Astrophysicist and CRAQ collaborator Jean-René Roy is appointed Knight of the Ordre national du Québec
Jean-René Roy is an astrophysicist and associate professor in the Département de physique, génie physique et optique at Université Laval. He received his PhD in astronomy from the University of Western Ontario in 1973. After working in research… Read More
CRAQ and CFHT share the stars at the Eureka Festival!
The Center for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ) and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation (CFHT), were present at the 2017 Eureka Festical! Enthusiastic CRAQ students took part in this 11th edition of the festival which took place in… Read More
Paul Charbonneau, professor at UdeM and CRAQ researcher, publishes an introductory work on the modeling of complex system
NATURAL COMPLEXITY: A Modeling Handbook, by Paul Charbonneau, provides a short, hands-on introduction to the science of complexity using simple computational models of natural complex systems—with models and exercises drawn from physics, chemistry, geology, and biology. By working… Read More
A CRAQ researcher makes a very rare discovery: Failed star orbits a dead star every 71 minutes
An international team of astronomers using data from the rejuvenated Kepler space telescope have discovered a rare gem: A binary system consisting of a failed star, also known as a brown dwarf, and the remnant of a dead… Read More
CRAQ’s researchers used the VLA to get new insight into galaxy cluster’s spectacular “mini-halo”
An international team of astronomers, led by Professor Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo and her PhD student Marie-Lou Gendron-Marsolais, both from the Center for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ) and Université de Montréal, used the National Science Foundation’s Karl G…. Read More
CRAQ’s researcher Pierre Bergeron is part of the team of astronomers that developed a new use for a century-old relativity experiment to measure a white dwarf’s mass
An international team of astronomers, including Professor Pierre Bergeron from the Center for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec and Université de Montréal, used the sharp vision of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to repeat a century-old test of Einstein’s… Read More
Jason Rowe receives an award for best scientific poster at CASCA’s Annual meeting in Edmonton
CRAQ researcher Jason Rowe received an award for best science poster at the last annual meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA), held from May 30 to June 1, 2017, at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. The… Read More