Françoise COMBES
Professor Emeritus at Collège de France
Astronomer at Paris Observatory
LERMA
E-mail: francoise.combes@obspm.fr
61 Av. de l'Observatoire                  Une version en français
F-75 014 Paris, FRANCE
Tel.: 33 (1) 40 51 20 77
Fax: 33 (1) 40 51 20 02

FORMATION:

1980 PhD Thesis, Paris VII: " Dynamics and structure of galaxies "; Jury: J.C. Lehmann, A. Omont, P. Léna, A. Brahic, P.J. Encrenaz, L. Weliachew, J. Lequeux
1975 Agregation of Physics
1974-75 Thesis of 3rd cycle, (Paris VII): " Conditions of nucleosynthesis in a symmetric universe of matter-antimatter "; Jury: E. Schatzman, R. Omnes, J.L. Puget
1971-75 Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm), PARIS

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20 representative publications (5 last years):

  • Salibur, E., Halle, A., Combes, F.: 2026, Projection Effects in Barred Galaxies Causing Wrong Interpretation of Radial Flows, A and A, 707, A279
  • Combes, F., Audibert, A., Garcia-Burillo, S. et al.: 2026, High resolution mapping of molecular tori with ALMA, A and A, 705, A124
  • Shaji, A.A., Combes, F., Melchior, A-L., Halle, A.: 2025, Investigating Galactic Fountains in M101: Insights from Ionized, UV emissions and Neutral Gas, A and A, 703, A252
  • Su, R., Curran, S.J., Combes, F., Gupta, N., Muller, S., Li, D., Gu, M.: 2025, New constraints on the values of the fundamental constants at a look-back time of 7.3 Gyr, A and A, 698, A154
  • Castignani, G., Combes, F., Salome, P., Edge, A., Jablonka, P.: 2025, Molecular gas in cool-core brightest cluster galaxies at z~0.4, A and A, 700, A197
  • Poitevineau, R., Combes, F., Garcia-Burillo, S., Cornu, D. et al.: 2025, The Galaxy Activity, Torus, and Outflow Survey (GATOS). VI-Black hole mass estimation using machine learning, A and A, 693, A311
  • Cros, L., Combes, F., Melchior, A.-L., Martin, T.: 2025, Central kpc of Andromeda. I. Dynamical modelling, A and A, 695, A194
  • Combes, F., Gupta, N.: 2024, Cold molecules in HI 21-cm absorbers across redshifts 0.1-4, Astron. Astrophys. 683, A20
  • Rose, T., McNamara, B.R., Combes, F., et al.: 2024, Two distinct molecular cloud populations detected in massive galaxies, MNRAS, 533, 771
  • Koda, J., Combes, F., Rubio, M., et al.: 2024, Compact and High Excitation Molecular Clumps in the Extended Ultraviolet Disk of M83, A and A, 691, A197
  • da Silva, P., Combes, F.: 2024, Multiple-scale gas infall through gravity torques on Milky Way twins, A and A, 691, A58
  • Mazzilli Ciraulo, B., Melchior, A.-L., Combes, F., Maschmann, D.: 2024, Resolving double-peaked emission line galaxies using MaNGA: I. Mechanisms of star formation quenching, A and A, 690, A143
  • Bilek, M., Combes, F., Nagesh, S.F., Hilker, M.: 2024, Globular cluster orbital decay in dwarf galaxies with MOND and CDM: Impact of supernova feedback, A and A, 690, A119
  • Su, Y., Combes, F. Olivares, V. et al., 2023, The composition and thermal properties of a cool core lacking a brightest cluster galaxy, MNRAS 526, 6052
  • Dessauges-Zavadsky, M., Richard, J.,; Combes, F. et al. : 2023, Molecular gas cloud properties at z ≃ 1 revealed by the superb angular resolution achieved with ALMA and gravitational lensing, MNRAS 519, 6222
  • Combes, F., Gupta, N., Muller, S. et al.: 2023, PKS 1413+135: OH and H I at z = 0.247 with MeerKAT, A and A 671, A43
  • Rose, T., McNamara, B. R., Combes, F. et al. : 2023, Does absorption against AGN reveal supermassive black hole accretion? MNRAS 518, 878
  • Castignani, G., Combes, F., Jablonka, P., et al.: 2022, Processing of gas in cosmological filaments around Virgo cluster, Astron. Astrophys. 657, A9
  • Combes, F., Gupta, N., Muller, S., et al.: 2021, PKS1830-211: OH and HI at z=0.89 and the first MeerKAT UHF spectrum, Astron. Astrophys. 648, A116
  • Audibert, A., Combes, F., Garcia-Burillo, S., et al.: 2021, Smoking-gun evidence of black hole feeding in NGC1808, Astron. Astrophys. 656, A60


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