Antoine Mérand's publications

\list of my publications from ADS

\Articles in refereed journals

\Cepheids pulsating stars

• "A new calibration of Galactic Cepheids Period-Luminosity relations from B to K bands, and a comparison to LMC P-L relations"
• P. Fouqué, P. Arriagada, J. Storm, T.G. Barnes, N. Nardetto, A. Mérand, et al. A&A 476-73 (2007)
  
• "Extended envelopes around Cepheids III. Y Oph and alpha Per from Near IR interferometry with CHARA/FLUOR"
• A. Mérand, J. Aufdenberg, P. Kervella et al. ApJ 664-1093 (2007)
  
• "High resolution spectroscopy for Cepheids distance determination - I. Line asymmetry"
  
• N. Nardetto, D. Mourard, P. Kervella. Ph. Mathias, A. Mérand and D. Bersier. A&A 453-309 (2006).
• "Extended envelopes around Cepheids II. Polaris and delta Cep from Near Infrared Interferometry with CHARA/FLUOR" 
• A. Mérand, P. Kervella, V. Coudé du Foresto et al. A&A 453-155 (2006) [pdf] [press release] [newscientist article]
• "Extended envelopes around Cepheids I. l Car from near and mid-infrared interferometry with the VLTI"
  
• P. Kervella, A. Mérand, G. Perrin et al. A&A 448-623 (2006) [pdf] [press release]
• "The projection factor of delta Cephei. A calibration of the Baade-Wesselink method using the CHARA Array"
  
• A. Mérand, P. Kervella, V. Coudé du Foresto, et al. A&A 438-L9 (2005) [pdf]

\Other topics

• "A near-infrared interferometric survey of debris-disk stars  I. Probing the hot dust content around epsilon Eri and tau Cet with CHARA/FLUOR"
• E. Di Folco, O. Absil , J.-C. Augereau, A. Mérand, et al. A&A 475-243 (2007)
  
• "CHARA Array K'-band Measurements of the Angular Dimensions of Be Star Disks"
• Gies D. R., Bagnuolo W. G. Jr., Baines E. K., ten Brummelaar T. A., Farrington C. D.,Goldfinger P. J., Grundstrom E. D., Huang, W., McAlister H. A., Mérand A., et al. ApJ 654-527 (2007)  [pdf]
  
• "First Results of the CHARA Array VII. Long baseline Interferometric Measurements of Vega Consistent with a Pole-On, Rapidly Rotating Star"
  
• J.P. Aufdenberg, A. Mérand, V. Coudé du Foresto et al. ApJ 645-688 (2006) [pdf] [press release]
• "Circumstellar material in the Vega inner system revealed by CHARA/FLUOR" 
• O. Absil, E. di Folco, A. Mérand, et al. A&A 452-237 (2006) [pdf] [press release]
• "First Results from the CHARA Array. IV. The Interferometric Radii of Low-Mass Stars"
  
• D. H. Berger, D. R. Gies, H. A. McAlister, T. A. ten Brummelaar, T. J. Henry, J. Sturmann, L. Sturmann, N. H. Turner, S. T. Ridgway, J. P. Aufdenberg, A. Mérand ApJ 644-475 (2006) [pdf]
• "A catalog of bright calibrator stars for 200-m baseline near-infrared stellar interferometry"
  
• A. Mérand, P. Bordé and V. Coudé du Foresto A&A 433-1155 (2005), the calatog at CDS [pdf] Erratum to the paper: A&A 447-783 (2006) [pdf]
  
• "Evidence for Very Extended Gaseous Layers around O-rich Mira Variables and M Giants"
  
• Mennesson B., Perrin G., Chagnon G., Coudé du Foresto V., Ridgway S., Mérand A., et al.  ApJ 579-446 (2002) [pdf]

\Talks

\Invited

• "Cepheids at High Angular Resolution" 
•  Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2006, advances in stellar interferometry (Orlando). [pdf]
  

\Contributed Talks

• "CHARA/FLUOR: updates and performance"
  
• Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2006, advances in stellar interferometry (Orlando) [pdf]
• "Interferometric Observations of Cepheids: the p-factor measurement"
• Semaine de l'Astrophysique Française, Journées de la SF2A (Starsbourg, France) - June 27th, July 1rst 2005
• "Interferometric Observations of  Cepheids: Center to Limb  darkening and p-factor  measurements using FLUOR/CHARA" 
• Stellar Pulsation and Evolution (Monte Porzio Catone, Italy) - June 2005
  
• "Cepheid observations with FLUOR/CHARA Array: Polaris and Delta Cep at 300m baseline"
  
• The power of optical/IR interferometry (ESO Garching) - Apr. 2005
  
• "Interferometric detection of Cepheid pulsation"
•  Cepheids Pulsation Workshop, Paris - Feb. 2005

\Posters and other contributions

• "Interferometric Constraints on Gravity Darkening with Application to the Modelling of Spica A & B" J. Aufdenberg, M. Ireland, A. Mérand et al.  2006IAUS..240E..25A
  
• "Interferometric Measurements Of The A-type Supergiant Deneb With The CHARA Array" J. Aufdenberg, A. Mérand, et al. 2006AAS...208.0601A
  
• "Interferometric Gravity Darkening Observations of Vega with the CHARA Array" J. Aufdenberg, A. Mérand, et al.  2005AAS...207.8203A
  
• "A catalog of calibrators Stars for 200-meter baseline near infrared stellar interferometry" A. Mérand, P. Bordé, et V. Coudé du Foresto, 2004SPIE.5491.1185M
• "Remote observations with FLUOR and the CHARA Array" A. Mérand, M. Birlan, R. Lelu de Brach et al. 2004SPIE.5491.1661M
• "Optical Path Difference Fluctuations at the CHARA Interferometric Array" Mérand, A.; ten Brummelaar, T. A.; McAlister, H. A.; Ridgway, S. T. et al.  2001AAS...198.6104M