Dr. Yves Revaz
Laboratory of Astrophysics EPFL
Observatoire de Sauverny
51. Ch. des Maillettes
1290 Sauverny
SWITZERLAND
tel   : ++ 41 (0) 22 379 24 28
fax  : ++ 41 (0) 22 379 22 05

yves.revaz@epfl.ch

Domains of interest :
 

• Galactic dynamics
• N-body simulations
• Warped Galaxies
• Dark Matter
• Cooling Flow Cluster
• Dwarf galaxies

Publications :
 

Posters :
 
• Periodic orbits in warp disks, Paris 1999 (PostScript)
• N-body simulations of warped galaxies, Soccoro 2000 (PostScript)
• Warped galaxies and the dark matter connection, Marseille 2001 (PostScript)
• Warped galaxies and the dark matter connection, Puebla 2001 (PostScript)
• What is the warp's favorite halo ?, Porto 2002 (PostScript)
• Simulations on the collisional properties of gas in galaxies, Sydney 2003 (PostScript)
• Formation of cold molecular filaments in Cooling Flow Clusters, Garching 2006 (PostScript,Pdf)


Proceedings :
 

• Periodic orbits in warp disks, Paris 1999 (PostScript)
• N-body simulations of warped galaxies, Soccoro 2000 (PostScript)
• Warped galaxies and the dark matter connection, Marseille 2001 (PostScript)
• Warped galaxies and the dark matter connection, Puebla 2001 (PostScript)
• What is the warp's favorite halo ?, Porto 2002 (PostScript)
• Simulations on the collisional properties of gas in galaxies, Sydney 2003 (PostScript)
• Bending instabilities at the origin of persistent warps: a new constraint on dark matter halos, Novigrad 2004 (PostScript)
• Formation of cold molecular filaments in Cooling Flow Clusters, Garching 2006 (PostScript,Pdf)


Refered papers :
 

• Periodic orbits in warp disks, A&A 2001 (Pdf,PostScript,HTML)
• Une asymétrie dans les tourbillons cosmiques, 2003, GAIA, 4, 282
• Bending instabilities at the origin of persistent warps: a new constraint on dark matter halos, A&A 2004 (Pdf)
• The Baryonic Tully-Fisher relation revisited, A&A 2004 (Pdf)


ADS references :
 

• ADS

Diploma and thesis :

• Nucleosynthese cosmologie : approche numerique (postcript)
• title (0.2 Mo)
• report (2.8 Mo)
• Galaxies gauchies : approche numerique (postcript)
• title (0.2 Mo)
• report (3.3 Mo)
• Etude numerique du gauchissement des galaxies spirales (poscript)
• title (1 Mo)
• report (36 Mo)
• Dynamique des régions extérieures des galaxies spirales : contraintes sur la matière noire.
• pdf (23 Mo)

Awards :

• Vacheron-Constantin price 2005
• ASSN/SANW price 2003 ("Tempêtes partout/Sturme uberall")

Software :

• pNbody
• Gtools
• Ptools
• glups

• Monte-Rosa 2002a
• Monte-Rosa 2002b
• Aiguille du Tour 2002
• Brunnegghorn 2002
• Ruinette 2003
• Epaule du Zinalrothorn 2004
• Bisshorn-Strahlhorn 2004
• Dent d'Hérens 2004
• Tour du Lyskamm 2004 (a)
• Tour du Lyskamm 2004 (b)
• Mont Blanc de Cheilon 2005
• Allalinhorn 2005
• Dom 2005
• Alpes 2006
• Grand Cornier 2006

Panoramas :

• Mont Blanc de Cheilon
(thanks to Mario Germano)
• Allalin
(thanks to Mario Germano)

Nbody simulation movies :

• Bending instabilities of galactic disks
• Stability/Instability of galactic disks
• 3d movie of a bending instability in an infinite slab of finite thickness (mpeg : 17 Mo)
• birth of a galactic disk from a dissipative collapse (mpeg : 1.4 Mo)
• simulation of a thin warped disk (gif : 12 Mo)
• simulation of a thick warped disk (gif : 12 Mo)
• ring decomposition of the latter simulation  (gif : 13 Mo)
• simulation of a siral in a DM halo (gif : 25 Mo)
• galactic bubble (gif 5Mo) (mpg 632k)
• Cosmological movies (stereo movies)
• the 4d universe project (stereo movies)

Other movies :

• sphere (6.7 Mo)

Last update: Wed Apr 16 17:05:47 CEST 2008