The GEPI laboratory, housed in Paris Observatory (Meudon section), will offer as partner of the Euro3D Research Training Network, one of the ten two years post-doctoral position within the framework proposed, e.g. promoting the integral field spectroscopy in Astrophysics.
The candidate will join the team
in charge of the FLAMES-GIRAFFE project
at the Paris Observatory, a multifibre spectrograph with 2 integral field
modes which will be commissioned on VLT Kueyen telescope in Summer
2002.
A large part of FLAMES instruments has been develloped
and constructed in our laboratoty. The group has been
responsible for the electromechanics of GIRAFFE, the whole fibre links
for GIRAFFE and UVES and participates to the Data Reduction and
Analysis Software development.
With FLAMES/GIRAFFE, ESO is offering the only instrument
which will allow to obtain the velocity field of 15 distant galaxies at
the same time inside a FoV of 25 arcmin.
FLAMES-GIRAFFE offers to the scientifical community the
opportunity to explore
new research areas and in particular the dynamical evolution
of distant galaxie. Our main research area with
GIRAFFE will be the connexion of panchromatics properties of distant
galaxies with the dynamical properties.
A large part of the 35 nights allocated as garantee time
to Paris Observatory will be devoted to extragalactic works coupling panchromatic,
chemical and dynamical studies of galaxies in the field, groups and clusters.
The candidate is expected to participate actively to the main
scientific project of our team but could also develop collaborations
with GEPI members in other areas which will benefit of
3D modes of GIRAFFE and its high spectral resolution:
the spectroscopy of resolved stars or clusters in nearby galaxies.
Part of the job will concern development of cross-correlation
techniques
for 3D spectroscopy.
The GEPI laboratory is mainly located in the South-Western
part of
Paris suburb, in a park within the city of Meudon.
The Meudon site hosts several other laboratories included
in the Paris
Observatory, which is among the largest world institutes
for Astronomy
and Astrophysics. Our team maintain fruitful collaborations
with
scientists of LESIA in astronomical instrumentation for
the VLT
second generation instruments and with other researchers
using
integral field spectroscopy for the study of galaxy dynamics
and
active galaxies. Concerning our multi-wavelength programs
and
theoretical aspects of galaxy evolution, we benefit of
the proximity
of the Institut of Astrophysics in Paris and the Astrophysical
Service at the CEA of Saclay.