<< RTN on MSFR >> Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees - Toulouse ====================================================================== 27 march 2003 Coordinator: ~~~~~~~~~~~ Thierry Contini (contini@ast.obs-mip.fr) - hereafter [TC] Proposed collaborators: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Roser Pello (roser@ast.obs-mip.fr) [RP] Jean-Francois Leborgne (leborgne@ast.obs-mip.fr) [JFL] Marie Lemoine-Busserolle (lemoine@ast.obs-mip.fr) (PhD student, near completion) [MLB] Johan Richard (richard@ast.obs-mip.fr) (PhD student, starting) [JR] possibly also: Emmanuel Davoust (davoust@ast.obs-mip.fr) [ED] Domains of expertise: --------------------- - Chemical abundances in starburst galaxies near and far [TC, MLB] - Massive star (O, WR) populations in starbursts and AGNs [TC] - Physical properties of lensed high-redshift starburst galaxies [MLB, TC, RP, JFL] - Massive clusters acting as "Gravitational Telescope" to probe low-luminosity distant star-forming galaxies [RP, JR, TC] - Interplay between massive star populations and ISM in starburst galaxies [ED, TC] - Detection and study of the first "PoPIII-like" galaxies [RP, JR] - STELIB: a high spectral resolution stellar libray for evolutionary synthesis models [JFL, RP] - HyperZ: the widely used "photometric redshifts" code [RP] Involvement in observational/instrumental projects related to RTN ----------------------------------------------------------------- - Partipation to the "VLT/VIRMOS Deep Survey (VVDS)" scientific program [TC, RP, MLB] - Participation to the EMIR (near-infrared JHK multi-object spectrograph for the Grantecan) building consortium. [RP, TC, JR] Members of the COSMOS/EMIR (PI: R. Guzman) science core group. [RP, TC] - Project scientist of the KMOS/VLT consortium. [RP] Members of the science team of this near-IR multi-object spectrograph "KMOS-2" proposed for the 2nd generation instrumentation on VLT [RP, TC] Proposed topics for research and formation ------------------------------------------ Possible in main domains of expertise listed above. For all topics studies at the pre- or post-doctoral level can be proposed. Most of these topics could greatly benefit from shared expertise with other proposed RTN members within and beyond ongoing collaborations. This includes both expertise with observations and modeling. Main ongoing collaborations with other proposed node members ------------------------------------------------------------ - Contini, Kunth (IAP), S. Arribas (IAC), M. Mas-Hesse (LAFF, Madrid) The starburst-AGN connection in nearby Seyfert galaxies - Contini, J. Vilchez (IAA, Granada) Oxygen and nitrogen abundances in nearby spiral galaxies - Contini, R. Terlevich (IoA, Cambridge), E. Terlevich (INAOE, Mexico), D. Kunth (IAP) Localized chemical enrichement in young star-forming regions - Contini, Leborgne, Pello, Lemoine-Busserolle, Schaerer (Geneva) Physical properties of high-redshift starburst galaxies - Pello, Richard, Leborgne, Schaerer (Geneva) Detection and study of PopIII objects - Contini, Schaerer (Geneva) Massive star populations in Wolf-Rayet galaxies ---end of information Toulouse node