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While I am not working on the Physics of Active Hot Stars, I appreciate running on the country side of the Alpes-Côte d’Azur area.
With some participation to various races...
But with my “old” age (over 40 ;-) ) it’s getting harder and harder for me to run on very long distances (it hurts my knees !) and I prefer to ride my two bicycles:
A Cannondale Road Warrior 600:
And a (black) Giant Trance Mountain Bike fully equipped with DT-SWISS components (Fork, wheels, Rear Shock, etc...) for around10 kgs !
And from time to time, I am also participating to local races (Lachens-Mer, Transvesubienne, Raid des Paillons, Bigreen, etc...)
Jeux de Sophia-Antipolis 2006 (Cannondale Jekyll)
Raid des Paillons, September, 23 2007 (Cannondale Prophet)
A nice view over Caussols, with myself on my Cannondale Prophet.
I am also President of the VTT Club du Bar sur Loup and I am teaching how to ride a Mountain Bike to adults and children every saturday morning...
I also like practicing multi-activities and various sports:
Tennis:
Sailing:
Trekking in the mountain:
Snowshoe walking:
Skiing:
Eating:
and Sleeping ! (World Champion...)
On the « Star Track » to the VLT @ Cerro Paranal, Chili, June, 22 2012
In front of a 8m telescope (UT) @ Cerro Paranal, Chili
Now with the 1.8m telescope AT2 @ Paranal, Chili: yes it was windy !
Myself, with Santiago City in the background, June 2012...
Since I am now at the Observatoire de Nice on the « Mont Gros » I have to commute
every day from Le Bar sur Loup to Nice (102 kms per day !).
Thus I have first bought a very Nice VESPA 300 from ESPRIT SCOOTER in Grasse.
If you are looking for a very nice and competent VESPA dealer you can visit ESPRIT SCOOTER in Grasse.
But since I have also a lot of Highway and other fast roads to drive I have bought in 2011 a Triumph Street Triple R which is a very nice and powerful roadster !
Year 2017
Critical study of the distribution of rotational velocities of Be stars
II: Differential rotation and some hidden effects interfering with the interpretation of the V sin i parameterJ. Zorec, Y. Frémat, A. Domiciano de Souza, F. Royer, L. Cidale, A.-M. Hubert, T. Semaan, C. Martayan, Y. R. Cochetti, M. L. Arias, Y. Aidelman and Stee, Ph, A&A, 602, A83
« White book » Science cases for a visible interferometer post-GRAVITY and post-MATISSE by Stee, Ph and 53 colleagues. 2017, arXiv: 1703.02395. Please download the full document HERE
En construction.
- Active Hot Stars including, Be, B[e], WR, O and LBV stars.
- Mass loss around hot stars
- Stellar winds
- Models (development of the SIMECA code)
- Non-LTE Radiative Transfer
- Hydrodynamics
- High angular resolution and large baseline optical interferometry
- Project Scientist of the VEGA/CHARA interferometer
- Exploitation of the AMBER and MIDI instruments on the VLTI
B[e] stars
Song of Beren and Lùthien © J.R.R. Tolkien (extract)
- Active Hot Stars including, Be, B[e], WR, O and LBV stars.
- Mass loss around hot stars
- Stellar winds
- Models (development of the SIMECA code)
- Non-LTE Radiative Transfer
- Hydrodynamics
- High angular resolution and large baseline optical interferometry
- Project Scientist of the VEGA/CHARA interferometer
- Exploitation of the AMBER and MIDI instruments on the VLTI