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PUBLICATION LIST Conny Aerts
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Curriculum Vitae Conny Aerts
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Conny Aerts, Marie Popelinlaan 10, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium
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1 Personalia
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2 Studies
2.1 PhD Studies: 1/10/1988-30/9/1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2.2 Bachelor and Master Studies: October 1984 – July 1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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3 Job Positions
3.1 Current Positions and Duties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.2 Past Permanent Positions: 1/10/2001 – 30/9/2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.3 Temporary Positions as of 1/10/1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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4 Membership of scientific organizations
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5 Scientific Prizes and Awards
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6 Research Topics
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7 Ten most important publications with leading role by C. Aerts
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8 International Peer-Reviewed Funding ID
8.1 Ongoing international peer-reviewed funding ID as prime investigator . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.2 Past international peer-reviewed funding ID as prime investigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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9 Membership of Scientific Bodies or Committees
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9.1 International functions and responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
9.2 Supervision of PhD Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
9.3 Membership of PhD or Habilitation committees, not as supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
10 Scientific Work Visits Abroad
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11 Invited Review Talks and Invited Seminars
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12 Participation in International Conferences and Workshops
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13 Organization of International Symposia
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14 Mentoring and Equal Opportunity Initiatives
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15 Teaching duties
15.1 Teaching assistance and courses at Leuven University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
15.2 Supervision of master thesis work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
15.3 Additional Teaching Elsewhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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16 Outreach Activities and Service to the Community
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17 Publication list
17.1 Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
17.1.1 As author . . . . . . . . . . . .
17.1.2 As editor . . . . . . . . . . . .
17.2 Peer-reviewed papers . . . . . . . . . .
17.3 Publications in Conference Proceedings
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Personalia
Name:
Conny Clara Aerts
Date and place of birth:
26/01/1966, Brasschaat (Belgium)
Home Address:
Marie Popelinlaan 10
B – 3001 Heverlee
Belgium
+32/16/35.56.05
Phone
Work Address:
Phone
Fax
Celestijnenlaan 200D
Office 200D03.29
B – 3001 Leuven
Belgium
+32/16/32.70.28
+32/16/32.79.99
Email:
conny.aerts@ster.kuleuven.be
Webpage:
https://fys.kuleuven.be/ster/staff/conny-aerts
Marital Status:
Married
Spouse:
Prof. Dr. Geert Molenberghs
Date of marriage:
29/09/1990
Children:
An Molenberghs, 12/07/1994, Borgerhout (Belgium)
Jasper Molenberghs, 20/2/1998, Leuven (Belgium)
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2.1
Studies
PhD Studies: 1/10/1988-30/9/1994
• 6-year University Research Assistantship (including a task of 6 hours teaching assistance/week) at the
University of Leuven, Belgium.
• Title of PhD thesis: ”Line-Profile Variations in B stars. Mode Identification with the Moment Method”.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. C. Waelkens.
• Public Defence on 11/10/1993 (i.e. almost one year ahead of schedule)
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Bachelor and Master Studies: October 1984 – July 1988
• July 1988: Master in Mathematics, University of Antwerp, Belgium
• July 1988: Teacher Diploma for secondary school, Mathematics, University of Antwerp, Belgium
• July 1986: Bachelor in Mathematics, University of Antwerp, Belgium
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Job Positions
Current Positions and Duties
• Since 1/8/2011: Director, Institute of Astronomy, University of Leuven, Belgium (some 45 FTEs)
• Since 1/10/2001: Head of Research Unit “Asteroseismology and Variable Stars”, University of Leuven (some 15 FTEs: PhD students, postdocs, engineers)
• Since 1/10/2007: 100% Full Professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium
• Since 1/4/2004: 20% Professor by special appointment, leading the Chair “Asteroseismology”, at the
Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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Past Permanent Positions: 1/10/2001 – 30/9/2007
• 1/10/2004-30/9/2007: Associate Professor, University of Leuven, Belgium
• 1/10/2001-30/9/2004: Lecturer, University of Leuven, Belgium
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Temporary Positions as of 1/10/1994
• From 2/2011 – 1/2014: 5% Professor Astrophysics at Hasselt University, Belgium
• 1/10/1994 – 30/9/2001: Postdoctoral Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research of Flanders (FWO)
(pregnancy and parental leave during 10 months)
• January – February 2001: “Julius” Guest Lecturer, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
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Membership of scientific organizations
• Member of the Royal (Flemish) Academy for Sciences and the Arts of Belgium (elected in 2011)
• Honorary Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society, UK (elected in 2010)
• Member of the Belgian National Committee of Astronomy (elected in 2004)
• Belgian member of Division G: “Stars and Stellar Physics” of the International Astronomical Union
(elected in 2000)
• Member of the European Astronomical Society
• Member of the Dutch Astronomical Society (NAC)
• Member of the Astronomical Society of Flanders, Belgium
• Member of the Astronomical Society of the Netherlands
• Member of Amateur Observatory URANIA, Hove, Belgium
• Member of the Society of Academic Personnel of Leuven University, Belgium
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Scientific Prizes and Awards
• 2012 recipient of the Francqui Prize (also termed “Belgian Nobel Prize”) handed over by His Majesty
The King of Belgium Albert II on 13 June 2012
http://www.francquifoundation.be/ang/laureat en.htm
• 2010: Honorary Fellowship, Royal Astronomical Society, UK
• Main actor, 40-min. scientific documentary “De Sprekende Ster”/“Paroles d’étoile” broadcasted by
overLeven, CANVAS/VRT and Matières Grises, RTBF (these are the Belgian national TV stations,
Flemish and Walloon Branch), 2004-2005. The movie presents the results of Aerts et al., 2003,
Science, Vol. 300, 1926.
The documentary was Award Winner, Scinema Festival, Sydney, Australia, 08/2006. It also won the
Bronze Medal, Beijing, China, Scientific Film Festival, 02/2007.
• 26 ième Prix biennale Paul & Marie Stroobants, Académie Royale des Sciences, des lettres & des
beaux-arts, Royal Academy of Belgium, French-speaking branch, 2003. The award text reads: “For
her ensemble of work in asteroseismology, and in particular for her recent study of the star HD 129929
published in the prestigious journal Science”.
• 1998 Kiwanis Club Award: best post-doctoral researcher in Science & Technology of the University
of Leuven. This is a yearly contest among the post-doctoral researchers with less than 5 year postdoc
experience judged by the Research Council of the University of Leuven.
• 1995 Biennial prize “Henry Van der Linden”, Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren
en Schone Kunsten van België, Royal Academy of Belgium, Flemish branch.
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Research Topics
Stellar Physics, stellar structure and evolution, astrostatistics, space science, asteroseismology, variable
stars, non-radial oscillations, time-series analysis, supervised classification methods, clustering, close binary stars, tidal oscillations, high-resolution spectroscopy, multicolour photometry, high-precision space
photometry, spectroscopic line-profile variations, pulsation mode identification methods.
Detailed studies of Cep stars, slowly pulsating B stars, Scuti stars, Doradus stars, Be stars, B supergiants, subdwarf B stars, magnetic stars, rotational variables, etc.
The reader is referred to the full publication list for the achievements in these various research fields.
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Ten most important publications with leading role by C. Aerts
For the full publication list, we refer to Section 17.
This information was deduced from Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.be/ on 19 October 2014
1. Aerts, C., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J., Kurtz, D.W., 2010, Monograph “Asteroseismology”, Series:
Astronomy and Astrophysics Library, Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg. ISBN: 978-1-40205178-4, 866 pages (234 citations, refereed book)
First monograph fully dedicated to the recent research field of asteroseismology.
2. Aerts C., Thoul A., Daszyńska J., Scuflaire R., Waelkens C., Dupret M. A., Niemczura E., Noels A.,
2003, “Asteroseismology of HD 129929: Core Overshooting and Nonrigid Rotation”, Science, 300,
1926 – 1928 (167 citations, SCI impact factor 31.027)
This paper reports the first detection of nonrigid rotation in a star different from the Sun, based on 21
years of data gathering.
3. Aerts C., de Pauw M., Waelkens C., 1992, “Mode identification of pulsating stars from line profile
variations with the moment method. an example - The Beta Cephei star Delta Ceti”, Astronomy and
Astrophysics, 266, 294 – 306 (207 citations, SCI impact factor 5.084)
This paper describes new methodology for the identification of pulsation modes from high-resolution
spectroscopy developed in the framework of the PhD thesis of C. Aerts.
4. Degroote P., Aerts C., Baglin A., Miglio A., Briquet M., Noels A., Niemczura E., Montalban J.,
Bloemen S., Oreiro R., Vučković M., Smolders K., Auvergne M., Baudin F., Catala C., Michel E.,
2010, “Deviations from a uniform period spacing of gravity modes in a massive star”, Nature, 464,
259 – 261 (52 citations, SCI impact factor 38.597)
First observational proof of inhomogeneous mixing in the near-core region of a massive star; Pieter
Degroote was PhD student of C. Aerts at the time of publication.
5. Beck P. G., Montalban J., Kallinger T., De Ridder J., Aerts C., Garcı́a R. A., Hekker S., Dupret M.-A.,
Mosser B., Eggenberger P., Stello D., Elsworth Y., Frandsen S., Carrier F., Hillen M., Gruberbauer
M., Christensen-Dalsgaard J., Miglio A., Valentini M., Bedding T. R., Kjeldsen H., Girouard F. R.,
Hall J. R., Ibrahim K. A., 2012, “Fast core rotation in red-giant stars as revealed by gravity-dominated
mixed modes”, Nature, 481, 55 – 57 (116 citations, SCI impact factor 38.597)
First detection of nonrigid rotation inside red giant stars; Paul Beck was PhD student of C. Aerts at
the time of publication.
6. Cunha M. S., Aerts C., Christensen-Dalsgaard J., Baglin A., Bigot L., Brown T. M., Catala C.,
Creevey O. L., Domiciano de Souza A., Eggenberger P., Garcia P. J. V., Grundahl F., Kervella P., Kurtz
D. W., Mathias P., Miglio A., Monteiro M. J. P. F. G., Perrin G., Pijpers F. P., Pourbaix D., Quirrenbach
A., Rousselet-Perraut K., Teixeira T. C., Thévenin F., Thompson M. J., 2007, “Asteroseismology and
interferometry”, Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 14, 217 – 360 (79 citations, SCI impact factor
9.500)
Extensive invited review paper describing how the research fields of asteroseismology and interferometry can be meaningfully bridged.
