Georges Meynet
Research
Since there are very luminous, massive stars are privilegeous objects for the study of stellar formation and stellar evolution at different redshift in the Universe. These stars play a key role in the chemical evolution of galaxies. By their winds, they also modify the dynamical properties of the Interstellar medium. Sources of a powerful ionising radiation, they are responsible for HII regions and they probably contribute in a significant way to the reionisation of the Universe at very high redshift. For all these reasons, masive stars are a link between stellar, galactic and cosmic evolutions. My work is to study massive stars by modelling their evolution on a computer. More precisely, my research topics are the following:
- Calculation of grids of stellar models
- Calculation of stellar models including the effects of rotation
- Modelling of Starbursts
- Stellar nucleosynthesis study
- High energy astrophysics: gamma-ray lines spectroscopy
- Isotopic anomalies in the cosmic radiation and meteorites
Publications
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Last update: 2006/10/19