Feedback: Master's 2 students in Astrophysics and the Cosmos, Fields, and Particles at the Haute-Provence Observatory
This trip is an important experience for our master’s students, as it gives them the opportunity to meet the entire class—spread across two campuses—and to carry out a group research project, from planning the observations to writing a scientific report.
This year, 23 students were able to use three OHP telescopes as well as the IRiS telescope at LabEx OCEVU to carry out eight projects (star formation rate and metallicity of a spiral galaxy, temperature and pressure of a nebula, characterization of an exoplanetary system, etc.).
During their stay, the students also had the opportunity to visit the 193-cm telescope with which Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz—winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics—discovered the first exoplanet orbiting a main-sequence star, 51 Pegasi b, in 1995.
Favorable weather conditions allowed them to collect several thousand images and hundreds of spectra to carry out their projects and then capture a few astrophotography images.
This program is organized with the support of the Department of Physics in the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Montpellier, the Department of Physics and the Faculty of Sciences at Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, LabEx LIO, LUPM, and CRAL.
