[astro-jc] Post-Doc in Planetary Transit Search, LAM, Marseille

[Réza Samadi <reza.samadi@obspm.fr>]

ci-joint une annonce de post-doc au LAM (Marseille) dans le domaine de
recherche des transits planetaires.

Title: Job Register - Detail Page

Post-Doc in Planetary Transit Search

Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM)

Post-Doc in Planetary Transit Search
ASTROPHYSIC LAB IN MARSEILLE
Traverse du Siphon BP 8
13376 - Marseille, Cedex 12
France
Tel: (33) 4 91 05 59 00
FAX: (33) 4 91 66 18 55
URL1:http://www.oamp.fr
(http://www.oamp.fr)
Email Submission Address: pierre.barge@oamp.fr
Email Inquiries: pierre.barge@oamp.fr
The closing date for receipt of applications: 02/15/2006

Attention: Dr. Pierre Barge

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 Applications are invited for a post-doctoral position at LAM
(Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille) in France.
The successful applicant will work in the CoRoT exoplanet team to
manage early transit detection during satellite operations. 

The goal is to select the target stars that most likely host a
transiting planet and merit be oversampled from 8.5mn to 32s. The work
will to be to implement selected algorithms for the detection of
planetary transit, to develop algorithms for discriminating planetary
transits from stellar eclipses and to participate to early data
analysis. Applicants with a good skill in signal processing and transit
astrophysics are encouraged to applied. 

The starting date is on March 1st 2006. Applicant should hold a PhD by
the start of the position. The appointment is for one year, with a
possible extension to one more year.

Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, bibliography, field of
research interest and arrange to have two letters of recommandation
arrive by February 15, 2006 to the above address.
The financial support is under contract with the CNES space agency and
INSU/CNRS.

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This announcement will be also diffused in the job register of the American Astronomical Society.