Merieme Chadid
Astronomer University of Côte d'Azur France chadid@unice.fr
Title: Polar and Space Sciences towards understanding the Universe
Biography
Biography: Merieme Chadid
Abstract
Understanding the Universe is a saga of the astronomers involved in the development of the observation techniques using different methods from space and ground based observatories. In this invited plenary talk, I implement a new technology to observe the evolution and structure of the Universe -Polar Observation- that is a polar instrumental robotization under extreme human and weather conditions from the heart of Antarctica. I describe the instrumental performances of PAIX -the first polar robotic multiband telescope- working under harsh weather conditions and monitoring the south polar sky within long-term uninterrupted time series, multicolor spectroscopy and photometry, flexibility during observing runs. I report the intimate relationship between PAIX and the Optic space telescopes CoRoT & Kepler and the X & gammaray space telescope SVOM. Finally, I highlight the impact of the Polar telescope PAIX on the Astronomy development and I demonstrate how such new technology gives new insight to cope with unresolved stellar enigma and gravitational waves challenges and bears witness, for the first time, to a new technology of the polar instrumental robotized telescopes unveiling the Universe.