Bertrand Goldman
Born the 24th of February, 1971
Department of Astronomy
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30001, Dept 4500
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001 Phone:
work: +1 (505) 646-2566
home: +1 (505) 521-1321
Fax: work: +1 (505) 646-1602 Email:
bgoldman@nmsu.edu
Ph.D. in Astrophysics
1988'90 |
Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Écoles (Maths, Physics, Chemistry), Lycée Hoche, Versailles |
1990'95 |
École Normale Supérieure (É.N.S.), Paris: |
1990'92 |
Licence and Maîtrise de Physique, U.Paris VI |
1992 |
D.É.A. (Master) in Epistemology and History of Science, U.Paris VII Thesis on the Science of Weights in the XIIIth Century in the Latin World, directed by Pr.Rashed |
1992'93 |
D.É.A. of Theoretical Physics, É.N.S.-U.Paris VI, Thesis at L.P.N.H.E., Paris on LEP II g-g simulations, directed by F.Kapusta, CNRS |
1993'94 |
Proctor Fellowship at Princeton University, U.S.A., Department of History of Sciences, on Medieval Latin Physics, supervised by Pr. Mahoney, Princeton University, and Pr. Claggett, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton |
1994'97 1998'01 |
Ph.D. in Astrophysics, D.A.P.NI.A./S.P.P., Saclay-U.Paris VI, on the Wide Field Proper Motion Survey for Brown and White Dwarfs in the Galactic Halo, directed by É.Aubourg (C.É.A.'s Fellowship) |
1997'98 |
National Cooperation Service: Collaboration U.Chile-E.S.O.-D.A.P.N.I.A., in Santiago de Chile, on the Search for White Dwarfs in the Solar Neighbourhood, with Pr. M.-T. Ruiz, U.Chile |
2001-'03 | Post-doc at New Mexico State University with Mark Marley (NASA/Ames) |
Conferences Attended |
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1995 March |
Rencontres de Moriond-Astrophysics on Dark Matter |
1996 January |
2nd International Workshop on Microlensing, Orsay, France |
1996 March |
Saas-Fee Course on AGN, Switzerland |
1997 March |
2nd International Conference on Brown Dwarfs and Extra-Solar Planets, Tenerife, Spain |
2001 August | Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun, 12th Cambridge Workshop, Boulder, U.S.A. |
Talks given |
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1996 December |
Science with the Eros II Set-up for the Wide-Field Conference at Meudon Observatory, France |
1997 February |
the Eros II Project at Cambridge Observatory, U.K. |
1997 December |
Recherche de naines blanches du Halo , 7mes Journées Jeunes Chercheurs at Bénodet, Brittany |
1998 February |
Search for Halo White Dwarfs and Microlensing Search for Dark Matter at the 2nd Dark Matter Conference, Santa Monica, U.S.A. |
1998 August |
Search for high proper motion halo stars , the 3rd Mt.Stromlo Symposium: Bright stars and the Galactic Halo, Camberra |
1998 December |
EROS II High Proper Motion Search , Texas Symposium, Paris (poster) |
1999 January |
Proper Motion Search with EROS II , AAS #193, Texas (poster) |
1999 March |
EROS 2 Proper Motion Search for Brown Dwarfs , VLT Opening Symposium, Antofagasta, Chile (poster) |
1999 September |
EROS 2 Proper Motion Survey, TauP, France (poster) |
2000 March |
EROS 2 proper motion search for Halo White Dwarfs, XXth astrophysical Moriond Meeting (talk) |
2001 June | Where's the matter?, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille's Third International Conference, Marseille, France (poster) |
2002 May | Brown dwarfs, IAU 211 (poster, proceedings) |
2002 June | AAS 200 (poster) |
2002 December | Texas in Florence, Italy (poster) |
Observational Limits on Machos in the Galactic Halo, Renault et al, A&A, 1997, 324 L69 (ADS, astro-ph/9612102)
AGAPEROS: Searches for microlensing in the LMC with Pixel Method , Melchior et al, Part I, 1999, A&AS 134 377 (ADS, astro-ph/9712236), Part II, A&A, 1998, 339 658 (ADS, astro-ph/9804321)
