Chercheurs

Astronomie / LUMINET, JEAN-PIERRE

Jean-Pierre.Luminet

Position

Astrophysicist at Paris-Meudon Observatory

Research director at French C.N.R.S

Thèmes de recherche

- Cosmology, structure of space-time
- Relativistic Astrophysics (Black Hole Physics, accretion disks, star-black hole interactions)
- Epistemology (the invention of big bang, History of cosmology)

Jean-Pierre Luminet was the first to numerically visualize accretion disks around black holes, and co-discovered the phenomenon of " crêpe stellaire ", which causes the crushing of stars by the tidal forces of giant black holes.

Prix et récompenses

Asteroid 5523 named Luminet, International Astronomical Union, 1999
Georges Lemaître Prize 1999

Publications

Well-Proportioned Universes Suppress CMB Quadrupole
Jeffrey Weeks, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Alain Riazuelo and Roland Lehoucq : to appear in MNRAS, 2004

Cosmic microwave background in multi-connected flat spaces
Alain Riazuelo, Jeffrey Weeks, Jean-Philippe Uzan, Roland Lehoucq and Jean-Pierre Luminet : to appear in Phys Rev., 2004

Dodecahedral space topology as an explanation for weak wide-angle temperature correlations in the cosmic microwave background
Jean-Pierre Luminet, Jeffrey Weeks, Alain Riazuelo, Roland Lehoucq and Jean-Philippe Uzan : Nature (2003) 425, 593-595

Isotropisation of flat homogeneous universes with scalar fields
Stephane Fay, Jean-Pierre Luminet: to appear in Class. Quant. Grav. (2004)

Eigenmodes of 3-dimensional spherical spaces and their application to cosmology
Roland Lehoucq, Jeffrey Weeks, Jean-Philippe Uzan, Evelise Gausmann and Jean-Pierre Luminet: Class. Quant. Grav. (2002) 19, 4683-4708

Topological Lensing in Spherical Spaces
Evelise Gaussman, Roland Lehoucq, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Jean-Philippe Uzan and Jeff Weeks: Class. Quant. Grav. (2001) 18, 5155-5186

Twin paradox and space topology
Jean-Philippe Uzan, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Roland Lehoucq, Patrick Peter: European Journal of Physics (2002), 23, 277-284

Limits of crystallographic methods for detecting space topology
Roland Lehoucq, Jean-Philippe Uzan and Jean-Pierre Luminet: Astronomy and Astrophysics (2000), 363, 1

New Developments in the Search for the Topology of the Universe
Jean-Philippe Uzan, Roland Lehoucq and Jean-Pierre Luminet: Proceedings of the XIXth Texas meeting, Eds. E. Aubourg et. al., Nuclear Physics B : Proc. Suppl. Vol. 80, CD-Rom version, article-no: 04/25

A New Crystallographic Method for Detecting Space Topology
Jean-Philippe Uzan, Roland Lehoucq, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Astronomy and Astrophysics (1999), 351, 766-774

Constraining curvature parameters via topology
Boudewijn F. Roukema, Jean-Pierre Luminet : Astron. Astrophys. 1999, 348, 8

Topology of the Universe: Theory and Observations
Jean-Pierre Luminet, Boudewijn F. Roukema, Proceedings of the Cargese 98 summer school "Cosmology : The Universe at Large Scale", M. Lachièze-Rey (Ed.), Kluwer Ac. Pub., NATO ASI 970491

Topological lens effects in universes with non-Euclidean compact spatial sections
R. Lehoucq, J.-P. Luminet, J.P. Uzan : Astron. Astrophys. 1999, 344, 735-743

Past and Future of Cosmic Topology
Luminet J.P. : Acta Cosmologica, fasc. XXIV-1, pp. 105-116, 1998

Black Holes : A General Introduction
Luminet J.P. : in BLACK HOLES : THEORY AND OBSERVATION, Eds. F. Hehl, C. Kiefer, R. Metzler, Springer Verlag, 1998, Lecture Notes in Physics, pp. 3-36.

Cosmic Crystallography
Lehoucq R., Lachièze-Rey M. & Luminet J.P. : Astron. Astrophys. 1996, 313, 339-346

Cosmic Topology
Lachièze-Rey M. & Luminet J.P. : Physics Reports 1995, 254,135-214