Temas de Investigación : - Cosmology, structure of space-time
- Relativistic Astrophysics (Black Hole Physics, accretion disks, star-black hole interactions)
- Epistemology (the invention of big bang, History of cosmology)
Jean-Pierre Luminet was the first to numerically visualize accretion disks around black holes, and co-discovered the phenomenon of " crêpe stellaire ", which causes the crushing of stars by the tidal forces of giant black holes.
Premios y distincciones : Asteroid 5523 named Luminet, International Astronomical Union, 1999
Georges Lemaître Prize 1999
Selección de Publicaciones : Well-Proportioned Universes Suppress CMB Quadrupole
Jeffrey Weeks, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Alain Riazuelo and Roland Lehoucq : to appear in MNRAS, 2004
Cosmic microwave background in multi-connected flat spaces
Alain Riazuelo, Jeffrey Weeks, Jean-Philippe Uzan, Roland Lehoucq and Jean-Pierre Luminet : to appear in Phys Rev., 2004
Dodecahedral space topology as an explanation for weak wide-angle temperature correlations in the cosmic microwave background
Jean-Pierre Luminet, Jeffrey Weeks, Alain Riazuelo, Roland Lehoucq and Jean-Philippe Uzan : Nature (2003) 425, 593-595
Isotropisation of flat homogeneous universes with scalar fields
Stephane Fay, Jean-Pierre Luminet: to appear in Class. Quant. Grav. (2004)
Eigenmodes of 3-dimensional spherical spaces and their application to cosmology
Roland Lehoucq, Jeffrey Weeks, Jean-Philippe Uzan, Evelise Gausmann and Jean-Pierre Luminet: Class. Quant. Grav. (2002) 19, 4683-4708
Topological Lensing in Spherical Spaces
Evelise Gaussman, Roland Lehoucq, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Jean-Philippe Uzan and Jeff Weeks: Class. Quant. Grav. (2001) 18, 5155-5186
Twin paradox and space topology
Jean-Philippe Uzan, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Roland Lehoucq, Patrick Peter: European Journal of Physics (2002), 23, 277-284
Limits of crystallographic methods for detecting space topology
Roland Lehoucq, Jean-Philippe Uzan and Jean-Pierre Luminet: Astronomy and Astrophysics (2000), 363, 1
New Developments in the Search for the Topology of the Universe
Jean-Philippe Uzan, Roland Lehoucq and Jean-Pierre Luminet: Proceedings of the XIXth Texas meeting, Eds. E. Aubourg et. al., Nuclear Physics B : Proc. Suppl. Vol. 80, CD-Rom version, article-no: 04/25
A New Crystallographic Method for Detecting Space Topology
Jean-Philippe Uzan, Roland Lehoucq, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Astronomy and Astrophysics (1999), 351, 766-774
Constraining curvature parameters via topology
Boudewijn F. Roukema, Jean-Pierre Luminet : Astron. Astrophys. 1999, 348, 8
Topology of the Universe: Theory and Observations
Jean-Pierre Luminet, Boudewijn F. Roukema, Proceedings of the Cargese 98 summer school "Cosmology : The Universe at Large Scale", M. Lachièze-Rey (Ed.), Kluwer Ac. Pub., NATO ASI 970491
Topological lens effects in universes with non-Euclidean compact spatial sections
R. Lehoucq, J.-P. Luminet, J.P. Uzan : Astron. Astrophys. 1999, 344, 735-743
Past and Future of Cosmic Topology
Luminet J.P. : Acta Cosmologica, fasc. XXIV-1, pp. 105-116, 1998
Black Holes : A General Introduction
Luminet J.P. : in BLACK HOLES : THEORY AND OBSERVATION, Eds. F. Hehl, C. Kiefer, R. Metzler, Springer Verlag, 1998, Lecture Notes in Physics, pp. 3-36.
Cosmic Crystallography
Lehoucq R., Lachièze-Rey M. & Luminet J.P. : Astron. Astrophys. 1996, 313, 339-346
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