Antoine Émile Henry Labeyrie
Antoine Émile Henry Labeyrie (born 12 May 1943) is a French astronomer, who held the Observational astrophysics chair at the Collège de France between 1991 and 2014. He is currently professor emeretus there,[1] and continues to work with the Hypertelescope Lise association, which aims to develop an extremely large astronomical interferometer with spherical geometry that might theoretically show features on Earth-like worlds around other suns, as its president.[2][3] He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences in the Sciences of the Universe (sciences de l'univers) section.[4] Between 1995 and 1999 he was director of the Haute-Provence Observatory.
Labeyrie graduated from the "grande école" SupOptique (École supérieure d'optique). He invented speckle interferometry,[5] and works with astronomical interferometers. Labeyrie concentrated particularly on the use of "diluted optics" beam combination or "densified pupils" of a similar type but larger scale than those Michelson used for measuring the diameters of stars in the 1920s, in contrast to other astronomical interferometer researchers who generally switched to pupil-plane beam combination in the 1980s and 1990s.
The main-belt asteroid 8788 Labeyrie (1978 VP2) is named in honor of Antoine Émile Henry Labeyrie and Catherine Labeyrie.[6] In 2000, he was awarded the The Benjamin Franklin Medal.
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References
- ↑ http://www.college-de-france.fr/site/professeurs-honoraires/index.htm
- ↑ Govert Schilling (23 February 2006). "The hypertelescope: a zoom with a view". New Scientist.
- ↑ http://m42app.com/hypertelescope/?page_id=48
- ↑ http://www.academie-sciences.fr/archivage_site/academie/membre/Labeyrie_Antoine.htm
- ↑ Attainment of Diffraction Limited Resolution in Large Telescopes by Fourier Analysing Speckle Patterns in Star Images, Labeyrie 1970,Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 6, p. 85
- ↑ Lutz, Schmadel. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names: Addendum to 6th Edition: 2012-2014. p. 86.
- Antoine Labeyrie, Resolved imaging of extra-solar planets with future 10-100 km optical interferometric arrays, Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series 118 (1996), 517-24.
- Antoine Labeyrie, Snapshots of Alien Worlds – The Future of Interferometry, Science 285 (1999), 1864-65 (full text limited to subscribers).
- Tony Reichhardt, French Astronomer Designs Telescope of the Future, Space.com, 16 September 1999.
- Govert Schilling, The hypertelescope: a zoom with a view, New Scientist, n. 2540, 23 February 2006 (full text limited to subscribers, article contains some scientific misconceptions).
- Bruce Dorminey, Astronomers build hypertelescope in southern French alps, Forbes, 26 March 2012
- H. Le Coroller; J. Dejonghe; C. Arpesella; D. Vernet; A. Labeyrie (1 November 2004). "Tests with a Carlina-type hypertelescope prototype I. Demonstration of star tracking and fringe acquisition with a balloon-suspended focal camera". Astronomy & Astrophysics 426 (2): 721–728. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20041088.
- D. Ricci; H. Le Coroller; A. Labeyrie (22 June 2009). "Extreme coronagraphy with an adaptive hologram : Simulations of exo-planet imaging". Astronomy & Astrophysics 503: 301–308. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/200811529.
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