X-IFU week in Madrid is over
The sixth X-IFU consortium meeting took place from September 11th to 15th in Madrid at CSIC headquarters. It was hosted by Miguel Mas Hesse (CAB-INTA) and his team, during a […]
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Review of the Nanosatellites day – IRAP Thematic Day on Nanosatellites, 11 July 2017
IRAP welcomed on July 11th for its Nanosatellites Day, about fifty people from OMP, LAAS, ISAE, ONERA, LCAR and other partners companies. After recalling the theories of innovation developed since […]
Correlation between structures and electronic properties in PAH aggregates
An interdisciplinary French team involving laboratories in Toulouse (IRAP, LCPQ) and the Paris region (Synchrotron SOLEIL, ISMO) combined the measurement of photo-ionization spectra at the SOLEIL synchrotron with molecular simulations […]
AROMA Setup First Results
The new analytical experimental setup called AROMA (Astrochemistry Research of Organics with Molecular Analyzer) is now in operation at IRAP/LCAR. The main purpose of this setup is to study and […]
A Massive Dead Disk Galaxy Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution
A young, compact and “dead” disc galaxy surprises the astronomers and teaches us more about the formation of elliptical galaxies. By combining the power of a “natural lens” in space […]
Adoption of the PLATO mission by ESA
The PLATO (Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) planetary mission proposal aims to discover rocky planets around nearby stars similar to our Sun. Selected by ESA in 2014, the mission […]
Rosetta unveils the secrets of the origin of xenon
The existence of a link between the terrestrial xenon isotopic composition and that of comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko has just been demonstrated by an international consortium of researchers1 including those of […]
Delivery of the PAS French instrument for the Solar Orbiter mission
The PAS (Proton-Alfa Sensor) sensor, designed and developed by the IRAP teams (CNRS / CNES / Paul Sabatier University), will be delivered to ESA on 13 June 2017 to equip […]
An update to the largest catalogue of X-ray detected astrophysical objects
The first of June sees the seventh data release of the XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue (3XMM-DR7), the largest catalogue of X-ray sources ever created. This new version includes 727790 X-ray […]