Feedback: Master 2 students in Astrophysics and Cosmos, Fields and Particles at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence
This is an important moment for our Master's students, who have the opportunity to meet the whole class, spread over two sites, and to carry out a group research project, from planning observations to writing a scientific report.
This year, 23 students were able to use 3 OHP telescopes and LabEx OCEVU's IRiS telescope to carry out 8 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.
The good weather conditions enabled them to collect several thousand images and hundreds of spectra to complete their projects, and to produce a few astrophotographic images.
The trip is organized with the support of the Physics Department of the Faculty of Science at the University of Montpellier, the Physics Department and Faculty of Science at the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, LabEx LIO, LUPM and CRAL.
