Nicole Meyer-Vernet
Directrice de Recherche CNRS Émérite
LESIA, PSL, CNRS, Observatoire de Paris
5, Place Jules Janssen
92195 Meudon Cedex FRANCE
Tél : (33) 01 45 07 76 90
Fax : (33) 01 45 07 28 06
e-mail : nicole.meyer@obspm.fr
Main scientific interests
Physics and applications to:
- Plasmas, radiation, solar wind, plasma/dust interactions
- Space missions: Parker Solar Probe, ...
- Basic properties of life on Earth
- N. Meyer-Vernet, A. Lecacheux, M. Moncuquet, K. Issautier & W. S. Kurth, Plasma line detected by Voyager 1 in the interstellar medium: tips and traps for quasi-thermal noise spectroscopy, A&A 679, A 146, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202347455
- N. Meyer-Vernet, A. Lecacheux, K. Issautier & M. Moncuquet, Weak line discovered by Voyager 1 in the interstellar medium: quasi-thermal noise produced by very few fast electrons, A&A 658, L12, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202243030
- J.-P. Rospars & N. Meyer-Vernet, How fast do mobile organisms respond to stimuli? Response times from bacteria to elephants and whales, Phys. Biol., 2021
- N. Meyer-Vernet & M. Moncuquet, Plasma Waves in space: the importance of properly accounting for the measuring device, J. Geophys. Res., 125, 2020
- M. Moncuquet, N. Meyer-Vernet, K. Issautier et al., First
in-situ Measurements of Electron Density and Temperature from
Quasi-Thermal Noise Spectroscopy with Parker Solar Probe/FIELDS, ApJS Parker Solar Probe Special Issue, 2020
- N. Meyer-Vernet, K. Issautier, M. Moncuquet, Quasi-thermal noise spectroscopy: the art and the practice, J. Geophys. Res., 122, 7925, 2017
- N. Meyer-Vernet, M. Moncuquet, K. Issautier, P. Schippers, Frequency range of dust detection in space with radio and plasma wave receivers, J. Geophys. Res., 121, 8, 2016
- J. P. Rospars, N. Meyer-Vernet, Force per cross-sectional area from molecules to muscles: a general property of biological motors, Royal Society Open Sci., doi: 10.1098/rsos.160313, 2016
- N. Meyer-Vernet, J. P. Rospars, Maximum relative speeds of living organisms: why do bacteria perform as fast as ostriches?, Phys. Biol. 13 066006, 2016
- P. Schippers, N. Meyer-Vernet, A. Lecacheux et al., Nanodust detection between 1 and 5 AU using Cassini wave measurements, Astrophys. J. 806:77, 2015
- N. Meyer-Vernet et al., The physics and detection of nanodust in the solar system, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 57, 014015, 2015
- I. Mann, N. Meyer-Vernet, A. Czechowski, Dust in the planetary system: Dust interactions in space plasmas of the solar system, Physics Reports, 536, Issue 1, p. 1-39, 2014
- N. Meyer-Vernet, On the charge of nanograins in cold environments and Enceladus dust, Icarus, 226, 583, 2013
- N. Meyer-Vernet and A. Zaslavsky, In situ Detection of Interplanetary and Jovian Nanodust with Radio and Plasma Wave Instruments (Nanodust in the Solar System: Discoveries and Interpretations, Springer, 2012)
- N. Meyer-Vernet et al., Dust detection by
the wave instrument on STEREO: nanoparticles picked-up by the
solar
wind?, Solar Physics, 256, 453, 2009
- N. Meyer-Vernet, A. Lecacheux, M.L.
Kaiser, D.A. Gurnett, Detecting
nanoparticles at radio frequencies: Jovian dust streams impacts on
Cassini/RPWS, Geophys. Res. Lett. 36, L03103, 2009
- N. Meyer-Vernet, A. Lecacheux, and D.
Ardouin, Radio
pulses from cosmic ray air showers: Boosted Coulomb and Cherenkov fields,
A&A, 480, 15, 2008
- P. Vernazza, R. Brunetto, G. Strazzula,
M. Fulchgnoni, P. Rochette, N. Meyer-Vernet, I. Zouganelis, Asteroid
colors: a novel tool for magnetic field detection? The case of Vesta,
A&A 451, L43, 2006
- I. Zouganelis, N. Meyer-Vernet, S. Landi, M. Maksimovic, F.
Pantellini,
2005, Acceleration
of weakly collisional solar-type winds, Astrophys. J. 626,
L117
- N.
Meyer-Vernet, Large scale structure of planetary environments: the
importance of not being Maxwellian, Planet. Space Sci. 49, 247, 2001
- Issautier, K., N. Meyer-Vernet, M. Moncuquet, S., Hoang, D.J.
