Jean-Philippe Beaulieu
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
Born 31.3.69 in Bordeaux
98 bis, boulevard
Arago (Gironde,
France)
F-75014,
Paris, France
French
Phone: +33 (0)1.44.32.81.19
Mobile +33 (0)6.03.98.73.11
Fax: +33 (0)1.44.32.80.01
Home address : 34 rue Baron, 75017 Paris
Positions/education
2009-2014 "Honorary reader", University
College of London
1999-- "Charge de Recherche CNRS" at Institut d'Astrophysique
de Paris, (permanent research position in Astrophysics).
1996-- 1998 "NWO post-doc" in the PLANET
collaboration, Kapteyn Institute, Groningen.
1992-- 1995 "PhD in Astrophysics" from University Paris VI at
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris. PhD entitled « EROS :
searching for baryonic dark matter via microlensing effects. Cepheids and
pre-main sequence stars from the Magellanic Clouds”. with highest distinction.
1991-- 1992 ``DEA Astronomie & Techniques Spatiales'' (equivalent to a
Master's Degree--First year of PhD in astrophysics), University Paris VI.
Languages:
Fluent in English, Spanish and Papua New Guinea
Pidgin.
Award :
"prix Louis Arman"
from the French "Academie des Sciences" (Nov 1996) for my contribution to the
distance scale.
(This price is given once a year by the Academie des Sciences to one young
researcher coming from one of the following fields, Biology, Mathematics,
Physics or Astronomy).
Scientific activities :
During the past 8 years I have been working on the following topics:
- Searching for planets via microlensing effects: online analysis systems, management of a network of now nine telescopes, modelling of microlensing light curves.
- Doing high precision IR photometry of transiting Hot Jupiters.
- Probing atmosphere of Bulge giant stars with caustics.
- Cepheid distance scale, pulsations, evolution, metallicity effects, hydro models.
- Star formation at low metallicities and Herbig stars in the Magellanic Clouds.
- Signal processing techniques for variable star and extrasolar planet transit search.
Grant:
PI of the ANR HOLMES (Hunting fOr Low Mass Extrasolar planetS) for 2007-2010.
Observations :
PI of observing proposals on the ESO 3.6m (EFOSC), ESO NTT (EMMI, SUSI, SOFI), ESO Large program of the WFI on the 2.2m, CFHT (MEGACAM, WIRCAM), VLT (FORS, UVES). coI on numerous observational projects. I spent 240 nights observing from ESO La Silla since 1992, about 150 from other observatories.
Teaching experience:
- 1993-1995 Lecturer in Computer Science at "Lycée Militaire de Saint Cyr.
- PhD adviser of Virginie Batista (2007-2009) : Constraints on the abundance of Frozen super Earth orbiting M dwarfs.
- PhD adviser of Arnaud Cassan (2002-2005) : searching for extrasolar planets via microlensing.
- coPhD adviser with Prof Lamers (Utrecht) of Willem Jan de wit (1997-2001) : pre main sequence stars in the Magellanic Clouds.
Administrative duties :
- Member of the INSU CSA (Commission de Spécialiste en Astronomie), in charge of the MAN Info (since 2003).
- Member of the administrative council of the OSU Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris.
- Member of the scientific council of the CDS (Strasbourg)
- Former member of the INSU commission for Antarctica astronomy (2004-2006).
Publications :
79 publications in refereed journals, 59 contributions to conferences. 3046 citations on ADS.
Selected publications :
Extrasolar planets and microlensing :
Beaulieu, J.P., Bennett D.P. et al., (PLANET, OGLE, MOA collaborations) 2006, « Discovery of a cool planet of 5.5 Earth masses by microlensing », Nature 439, 437
Bennett D.P., Anderson J., Beaulieu J.P., et al., 2007, “An Extrasolar Planet Census with a Space-based Microlensing Survey”, White Paper Submitted to the NASA/NSF ExoPlanet Task Force, 2007arXiv0704.0454B
Beaulieu et al., 2007, “Searching for Frozen Super Earth via microlensing”, The ESO Messenger 128, 33
Tinetti G., et al., 2007 “Water vapour in the atmosphere of a transiting extrasolar planet”, Nature 448, 169
Cassan A, Beaulieu J.P., et al., (PLANET collaboration), 2004, "Probing the atmosphere of the bulge G5III star OGLE-2002-BUL-069 by analysis of microlensed Hα line", Astronomy and Astrophysics 419, L1
Albrow M., Beaulieu J.P., et al., (PLANET collaboration) 2001, " Limits on the Abundance of Galactic Planets From Five Years of PLANET Observations ", Astrophysical Journal Letter 556, L113
Albrow M.D.A, Beaulieu J.P., et al., 2000, « The Relative Lens-Source Proper Motion in MACHO 98-SMC-1 », ApJ 512, 672
Cepheid distance scale, modelling, and metallicity effects:
Beaulieu, J.-P., Buchler J.R., et al., 2006, « Detection of Beat Cepheids in M33 and Their Use as a Probe of the M33 Metallicity Distribution », Astrophysical Journal 653, L101.
Kollath Z., Beaulieu J.P., Yecko P., Buchler R., 1998 "Beat Cepheids non linear models" Astrophysical Journal 502, L55.
Beaulieu J.P, Sasselov D., et al., (EROS collaboration) 1997, "The effect of metallicity on the Cepheid distance scale and its implications for the Huble constant H_0 determination ", Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters 318, L47.
Sasselov D., Beaulieu J.P, et al., (EROS collaboration) 1997, " Metallicity Effects on the Cepheid Extragalactic Distance Scale from EROS photometry in LMC and SMC", Astronomy and Astrophysics 324, 471
Pre main sequence stars in the Magellanic Clouds:
Beaulieu J.P, Lamers H., et al., (EROS collaboration) 1996, " Pre-main sequence star candidates in the bar of the Large Magellanic Cloud ", Science 272, 995.
de Wit, W. J., Beaulieu, J. P., Lamers, H. J. G. L. M., Coutures, C., & Meeus, G. 2005, « On the nature of pre-main sequence candidate stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud », Astronomy and Astrophysics 432 619.
Conference organisation:
“Extrasolar planets, today and tomorrow”, (Beaulieu, Lecavelier des Etangs, Terquem), Paris, July 2003
“Wide field Imaging at DOME C”, (Beaulieu, Bouchet), Paris, June 2006
“Non linear stellar Hydrodynamics workshop”, (Beaulieu, Goupil, Kollath), Paris, July 2007
"Molecules in extrasolar planet atmospheres", (Beaulieu, Tinetti, Ribas), November 2008
"13th microlensing workshop", (Beaulieu, Gould, Marquette), January 2009