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Gilles Fontaine

Gilles Fontaine

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Physics

D-Index
124
Citations
60277
World Ranking
690
National Ranking
15

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - Prix Marie-Victorin, Government of Quebec

Overview

Gilles Fontaine was affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada and contributed extensively to the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their research primarily focused on several specialized subfields, including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Instrumentation, Geophysics, and Geology.

The scientist's scholarly output included numerous publications in well-regarded venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Nature, Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). These venues reflect the interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of their work.

Fontaine's research topics covered a broad range of areas within astrophysical sciences, including:

  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena

Key recent papers by Fontaine and collaborators were:

  • "A measurement of the equation of state of carbon envelopes of white dwarfs" (2020, Nature)
  • "High-Statistics Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Electron Spectrum with H.E.S.S." (2024, Physical Review Letters)
  • "The Morphology of the Asteroidal Dust around White Dwarf Stars: Optical and Near-infrared Pulsations in G29-38" (2024, The Astrophysical Journal)
  • "Asteroseismic cartography of hydrogen-deficient white dwarfs" (2021, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • "Toward a systematic cartography of the chemical stratification inside white dwarfs from deep asteroseismic probing of ZZ Ceti stars" (2021, arXiv (Cornell University))

Throughout their career, Fontaine collaborated frequently with several colleagues, with multiple joint publications involving:

  • P. Bergeron
  • P. Brassard
  • D. Malyshev
  • Ted von Hippel
  • Jay Farihi

In recognition of their contributions, Fontaine received the Prix Marie-Victorin from the Government of Quebec in 1999.

Best Publications

  • Experimental observation of isolated large transverse energy electrons with associated missing energy at $\sqrt s$ = 540 GeV

    G. Arnison;A. Astbury;G. Grayer;W.J. Haynes

  • Experimental observation of lepton pairs of invariant mass around 95 GeV/c2 at the Cern SPS collider

    D. Cline;R. Fruehwirth;M. Mohammadi;J. Strauss

  • Observations of the Crab nebula with HESS

    F. Aharonian;A.G. Akhperjanian;A.R. Bazer-Bachi;M. Beilicke

  • The Potential of White Dwarf Cosmochronology

    G. Fontaine;P. Brassard;P. Bergeron

  • An Exceptional Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Flare of PKS 2155-304

    F. Aharonian;A.G. Akhperjanian;A.R. Bazer-Bachi;M. Beilicke

  • Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: An advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy

    M. Actis;G. Agnetta;F. Aharonian;A. Akhperjanian

  • Energy Spectrum of Cosmic-Ray Electrons at TeV Energies

    F. Aharonian;A. G. Akhperjanian;U. Barres de Almeida;A. R. Bazer-Bachi

  • The H.E.S.S. Survey of the Inner Galaxy in Very High Energy Gamma Rays

    F. Aharonian;A. G. Akhperjanian;A. R. Bazer-Bachi;M. Beilicke

  • Introducing the CTA concept

    B. S. Acharya;M. Actis;T. Aghajani;G. Agnetta

  • A low level of extragalactic background light as revealed by gamma-rays from blazars.

    F. Aharonian;A. G. Akhperjanian;A. R. Bazer-Bachi;M. Beilicke

  • Discovery of very-high-energy |[gamma]|-rays from the Galactic Centre ridge

    F. Aharonian;A. G. Akhperjanian;A. R. Bazer-Bachi;M. Beilicke

  • High-energy particle acceleration in the shell of a supernova remnant.

    F. A. Aharonian;A. G. Akhperjanian;K.-M. Aye;A. R. Bazer-Bachi

  • Very high-energy gamma rays from the direction of Sagittarius A*

    F. Aharonian;A.G. Akhperjanian;K.-M. Aye;A.R. Bazer-Bachi

  • An independent method for determining the age of the universe

    D. E. Winget;C. J. Hansen;James Liebert;H. M. van Horn

  • Discovery of very high energy gamma rays associated with an x-ray binary.

    F. Aharonian;A. G. Akhperjanian;K.-M. Aye;A. R. Bazer-Bachi

  • A new population of very high energy gamma-ray sources in the Milky Way.

    F. Aharonian;A. G. Akhperjanian;K.-M. Aye;A. R. Bazer-Bachi

  • Transverse momentum spectra for charged particles at the cern proton-antiproton collider

    G. Arnison;A. Astbury;G. Grayer;W.J. Haynes

  • Fast variability of tera-electron volt gamma rays from the radio galaxy M87.

    F. Aharonian;A. G. Akhperjanian;A. R. Bazer-Bachi;M. Beilicke

  • Primary particle acceleration above 100 TeV in the shell-type supernova remnant RX J1713.7-3946 with deep HESS observations

    F. Aharonian;A.G. Akhperjanian;A.R. Bazer-Bachi;M. Beilicke

  • Science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

    B.S. Acharya;I. Agudo;I. Al Samarai

Frequent Co-Authors

Felix Aharonian
Felix Aharonian Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies
Dieter Horns
Dieter Horns Universität Hamburg
Werner Hofmann
Werner Hofmann Max Planck Society
Jim Hinton
Jim Hinton Max Planck Society
A. Marcowith
A. Marcowith Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Gavin Rowell
Gavin Rowell University of Adelaide
Olaf Reimer
Olaf Reimer University of Innsbruck
Andrea Santangelo
Andrea Santangelo University of Tübingen
Michael Backes
Michael Backes University of Oxford
K. Bernlöhr
K. Bernlöhr Max Planck Society

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