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7. Aerts C., Puls J., Godart M., Dupret M.-A., 2009, “Collective pulsational velocity broadening due
to gravity modes as a physical explanation for macroturbulence in hot massive stars”, Astronomy and
Astrophysics, 508, 409 – 419 (61 citations, SCI impact factor 5.084)
This paper provides a physical interpretation of the observed phenomenon of macroturbulence in
massive stars.
8. Aerts C., Molenberghs G., Kenward M. G., Neiner C., 2014, “The Surface Nitrogen Abundance
of a Massive Star in Relation to its Oscillations, Rotation, and Magnetic Field”, The Astrophysical
Journal, 781, 88 (6 citations, SCI impact factor 6.733)
This paper bridges astrophysics and statistics by presenting the development and application of multivariate linear mixed modelling to a multitude of high-precision data in a carefully selected sample
of massive stars with the purpose to evaluate stellar evolution computations.
9. Aerts C., De Cat P., Peeters E., Decin L., De Ridder J., Kolenberg K., Meeus G., Van Winckel H.,
Cuypers J., Waelkens C., 1999, “Selection of a sample of bright southern Slowly Pulsating B Stars
for long-term photometric and spectroscopic monitoring”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 343, 872 –
882 (80 citations, SCI impact factor 5.084)
This work formed the basis of new competitive observing campaigns which laid the foundations of the
future PhD thesis work of P. De Cat and M. Briquet, under the supervision of C. Aerts.
10. Aerts C., 1996, “Mode identification of pulsating stars from line-profile variations with the moment
method: a more accurate discriminant.”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 314, 115 – 122 (107 citations,
SCI impact factor 5.084)
Further development of the moment method for pulsation mode identification from high-precision
spectroscopy, meanwhile extensively used by the international community.
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International Peer-Reviewed Funding ID
Ongoing international peer-reviewed funding ID as prime investigator
• Promotor, FP7, Marie Curie International Incoming Grant FP7-PEOPLE-2013-623303: “ASAMBA:
Asteroseismic approach towards understanding blue supergiants” with beneficiary Dr. Ehsan Moravveiji,
2 years at KU Leuven, 1/7/2015 – 30/6/2017
• Promotor, Postdoctoral Scholarship of the Federal Government of Belgium with beneficiary Dr. Ehsan
Moravveiji, 18 months at KU Leuven, 1/1/2014 – 30/6/2015
• PI of the Research Grant: “Deviations from uniform period spacings of gravity modes as probes of
rotational mixing near stellar cores”, Fund for Scientific Research of Flanders, 1/1/2013 – 31/12/2016
(1 FTE)
• Chairwoman of the work package “Asteroseismology” of the EU FP7-SPACE-2012-1/CP-FP project
“SpaceInn: Exploitation of Space Data for Innovative Helio- and Asteroseismology”, 2013 – 2016
(1 FTE)
• Promotor, FP7, Marie Curie Re-integration grant FP7-PIOF-GA-2009-25526: “Space AsterSeismology – RR Lyrae stars” with beneficiary Dr. Katrien Kolenberg, 2 years at Harvard University, USA –
1 year at Leuven University, 2011 – 2015
• PI of the ESA/PRODEX grant: “Software Development for Gaia-DPAC: Variability (CU7)”, 1/1/2007
– 31/12/2015 (2 FTEs).
• PI of Research Grant: “Asteroseismology of red giant stars with the satellites Kepler and CoRoT”,
Fund for Scientific Research of Flanders, 1/1/2011 – 31/12/2014 (1 FTE)
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Past international peer-reviewed funding ID as prime investigator
• Advanced Investigator grant holder, “PROSPERITY: Probing Stellar Physics and Testing Stellar Evolution through Asteroseismology”, European Research Council, 1/1/2009 – 31/12/2013 (7 FTEs).
• PI of the ESA/PRODEX grant: “Data exploitation of the CoRoT space mission”, 1/1/2003 – 31/12/2013
(2 FTEs).
• PI of the Research Grant: “Asteroseismology of hot subdwarfs with the Mercator Advanced Imager
for Asteroseismology”, Fund for Scientific Research of Flanders, 1/1/2009 – 31/12/2012 (1 PhD
position + equipment).
• PI of the Concerted Research Action: “High-Precision Probing of Stellar Interiors and Stellar Environments”, Research Council, University of Leuven, 1/1/2008 – 31/12/2012 (5 FTEs).
• Belgian PI of the ESA/PRODEX grant: “PLATO Science Development”, 1/5/2010 – 31/12/2012
(1 FTE).
• Chairwoman of the work package Asteroseismology of the EU FP6 Coordination Action: Helio- and
Asteroseismology (HELAS, 1/4/2006 – 31/3/2010, 1 FTE).
• PI of the Research Grant: “Study of the internal and circumstellar structure of stars”, Fund for Scientific Research of Flanders, 1/1/2006 – 31/12/2009 (2 PhD positions).
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• PI of the Concerted Research Action: “Asteroseismology of massive stars with the space missions
MONS and CoRoT”, Research Council, University of Leuven, 1/1/2003 – 31/12/2007 (5 FTEs).
• PI of the Research Grant: “Observational study of stars in stellar systems”, Fund for Scientific Research of Flanders, 1/1/2002 – 31/12/2005 (4 PhD positions).
• PI of the ESA/PRODEX grant: “Belgian participation in the MONS satellite”, 1/1/2001 – 30/9/2003
(1 FTE).
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Membership of Scientific Bodies or Committees
International functions and responsibilities
• 2014: Chairwoman, Consolidator Grants Panel, PE9: Universe Sciences, Horizon2020, European
Research Council.
• 2014 – present: Member of the PLATO Science Advisory Team, European Space Agency
• 2013 – present: Member of the Scientific Board of the Royal Observatory of Belgium.
• 2013 – present: Member of the Board of Directors, the Netherlands Organisation for Space Science
Research (SRON).
• 2013 – present: Member of the Division G (“Stars and Stellar Physics”) Steering Committee, International Astronomical Union.
• 2012 – present: annual jury member, Scientific Prizes in Astronomy and Astrophysics, “Académie
Royale des Sciences, des lettres & des beaux-arts de Belgique”, Royal Academy of Belgium, Frenchspeaking Branch.
• 2011 – present: Member of the “Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Wetenschappen, Letteren en
Kunsten”, Royal Academy of Belgium, Flemish Branch.
• 2010 – present: Member of the ESPRESSO Science Team, European Southern Observatory.
• 2009 – present: Member of the Science Advisory Committee, Las Cumbres Observatory Group of
Telescopes, Goleta, USA.
• 2009 – present: Belgian PI of the ESA M3 space mission PLATO.
• 2007 – present: Member of the Steering Committee of the NASA Kepler missions Asteroseismology
Science Consortium (KASC).
• 2013: Starting Grants Panel Member, PE9: Universe Sciences, European Research Council.
• 2013: Chairwoman of the Observing Programme Committee of the European Southern Observatory,
P92 and P93 (leading 75 panel members distributed over 13 sub-panels).
• 2009 – 2013: Member of the Astronomy Board of the Lorentz Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
2010 – 2013: President of the board.
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• 2002 – 2013: Belgian co-Investigator of the space mission CoRoT, with responsibility for target
selection and data exploitation of OB-type stars, as well as the N3 exoplanet data product delivery to
the community.
• 2005 – 2012: Member of the committee for research actions at the Federal Services, Section Space,
Belgium.
• 26/9/2011 – 16/12/2011: Coordinator of the advanced research programme “Asteroseismology in the
Space Age”, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA.
Other coordinators: profs Sarbani Basu, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, and Steven Kawaler.
• 2008 (Nov.) – 2011 (Oct.): Member of the Space Science Advisory Committee of the European Space
Agency.
• 2009 – 2011: Member of “la Commission scientifique/Sciences Exactes et Naturelles”, of the Fonds
de la Recherche National (FRS- F.N.R.S).
• 1/8/2006 – 1/8/2009: Secretary of Division V: Variable Stars, of the International Astronomical Union.
• 2007 – 2008: Expert panel member of the European Southern Observatory for the Observing Programme Committee (OPC) periods P81 and P82.
• 2007 – 2008: Member of the PLATO Science Study Team, European Space Agency.
• 2007 – 2008: Member of the Gaia Science Team, European Space Agency.
• 2006 – 2008: Member of the Committee Open Competition, Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Netherlands.
• 2005 – 2008: Secretary of the Belgian National Committee of Astronomy.
• 2003 (Dec.) – 2004 (June): Member of the Eddington Science Team, Data-analysis Scientist, European Space Agency.
• 1/8/2003 – 1/8/2006: President of Commission 27: “Variable Stars” of the Internationale Astronomical Union (this commission consists of some 500 staff astronomers worldwide).
• 2002 – 2009: Member of the Evaluation Committee Physics and Astronomy of the Fund for Scientific
Research of Flanders (FWO), Belgium.
• 2002 (Nov.) – 2005 (Feb.): Member of the Astronomy Working Group, European Space Agency.
• 2002-2007: Member of the Commission E7: Physics and Astronomy of the Fund for Scientific Research of Flanders.
• 1/8/2000 – 1/8/2003: Vice-president of Commission 27: “Variable Stars” of the Internationale Astronomical Union (this commission consists of some 500 staff astronomers worldwide).
• 1/5 – 1/9/2000 & 1/11/2003 – 1/4/2004: Member of the Eddington Science Team, European Space
Agency.
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Supervision of PhD Research
• Ongoing PhD Research:
1. 2012 – 2015: PhD research of Valentina Schmid on asteroseismology of close binary stars.
2. 2013 – 2015: PhD research of Sara Alejandra Sans on Variability and Galactic Structure with
the Gaia satellite.
3. 2013 – 2016: PhD research of Timothy Van Reeth on asteroseismology of a sample of Doradus
pulsators with the Kepler space mission and HERMES spectrograph.
• Finished PhD Theses:
1. 15/7/2014: PhD of Pablo Marcos Arenal. Title of the thesis: “Simulations and software algorithms for space missions: developing an astronomical multi-mission instrument simulator”.
University of Leuven, Belgium.
2. 6/12/2013: PhD of Paul Beck. Title of the thesis: “Asteroseismology of Red-Giant Stars: Mixed
Modes, Differential Rotation, and Eccentric Binaries”. Co-supervisor: Dr. Joris De Ridder.
University of Leuven, Belgium.
3. 31/5/2013: PhD of Peter Pápics. Title of the thesis: “Observational asteroseismology of B-type
stars on the main sequence with the CoRoT and Kepler satellites”. Co-supervisor: Dr. Maryline
Briquet. University of Leuven Belgium.
