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Hugues Leroux

Hugues Leroux

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Earth Science

D-Index
41
Citations
8127
World Ranking
5434
National Ranking
397

Overview

Hugues Leroux is affiliated with the University of Lille in France and is active in the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research portfolio comprises 58 publications in Physics and Astronomy and 40 in Earth and Planetary Sciences, emphasizing a multidisciplinary approach to planetary and geophysical phenomena.

The scientist's research spans several subfields, notably Astronomy and Astrophysics with 55 publications, Geophysics with 34, Atmospheric Science with 6, Radiation with 3, and Surfaces, Coatings and Films with 3 works. The main topics they investigate include Astro and Planetary Science, Planetary Science and Exploration, High-pressure Geophysics and Materials, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, as well as Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies. They also engage with earthquake and tectonic studies and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

Their work has been published in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include Meteoritics and Planetary Science, where they have 12 papers, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta with 6, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Earth and Planetary Science Letters with 3 each, and Nature Astronomy with 2 publications.

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored include:

  • A dehydrated space-weathered skin cloaking the hydrated interior of Ryugu (2022, Nature Astronomy)
  • Methane-hydrogen-rich fluid migration may trigger seismic failure in subduction zones at forearc depths (2024, Nature Communications)
  • Mechanical twinning of monazite expels radiogenic lead (2020, Geology)
  • Nebular thermal processing of accretionary fine-grained rims in the Paris CM chondrite (2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta)
  • Space Weathering Affects the Remote Near-IR Identification of Phyllosilicates (2020, The Planetary Science Journal)

Hugues Leroux has collaborated frequently with several researchers, notably Corentin Le Guillou (22 joint works), Damien Jacob (17), Maya Marinova (17), Francisco de la Peña (16), and Sylvain Laforet (15).

Best Publications

  • Comet 81P/Wild 2 under a microscope.

    Don Brownlee;Peter Tsou;Jérôme Aléon;Conel M O'd Alexander

  • Mineralogy and petrology of comet 81P/wild 2 nucleus samples

    Michael E. Zolensky;Thomas J. Zega;Hajime Yano;Sue Wirick

  • Impact features on Stardust : implications for Comet 81P/Wild 2 dust

    Friedrich Horz;Ron Bastien;Janet Borg;John P. Bradley

  • Metamictization of zircon: Raman spectroscopic study

    Ming Zhang;Ekhard K H Salje;Ian Farnan;Ann Graeme-Barber

  • Elemental Compositions of Comet 81P/Wild 2 Samples Collected by Stardust

    George J. Flynn;Pierre Bleuet;Janet Borg;John P. Bradley

  • Experimental shock deformation in zircon: a transmission electron microscopic study

    H Leroux;W.U Reimold;C Koeberl;U Hornemann

  • The Paris meteorite, the least altered CM chondrite so far

    Roger H. Hewins;Roger H. Hewins;Michèle Bourot-Denise;Brigitte Zanda;Hugues Leroux

  • Extreme Deuterium Excesses in Ultracarbonaceous Micrometeorites from Central Antarctic Snow

    Jean Duprat;Elena Dobrica;Cécile Engrand;Jérôme Aléon

  • Evidence for interstellar origin of seven dust particles collected by the Stardust spacecraft

    Andrew J. Westphal;Rhonda M. Stroud;Hans A. Bechtel;Frank E. Brenker

  • Structural and chemical alteration of crystalline olivine under low energy He + irradiation

    K. Demyk;Ph. Carrez;H. Leroux;P. Cordier

  • A TEM investigation of shock metamorphism in quartz from the Vredefort dome, South Africa

    Hugues Leroux;Wolf Uwe Reimold;Jean-Claude Doukhan

  • Low-energy helium ion irradiation-induced amorphization and chemical changes in olivine: Insights for silicate dust evolution in the interstellar medium

    Philippe Carrez;Karine Demyk;Patrick Cordier;Léon Gengembre

  • Comparing Wild 2 particles to chondrites and IDPs

    Michael Zolensky;Keiko Nakamura-Messenger;Frans Rietmeijer;Hugues Leroux

  • Formation mechanisms of planar deformation features in naturally shocked quartz

    Olivier Goltrant;Hugues Leroux;Jean-Claude Doukhan;Patrick Cordier

  • Low temperature FIR and submm mass absorption coefficient of interstellar silicate dust analogues

    A. Coupeaud;K. Demyk;C. Meny;C. Nayral

  • Annealing of α-decay damage in zircon: a Raman spectroscopic study

    Ming Zhang;Ekhard K H Salje;Gian Carlo Capitani;Hugues Leroux

  • GEMS-like material in the matrix of the Paris meteorite and the early stages of alteration of CM chondrites

    Hugues Leroux;Priscille Cuvillier;Brigitte Zanda;Roger H. Hewins

  • A dehydrated space-weathered skin cloaking the hydrated interior of Ryugu

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  • Transmission Electron Microscopy of CONCORDIA UltraCarbonaceous Antarctic MicroMeteorites (UCAMMs): Mineralogical properties

    Elena Dobrica;Cécile Engrand;Hugues Leroux;J.N. Rouzaud

  • Connection between micrometeorites and Wild 2 particles: From Antarctic snow to cometary ices

    E. Dobricǎ;C. Engrand;J. Duprat;M. Gounelle

  • A TEM investigation of natural metamict zircons: structure and recovery of amorphous domains

    G. C. Capitani;H. Leroux;J. C. Doukhan;S. Ríos

  • Comet 81P/Wild 2: The size distribution of finer (sub-10 μm) dust collected by the Stardust spacecraft

    Mark C. Price;Anton T. Kearsley;Mark J. Burchell;Friedrich Hörz

Frequent Co-Authors

John Bridges
John Bridges University of Leicester
Rhonda M. Stroud
Rhonda M. Stroud Arizona State University
Michael E. Zolensky
Michael E. Zolensky National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Anton T. Kearsley
Anton T. Kearsley Natural History Museum
Christine Floss
Christine Floss Washington University in St. Louis
Frank E. Brenker
Frank E. Brenker Goethe University Frankfurt
Akira Tsuchiyama
Akira Tsuchiyama Ritsumeikan University
Manfred Burghammer
Manfred Burghammer European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Peter Cloetens
Peter Cloetens European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Patrick Cordier
Patrick Cordier Institut Universitaire de France

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