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P. Gigan
Researcher at Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Publications - 35
Citations - 1985
P. Gigan is an academic researcher from Centre national de la recherche scientifique. The author has contributed to research in topics: Adaptive optics & Telescope. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 35 publications receiving 1731 citations.
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SPHERE: the exoplanet imager for the Very Large Telescope
Jean-Luc Beuzit,Arthur Vigan,David Mouillet,Kjetil Dohlen,Raffaele Gratton,Anthony Boccaletti,Jean-François Sauvage,H. M. Schmid,Maud Langlois,Cyril Petit,Andrea Baruffolo,M. Feldt,Julien Milli,Zahed Wahhaj,L. Abe,U. Anselmi,J. Antichi,Rudy Barette,J. Baudrand,Pierre Baudoz,Andreas Bazzon,P. Bernardi,P. Blanchard,R. Brast,Pietro Bruno,Tristan Buey,Marcel Carbillet,M. Carle,Enrico Cascone,F. Chapron,Gael Chauvin,Julien Charton,Riccardo Claudi,Anne Costille,V. De Caprio,A. Delboulbe,Silvano Desidera,Carsten Dominik,Mark Downing,O. Dupuis,Christophe Fabron,D. Fantinel,G. Farisato,Philippe Feautrier,Enrico Fedrigo,T. Fusco,P. Gigan,Christian Ginski,Julien Girard,Enrico Giro,D. Gisler,L. Gluck,Cecile Gry,Th. Henning,N. Hubin,Emmanuel Hugot,S. Incorvaia,M. Jaquet,M. Kasper,Eric Lagadec,Anne-Marie Lagrange,H. Le Coroller,D. Le Mignant,B. Le Ruyet,G. Lessio,J. L. Lizon,M. Llored,Lars Lundin,F. Madec,Yves Magnard,M. Marteaud,P. Martinez,D. Maurel,Francois Menard,Dino Mesa,O. Möller-Nilsson,Thibaut Moulin,C. Moutou,Alain Origne,J. Parisot,A. Pavlov,D. Perret,J. Pragt,Pascal Puget,Patrick Rabou,Juan-Luis Ramos,Jean Michel Reess,F. Rigal,Sylvain Rochat,Ronald Roelfsema,G. Rousset,A. Roux,Michel Saisse,Bernardo Salasnich,E. Sant'Ambrogio,Salvo Scuderi,D. Segransan,Arnaud Sevin,Ralf Siebenmorgen,Christian Soenke,Eric Stadler,Marcos Suarez,Didier Tiphene,Massimo Turatto,Stéphane Udry,Farrokh Vakili,L. B. F. M. Waters,L. Weber,Francois Wildi,Gérard Zins,Alice Zurlo +110 more
TL;DR: The Spectro-Polarimetic High contrast imager for Exoplanets REsearch (SPHERE) was designed and built for the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile as mentioned in this paper.
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NAOS, the first AO system of the VLT: on-sky performance
Gérard Rousset,Francois Lacombe,Pascal Puget,Norbert Hubin,Eric Gendron,Thierry Fusco,Robin Arsenault,Julien Charton,Philippe Feautrier,P. Gigan,Pierre Kern,Anne-Marie Lagrange,Pierre-Yves Madec,David Mouillet,Didier Rabaud,Patrick Rabou,Eric Stadler,Gérard Zins +17 more
TL;DR: NAOS-CONICA as mentioned in this paper is the first adaptive optics system installed at the VLT 8m telescopes and it was designed, manufactured and tested by a french Consortium under an ESO contract, to provide compensated images to the high angular resolution IR spectro-imaging camera.
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Performance of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Adaptive Optics Bonnette
Francois Rigaut,Derrick Salmon,Robin Arsenault,James D. Thomas,Olivier Lai,Daniel Rouan,J. P. Véran,J. P. Véran,P. Gigan,David Crampton,David Crampton,J. M. Fletcher,James R. Stilburn,Corinne Boyer,P. Jagourel +14 more
TL;DR: In this article, extensive results from the commissioning phase of PUEO, the adaptive optics instrument adaptor for the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), are presented and discussed.
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WIRCam: the infrared wide-field camera for the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
Pascal Puget,Eric Stadler,René Doyon,P. Gigan,Simon Thibault,Gerard Anthony Luppino,Gregory Barrick,Tom Benedict,Thierry Forveille,William Rambold,James D. Thomas,Tom Vermeulen,Jeff Ward,Jean-Luc Beuzit,Philippe Feautrier,Yves Magnard,Guillaume Mella,Olivier Preis,Philippe Vallée,Shiang-Yu Wang,Chueh-Jen Lin,Donald N. B. Hall,Klaus W. Hodapp +22 more
TL;DR: WIRCam as discussed by the authors is a near-infrared (0.9-2.4 microns) camera developed for the Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), a 3.6m telescope located on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
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First light of the VLT planet finder SPHERE. IV. Physical and chemical properties of the planets around HR8799
M. Bonnefoy,Alice Zurlo,Jean-Loup Baudino,P. W. Lucas,Dino Mesa,Anne-Lise Maire,Arthur Vigan,Raphaël Galicher,Derek Homeier,Federico Marocco,Raffaele Gratton,G. Chauvin,F. Allard,Silvano Desidera,M. Kasper,C. Moutou,Anne-Marie Lagrange,Andrea Baruffolo,J. Baudrand,Jean-Luc Beuzit,A. Boccaletti,Faustine Cantalloube,Marcel Carbillet,Julien Charton,Riccardo Claudi,Anne Costille,Kjetil Dohlen,Carsten Dominik,D. Fantinel,Philippe Feautrier,M. Feldt,Thierry Fusco,P. Gigan,Julien Girard,L. Gluck,Cecile Gry,Th. Henning,Markus Janson,Maud Langlois,F. Madec,Yves Magnard,D. Maurel,Dimitri Mawet,Michael Meyer,Julien Milli,O. Moeller-Nilsson,David Mouillet,A. Pavlov,D. Perret,P. Pujet,Sascha P. Quanz,Sylvain Rochat,G. Rousset,A. Roux,Bernardo Salasnich,G. Salter,Jean-François Sauvage,H. M. Schmid,Arnaud Sevin,Christian Soenke,Eric Stadler,Massimo Turatto,Stéphane Udry,Farrokh Vakili,Zahed Wahhaj,Francois Wildi +65 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the available spectra and photometry of the four planets to known objects and atmospheric models (BT-SETTL14, Cloud-AE60, Exo-REM) to characterize the atmospheric properties of the planets.