4. 3/5/2013: PhD of Steven Bloemen. Title of the thesis: “High-precision studies of compact
variable stars”. Co-supervisor: Dr. Roy Østensen. University of Leuven, Belgium.
5. 4/9/2012: PhD of Jeroen Vandersteen. Title of the thesis: “Observation and estimation for space
applications: software algorithms and hardware design”. Co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jan Swevers.
University of Leuven, Belgium.
6. 10/7/2012: PhD of Jonas Blomme. Title of the thesis: “Variable star data mining techniques for
time-resolved databases”. Co-supervisor: Dr. Joris De Ridder. University of Leuven, Belgium.
7. 25/11/2010: PhD of Pieter Degroote. Title of the thesis: “Asteroseismology of OB stars with
the CoRoT Space mission”. University of Leuven, Belgium.
8. 22/12/2009: PhD of Maarten Desmet. Title of the thesis: “Case studies of variable B-stars: 12
(DD) Lacertae, AU Monocerotis and ↵ (67) Vir (Spica)”. Co-supervisor: Dr. Maryline Briquet.
University of Leuven, Belgium.
9. 14/12/2009: PhD of Sofie Saesen. Title of the thesis: “Towards asteroseismology of the young
open stellar cluster Persei (NGC 884)”. Co-supervisors: Dr. Fabien Carrier, Dr. Joris De Ridder. University of Leuven, Belgium.
10. 6/10/2009: PhD of Haili Hu. Title of the thesis: “Backtracking the evolution of subdwarf B stars
with asteroseismology”. Co-supervisor: Dr. Gijs Nelemans. University of Leuven, Belgium/
University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
11. 8/10/2009: PhD of Maja Vučković. Title of the thesis: “An observational study of selected
V361 Hya stars: EK Piscium, NY Virginis and EO Ceti”. Co-supervisor: Dr. Roy Østensen.
University of Leuven, Belgium.
12. 24/3/2009: PhD of Jonas Debosscher. Title of the thesis: “Automated Classification of variable
stars: Application to the OGLE and CoRoT databases”. University of Leuven, Belgium.
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13. 18/12/2007: PhD of Rachel Drummond. Title of the thesis: “Calibration of the CoRoT space
mission: correction of the photometry for pointing jitter and background changes”. Co-supervisor:
Dr. Bart Vandenbussche. University of Leuven, Belgium.
14. 26/10/2007: PhD of Karolien Lefever. Title of the thesis: “Fundamental Parameters of B-type
Stars: Application to a HIPPARCOS sample of B supergiants and a CoRoT sample of B dwarfs”.
Co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Joachim Puls. University of Leuven, Belgium.
15. 18/9/2007: PhD of Saskia Hekker. Title of the thesis: “Radial velocity variations in red giant
stars: pulsations, spots and planets”. Co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. A. Quirrenbach. University of
Leiden, the Netherlands.
16. 14/06/2006: PhD of Kadri Yakut. Title of the thesis: “An Observational Study of Unevolved
Close Binary Stars”. University of Leuven, Belgium.
17. 08/07/2005: PhD of Mario Ausseloos. Title of the thesis: “Seismic Studies of selected Beta
Cephei stars: Beta Centauri, Nu Eridani and 12 Lacertae”, University of Leuven, Belgium.
18. 29/9/2004: PhD of Katrien Uytterhoeven. Title of the thesis: “An observational study of lineprofile variable B stars in multiple systems”. Co-supervisor: Dr. John Telting (La Palma Observatory, Canary Islands). University of Leuven, Belgium.
19. 12/3/2003: PhD of Maryline Briquet. Title of the thesis: “An observational study of line-profile
variable B stars”. Co-supervisor: Dr. Richard Scuflaire. University of Liège, Belgium.
20. 25/6/2002: PhD of Katrien Kolenberg. Title of the thesis: “A Spectroscopy Study of the Blazhko
Effect in RR Lyrae”. University of Leuven, Belgium.
21. 17/12/2001: PhD of Joris De Ridder. Title of the thesis: “Contributions to the interpretation of
line-profile variations of pulsating B stars”. University of Leuven, Belgium.
22. 23/5/2001: PhD of Peter De Cat. Title of the thesis: “An observational study of bright southern
Slowly Pulsating B Stars”. University of Leuven, Belgium.
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Membership of PhD or Habilitation committees, not as supervisor
1. 25/6/2014: Member of the PhD committee of Katrien Bonte. Title of the thesis: “Automated detection
methods for characterising dynamic events in solar coronal images”. Supervisor: Prof. Stefaan Poedts.
University of Leuven, Belgium.
2. 23/5/2014: External expert and jury member of the PhD thesis of Sébastien Salmon. Title of the
thesis: “Impact of micro- and macro-physics on the seismic properties of main sequence B-type
stars”. Supervisor: Dr. Josefina Montálban, University of Liège, Belgium.
3. August 2013: External expert of the PhD committee of Markus Hareter. Title of the thesis: “Investigation of Dor – Sct hybrid stars based on high-precision space photometry and complementary
ground-based spectroscopy”. Supervisor: Prof. Werner Weiss. Vienna University, Austria.
4. 29/4/2013: External expert and jury member of the PhD thesis of Rasmus Handberg. Title of the
thesis: “Asteroseismology of Solar-like Stars”. Supervisor: Prof. Hans Kjeldsen. Århus University,
Denmark.
5. April 2013: External expert of the Habilitation application of Dr. Markus Roth, University of Freiburg,
Germany.
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6. 4/7/2012: Member of the PhD committee of Sara Regibo. Title of the thesis: “Data Reduction and
Analysis Algorithms for the Herschel Space Observatory”. Supervisor: Dr. Bart Vandenbussche.
University of Leuven, Belgium.
7. 27/11/2007: External expert and jury member of the PhD thesis of Andrea Miglio. Title of the thesis:
“Asteroseismic probing of the internal structure of main-sequence stars”. Supervisor: Dr. Josefina
Montalbán. University of Liège, Belgium.
8. 28/11/2007: Member of the PhD committee of Else van den Besselaar. Title of the thesis: “White
Dwarf - Red Dwarf Binaries in the Galaxy”. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paul Groot. Radboud University
Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
9. 24/10/2007: Member (secretary) of the PhD committee of Nele Veldeman. Title of the thesis: “The
Influence of Doping on the Physicochemical Properties of Coinage Metal Clusters: Enhanced Stabilities and Modified Chemical Activities”. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Peter Lievens. University of Leuven,
Belgium.
10. 16/4/2007: Member of the PhD committee of Gijs Roelofs. Title of the thesis: “The AM Canum
Venaticorum Stars”. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Paul Groot and Dr. Gijs Nelemans. Radboud University
Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
11. 30/3/2007: External expert and jury member of the PhD thesis of Pierre-Olivier Bourge. Title of the
thesis: “Asteroseismology of Cephei stars: effects of microscopic diffusion”. Supervisor: Dr. Anne
Thoul. University of Liège, Belgium.
12. 24/10/2006: Member of the PhD committee of Roy Smits. Title of the thesis: “Properties and Geometry of Radio Pulsar Emission”. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Jan Kuijpers (Radboud University Nijmegen)
and Dr. Ben Stappers (University of Amsterdam). Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
13. 17/12/2003: External expert and jury member of the Habilitation defence of Dr. Philippe Mathias,
Observatoire de la Côte dAzur: “Pulsations stellaires: de l’astérosismologie à la perte de masse”.
University of Nice, France.
14. 12/11/2003: Member of the PhD committee of Greet Decin. Title of the thesis: “A study of the occurrence and time evolution of circumstellar debris disks and their relation with planetary systems”.
Supervisors: Prof. Christoffel Waelkens and Dr. Carsten Dominik (University of Amsterdam). University of Leuven, Belgium.
15. 10/11/2003: Member of the PhD committee of Thomas Maas. Title of the thesis: “A study of postAGB stars with a dusty disc”. Supervisor: Prof. Hans Van Winckel. University of Leuven, Belgium.
16. 22/5/2003: External expert and jury Member of the PhD thesis of Ziv Shkedy. Title of the thesis:
“Flexible Statistical Modeling: Application to Infectious Diseases and Astronomical Data”. Supervisors: Profs Marc Aerts and Geert Molenberghs. University of Hasselt, Belgium.
17. 16/12/2002: External expert and jury member of the PhD thesis of Marc-Antoine Dupret. Title of the
thesis: “Non-radial non-adiabatic oscillations of near main sequence variable stars”. Supervisor: Dr.
Richard Scuflaire. University of Liège, Belgium.
18. 4/10/2002: Member of the PhD committee of Kristin Reyniers. Title of the thesis: “Tidal perturbations of linear, isentropic oscillations in components of circular-orbit close binaries”. Supervisor:
Prof. Dr. Paul Smeyers. University of Leuven, Belgium.
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19. 3/10/2002: Member of the PhD committee of Bart Vandenbussche. Title of the thesis: “The ISO
Short-Wavelength Spectrometer calibration and the ISO-SWS post-helium atlas of near-infrared stellar spectra”. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christoffel Waelkens. University of Leuven, Belgium.
20. 27/6/2002: External expert and jury member of the PhD thesis of Fabien Carrier. Title of the thesis:
“Variabilité, sismologie et paramètres physique stellaires”. Supervisor: Prof. Gilbert Burki. Observatoire de Genève, Switzerland.
21. 6/6/2002: Member of the PhD committee of Caroline Van Kerckhoven. Title of the thesis: “Polycyclic
Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Diamonds around Young Stellar Objects”. Supervisors: Profs Christoffel
Waelkens and Xander Thielens (Groningen University). University of Leuven, Belgium.
22. 29/5/2001: Member (secretary) of the PhD committee of Gwendolyn Meeus. Title of the thesis: “A
multi-wavelength study of the circumstellar environment of isolated Herbig Ae/Be stars”. Supervisors: Profs Christoffel Waelkens and Rens Waters. University of Leuven, Belgium.
23. 30/5/2000: Member (secretary) of the PhD committee of Leen Decin. Title of the thesis: “Synthetic
spectra of cool stars observed with the ISO Short-Wavelength Spectrometer: improving the models
and the calibration of the instrument”. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christoffel Waelkens. University of
Leuven, Belgium.
24. 17/5/2000: Member of the PhD committee of Bart Willems. Title of the thesis: “Contribution to the
theory of dynamic tides and orbital evolution in close binaries”. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paul Smeyers.
University of Leuven, Belgium.
