Participating institutes in the European Network of Excellence in ASteroseismology (ENEAS)

Below is a list of the participating institutes (in random order) with the contact person and some keywords highlighting the expertise of that particular team:

1.- Astronomy Unit, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

• contact: Prof. I.W. Roxburgh
• expertise: inversion and diagnostic techniques, convection & mixing & rotation effects on internal structure and atmospheres, theory of oscillations and stellar evolution

2.- The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, UK

• contact: Prof. F. Pijpers
• expertise: solar-like oscillations, helioseismic inversion, rotation & magnetic fields

3.- Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain

• contact: Dr. P.L. Palle, Head of the Research Division
• expertise: helioseismology, seismic interpretation of delta Scuti and solar-like stars, multisite campaigns

4.- Copernicus Center and University Observatory, Warsaw, Poland

• contact: Prof. W.A. Dziembowski
• expertise: theory and excitation of stellar oscillations, rotation & magnetic fields, data analysis

5.- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Denmark

• contact: Prof. J. Christensen-Dalsgaard
• expertise: space astronomy, instrumentation and calibration, analyses of asteroseismic data, stellar modelling

6.- Observatoire de Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse, France

• contact: Dr. G. Vauclair
• expertise: stellar structure and evolution, theory and excitation of stellar oscillations, data analysis

7.- Centro de Astrofisica, Porto University, Portugal

• contact: Dr. M.J.P.F.G. Monteiro
• expertise: seismology of solar-type stars, rapidly oscillating Ap stars, diffusion/settling/mixing

8.- Institut fur Astronomie, Vienna University, Austria

• contact: Prof. M. Breger, Director
• expertise: multisitecampaigns, stellaratmospheres, evolutionary status of oscillating stars

9.- INAF- Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Milano, Italy

• contact: Dr. E. Poretti
• expertise: ground-based observations, time-series analysis, mode identification

10.- Geneva Observatory, Switzerland

• contact: Dr. F. Carrier
• expertise: observational techniques & instrumentation, solar-like oscillations, stellar structure and evolution

11.- Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, Granada, Spain

• contact: Dr. R. Garrido
• expertise: instrumentation, CCD and photoelectric photometry, stellar structure and pulsation theory

12.- Centre for Astrophysics, University of Central Lancashire, UK

• contact: Prof. D.W. Kurtz
• expertise: ground-based observations, data analysis & interpretation, delta Scuti & rapidly oscillating Ap stars

13.- INAF- Catania Astrophysical Observatory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Catania University, Italy

• contact: Prof. L. Paterno
• expertise: stellar structure and evolution, stellar convection and helioseismic inversions, observations of delta Scuti and solar-like stars

14.- Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK

• contact: Dr. G. Houdek
• expertise: theory of stellar oscillations, development of inversion procedures, excitation of solar-like oscillations in stars

15.- Observatory of Rome and the Instituto di Astrofisica of CNR (IASF-CNR), Italy

• contact: Dr. C. Maceroni
• expertise: stellar structure, convection and mixing, binary evolution

16.- Paris Observatory, France

• contact: Dr. E. Michel, Coordinator COROT/SISMO group (this group includes Prof. A. Baglin, PI of the COROT mission)
• expertise: instrumentation and space photometry, ground-based multi-site observations in photometry and spectroscopy, seismic interpretation of delta Scuti and solar-like stars

17.- Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale d'Orsay, France

• contact: Dr. P. Boumier
• expertise: space instruments for seismology, data analysis, data archives

18.- Astrophysique, Universite de Nice, France

• contact: Dr. E. Fossat (P.I.of Concordiastro, including asteroseismology in Antarctica)
• expertise: full disk helioseismology, structure and rotation of solar core, instrumentation & data analysis

19.- Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice, France

• contact: Dr. J. Provost
• expertise: evolutionary models, stellar structure and pulsation theory, data analysis & inversion techniques

20.- INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy

• contact: Dr. M. Marconi
• expertise: pre-main-sequence delta Scuti stars, observations and data analysis, modelling, WD and sdB seismology

21.- Research and Scientific Support Department, European Space Agency, The Netherlands

• contact: Dr. Thierry Appourchaux, Dr. F. Favata, Eddington Project Scientist
• expertise: the ESA/Eddington mission, solar and stellar data analysis, mode identification

