Alain Léger

10.5k citations
188 papers · 3.5k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 27

Impact in

    • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
    • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
    • Astro and Planetary Science
    • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena

Papers in

Alain Léger

176 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

A New Component of the Interstellar Matter: Small Grains and Large Aromatic Molecules 1989 · 454 citations
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Peers

Alain Léger
Comparison fields: 5 of 122
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics 1.6k
  • Instrumentation 146
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 1.3k
  • Spectroscopy 549
  • Atmospheric Science 344
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Alain Léger, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1
NEAT: Nearby Earth Astrometric Telescope
20142
2
A Possible Future for Space-Based Interferometry
20130
3 201213
4 201124
5
Infrared Detection and Characterization of Debris Disks, Exozodiacal Dust, and Exoplanets: The FKSI Mission Concept
20102
6
EDBT 2010, 13th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 22-26, 2010, Proceedings
20102
7
The Fourier-Kelvin Stellar Interferometer: Exploring Exoplanetary Systems with an Infrared Probe-class Mission
20100
8 20086
9 20084
10
A formal model for Web service composition
200611
11
ESA-ESO Working Group on "Extra-solar Planets"
20050
12
IRSI/Darwin: peering through the interplanetary dust cloud
20011
13
Ontology Domain Modeling Support for Multi-lingual services in E-Commerce : MKBEEM
20006
14
Search for Extra-Solar Life through Planetary Spectroscopy
19981
15
The COROT Mission: From Structure of Stars to Origin of Planetary Systems
19983
16 199616
17
DARWIN: an IR space observatory with interferometric rejection to search for primitive life on extra-solar planets.
19951
18
L'affaire Boudarel: rancoeurs contre restalinisation
19921
19
Fuir ou construire l'école populaire?
198615
20
Properties of amorphous H2O ice and origin of the 3.1-micron absorption
19836

About Alain Léger

Alain Léger is a scholar working on Instrumentation, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Spectroscopy and Computational Theory and Mathematics, having authored 188 papers that have together received 3.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (48 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (35 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (32 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (24 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (18 papers), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (15 papers), Contact Mechanics and Variational Inequalities (14 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (1.6k citations), Instrumentation (146 citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (1.3k citations), Spectroscopy (549 citations) and Atmospheric Science (344 citations). Alain Léger has collaborated with scholars based in France, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include J.-L. Puget, L. D’Hendecourt, D. Défourneau, J. Klein, C. Joblin, M. Belin, J.‐L. Puget, L. D'Hendecourt, P. G. Martin and Pierre Boissel. Their work appears in journals such as Astrobiology, Physics Letters A, Nonlinear Dynamics, Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

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