25. 16/12/1999: Member (secretary) of the PhD committee of Goedele Ruymaekers. Title of the thesis:
“Error Assessment of Orbits and Masses of Visual Double Stars by means of Bootstrap”. Supervisor:
Prof. Dr. Christoffel Waelkens. University of Leuven, Belgium.
26. 16/11/1999: External expert and jury member of the PhD thesis of Coen Schrijvers. Title of the thesis:
“Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Pulsation in Rotating Stars”. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Jan van Paradijs
and Dr. Huib Henrichs. University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Scientific Work Visits Abroad
• Scientific visits abroad with a duration longer than one month:
– Coordinator of the advanced research programme: “Asteroseismology in the Space Age”.
Period: 22/10/2011 until 20/11/2011.
Institute: Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara (USA)
– Scientific visit: The Aarhus pulsation code/Kepler Target selection.
Period: 20/5/2010 until 20/6/2010.
Danish AsteroSeismology Center, Aarhus University, Denmark.
– Scientific work visit: The Garching Stellar Evolution code and massive star asteroseismology.
Period: from 1/3/2010 until 15/5/2010 during 3 days/week.
Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany.
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– Scientific work visit: Introduction into the theory of radiation-driven winds of massive stars.
Period: from 08/11/1993 until 21/12/1993.
Institute: University of Delaware (USA)
– Observing run with the Swiss Telescope and long stay at La Silla Observatory.
Period: from 01/11/1990 until 30/11/1990.
Institute: European Southern Observatory (Chile)
– Observing run with the Swiss Telescope and long stay at La Silla Observatory.
Period: from 08/03/1989 until 11/05/1989.
Institute: European Southern Observatory (Chile)
• Some 60 scientific work visits to foreign institutes and international observatories, ranging from a few
days up to three weeks each, in different European countries, the USA and Chile.
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Invited Review Talks and Invited Seminars
1. Aerts, C., 2014, “Starquakes and Exoplanets in our Milky Way Galaxy”, invited lecture, 26th SOLVAY
Conference in Physics “Astrophysics and Cosmology”, Brussels, Belgium, 9 – 12/10/2014
2. Aerts, C., 2014, “Asteroseismology”, invited talk to be presented during “The variable Sky: from
tiny variations to big explosions”, Annual meeting of the German Astronomical Society, Bamberg,
Germany, 22 – 26/9/2014.
3. Aerts, C., 2014, “Asteroseismology: the study of stellar oscillations and its impact on astrophysics”,
invited lecture to be presented during the “Kavli Prize Symposium on Astrophysics”, Oslo, Norway,
11/9/2014.
4. Aerts, C., 2014, “Results from asteroseismology on massive stars”, invited talk to be presented during “New Windows on Massive Stars : Asteroseismology, Interferometry, Spectropolarimetry”, IAU
Symposium 307, Geneva, Switzerland, 22 – 27/6/2014.
5. Aerts, C., 2013, “Highlights of PROSPERITY and of the meeting”, closing lecture, International
Francqui Symposium “What Asteroseismology has to offer the Astrophysics”, Brussels, Belgium, 2
– 4/12/2013.
6. Aerts, C., 2013, “Asteroseismology of Stellar Clusters”, invited talk presented during the Gaia/GREAT/ESF
workshop “The World of Clusters”, Padova, Italy, 23 – 25/9/2013.
7. Aerts, C., 2013, “Asteroseismology of close binary stars”, invited talk presented during “Setting a
new standard in the analysis of binary stars”, Leuven, Belgium, 16 – 19/9/2013.
8. Aerts, C., 2013, “Probing Stellar Physics and Testing Stellar Evolution through Asteroseismology”,
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, 12/7/2013.
9. Aerts, C., 2013, “Constraints on Stellar Models from Asteroseismology”, invited review presented
during the Lorentz Center workshop “Towards a new generation of stellar models”, Leiden, the
Netherlands, 1 – 5/7/2013.
10. Aerts, C., 2012, SOLVAY Colloquim “Probing Stellar Physics and Testing Stellar Evolution through
Asteroseismology”, Solvay Institutes in Physics and Chemistry, Brussels, Belgium, 4/12/2012.
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11. Aerts, C., 2012, Invited Physics Colloquium “Probing Stellar Physics through Asteroseismology”,
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA, 8/11/2012.
12. Aerts, C. & Bloemen, S., 2012, Invited duo-talk “Master and Pupil: Asteroseismology in the Space
Age”, Opening event, Snellius@Lorentz Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands, 4/10/2012.
13. Aerts, C., 2012, Invited talk “Asteroseismology: from single stars to large ensembles”, Gaia/GREAT
workshop, Leuven, Belgium, 19 – 21/9/2012.
14. Aerts, C., 2012, Work visit including Invited Seminar “The Power of Gravity-Mode oscillations to
Probe the Physics of Stellar Cores”, Joint Astrophysics Colloquium MPA/ESO/MPE/Munich University, 2/2/2012.
15. Aerts, C., 2012, Work visit including Invited Seminar “Sounding Stellar Heartbeats from Asteroseismology and the Daily Struggle of an Astromama”, Vienna, 10/1/2012.
16. Aerts, C., 2011, “Tuning stellar cores from gravity modes detected in CoRoT and Kepler data of
various types of stars”, Invited Seminar, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University, 1/12/2011.
17. Aerts, C., 2011, “Pulsations in Binaries”, Invited talk, KASC IV workshop, Boulder, 11-15/7/2011.
18. Aerts C., 2011, invited talk “Asteroseismology across the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram”, presented
during the AAAS meeting “Science without borders”, during seminar: “Kepler: looking for other
Earths”, Washington, USA, 17-21/2/2011.
19. Aerts, C., 2010, “Asteroseismology in the era of the CoRoT and Kepler space mission”, invited seminar, SETI, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, USA, 17/2/2010.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmXreCryOjE
20. Aerts, C., 2009, “Probing Stellar Physics and testing stellar evolution through asteroseismology”,
Invited talk, 64th Dutch Astronomy Conference, Rolduc, the Netherlands, 13/5/2009.
21. Aerts, C., 2009, “Asteroseismology in the era of the CoRoT space mission”, invited plenary talk,
European Week of Astronomy and Space Studies, Hertfordshire, UK, 23/4/2009.
22. Aerts, C., 2009, “Asteroseismology in the era of the CoRoT space mission”, Invited seminar, University of Heidelberg , Germany, 13/1/2009.
23. Aerts, C., 2009, “Asteroseismology in the era of the CoRoT space mission”, Invited seminar, University of Göttingen, Germany, 12/1/2009.
24. Aerts, C., 2008, “The current status of asteroseismology”, invited seminar, Max-Planck Institute für
Sonnephysik, Lindau, Germany, 26/2/2008.
25. Aerts, C., 2008, “The current status of asteroseismology”, invited seminar, Joint Astrophysics Colloquium MPA/ESO/MPE/Munich University, 10/1/2008.
26. Aerts C., Hekker S., Desmet M., Carrier F., Zima W., Briquet M., Ridder J., 2008, “High-Precision
Spectroscopy of Pulsating Stars, Precision Spectroscopy in Astrophysics”, review talk of 30 minutes,
ESO Astrophysics Symposia, Aveiro, Portugal.
27. Aerts C., 2007, “Asteroseismology of Close Binary Stars”, review talk of 45 minutes, IAU Symposium, General Assembly of the IAU, Prague, Czech Republic.
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28. Aerts C., 2006, “The pulsations and potential for seismology of B stars”, review talk of 45 minutes,
ESA SP-624: Proceedings of SOHO 18/GONG 2006/HELAS I, Beyond the spherical Sun, Sheffield,
UK.
29. Aerts, C.,2006, “Highlights in Asteroseismology: a biased selection”, Invited seminar, the University
of Central Lancashire, UK, 20/5/2006.
30. Aerts, C.,2006, “Asteroseismology: current status”, Invited seminar, the University of Leiden, The
Netherlands, 20/3/2006.
31. Aerts, C., 2005, “Asteroseismology: from dream to reality”, Invited seminar, University of Groningen,
The Netherlands, 18/4/2005.
32. Aerts, C., 2004, “Asteroseismology of
versity, USA, 5/11/2004.
Cep stars: current status”, Invited seminar, Iowa State Uni-
33. Aerts C., Harmanec P., 2004, “Pulsating components in close binaries”, review talk of 40 minutes,
ASP Conf. Ser. 318: Spectroscopically and Spatially Resolving the Components of the Close Binary
Stars, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.
34. Aerts, C., 2003, “Asteroseismology: from the Sun to stars”, Invited seminar, the Universitätssternwarte Munchen, Germany, 5/2/2003.
35. Aerts, C., 2002, “Asteroseismology: from the Sun to stars”, review talk of 50 minutes, 12th meeting of
the European Physical Society: Trends in Physics / parallel symposium: Physics in Space, Budapest,
Hungary.
36. Aerts C., 2000, “Multimode Detections from Surveys”, review talk of 30 minutes, IAU Colloq. 175:
The Be-Phenomenon in Early-Type Stars, Alicante, Spain.
37. Aerts, C., 2000, “Asteroseismology with future space missions”, review talk of 30 minutes, 55th
Dutch Astronomer’s Conference, Dalfsen, the Netherlands.
38. Aerts, C., 1999, “Line-profile variables along the main sequence”, invited seminar, the Center for
Astrophysics, Harvard University, Boston, USA, 29/11/1999.
39. Aerts, C., 1999, “Line-profile variables along the main sequence”, invited seminar, Department of
Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Denmark, 21/10/1999.
40. Aerts, C., 1999, “Long-term monitoring of slowly pulsating B stars”, invited seminar, the Observatoire
de la Côte dAzur, Nice, France, 6/4/1999.
41. Aerts C., Waelkens C., De Cat P., 1998, “Slowly pulsating B stars - new insights from HIPPARCOS”,
review talk of 25 minutes, IAU Symposium 185: New Eyes to See Inside the Sun and Stars, General
Assembly of the IAU, Kyoto, Japan.
42. Aerts, C., Waelkens, C., De Cat, P., Kolenberg, K., Kestens, E.,Grenon, M., Eyer, L., 1997, “Pulsating B stars discovered by HIPPARCOS”, review talk of 45 minutes, 86th American Association of
Variable Star Observers Spring meeting, Sion, Switzerland.
43. Aerts, C., 1995, “Analysis of line-profile variations of pulsating stars”, invited seminar, the Konkoly
Observatory, Budapest, Hongary, 21/9/1995.
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44. Aerts C., 1993, “Mode Identification in Pulsating Stars”, review talk of 50 minutes, IAU Symposium
162: Pulsation, Rotation, and Mass Loss in Early-Type Stars, Juan-les-Pins, France, 5-8/10/1993.