The microlensing searches for Galactic dark matter, B. Goldman, 1998, Physics Reports 307 107115 (ADS)
Microlensing towards the SMC. Eros II first year survey, Palanque-Delabrouille et al, 1998, A&A 332 L1 (ADS, astro-ph/9710194)
EROS 2 intensive observation of the caustic crossing of microlensing event MACHO SMC-98-1, Afonso et al, 1998, A&A 337 L17 (ADS)
EROS and MACHO Combined Limits on Planetary Mass Dark Matter in the Galactic Halo, Afonso et al, 1998, ApJ 499 L9 (ADS, astro-ph/9803082)
Microlensing towards the Small Magellanic Cloud EROS 2 two-year analysis, Afonso et al, 1999, A&A 344 L63 (ADS, astro-ph/9812173)
A slope variation in the period-luminosity relation for short period SMC Cepheids, Bauer et al, 1999, A&A 348 175 (ADS, astro-ph/9807094)
EROS 2 proper motion survey: A brown dwarf and an L dwarf companion to LHS102, Goldman et al, 1999, A&A 351 L5-9 (ADS, astro-ph/9905162)
Spectrocopic charaterization of ultracool dwarfs, Martín, Delfosse, Goldman et al, AJ, 1999 118 2466 (ADS)
An effective temperature scale for Late M and L dwarfs, from Resonance Absorption Lines of Cs I and Rb I, Basri et al, ApJ, 2000 538 363 (ADS)
Observation of microlensing towards the galactic spiral arms. EROS II. 2 year survey, Derue et al, 1999, A&A 351 87 (ADS)
Combined Analysis of the Binary Lens Caustic-crossing Event MACHO 98-SMC-1, Afonso et al, 2000, ApJ 532 340 (ADS)
Not enough stellar mass Machos in the Galactic halo, Lasserre et al, A&A, 2000 355 L39, (ADS, astro-ph/0002253)
Type Ia supernova rate at z ~ 0.1, Hardin et al, A&A, 2000 362 419 (ADS, astro-ph/0006424)
Observation of microlensing toward the galactic spiral arms. EROS II 3 year survey, Derue et al, 2001, A&A 373 126 (ADS)
Photometric constraints on microlens spectroscopy of EROS-BLG-2000-5, Afonso et al, 2001, A&A 378 1014 (ADS)
Blue irregular variable stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud from EROS2: Herbig Ae/Be or classical Be stars?, Beaulieu et al, 2001, A&A 380 168 (ADS)
EROS 2 proper motion survey: Constraints on the halo white dwarfs, Goldman et al, 2002, A&A, 389 L69 (ADS).
Astronomical Observational Runs |
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1991 September |
one week at the 2m of Observatoire du Pic du Midi, Pyrénées: Pr.Y.Mellier's Gravitational lensing arclets detection program |
1994-'99 |
5 months (total) on the 40cm GPO and 1m Marly Telescopes at La Silla, Chile: EROS year-long observing programs for the detection of Microlensing events, SNe and High Proper Motion Stars |
1998 January |
one week at 0.9m and 4m Blanco Telescopes at Cerro Tololo, Chile: Pr. M.-T. Ruiz's White Dwarfs photometric & spectroscopic follow-up |
1998 May |
two nights at the E.S.O. 3.6m, La Silla, Chile: EROS Supernova low-resolution spectrometric follow-up |
1999 January |
two night at the E.S.O.--Danish 1.54m, La Silla, Chile: EROS Supernova U,B,V,R,i photometric follow-up |
2000 October |
two nights at the ESO's 3.6m: spectroscopic follow-up of EROS high proper motion candidates |
2001'03 | multipe runs on Apache Point Observatory's 3.5m |
2001 November | six nights at Kitt Peak National Observatory on the 2.1m using SQIID for brown dwarf variability |
2002 April | seven nights at Kitt Peak National Observatory on the 2.1m using SQIID for CLOUDS |
Languages |
French, English (written, spoken), Spanish (spoken), German (written). |
Salary history |
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1990'95 |
École Normale Supérieure |
103 kFF/yr or ~US$ 18,500 /yr |
1995'99 |
C.É.A. |
120 kFF/yr or ~US$ 21,000 /yr |
2001'03 | N.M.S.U. | US$ 36,000 /yr (tax free, plus employee's benefits) |
Health |
To observe three weeks in La Silla, Chile (2.400m), my former institute, C.É.A., requires a high altitude test at 4.000m, which I passed. |
B.Goldman, |