MacComas, Quasi-thermal
noise in a drifting plasma: theory and application to solar wind
diagnostic
on Ulysses, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 6691, 1999
- N. Meyer-Vernet, K. Issautier, Electron
temperature in the solar wind: generic radial variation from
kinetic
collisionless models, J. Geophys. Res. 103, 29705, 1998
- N. Meyer-Vernet, S. Hoang, K. Issautier, M. Maksimovic, R.
Manning, M.
Moncuquet, R. Stone, Measuring
plasma parameters with thermal noise spectroscopy, AGU-G.M.103,
205-210, 1998
- N. Meyer-Vernet, A. Lecacheux, B.M. Pedersen, Constraints on Saturn's E ring from the Voyager 1 Radio Astronomy Instrument, Icarus, 123, 113, 1996
- N. Meyer-Vernet, M.
Moncuquet,
and S.
Hoang, Temperature inversion in the Io plasma torus, Icarus, 116, 202, 1995
- N. Meyer-Vernet, S. Hoang & M. Moncuquet, Bernstein
waves in the Io plasma torus : a novel kind of electron temperature sensor,
J. Geophys. Res., 98, 21163, 1993
- Y.F. Chateau, N. Meyer-Vernet, Electrostatic noise in non Maxwellian plasmas : generic properties and Kappa
distributions, J. Geophys. Res. 96, 5825, 1991
- N. Meyer-Vernet, C. Perche, Toolkit
for antennae and thermal noise near the plasma frequency, J.
Geophys.
Res. 94, 2405, 1989
- N. Meyer-Vernet, B. Sicardy, On the physics of resonant disk
satellite interaction, Icarus 69 157, 1987
- N. Meyer-Vernet, P. Couturier, S. Hoang, C. Perche, J.L.
Steinberg et
al., Plasma diagnosis from thermal noise and limits on dust flux or mass in comet Giacobini-Zinner,
Science, 232, 370, 1986
- N. Meyer-Vernet, Flip-Flop of electric potential of dust
grains
in space, A&A 105, 98, 1982
- N. Meyer-Vernet, On natural noises detected by antennas in plasmas, J. Geophys. Res. 84, 5373, 1979
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- Nonspecialized publications, teaching
Basics
Strange bound states in the Schrödinger wave equation: when usual tunneling does not occur, Am. J. Phys. 50, 354, 1982
Electromagnetic waves in a plasma containing both electric charges and magnetic monopoles,
Am. J. Phys. 50, 846, 1982
Radiation
Surprises in classical physics: radiation problems in stable and linear plasmas, Eur. J. Phys. 5, 150, 1984
Ghost's shadows and superluminal occultations, Am. J. Phys. 54, 916, 1986
Nonradiating sources: The subtle art of changing light into black
, Am. J. Phys. 57, 1084, 1989
Plasma Physics, Astrophysics
A plain man's guide
to the cometary environment, Contemp. Phys., 32, 73, 1991
Aspects of Debye shielding, Am. J. Phys. 61, 249, 1993
How
does the solar wind blow? A simple kinetic model, Eur.
J.
Phys., 20, 167, 1999
The trajectory of an electron in a plasma
, Am. J. Phys. 76, 934, 2008
Basic properties of living organisms on Earth
How fast do living organisms move: Maximum speeds from bacteria to elephants and whales Am. J. Phys. 83, 719, 2015
- Conférences & articles tous publics
Toucher le soleil et explorer d'autres mondes : une petite histoire de la conquête de l'espace (Univ. Auguste Rodin, Meudon, 3/2022)
Vents, Tempêtes Solaires et Parker Solar Probe Stages 3ème (Observatoire Meudon - 12/2021)
Les vents et les tempêtes solaires (visioconférence Université Auguste Rodin, Meudon, 6/5/2021 )
Freedom, research and serendipity: the joy of discovery (Radio Science Bulletin n° 374, September 2020, Women in Radio Science)
Bulletin n°152 du CSSM : L'astrophysique à Meudon aujourd'hui (Février 2019)
Les plasmas, quatrième état de la matière (Université Auguste Rodin, Meudon, 2017, Observatoire des Makes, Ile de la Réunion, 2017)
Une sonde dans la couronne solaire (l'Astronomie, 2011)
Poussières dans le système solaire (Rencontres Ciel & Espace 2010)
La fin de la sonde spatiale Ulysses (l'Astronomie, 2008)
Aspects of solar wind physics (Université Catholique de Louvain, 2005)
ISSI international team: nanodust in the solar system ISSI international team: Non-equilibrium processes in the solar corona and their connection to the solar wind
ISSI international team: Shocks, Waves, Turbulence, and Suprathermal Electrons in the Very Local Interstellar Medium
Parker Solar Probe
ANVL SNPN
CSSM
mal Noise Spectroscopy) and dust in space