45. Aerts, C., 1993, “Nonradial Pulsations in Early-Type Stars: Mode Identification with the Moment
Method”, invited seminar, the Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, USA,18/11/1993.
46. Aerts, C., 1993, “Line profile variations in non-radially pulsating stars”, invited seminar, the Instituut
Anton Pannekoek, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 18/6/1993.
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Participation in International Conferences and Workshops
1. 26th SOLVAY Conference in Physics: “Astrophysics and Cosmology”, 9 – 12/10/2014, Brussels,
Belgium.
2. Annual meeting of the German Astronomical Society: “The variable Sky: from tiny variations to big
explosions”, 22 – 26/9/2014, Bamberg, Germany.
3. The “Kavli Prize Symposium on Astrophysics”, 7 – 11/9/2014, Oslo, Norway.
4. IAU Symposium 307: “New Windows on Massive Stars : Asteroseismology, Interferometry, Spectropolarimetry”, 22 – 27/6/2014, Geneva, Switzerland.
5. International Francqui Symposium “What Asteroseismology has to offer to Astrophysics”,
2 – 5/12/2013, Brussels, Belgium.
6. Gaia/GREAT/ESF workshop “The World of Clusters”, 23 – 25/9/2013, Padova, Italy.
7. “Setting a new standard in the analysis of binary stars”, 16 – 19/9/2013, Leuven, Belgium.
8. “The 2nd MESA school”, 12 – 16/8/2013, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA.
9. “Advances in Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Observational and Experimental Data”, 12 –
13/7/2013, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA.
10. Lorentz Center workshop “Towards a new generation of stellar models”, 1 – 5/7/2013, Leiden, the
Netherlands.
11. Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium Sixth Workshop (KASC VI), 24 – 28/6/2013, Sydney, Australia.
12. General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, Beijing, 25 – 31/8/2012, organiser and
attendance of Special Session 13: High-precision tests of stellar physics from high-precision photometry as well as National Delegate of Belgium
13. Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium Fifth Workshop (KASC V), 18 – 22/6/2012, Balatonalmádi,
Hungary.
14. First PlaVi Workshop, 3 – 4/5/2012, Madrid, Spain.
15. International Conference: The impact of Asteroseismology across Stellar Astrophysics, 24 – 28/10/2011,
Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA.
16. Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium Fourth Workshop (KASC IV), 11 – 15/7/2011, Boulder,
USA.
17. AAAS meeting “Science without borders”, 17 – 21/2/2011, Washington, USA.
18. Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium Third Workshop (KASC III), 14 – 18/6/2010, Aarhus, Denmark.
19. HELAS IV International Conference: Seismological Challenges for Stellar Structure, 1 – 5/2/2010,
Lanzarote, Spain
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20. International HELAS Workshop: “Synergies between solar and stellar modeling”, 22 – 26/6/2009,
Rome, Italy.
21. 64th Dutch Astronomy Conference, 13 – 15/5/2009, Rolduc, the Netherlands.
22. European Week of Astronomy and Space Studies, 20 – 23/4/2009, Hertfordshire, UK.
23. GONG 2008/SOHO 21 International meeting: “Solar-stellar dynamos as revealed by helio- and asteroseismology”, 11 – 15/8/2008, Boulder, USA.
24. International HELAS Workshop: “Interpretation of Asteroseismic Data”, 22 – 25/6/2008, Wroclaw,
Poland.
25. HELAS III: “First CoRoT International Symposium”, 2 – 5/2/2008, Paris, France.
26. Symposium 250 of the International Astronomical Union: “Massive Stars as Cosmic Engines”, 8 –
17/12/2007, Hawaii, USA.
27. First Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium workshop, 29 – 31/10/2007, Orsay, France.
28. HELAS II International Symposium: “Helioseismology, Asteroseismology and MHD connections”,
20 – 24/8/2007, Göttingen, Germany.
29. International colloquium: “Stellar Pulsation & Cycles of Discovery: new tools, new variables, new
astrophysics”, 23 – 27/7/2007, Vancouver, Canada.
30. Meeting of the Data Analysis Team of the CoRoT space mission, 25 – 26/6/2007, Paris, France.
31. HELAS Board meeting, 27 – 29/3/2007, Rome, Italy.
32. Gaia CU5+CU7 meeting, 21 – 23/3/2007, Bologna, Italy.
33. HELAS International Workshop: “The Future of Asteroseismology”, 20 – 22/9/2006, Vienna, Austria.
34. International Workshop “High-precision spectroscopy in astrophysics”, 11 – 15/9/2006, Aveiro, Portugal.
35. 26th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, 14 – 28/8/2006, Prague, Czech
Republic.
36. SOHO 18/GONG 2006/HELAS I International Conference: “Beyond the Spherical Sun: a new era of
helio- and asteroseismology”, 7 – 11/8/2006, Sheffield, UK.
37. The “10th CoRoT Science Week”, 6 – 9/6/2006, Nice, France.
38. The “9th CoRoT Science Week”, 6 – 9/12/2005, ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
39. The “Second Meeting on Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects”, 6 – 10 June 2005, La Palma,
Canary Islands.
40. The “7th CoRoT Science Week”, 14 – 17/12/2004, Granada, Spain.
41. The “6th CoRoT Science Week”, 17 – 19/5/2004, Orsay, France.
42. The “5th CoRoT Science Week”, 10 – 12/12/2003, Berlin, Germany.
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43. International Workshop “Spectroscopically and spatially resolving the components of close binary
stars”, 20 – 24/10/2003, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
44. 25th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, 14 – 26/7/2003, Sydney, Australia.
45. IAU Colloquium 193: “Variable stars in the Local Group”, 7 – 11/07/2003, Christchurch, New
Zealand.
46. The “4th CoRoT Science Week”, 3 – 6/06/2003, Marseille, France.
47. The 2nd Eddington Workshop “Stellar-structure and habitable planet finding”, 9 – 11/04/2003, Palermo,
Italy.
48. The “3rd CoRoT Science Week”, 4 – 6/12/2002, Liège, Belgium.
49. IAU Symposium 215: “Stellar Rotation”, 11 – 15/11/2002, Cancun, Mexico.
50. 12th meeting of the European Physical Society: “Trends in Physics”, 26 – 30/09/2002, Budapest,
Hungary.
51. International Workshop “Asteroseismology across the HR diagram”, 1 – 5/07/2002, Porto, Portugal.
52. The “2nd CoRoT Science Week”, 13 – 16/05/2002, Paris, France.
53. The “1st CoRoT Science Week”, 17 – 21/09/2001, Vienna, Austria.
54. IAU Colloquium 185: “Radial and Nonradial Pulsations as Probes of Stellar Physics”, 26 – 31/07/2001,
Leuven, Belgium.
55. The 1st Eddington Workshop “Stellar-structure and habitable planet finding”, 11 – 15/06/2001, Cordoba, Spain.
56. 24th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, 7 – 18/8/2000, Manchester, UK.
57. The MOST Science Workshop, 20 – 22/05/2000, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
58. The Third MONS Workshop: “MONS Science Preparation and Target Selection”, 24 – 26/1/2000,
Arhus University, Denmark.
59. IAU Colloquium 176: “The impact of large scale structures on variable star research”, 8 – 12/8/1999,
Budapest, Hungary.
60. The 6th Vienna Workshop in Astrophysics: “ Scuti and related stars”, 4 – 6/8/1999, Vienna, Austria.
61. IAU Colloquium 175: “The Be phenomenon in Early-Type Stars”, 28/5 – 2/6/1999, Alicante, Spain.
62. 23rd General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, 18 – 30/8/1997, Kyoto, Japan.
63. International Colloquium: “A Half Century of Stellar Pulsation Interpretations: a Tribute to Arthur N.
Cox”, 16 – 20/6/1997, Los Alamos, USA.
64. 86th American Association of Variable Star Observers Spring meeting: “Variable Stars: New Frontiers”, 26 – 31/5/1997, Sion, Switzerland.
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65. IAU Colloquium 155: “Astrophysical Applications of Stellar Pulsation”, 6 – 10/02/1995, Cape Town,
South Africa.
66. IAU Symposium 162: “Pulsation, Rotation and Mass Loss in Early-Type Stars”, 5 – 8/10/1993, Juanles-Pins, France.
67. IAU Colloquium 139: “New Perspectives on Stellar Pulsation & Pulsating Variable Stars”, 14 –
18/7/1992, Victoria, Canada.
68. International Workshop: “The Atmospheres of Early-type Stars”, 18 – 20/9/1991, Kiel, Germany.
69. International Colloquium: “Confrontation between Stellar Pulsation and Evolution”, 28 – 31/5/1990,
Bologna, Italy.
70. International Colloquium: “From Miras to planetary nebulae: Which path for stellar evolution?”, 4 –
7/9/1989, Montpellier, France.
71. 1989-present, quasi-yearly: Dutch Astronomer’s Conference which takes place in the Netherlands or
in Flanders in the month of May during three days.
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Organization of International Symposia
• Organizer of the International Tutorial for Postdocs: “How to write and successfully defend a large
(ERC) grant proposal?”, 5/12/2013, Brussels, Belgium
• Convener and Organizer of the International Francqui Symposium: “What Asteroseismology has to
offer to Astrophysics”, 2 – 4/12/2013, Brussels, Belgium.
• Member of the scientific organizing committee of the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium Sixth
Workshop (KASC6), 23 – 28/6/2013, Sydney, Australia
• Member of the scientific organizing committee of the International Conference: “Progress in physics
of the sun and stars: a new era in helio- and asteroseismology”, 25 – 30/11/2012, Hakone, Japan.
• Member of the scientific organizing committee of Special Session 13: “High-Precision Tests of Stellar
Physics from High-Precision Photometry”, IAU XXVIII General Assembly, 20 – 31/8/2012, Beijing,
China.
• Member of the scientific organising committee of the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium Fifth
Workshop (KASC5), 18 – 22/6/2012, Balatonalmádi, Hungary.
• Chairwoman of the KASC/WG9 workshop: “Asteroseismology of eclipsing binaries”, 26 – 29/4/2011,
Leuven, Belgium.
• Member of the scientific organising committee of the 3rd KASC workshop: “Kepler Asteroseismology in Action”, 14 – 18/6/2010, Aarhus, Denmark.
• Member of the scientific organising committee and participant of HELAS IV International symposium: “Seismological Challenges for Stellar Structure”, 1 – 5/2/2010, Lanzarote, Spain.
