Chairman: Dr. L. Siess (ULB)
Secretary: Dr. R. Alvarez (ROB)

The Group ASTRONOMIE & ASTROPHYSIQUE is one of the Contact Groups of the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS).
This Contact Group is open to any research in astronomy and astrophysics.
The goal of the Group is to give the opportunity to astronomers and astrophysicists, especially the young researchers, to get better acquainted with the astronomical activities carried on in the various institutes of the country.
Since 2009, the Contact Group meeting is held together with the Astronomy Day of the Royal Observatory of Belgium.


21st Meeting of the FNRS Contact Group Astronomie & Astrophysique

Astronomy Day of the Royal Observatory of Belgium
Thursday 08 December 2022 Planetarium (map)

P R O G R A M M E
8:30 Welcome
9:00
Thibaut Merle (ULB):
Spectroscopic binaries in the Gaia-ESO Survey [pdf file]
9:15
Rik Claes (ESO):
Testing disk evolution through mass accretion and its variability: the case of XX Cha [pdf file]
9:30
Marc-Antoine Martinod & Denis Defrere (KULeuven):
Science with the VLTI: Asgard and GRAVITY+ [pdf file]
9:45
Florian Kirchschlager (UGent):
Dust properties of hot exozodis derived from near- and mid-infrared spectroscopy [pdf file]
10:00
Mathieu Vander Donckt (ULiege):
Simultaneous multi-wavelength observations of comets with CRIRES+ [pdf file]
10:15
Laurent Mahy (ROB):
Identifying quiescent compact objects in massive single-lined spectroscopic binaries [ppt file]
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00
Henri Boffin (ESO):
INVITED TALK : La Silla Paranal, your Observatory
11:30
Sophie Van Eck (ULB):
Spectroscopy of AGB and CEMP stars with ESO data at IAA/ULB [pdf file]
11:45
Silke Maes (KULeuven):
Studying the complexities of stellar outflows
12:00
Plenary session: Alain Smette et al. (ESO):
Videoconference with ESO Chile and ESO Garching
12:30 Lunch
13:30
Plenary session: Michele Cirasuolo (ESO):
The Extremely Large Telescope
14:00
Carlos De Breuck (ESO):
INVITED TALK : ALMA [pdf file]
14:20
Chris Sterken (VUB):
The lifelong impact of an early-career student contract at ESO in Chile
14:35
Laetitia Delrez (ULiege):
An update on the SPECULOOS project and new results
14:50
Tinne Pauwels (KULeuven):
Massive stars and their large-separation low-mass companions through the eyes of SPHERE
15:05
Marco Palla (UGent):
A window on the first galaxies with ALMA [pdf file]
15:20
Hugues Sana (KULeuven):
The multiple nature of massive stars: an ESO-driven change of paradigm [ppt file]
15:35 Coffee Break
16:00
Emmanuel Jehin (ULiege):
20 years of comet observations with the UVES high resolution spectrometer of the ESO VLT [ppt file]
16:15
Alain Jorissen (ULB):
Interferometry of AGB stars at IAA/ULB [ppt file]
16:30
Thomas Konings (KULeuven):
Understanding exoplanet atmospheres with numerical models [pdf file]
16:45
Sebastian Zuniga-Fernandez (ULiege):
SPECULOOS: Hunting exoplanets of ultracool dwarfs with 1-meter ground-based telescopes network [ppt file]
17:00
Nadya Serebriakova (KULeuven):
The ESO UVES/FEROS Large Programs of TESS OB pulsators: spectroscopic analysis as a complement to future asteroseismic modelling
17:15
Lionel Garcia (ULiege):
Contributions of the TRAPPIST telescopes to the field of Exoplanetary Science
17:30
Valentin Christiaens (ULiege):
Overview of directly imaged exoplanets and circumstellar disks with ESO facilities
17:45 End of meeting


       
   
Secretary: Rodrigo ALVAREZ Chairman: Lionel SIESS
Royal Observatory of Belgium Institut d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Ringlaan 3, 1180 Uccle Campus Plaine, CP 226, 1050 Bruxelles
Tel:  + 32 2 474 70 53 Tel:  + 32 2 650 55 16
rodrigo.alvarez AT oma.be lionel.siess AT ulb.be