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Instrumentation
The CRAL has a world-class experience in designing and building instruments, especially 3D spectrographs. In particular, it is leading the European effort to build the MUSE wide-field 3D spectrograph for the VLT. It also occupies a privileged place in the JWST/NIRSpec project. VLT/MUSE - A MAJOR INSTRUMENTATION PROJECT WITH AMBITIOUS SCIENTIFIC GOALS MUSE is a second-generation instrument for the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT). Its science goals cover a broad range of topics going from (...)
Galaxies
The new millennium has seen a shift in the priorities facing cosmology, with the determination of fundamental cosmological parameters supplanted by the search for an understanding of the mechanisms governing galaxy formation as well as of the underlying physics. In this context, the activities of the GALPAC team in the last years period have focused in three different directions: semi-analytical modelling of the formation and evolution of galaxies in cosmological context using the GalICs (...)
Dark energy and dark matter
Our understanding of galaxy formation fully relies on the LCDM phenomenological model. Though successful in many ways, this model has no solid theoretical grounds. In the past years, members of the GALPAC team have significantly contributed to our understanding of the nature of dark energy (DE) and dark matter (DM), both through high-accuracy spectroscopic observations of SN-Ia, and through the development of a new theoretical paradigm. They have organized, jointly with the IPNL, the second (...)
GALPAC
General presentation of the GALPAC Team The GALPAC Team, resulting from fusion of the Cosmology and Tiger teams, gathers researchers working on various astrophysical subjects linked with Cosmology (dark energy and dark matter, structuration of the Universe, Cosmic Microwave Background) and the Physics of Galaxies (formation and evolution, Lyman-alpha emitters, interactions, dynamics and stellar populations). In this context, the team is involved in the development and use of new (...)
