACFAS
Dorion Pirot is the recipient of the 2012 Eurêka! public prize from the Association Francophone pour le Savoir (ACFAS) for his scientific illustration of the magnetic Sun. The Sun is an immense sphere of highly-conducting gas….
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Astronomers from the Université de Montréal and the CRAQ discovered an errant planet, lost in space
An errant planet, not orbiting any star, has been discovered with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), by a team of researchers from the…
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Two new faculty positions for the CRAQ at the Université de Montréal
The Centre de Recherche en Astrophysique du Québec (CRAQ) recently recruited two new astrophysics professors. David Lafrenière and Patrick Dufour are joining the astrophysics group of the physics department at the Université de Montréal (UdeM). David…
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The Faculté des Etudes Supérieures et Postdoctorales (FESP) of the Université de Montréal (UdeM) awarded the 2012 prize for the best doctorate thesis in fundamental sciences.
Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay receives the prize for the best doctorate thesis from the Faculté des Etudes Supérieures et Postdoctorales (FESP) of the Université de Montréal. The Faculté des Etudes Supérieures et Postdoctorales (FESP) of the Université de…
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After the Canadarm, the Canadeyes for the future Webb Telescope
Cutting-edge Canadian space technology directed by Université de Montréal’s René Doyon Two instruments whose development was led by by the University of Montreal’s Professor René Doyon, known by the acronyms NIRISS and FGS, will be integrated…
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The Observatoire Mont-Mégantic and researchers from the CRAQ witness the upcoming disintegration of a planet
A research team led by researchers from the MIT and NASA, including two researchers from the CRAQ (Bishop’s University and Université Laval), demonstrated the upcoming disintegration of a planet around its host star. This cataclysmic event,…
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A researcher from the CRAQ helps NASA open a new window on the Universe
NASA is making final preparations to launch its Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, NuSTAR. The mission, which will use X-ray vision to hunt for buried black holes, ultra-dense neutron stars, and supernova remnants, is scheduled to launch…
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The Transit of Venus in front of the Sun: Clouds did not spoil the show!
More than 750 people on the campus of the Université de Montréal Astrophysicists from the Centre de Recherche en Astrophysique du Québec (CRAQ), the Université de Montréal, McGill University, the Montreal planetarium, and the amateur astronomers…
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Bernard Malenfant receives the 2012 UdeM Principal’s Award
The first edition of the UdeM Principal’s Award was attributed to the administrative and support staff members of the Université de Montréal (UdeM). The ceremony was held on June 5th 2012, at the cafeteria Chez Valère…
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The Transit of Venus in front of the Sun: a must-see at the Université de Montréal
The Centre de Recherche en Astrophysique du Québec (CRAQ), the Université de Montréal, McGill University, the Montreal planetarium, Espace pour la Vie, the Société d’Astronomie du Planétarium de Montréal, the Fédération des Astronomes Amateurs du Québec…
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Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay receives the 2012 Plaskett Medal
The Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA) and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) awarded the J.S Plaskett Medal 2012 to Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay for the best 2012 Canadian PhD thesis in astrophysics. Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay finished his PhD…