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Commission Femmes et Astronomie de la SF2A: Women participation in French astronomy
Rhita-Maria Ouazzani, Caroline Bot, Sylvie Brau-Nogué +7
The Commission Femmes et Astronomie conducted a statistical study that aims at mapping the presence of women in French professional Astronomy today, and set a starting point for st…
Prehistory of Transit Searches
Danielle Briot, Jean Schneider
Nowadays the more powerful method to detect extrasolar planets is the transit method. We review the planet transits which were anticipated, searched, and the first ones which were…
Evolution of the problem "search for life in the Universe" from some examples
Danielle Briot
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Drake formula, it appears interesting to briefly review the history of Astrobiology from the origins up to the epoch of the Drake for…
Is it the first use of the word Astrobiology ?
Danielle Briot
The research of life in Universe is a ancient quest that has taken different forms over the centuries. It has given rise to a new science, which is normally referred as Astrobiolog…
GYES, a multifibre spectrograph for the CFHT
P. Bonifacio, S. Mignot, J. -L. Dournaux +38
We have chosen the name of GYES, one of the mythological giants with one hundred arms, offspring of Gaia and Uranus, for our instrument study of a multifibre spectrograph for the p…
The Gaia satellite: a tool for Emission Line Stars and Hot Stars
Christophe Martayan, Yves Fremat, Ronny Blomme +19
The Gaia satellite will be launched at the end of 2011. It will observe at least 1 billion stars, and among them several million emission line stars and hot stars. Gaia will provid…