Pierre Cox

Pierre Cox
Pierre Cox photograph from 2012
Pierre Cox signing the contract for the ALMA Band 7 receivers.
NationalityFrench
Known forAstronomy
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
InstitutionsFormer Director of ALMA; Institut de radioastronomie millimétrique; Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale

Pierre Cox is a French astronomer. Born in Paris to a Dutch composer father and a Belgian pianist mother, he led a musically-oriented childhood from which he rebelled at age 17 to study physics at the Université de Paris-Sud.[1] He is known for his research in the area of millimeter and infrared observations of star-forming regions, evolved stars, and high-redshift galaxies. He has published over 250 refereed papers with more than 22,000 citations in total.[2]

Cox is currently a Director of Research (Directeur de Recherche) (DR1) at CNRS, working at the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris. From 2013 - 2018,[3] Cox was the Director of ALMA,[4] a position requiring coordinating the efforts of many countries that Cox likened to "being the Secretary General of United Nations".[5] He was previously the Director of the Institut de radioastronomie millimétrique from 2006 through 2013. Prior to IRAM, he had been an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy,[6] the Marseille Observatory, and then the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, an observatory of the CNRS at the Université de Paris-Sud in Orsay.[7]

Pierre's hobbies including drawing and playing piano. He speaks five languages fluently.[8]

Publications

  • The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Multiband Constraints on Line-luminosity Functions and the Cosmic Density of Molecular Gas.[9]
  • The Evolution of the Baryons Associated with Galaxies Averaged over Cosmic Time and Space.[10]
  • Ionized and Atomic Interstellar Medium in the z = 6.003 Quasar SDSS J2310+1855.[11]
  • NOEMA redshift measurements of bright Herschel galaxies.[12]

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pierre Cox.
  1. ^ "Article on Pierre Cox in Terra". 2014-10-20. Retrieved 2016-02-10.
  2. ^ "Astrophysics Data System". Retrieved 2016-02-09.
  3. ^ "Pierre Cox Appointed as New ALMA Director". 2012-11-14. Retrieved 2016-02-09.
  4. ^ "ALMA page on Pierre Cox". Retrieved 2016-02-09.
  5. ^ "CBS News article on ALMA". CBS News. 2014-03-09. Retrieved 2016-02-10.
  6. ^ "Article on Pierre Cox in La Recherche". 2013-01-02. Archived from the original on 2016-02-22. Retrieved 2016-02-10.
  7. ^ "Pierre Cox article at IRAM". 2012-11-29. Retrieved 2016-02-09.
  8. ^ Murphy, Kate (2014-11-21). "New York Times "Download" article on Pierre Cox". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-02-09.
  9. ^ Decarli, Roberto; Aravena, Manuel; Boogaard, Leindert; Carilli, Chris; González-López, Jorge; Walter, Fabian; Cortes, Paulo C.; Cox, Pierre; Cunha, Elisabete da; Daddi, Emanuele; Díaz-Santos, Tanio (2020-10-19). "The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Multiband Constraints on Line-luminosity Functions and the Cosmic Density of Molecular Gas". The Astrophysical Journal. 902 (2): 110. arXiv:2009.10744. Bibcode:2020ApJ...902..110D. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/abaa3b. ISSN 1538-4357. S2CID 221857713.
  10. ^ Walter, Fabian; Carilli, Chris; Neeleman, Marcel; Decarli, Roberto; Popping, Gergö; Somerville, Rachel S.; Aravena, Manuel; Bertoldi, Frank; Boogaard, Leindert; Cox, Pierre; Cunha, Elisabete da (2020). "The Evolution of the Baryons Associated with Galaxies Averaged over Cosmic Time and Space". The Astrophysical Journal. 902 (2): 111. arXiv:2009.11126. Bibcode:2020ApJ...902..111W. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/abb82e. ISSN 0004-637X. S2CID 221857373.
  11. ^ Li, Jianan; Wang, Ran; Cox, Pierre; Gao, Yu; Walter, Fabian; Wagg, Jeff; Menten, Karl M.; Bertoldi, Frank; Shao, Yali; Venemans, Bram P.; Decarli, Roberto (2020-09-09). "Ionized and Atomic Interstellar Medium in the z = 6.003 Quasar SDSS J2310+1855". The Astrophysical Journal. 900 (2): 131. arXiv:2007.12339. Bibcode:2020ApJ...900..131L. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ababac. ISSN 1538-4357. S2CID 220769228.
  12. ^ Neri, R.; Cox, P.; Omont, A.; Beelen, A.; Berta, S.; Bakx, T.; Lehnert, M.; Baker, A. J.; Buat, V.; Cooray, A.; Dannerbauer, H. (2020-03-01). "NOEMA redshift measurements of bright Herschel galaxies". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 635: A7. arXiv:1912.10416. Bibcode:2020A&A...635A...7N. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201936988. ISSN 0004-6361. S2CID 209444534.