• Member of the scientific organizing committee of the HELAS International Workshop: “Synergies
between solar and stellar modeling”, 22-26/6/2009, Rome, Italy.
• Member of the scientific organising committee of the first International CoRoT symposium/HELAS III,
2 – 5/2/2009, Paris, France.
• Member of the scientific organising committee of the JENAM 2008 Symposium No.4 “Asteroseismology and stellar evolution”, 8 – 12 /12/2008, Vienna, Austria.
• Member of the scientific organising committee of the HELAS II International Symposium: “Helioseismology, Asteroseismology and MHD connections”, 20 – 24/8/2007, Göttingen, Germany.
• Chairwoman of the “3rd CU7: Gaia - Variability” meeting, 9 – 10/11/2006, Leuven, Belgium.
• Member of the scientific organising committee of the HELAS International Workshop: “The Future
of Asteroseismology”, 20 – 22/9/2006, Vienna, Austria.
• Chairwoman of the first Board Meeting of the European Coordination Action “Helio- and Asteroseismology” (HELAS), 20 – 21/4/2006, Leuven, Belgium.
• Chairwoman of the scientific organising committee of the international PhD school: “Astrophysics of
Variable Stars”, 5 – 10/9/2005, Pecs, Hungary (60 participating PhD students).
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• Member of the scientific organising committee of the international meeting “Active OB stars: Laboratories for stellar and circumstellar physics”, 29/8 – 2/9/2005, Sapparo, Japan.
• Member of the scientific organising committee of the international meeting “Stellar Pulsation and
Evolution”, 19 – 24/6/2005, Rome, Italy.
• Member of the scientific organising committee of Colloquium 193 of the International Astronomical
Union entitled “Variable stars in the Local Group”, 6 – 11/7/2003 in Christchurch, New Zealand.
• Member of the scientific organising committee of the Flanders-Chile international workshop in the
framework of a bilateral agreement, “Periodic, Cyclic and Stochastic Variability in Selected Areas of
the H-R diagram”, 22 – 24/7/2002, Brussels, Belgium.
• Member of the scientific organising committee of the international workshop “Asteroseismology
across the HR diagram”, 1 – 5/7/2002, Porto, Portugal.
• Member of the scientific organising committee of the Flanders-South-Africa international workshop
in the framework of a bilateral agreement, “Observational Aspects of Pulsating B- and A Stars”, 24 –
25/7/2001, Brussels, Belgium.
• Chairwoman of the MONS Field Monitor Kick-Off meeting held on 22/10/2001 at Leuven University,
Belgium.
• Chairwoman of the local organising committee and member of the scientific organising committee of
Colloquium 185 of the International Astronomical Union “Radial and Nonradial Pulsations as Probes
of Stellar Physics”, 26 – 31/7/2001, Leuven, Belgium.
• Chairwoman of both the LOC and SOC of the 53rd Dutch Astronomical Conference held in Flanders
on request of the Dutch Astronomical Society, 6 – 8/5/1998, Houthalen, Belgium.
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Mentoring and Equal Opportunity Initiatives
• 2006 – present: member of the Organising Committee of the Working Group “Women in Astronomy”
of the International Astronomical Union.
• 2002 – present: mentor of female mentees at PhD, postdoc, and assistant professor level, both within
the University of Leuven and elsewhere in the world.
• 27/8/2012: Co-organiser of the event “Meet-a-Mentor”, General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, Beijing, China.
• 1998 – 2002: member of the Interfacultary Board “Woman-Man-University” of the University of
Leuven, Belgium.
• Co-founder (1996) and coordinator (1997 to 2001) of the Working Group Women and University at
the University of Leuven. More than 100 members joined that group during this period. It laid to the
foundation of the Centre of Equal Opportunities, inaugurated at KU Leuven in 2001. C. Aerts is still
an active member of that group.
• Chairperson of the one-day colloquium “Dehasting: fashionable or possible ?”, organized by the
working group “Women and University” in Leuven on 9/11/2001 (60 participants).
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• 2000: Participant in the 1-day course “Women in Academiae”, University of Hasselt, Belgium.
• Participation in the International Seminar on the “Integration of equal opportunities dimension into
the personnel policy of the public sector” (European Commission’s 4th Action programme on Equal
Opportunities for Men and Women), 28/01/1999 in Brussels & 21/06/1999 in Leuven, Belgium.
• Chairperson of the one-day colloquium “The gender of science”, organized by the working group
“Women and University” in Leuven on 1/12/1998 (120 participants).
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Teaching duties
15.1
Teaching assistance and courses at Leuven University
• 1999 – present: yearly (until 2011) and biennial (as of 2012) 6 ECTS course entitled: “Asteroseismology”, Master in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
• 1999 – present: yearly 5 ECTS course entitled: “Stellar Structure and Evolution”, Bachelor in Physics
and Master in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
• 2007 – present: coordinator of the 3 ECTS master course Research Projects I.
• 2007 – 2009: yearly 6 ECTS course entitled “Binary Stars”, Master in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
• 1999 – 2006: yearly course entitled: “Advanced Stellar Astrophysics”, 30 hours, 4rd year students
mathematics and physics.
• 1996 – 2006: 20 hours of the yearly course “Practical Astronomy”, 3rd year students in mathematics.
• 1990 – 2000: full coordination of all the teaching duties at the Institute of Astronomy, Leuven University.
• 1993 – 1998: 2 hours/week TA of the basic course in astronomy to second year students in mathematics.
• 1988 – 1994: 6 hours/week TA of the basic course in mathematics to first year students bio-engineering
or sales engineering.
15.2
2012:
2008:
2007:
2005:
2003:
2002:
2001:
2000:
1999:
1998:
1997:
1996:
Supervision of master thesis work
2 Master theses
1 Master thesis
1 Master thesis
2 undergraduate theses
2 undergraduate theses
2 undergraduate theses
4 undergraduate theses
1 undergraduate thesis
8 undergraduate theses
3 undergraduate theses
3 undergraduate theses
4 undergraduate theses, 1 master thesis
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1993: 1 undergraduate thesis
1992: 1 undergraduate thesis
1991: 3 undergraduate theses
Each undergraduate (in Dutch) or master (in English) thesis represents research carried out by last-years
students during 9 months.
15.3
Additional Teaching Elsewhere
• 2004 – present: yearly (until 2011) and biennial (as of 2012) 6 ECTS course entitled: “Asteroseismology”, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
• 2011 – 2013: annual 5 ECTS course “Astrophysics”, Hasselt University, Belgium.
• 11 – 12/4/2002: Two-day tutorial on “Spectroscopic Mode Identification”, Belgian Asteroseismology
Group (8 hours theory + 8 hours computer applications), Leuven, Belgium.
• 15 – 18/10/2001: guest lecture (3 hours) at the 3ième Ecole d’Automne (in French): “Comprendre la
pulsation et lhydrodynamique stellaire”, Observatoire de Haute Provence, France.
• January – February 2001: Guest Lecturer, Julius Institute, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.
First-year’s course “Introduction to Astronomy. Part I: Stars”. (30 hours course + 15 hours practical
exercises).
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Outreach Activities and Service to the Community
• 11/4/2014: BBVA Public Lecture in the series Science of the Cosmos, Science in the Cosmos: “Asteroseismology: the study of starquakes and its impact on astrophysics”, Madrid, Spain. Lecture is
available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-pt WpvUyU
• 9/1/2014: “De Vensters Open op het Heelal” (in Dutch), Lecture (2 hours) for 150 secondary school
students (12-13 years old), University of Leuven, Belgium.
• Contribution (Opiniestuk “Vrije Hand”, in Dutch): “Postdocs Coachen”, in Karakter: Journal of
Science, Vol. 44 (2013).
• 22/10/2013: Chapter (in Dutch) “Waarom fascineert de Kosmos?”, contribution to the Book “Mee met
Morgen: 75 jaar Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten”,
Academy of Sciences, Literature and Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium.
• 21/10/2013: Lecture (2 hours, alternating in Dutch and French), Belgian Senate ProLege: “Echografie
van Sterren Dankzij Asteroseismology/Échographie des étoiles grâce à l’astérosismologie”, Brussels,
Belgium.
• 14/10/2013: Lecture Event (3 hours), University of Hasselt, (in Dutch: Universiteit 3de leeftijd):
“Doorbraken in Ster- en Exoplaneetonderzoek dankzij de ruimtemissies CoRoT en Kepler”, Hasselt,
Belgium.
• Jubilee lecture “Echografie van Sterren dankzij Asteroseismologie” (in Dutch), University of Hasselt,
Belgium, 22/11/2012
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• Professor’s lunch, Soeterbeeck Programme: “Seismologie van sterren: een samenspel van technologie, fysica, statistiek en modelleren” (in Dutch), Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 15/11/2012
• Invited duo talk Conny Aerts – Steven Bloemen: “Doorbraken in ster- en exoplaneetonderzoek dankzij
CoRoT en Kepler” (in Dutch), Annual Weekend of the Society of Amateur Astronomers of Flanders,
6/10/2012, Deinze, Belgium.
• May 2012 – July 2012: Series of outreach activities connected with the 2012 Francqui prize, including
speech during the award ceremony, live interviews on the national TV (Villa Van Tilt, 10/5/2012) and
radio (Babel, 15/6/2012) stations, see also http://www.francquifoundation.be/ang/Rapport%20Aerts%20Angl.htm
• Lecture “Echografie van Sterkernen dankzij Asteroseismologie” (in Dutch), Amateur organization
Armand Pien, 21/4/2012, Gent, Belgium.
• Lecture “De impact van de ruimtemissies CoRoT en Kepler op het onderzoek naar variabele sterren”
(in Dutch), Working Group Variable Stars, Society of Amateur Astronomers of Flanders, 28/5/2011,
Grimbergen, Belgium.
• Paper entitled “Asteroseismologie in het tijdperk van de ruimtemissies CoRoT en Kepler”, Authors:
Conny Aerts and Pieter Degroote, journal Zenit, December 2010, p.543 – 548, the Netherlands.
• Lecture “Een blik op het inwendige van sterren via asteroseismologische waarnemingen” (in Dutch),
Amateur organisation, 4/12/2010, Grimbergen, Belgium.
• Lecture series “Stellar Evolution”, vacation course for 25 High School students, 24 – 27/8/2009,
Leuven, Belgium.
• 2004 – 2009: Contributor to the Production “Sternenrest” by musical artist Willem Boogman, based
on the Inaugural lecture, “Kosmische Symfoniëen”. Producer Roland Spekle and the Spectra Ensemble (http://www.sternenrest.nl/files/colofon.html). Performances in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, UK.
