Jean-Pierre Luminet

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Jean-Pierre Luminet (born June 3, 1951 in Cavaillon ) is a French astronomer and astrophysicist and writer . He is Research Director of the CNRS at the Paris-Meudon Observatory and there at the Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH).

Luminet pioneered the computation of gravitational lensing effects of black holes in 1979 and in 1982 studied with Brandon Carter the destruction of stars by tidal forces near supermassive black holes with the derivation of signatures confirmed by the Chandra and XMM X-ray satellites in 2004 . Since the 1990s, he has been concerned with the topology of the universe and methods for drawing conclusions about it from CMB data. He worked with Marc Lachièze-Rey , Jeffrey Weeks , Jean-Philippe Uzan and others. In 2003 he hit with Weeks, Uzan u. a. in this context a dodecahedron topology from WMAP data (based on the model of Henri Poincaré ).

He is the author of many popular science books, including the history of cosmology. He also wrote novels and poems.

In 1999 he received the Prix Georges Lemaître and in 2006 the Prix ​​Paul Doistau-Émile Blutet de l'Information Scientifique . The asteroid 5523 Luminet is named after him.

Fonts

Popular science:

  • with other Aux confins de l'Univers 1987
  • Les Trous Noirs , Paris, Belfond 1987
    • German translation: Black Holes , Vieweg 1997
    • English translation: Black Holes , Cambridge University Press 1992
  • with others: Le Grand Atlas de l'Astronomie , 1994
  • with Marc Lachièze-Rey La Physique et l'infini , 1994
  • with others Du Big Bang à demain 1997
  • Noir soleil , Paris, Cherche midi 1993
  • with Serge Brunier: Eclipses, les rendez-vous célestes , 1999
    • English translation: Glorious Eclipses: their past, present and future , Cambridge University Press 2000
  • Le Feu du ciel: météores et astéroïdes tueurs , Paris, Cherche midi 2002
  • L'invention du Big Bang , foreword to Essais de cosmologie , Sources de savoir 2004 (reprint of essays by Alexander Alexandrowitsch Friedmann , Georges Lemaître )
  • L'Univers chiffonné , Fayard 2001, 2005
    • English translation: The wraparound universe , AK Peters 2008
  • with Marc Lachièze-Rey De l'infini: mystères et limites de l'univers , Dunod 2005
  • with Lachièze-Rey: Figures du ciel: de l'harmonie des sphères à la conquête spatiale , Seuil 1998
    • English translation: Celestial treasury: from the music of the spheres to the conquest of space , Cambridge University Press 2001
  • Le destin de l'univers: Trous noirs et énergie sombre , Fayard 2006
  • with Élisa Brune: Bonnes nouvelles des étoiles , Paris, Odile Jacob 2009
  • Illuminations: cosmos et esthétique , Paris, Odile Jacob 2011
  • Astéroïdes: la terre en danger: fin du monde, les vraies raisons , Paris, Cherche midi 2012

Some essays:

Novels:

  • Rendezvous with Venus or the love of astronomy , CH Beck 2005 (novel about the observation of the Venus transit in 1761)
  • Alexandria- Novel of a Library , dtv 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luminet Image of a spherical black hole with thin accretion disk , Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 75, 1979, pp. 228-235
  2. ↑ Carter, Luminet Pancake detonation of stars by black holes in galactic nuclei , Nature, Volume 296, 1982, pp. 212-214
  3. ↑ ESA
  4. ↑ In 2010 he published Relativistic tidal compressions of a star by a massive black hole with M. Brassart , Arxiv
  5. ↑ Lachièze-Rey, Luminet Cosmic Topology , Physics Reports, Volume 254, 1996, pp. 135-214, Arxiv
  6. ↑ Luminet, Weeks, Riazuelo, Lehoucq, Uzan Dodecahedral space topology as an explanation for weak wide-angle temperature correlations in the cosmic microwave background , Nature, Volume 425, 2003, pp. 593-595, Arxiv
  7. ^ Luminet The shape and topology of the universe , Preprint 2008, Leiden Conference
personal data
SURNAME Luminet, Jean-Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French astronomer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Cavaillon