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The first data were presented on Tuesday 12 July. They confirm the exceptional performance of the JWST and its four scientific instruments (NIRSPec, NIRISS, NIRCam, MIRI), in particular the angular resolution and sensitivity which are often better than predicted.
Adélie Gorce was awarded the Astronomy & Astrophysics Journal Best PhD Thesis Award on the 29th June 2022 during a ceremony at the European Astronomical Society's annual conference.
On the occasion of its thirtieth anniversary, the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS - CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay) wished to highlight its activities and the know-how of its staff, in the form of a film lasting just over an hour, directed by Frédéric Hullin, a video maker from the Université Paris-Saclay.
Congratulations to Cydalise Dumesnil who has been awarded the CNRS Crystal Medal for the quality and originality of her work!
This distinction rewards engineers and technicians who, through their technical expertise and creativity, contribute, alongside researchers, to the advancement of knowledge, to the influence of the CNRS and to the excellence of French research.
The PLATO project has reached a new stage in the development at IAS of the calibration structure for the flight cameras. The validation tests of the installations started at the beginning of March, on cryogenic vacuum infrastructures deployed in the Saturn thermal chamber, at the IAS calibration station. All the tests have just been successfully completed.
