Galaxies, High Energy Astrophysics and Cosmology
French laboratories (1) including IRAP (Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse and CNRS) have just reached a major milestone for HARMONI, the very high resolution imaging spectrograph of the Extremely Large […]
Deep observations made with the MUSE spectrograph on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have uncovered vast cosmic reservoirs of atomic hydrogen surrounding distant galaxies. The exquisite sensitivity of MUSE allowed for […]
The XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (SSC) has published the first catalogue of X-ray sources from regions of the sky observed repeatedly. The catalogue comprises almost 72,000 objects, partly of exotic […]
Using data from the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton Observatory, an international team of researchers, including three IRAP researchers, surprised a new type of black hole (an intermediate mass black hole) […]
Based on new observational data, an international team led by ETH astronomers and including an IRAP researcher (University of Toulouse & CNRS) identified at least six candidates for ‘dark galaxies’ […]
By combining data from two major European observatories located in Chile, and those from the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of scientists composed of an associate researcher and an astronomer […]
The 16th of May 2018 sees the eighth data release of the XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue (3XMM-DR8), the largest catalogue of X-ray sources from a single X-ray observatory. This new […]
Astronomers using the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile have conducted the deepest spectroscopic survey ever. They focused on the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, measuring distances and […]
A team of astrophysicists from the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie of Toulouse, the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique of Marseille and the Centre de Recherche Astrophysique of Lyon, have just discovered a giant […]