• 2002 – 2007: member of the editorial board of the journal “Karakter: tijdschrift van wetenschap” (in
Dutch) published by Academische Stichting Leuven, Belgium.
• 20/4/2007: 2-hour lecture “The sound of the Sun and stars”, Library Zeeland, Middelburg, the Netherlands.
• 21/12/2006: 30-min lecture “Cosmic Symphonies”, Art Academy of ’s Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.
• 12/3/2006: 1-hour Theater Paradiso Lecture: “Cosmic Symphonies”, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
(recorded and available as internet lecture; published as book chapter).
• 5/2/2006: discussion afternoon, organisation Electron, series “Commonalities between Art and Science”, Breda, the Netherlands. Other speaker: sound artist Jan de Dobbelaer.
• 24/10/2005: 1-hour lecture “Cosmic Symphonies” for students of primary school, LERU-kids (League
of European Research Universities), University of Leuven.
• 22/10/2005: 45-minutes lecture “Astronomy” in the framework of Kids-University, University of
Leuven.
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• 29/4/2005: Live radio interview of 20 minutes broadcasted by Radio 1, series VPRO/Noorderlicht,
the Netherlands.
• 5/4/2005: Inaugural lecture, Leerstoel Asteroseismologie, entitled: “Kosmische Symfoniëen” (in
Dutch), Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
• 2004–2005: Main actor in the 40-minutes scientific documentary “De Sprekende Ster”/“Paroles
d’étoile” broadcasted by the series overLeven, CANVAS (Flemish National TV), 24/2/2005 and the
series Matières Grises, RTBF1 (French-speaking National TV), 11/10/2005 and RTBF2 17/10/2005.
• 8/6/2004: half-day outreach activities in collaboration with amateur astronomers within the Faculty
of Science of the University of Leuven to show and explain the Venus transit.
• 19/11/2003: seminar “Windows of the Universe” taught for the Discussion Group “’t Pelterke”, Overpelt, Belgium.
• 2002: seminar series “Asteroseismology” (3x2 hours) taught at Amateur Observatory URANIA,
Hove, Belgium.
• 15/6/2002: invited lecture “The Universe” presented at the “Westels Atelier”, Westerlo, Belgium.
• 9/11/2001: invited lecture “Asteroseismology with future space missions”, presented for the Dutch
Society of Metreology and Astronomy, branch Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
• 26-28/10/2001: representative at the information desk of the University of Leuven at the Flemish
Space Science days, Ostend, Belgium.
• 31/5/2000: Founder and president of the Belgian Asteroseismology Group (BAG), a scientific pole in
Belgium consisting of some 30 scientists from four different institutes (Universities of Leuven, Liège,
Brussels and Royal Observatory). Chairperson of the BAG workshops held in Leuven in 2001, 2003,
2004, 2006, 2012 (http://www.asteroseismology.be).
• 14/10/2000: invited review talk entitled “The role of amateur astronomers in current research of variable stars”, presented during the Symposium: 50 years of Dutch Society of Metreology and Astronomy, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Accompanying publication in the scientific journal Zenit, May
2001, p.226 – 229.
• 12/2/2000: invited lecture “The satellite HIPPARCOS”, presented for the Dutch Society of Metreology and Astronomy, branch South-Limburg, Heerlen, the Netherlands.
• 1999: seminar series “The impact of the HIPPARCOS mission on variable star research” (4x2 hours)
taught at Amateur Observatory URANIA, Hove, Belgium.
• 23/10/1997: invited lecture “Be stars among the B-type stars”, presented for the Dutch Society of
Metreology and Astronomy, branch Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
• 11/1/1997: invited lecture “Luminous Blue Variables: astrophysical geysers”, presented for Wega, the
Leuven branch of the Society of Amateur Astronomers, Flanders. Accompanyi8ng series of papers
published in the monthly journal Heelal of the Society of Amateur Astronomers, Flanders
Vol. 42, number 5, 130 – 132
Vol. 42, number 6, 152 – 154
Vol. 42, number 7, 178 – 180.
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• 1996 – present: one week full-time teaching of the lecture “Windows open on the Universe”, as well
as several different workshops at the Institute of Astronomy in the framework of the biennial Flemisch
Science Weeks for secundary school students.
• 1995: seminar series “Study of variable stars by means of professional techniques” (3x2 hours) taught
at Amateur Observatory URANIA, Hove, Belgium.
• 1995: invited lecture “Be stars” presented during the weekend of the Society of Amateur Astronomers,
7–8 October 1995, Neerpelt, Belgium.
• 1994: seminar series “Non-radial oscillations of stars” (4x2 hours) taught at Amateur Observatory
URANIA, Hove, Belgium.
• 1992–1993: supervisor of 4 working groups of the project “Dinomail” organised by Focus Research,
Flanders.
• 1990: paper entitled “Where do planets form?”, published in the monthly journal Heelal of the Society
of Amateur Astronomers, Flanders, Volume 35, number 5, p.117 – 118.
• 1990: seminar series “Stellar Photometry” (4x2 hours) taught at Amateur Observatory URANIA,
Hove, Belgium.
• 1989: paper “From a different perspective...” published in the monthly journal Heelal of the Society
of Amateur Astronomers, Flanders, Volume 34, number 10, p.267 – 268.
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Publication list
Since January 1990, Conny Aerts was author of
• 261 publications in international peer-reviewed journals
• 148 publications of talks or posters in proceedings of symposia
• Cited 8477 times (date: 19/10/2014)
• H-index of 50, H-index of 1st-author publications of 21
• Normalized H-index of 2.4 (corrected for two children, 1.5 year per child according to the EU/ERC
regulations)
• i10-index: 179
This information was deduced from Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.be/ on 19 October 2014
17.1
Books
17.1.1 As author
• Aerts, C., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J., Kurtz, D.W., 2010, Monograph “Asteroseismology”, Series:
Astronomy and Astrophysics Library, Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg. ISBN: 978-1-40205178-4, 866 pages
17.1.2 As editor
• Aerts, C., T.R. Bedding, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, editors, 2002, “Radial and Nonradial Pulsations as
Probes of Stellar Physics”, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, Volume 259, 695
pages (publisher: Astronomical Society of the Pacific - San Francisco).
• Sterken, C., Aerts, C., editors, 2006, “Astrophysics of Variable Stars”, Astronomical Society of the
Pacific Conference Series, Volume 349, 480 pages (publisher: Astronomical Society of the Pacific San Francisco).
• Noels, A., Aerts, C., editors, 2006, “JENAM 2006: Distant Worlds: Proceedings of the Asteroseismology Session”, Special Volume, Journal Communications in Asteroseismology, Volume 147, 133
pages (publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences).
• Noels, A., Aerts, C., Montalbán, J.,Miglio, A., Briquet, M., editors, 2008, Proceedings of the 38th
LIAC/HELAS-ESTA/BAG “Evolution and pulsation of massive stars on the main sequence and close
to it”, Special Volume, Journal Communications in Asteroseismology, Volume 158, 364 pages (publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences).
• Baglin, A., Aerts, C., Guillot, T., guest editors, 2009, “The CoRoT space mission: early results”,
Special Volume, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 573 pages (publisher: EDP Sciences), ISBN: 978-27598-0489-4.
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17.2
Peer-reviewed papers
ISI Impact factors of the journals listed below
Journal
Impact factor 2012
Nature
Science
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Astronomy & Astrophysics Review
The Astrophysical Journal
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Space Science Reviews
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomical Journal
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Solar Physics
Astrophysics and Space Science
Astronomische Nachrichten
38.597
31.027
16.238
9.500
6.733
5.521
5.519
5.084
4.965
3.690
3.256
2.064
1.399
1. Telting J. H., Baran A. S., Nemeth P., Ostensen R. H., Kupfer T., Macfarlane S., Heber U., Aerts
C., Geier S., 2014, “KIC7668647: a 14 day beaming sdB+WD binary with a pulsating subdwarf”,
Astronomy and Astrophysics, in press (arXiv:1409.2345)
2. Beck P. G., Kambe E., Hillen M., Corsaro E., Van Winckel H., Moravveji E., De Ridder J., Bloemen
S., Saesen S., Mathias P., Degroote P., Kallinger T., Verhoelst T., Ando H., Carrier F., Acke B., Oreiro
R., Miglio A., Eggenberger P., Sato B., Zwintz K., Pápics P. I., Marcos-Arenal P., Sans Fuentes
S. A., Schmid V. S., Waelkens C., Østensen R., Matthews J. M., Yoshida M., Izumiura H., Koyano
H., Nagayama S., Shimizu Y., Okada N., Okita K., Sakamoto A., Yamamuro T., Aerts C., 2014,
“Detection of solar-like oscillations in the bright red giant stars $\gamma$ Psc and $\thetaˆ1$ Tau
from a 190-day high-precision spectroscopic multisite campaign”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, in
press (arXiv:1407.6352)
3. Rauer H., Catala C., Aerts C., Appourchaux T., Benz W., Brandeker A., Christensen-Dalsgaard J.,
Deleuil M., Gizon L., Güdel M., Janot-Pacheco E., Mas-Hesse M., Pagano I., Piotto G., Pollacco D.,
Santos N. C., Smith A., -C. J., Suárez, Szabó R., Udry S., Adibekyan V., Alibert Y., Almenara J.-M.,
Amaro-Seoane P., Ammler-von Eiff M., Antonello E., Ball W., Barnes S., Baudin F., Belkacem K.,
Bergemann M., Birch A., Boisse I., Bonomo A. S., Borsa F., Brandão I. M., Brocato E., Brun S.,
Burleigh M., Burston R., Cabrera J., Cassisi S., Chaplin W., Charpinet S., Chiappini C., Csizmadia