22.- Thuringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, Germany

• contact: Dr. A. Hatzes, Director
• expertise: ground-based observations and data reduction, rapidly oscillating Ap stars, pulsating K giants

23.- Astronomical Institute, Wroclaw University, Wroclaw, Poland

• contact: Prof. M. Jerzykiewicz
• expertise: photoelectric and CCD photometry, analysis of time series, interpretation of stellar spectra of early-type -- such as beta Cep -- stars

24.- Astronomy Department, Valencia University, Spain

• contact: Dr. J. Fabregat
• expertise: photoelectric and CCD photometry, data analysis, pulsations in Be stars

25.- University College London, UK

• contact: Dr. R. Townsend
• expertise: theory of pulsation in hot stars, interaction between pulsation and rotation, modelling of pulsation-originated light and line-profile variations

26.- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, UK

• contact: Dr. Y. Elsworth
• expertise: low-degree helioseismology, Birmingham Solar Oscillation Network, deep solar interior

27.- Institut d'Astrophysique et de Geophysique, University of Liege, Belgium

• contact: Prof. A. Noels
• expertise: stellar models & stellar evolution, non-adiabatic treatment, data analysis

28.- Observational Astronomy, University of Brussels, Belgium

• contact: Prof. C. Sterken
• expertise: CCD photometry, long-term photometric monitoring, time-series analysis

29.- Dept. of Astrophysics & Dept. of Astrometry, Royal Observatory, Belgium

• contact: Dr. J. Cuypers
• expertise: time-series analysis, photometric data interpretation, delta Scuti stars in binaries

30.- Institute of Astronomy, University of Leuven, Belgium

• contact: Prof. C. Aerts
• expertise: mode identification, main-sequence oscillators, long-term photometric & spectroscopic monitoring

31.- Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany

• contact: Dr. A. Weiss
• expertise: stellar and solar modelling, stellar evolution

32.- Department of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics, Athens University, Greece

• contact: Prof. P. Niarchos
• expertise: photoelectric and CCD ground-based photometry, photometric data analysis and interpretation, close binaries

33.- Departamento de Fisica, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile

• contact: Prof. R. Mennickent
• expertise: CCD photometry, long-term photometric monitoring

34.- Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

• contact: Dr. P. Skoda
• expertise: spectroscopy, Web-based data-archives, Catalogues

35.- Physics Department, University of Pisa, Italy

• contact: Dr. S. Degl'Innocenti
• expertise: stellar evolution, stellar clusters, solar modelling

36.- Astronomical Institute, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

• contact: Prof. N. Langer, Director
• expertise: stellar evolution, rotation, mass loss

37.- Konkoly Observatory, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungaria

• contact: Dr. M. Paparo
• expertise: multisite campaigns, data analysis and interpretation, mode identification of delta Scuti stars

38.- Norwegian Space Centre and Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway

• contact: Dr. B. Andersen
• expertise: solar oscillations, solar irradiance, low-degree oscillation modes

39.- Armagh Observatory, Northern Ireland

• contact: Dr. S. Jeffery
• expertise: pulsating subdwarf B stars, multisite campaigns, high-speed spectroscopy

40.- Sevice d'Astrophysique, CEA Saclay, France

• contact: Dr. S. Turck-Chieze
• expertise: stellar structure and evolution, theory of excitation, seismic instrumentation & helioseismic data analysis

41.- Nordic Optical Telescope, La Palma, Spain

• contact: Dr. J. Telting
• expertise: line-profile variations, mode identification, B stars

42.- Laboratorio de Astrofisica Espacial y Fisica Fundamental, Madrid, Spain

• contact: Dr. E. Solano
• expertise: data archive, light curves analysis tools

43.- Max-Planck Institute for Aeronomy, Lindau, Germany

• contact: Prof. S. Solanki, director
• expertise: solar physics, magnetic fields, low-degree oscillation modes

44.- University of Sheffield, UK

• contact: Prof. M. Thompson
• expertise: helio- and asteroseismic inversion; stellar rotation and magnetism; high time-resolution observations and instrumentation.

45.- University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

• contact: Dr. P. Groot
• expertise: compact binaries, high time-resolution observations, instrumentation