Welcome to Eric Lagadec's website


View from the big coupole at Nice Observatory

I'm currently a research assistant at the University of Manchester, after having completed my PhD thesis at the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur in Nice,French Rivieira, under the supervision of Djamel Mékarnia and José Antonio de Freitas Pacheco.

My thesis dealed with the study of evolved stars of low and intermediate masses (between 0.8 and 8 sun masses). This stars are characterized by a strong mass-loss rate that leads to the creation of circumstellar envlopes (envolpes of dust and gas around the central star), which morphologies are often complex. I study these envelopes thanks to observations, mainly infrared, obtained with different big telescopes (ESO/VLT (Chile), CFHT (Hawaii)...)).

Composite image of three observations of Hen2-113 (Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics (Lagadec et al. 2005)). The observations have been obtained withe the Hubble space telescope and the Very Large Telescope in Chile.



Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
Département Fresnel
CNRS UMR
B.P. 4229
06304 NICE Cedex 4, France
Tel:(+33) 4 92 00 30 02
Fax:(+33) 4 92 00 30 33
E-mail : lagadec@obs-nice.fr

CV(french)

PhD Thesis (PDF version)

DEA (equivalent to Master degree) report (PDF version (1.2Mo))

Proceeding Conference APN3 Red Rectangle (version PS)

Poster Conference APN3 Red Rectangle (version PDF)

Proceeding Conference APN3 NGC 7027 (version PDF)

Poster Conference APN3 NGC 7027 (version PDF)

Paper published in A&A (A&A,433,553-564,2005)

"Temperature and density profiles in the envelope of AGB and post-AGB carbon stars from mid-infrared observations" (PDF version)

Poster Conference "PN as astronomical tools" Hen 2-113 (version PDF)

Proceeding Conference "PN as astronomical tools" Hen 2-113 (version PS)

Poster Conference "PN as astronomical tools" CPD -568032 (version PDF)

Proceeding Conference "PN as astronomical tools" CPD -568032(version PS)

Paper accepted for publication in A&A

"New insights on the complex planetary nebula Hen 2-113" (PDF version)

Interesting links

Astronomy

Music

Friends

Snow in the observatory!!!

Snow in the observatory!!!(II, the return)

Brittany (One of the most beautiful part of France!)

Pictures

Computer science