ZARKA Philippe

Research Director
CNRS
Laboratoire d’études spatiales et d’instrumentation en astrophysique LESIA (UMR 8109)

Expertise

Discover the specialized technical skills and disciplinary affiliations of our members, who represent the federated communities of the Arts & Humanities, Science & Engineering, and Medicine within the Sorbonne University Alliance.

Communities
Climate, Environment & The Universe
Skills
Astrophysical data, Data analysis, Deep learning, Physique des Plasmas, Radioastronmie

Activities

Overview the professional milestones, academic responsibilities, and international collaborations that drive our center’s double ambition to excel in both research and education.

Awards

- AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Space Systems Award : « Juno Mission Team », 2017.

- NASA Group Achievement Award: "Cassini", 2018.

- Honorary Diploma of the Jubilee (100 years) of NASU (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), 12/2018.

- Médaille Zeldovich du COSPAR, Commission B (Planets - Pour l'ensemble de l'activité dans le domaine des magnétosphères planétaires, notamment leur étude par des sondes spatiales), 30th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Hamburg, Germany, 7/1994.

Selected publications

- Voisin, G., Mottez, F., Zarka, P. Periodicity of a fast radio burst explained by transits of Trojan and Hildas asteroids orbiting a pulsar. 2020. ⟨hal-02862813⟩ 

- Sasikumar Raja, K., Maksimovic, M., Bonnin, X., Zarka, P., Lamy, L., Kontar, E. P., Lecacheux, A., Krupar, V., Cecconi, B., Lahmiti, N., and Denis, L.: Spectral Analysis of Solar Radio Type III Bursts from 10 kHz to 80 MHz, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-1252, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-1252, 2019. 

- Broderick, J.W., Shimwell, T.W., Gourdji, K., Zarka, P. and al. LOFAR 144-MHz follow-up observations of GW170817, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 494, Issue 4, June 2020, Pages 5110–5117, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa950.

- Cecconi, B., Loh, A., Le Sidaner, P., Zarka, P., and al. MASER: A Science Ready Toolbox for Low Frequency Radio Astronomy. Data Science Journal, 19(1), 2020, p.12. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2020-012 

International collaborations

• Aux USA :

-       Université d’Iowa (expérience RPWS sur Cassini et préparation de JUNO)

-       SouthWest Research Inc. (JUNO)

• Au Japon :

-       Future University Hakodate (recherche d’exoplanètes avec UTR-2) [2 invitations de V. Ryabov pour des séjours d’un mois à Meudon]

-       Université de Tohoku (Cassini, Jupiter)

• Au Brésil : 

-       INPE (Jupiter, LOFAR) [Plusieurs invitations de E. Echer pour des séjours à Meudon]

• En Chine: 

-       Chinese Academy of Sciences (analyses Chang’E-4 / VLFRS)

Industrial collaborations

 NenuFAR: ALSE Paris