On 9 November 2021, the French Science Center (FSC) of the SVOM mission generated and sent its first alert to a ground-based robotic telescope for…
Optical follow-up of gravitionnal waves The first results of the space mission SVOM (for Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor) have just been released before…
The combination of two worldviews In the past, Europe and China have had two radically different visions of the cosmos. While the former has long…
The third SVOM scientific workshop, entitled “Disentangling the merging Universe with SVOM” and bringing together 70 participants, was held from 14 to 18 May 2018…
The event of August 2017 On August 17, 2017, ground-based gravitational wave detectors (LIGO and Virgo) detected an event, called GW 170817, interpreted as the…
The third gravitational wave event (GW170104) discovered by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration confirms the existence of massive stellar black holes with a mass larger than 20…
After the one holds in Les Houches in April 2016, the second scientific workshop of SVOM mission took place from 24 to 28 April 2017…
As part of the preparation of SVOM mission, a scientific workshop from 10 to 15 April 2016 at Ecole de Physique des Houches in the…