Tanga Paolo

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Catégorie : Tanga Paolo

Mis à jour : 7 Octobre 2025

 

Astronomer - planetary scientist

UMR Lagrange

Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur

Boulevard de l'Observatoire CS 34229  06304 Nice Cedex 4

  phone :  +33 4 92 00 30 42
 email : paolo.tanga@oca.eu
Bluesky : @paolotanga.bsky.social

Former adjoint director of Laboratoire Lagrange

Associate to INAF Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Florence, Italy. 

Publications

Refereed articles on ADS

Current research topics

• Solar System data collected by the Gaia mission (ESA). Responsible of data processing within the activity of the Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC).
• Astrometry and dynamical properties of minor planets. Exploitation of pre-Gaia astrometric measurements. Stellar occultations by asteroids: prediction and observations.
• Asteroids enriched in primordial refractory elements: the "Barbarians", asteroids of the taxonomic class L. 

Projects 

• GaiaMoons: exploiting Gaia astrometry to discover asteroid companions (ANR project)  
• ACROSS: Asteroid Collaborative Research via Occultation Systematic Survey 
• UniversCity telescope (OCA) - robotic 50 cm telescope at Calern
• The Gaia mission (ESA) 
• DART, Hera missions to the asteroid Didymos
• Asteroid discovery by the Ground-Based Optical Tracking of Gaia

Past activities and projects

• EuroVenus (FP7 EU program)
• The Venus Twilight Experiment: expeditions for the observations of Venus atmoshpere during the solar transit of 2012. 
• Asteroid shapes and sizes measured by the Fine Guidance System interferometers of the Hubble Space Telescope.
• Trasport of passively advected dust in the protoplanetary nebula and in geophysical fluids.

Awards

 W. J. Merline Award of IOTA for the first independent confirmation of an asteroid moon discovered by occultation (2025).

 Asteroid 9715 Paolotanga.

 Chevalier de l'ordre des palmes académiques (2015)