S., Cunha M., Damasso M., Davies M. B., Deeg H. J., de Oliveira Fialho F., Dı́az R. F., Dreizler S.,
Dreyer C., Eggenberger P., Ehrenreich D., Eigmüller P., Erikson A., Farmer R., Feltzing S., Figueira
P., Forveille T., Fridlund M., Garcı́a R., Giuffrida G., Godolt M., Gomes da Silva J., Goupil M.J., Granzer T., Grenfell J. L., Grotsch-Noels A., Günther E., Haswell C. A., Hatzes A. P., Hébrard
G., Hekker S., Helled R., Heng K., Jenkins J. M., Khodachenko M. L., Kislyakova K. G., Kley W.,
Kolb U., Krivova N., Kupka F., Lammer H., Lanza A. F., Lebreton Y., Magrin D., Marcos-Arenal P.,
Marrese P. M., Marques J. P., Martins J., Mathis S., Mathur S., Messina S., Miglio A., Montalban J.,
Montalto M., Monteiro M. J. P. F. G., Moradi H., Moravveji E., Mordasini C., Morel T., Mortier A.,
Nascimbeni V., Nielsen M. B., Noack L., Norton A. J., Ofir A., Oshagh M., Ouazzani R.-M., Pápics
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P., Parro V. C., Petit P., Plez B., Poretti E., Quirrenbach A., Ragazzoni R., Raimondo G., Rainer
M., Reese D. R., Redmer R., Reffert S., Rojas-Ayala B., Roxburgh I. W., Solanki S. K., Salmon S.,
Santerne A., Schneider J., Schou J., Schuh S., Schunker H., Silva-Valio A., Silvotti R., Skillen I.,
Snellen I., Sohl F., Sousa A. S., Sozzetti A., Stello D., Strassmeier K. G., Švanda M., Szabó G. M.,
Tkachenko A., Valencia D., van Grootel V., Vauclair S. D., Ventura P., Wagner F. W., Walton N. A.,
Weingrill J., Werner S. C., Wheatley P. J., Zwintz K., 2014, “The PLATO 2.0 Mission”, Experimental
Astronomy, in press (arXiv:1310.0696)
4. Schmid V. S., Themeßl N., Breger M., Degroote P., Aerts C., Beck P. G., Tkachenko A., Van Reeth
T., Bloemen S., Debosscher J., Castanheira B. G., McArthur B. E., Pápics P. I., Fritz V., Falcon R. E.,
2014, “Discovery of binarity, spectroscopic frequency analysis, and mode identification of the Scuti
star 4 CVn”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 570, A33
5. Pápics P. I., Moravveji E., Aerts C., Tkachenko A., Triana S. A., Bloemen S., Southworth J., 2014,
“KIC 10526294: a slowly rotating B star with rotationally split, quasi-equally spaced gravity modes”,
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 570, A8
6. Bloemen S., Hu H., Aerts C., Dupret M. A., Østensen R. H., Degroote P., Müller-Ringat E., Rauch
T., 2014, “The blue-edge problem of the V1093 Herculis instability strip revisited using evolutionary
models with atomic diffusion”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 569, A123
7. Aerts C., Simón-Dı́az S., Groot P. J., Degroote P., 2014, “On the use of the Fourier transform to determine the projected rotational velocity of line-profile variable B stars”, Astronomy and Astrophysics,
569, A118
8. Zwintz K., Fossati L., Ryabchikova T., Guenther D., Aerts C., Barnes T. G., Themeßl N., Lorenz D.,
Cameron C., Kuschnig R., Pollack-Drs S., Moravveji E., Baglin A., Matthews J. M., Moffat A. F. J.,
Poretti E., Rainer M., Rucinski S. M., Sasselov D., Weiss W. W., 2014, “Echography of young stars
reveals their evolution”, Science, 345, 550 – 553
9. Tkachenko A., Aerts C., Pavlovski K., Degroote P., Papics P. I., Moravveji E., Lehmann H., Kolbas
V., Clemer K., 2014, “Modelling of Sigma Scorpii, a high-mass binary with a Beta Cep variable
primary component”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 442, 616 – 628
10. Marcos-Arenal P., Zima W., De Ridder J., Aerts C., Huygen R., Samadi R., Green J., Piotto G.,
Salmon S., Catala C., Rauer H., 2014, “The PLATO Simulator: modelling of high-precision highcadence space-based imaging”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, A92
11. Beck P. G., Hambleton K., Vos J., Kallinger T., Bloemen S., Tkachenko A., Garcı́a R. A., Østensen
R. H., Aerts C., Kurtz D. W., De Ridder J., Hekker S., Pavlovski K., Mathur S., De Smedt K.,
Derekas A., Corsaro E., Mosser B., Van Winckel H., Huber D., Degroote P., Davies G. R., Prša
A., Debosscher J., Elsworth Y., Nemeth P., Siess L., Schmid V. S., Pápics P. I., de Vries B. L., van
Marle A. J., Marcos-Arenal P., Lobel A., 2014, “Pulsating red giant stars in eccentric binary systems
discovered from Kepler space-based photometry”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 564, A36
12. Tkachenko A., Degroote P., Aerts C., Pavlovski K., Southworth J., Pápics P. I., Moravveji E., Kolbas
V., Tsymbal V., Debosscher J., Clémer K., 2014, “The eccentric massive binary V380 Cyg: revised
orbital elements and interpretation of the intrinsic variability of the primary component”, Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 438, 3093 – 3110
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13. Van Eylen V., Lund M. N., Silva Aguirre V., Arentoft T., Kjeldsen H., Albrecht S., Chaplin W. J.,
Isaacson H., Pedersen M. G., Jessen-Hansen J., Tingley B. W., Christensen-Dalsgaard J., Aerts C.,
Campante T. L., Bryson S. T., 2014, “What asteroseismology can do for exoplanets: Kepler-410A
b is a Small Neptune around a bright star, in an eccentric orbit consistent with low obliquity”, The
Astrophysical Journal, 782, id.14
14. Aerts C., Molenberghs G., Kenward M. G., Neiner C., 2014, “The Surface Nitrogen Abundance
of a Massive Star in Relation to its Oscillations, Rotation, and Magnetic Field”, The Astrophysical
Journal, 781, id.88
15. Tkachenko A., Van Reeth T., Tsymbal V., Aerts C., Kochukhov O., Debosscher J., 2013, “Denoising
spectroscopic data by means of the improved least-squares deconvolution method”, Astronomy and
Astrophysics, 560, A37
16. Østensen R. H., Geier S., Schaffenroth V., Telting J. H., Bloemen S., Németh P., Beck P. G., Lombaert
R., Pápics P. I., Tillich A., Ziegerer E., Fox Machado L., Littlefair S., Dhillon V., Aerts C., Heber U.,
Maxted P. F. L., Gänsicke B. T., Marsh T. R., 2013, “Binaries discovered by the MUCHFUSS project.
FBS 0117+396: An sdB+dM binary with a pulsating primary”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 559,
A35
17. Raskin G., Bloemen S., Morren J., Perez Padilla J., Prins S., Pessemier W., Vandersteen J., Merges F.,
Østensen R., Van Winckel H., Aerts C., 2013, “MAIA, a three-channel imager for asteroseismology:
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100. Vuckovic M., Ostensen R., Telting J. H., Oreiro R., Aerts C., 2008, “Detection of line-profile variations in high-resolution VLT/UVES spectroscopy of the subdwarf B pulsator PG 1336018 (NY Virginis)”, Communications in Asteroseismology, 157, 381 – 382
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146. Drummond R., de Oliveira Fialho F., Vandenbussche B., Auvergne M., Aerts C., 2006, “Correction
for small satellite motion on the COROT asteroseismology channel”, Acta Astronautica, 59, 358 –
366
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147. Drummond R., Vandenbussche B., Aerts C., De Oliveira Fialho F., Auvergne M., 2006, “Jitter Correction Algorithms for the COROT Satellite Mission”, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the
Pacific, 118, 874 – 884
148. Hubrig S., Briquet M., Schöller M., De Cat P., Mathys G., Aerts C., 2006, “Discovery of magnetic
fields in the Cephei star ⇠ 1 CMa and in several slowly pulsating B stars⇤ ”, Monthly Notices of the
Royal Astronomical Society, 369, L61 – L65
149. Aerts C., Waelkens C., De Cat P., Kolenberg K., Kestens E., Grenon M., Eyer L., 2006, “Pulsating B
Stars Discovered by HIPPARCOS”, Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers
(JAAVSO), 35, 58
150. Telting J. H., Schrijvers C., Ilyin I. V., Uytterhoeven K., De Ridder J., Aerts C., Henrichs H. F.,
2006, “A high-resolution spectroscopy survey of Cephei pulsations in bright stars”, Astronomy and
Astrophysics, 452, 945 – 953
151. Aerts C., De Cat P., Kuschnig R., Matthews J. M., Guenther D. B., Moffat A. F. J., Rucinski S. M.,
Sasselov D., Walker G. A. H., Weiss W. W., 2006, “Discovery of the New Slowly Pulsating B Star HD
163830 (B5 II/III) from MOST Space-based Photometry”, The Astrophysical Journal, 642, L165 –
L168
152. Aerts C., Marchenko S. V., Matthews J. M., Kuschnig R., Guenther D. B., Moffat A. F. J., Rucinski
S. M., Sasselov D., Walker G. A. H., Weiss W. W., 2006, “ Ceti Is Not Monoperiodic: Seismic
Modeling of a Cephei Star from MOST Space-based Photometry”, The Astrophysical Journal,
642, 470 – 477
153. Aerts C., Jeffery C. S., Fontaine G., Dhillon V. S., Marsh T. R., Groot P., 2006, “High-speed
colourimetry of the subdwarf B star SDSSJ171722.08+58055.8 with ULTRACAM⇤ ”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 367, 1317 – 1322
154. Aerts C., De Cat P., De Ridder J., van Winckel H., Raskin G., Davignon G., Uytterhoeven K., 2006,
“Multiperiodicity in the large-amplitude rapidly-rotating Cephei star HD 203664”, Astronomy and
Astrophysics, 449, 305 – 311
155. De Cat P., Eyer L., Cuypers J., Aerts C., Vandenbussche B., Uytterhoeven K., Reyniers K., Kolenberg K., Groenewegen M., Raskin G., Maas T., Jankov S., 2006, “A spectroscopic study of southern
(candidate) Doradus stars. I. Time series analysis”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 449, 281 – 292
156. De Ridder J., Barban C., Carrier F., Mazumdar A., Eggenberger P., Aerts C., Deruyter S., Vanautgaerden J., 2006, “Discovery of solar-like oscillations in the red giant \varepsilon Ophiuchi”, Astronomy
and Astrophysics, 448, 689 – 695
157. Libich J., Harmanec P., Vondrák J., Yang S., Hadrava P., Aerts C., De Cat P., Koubský P., Škoda P.,
Šlechta M., Uytterhoeven K., Mathias P., 2006, “The new orbital elements and properties of ✏ Persei”,
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 446, 583 – 589
158. Handler G., Jerzykiewicz M., Rodrı́guez E., Uytterhoeven K., Amado P. J., Dorokhova T. N., Dorokhov
N. I., Poretti E., Sareyan J.-P., Parrao L., Lorenz D., Zsuffa D., Drummond R., Daszyńska-Daszkiewicz
J., Verhoelst T., De Ridder J., Acke B., Bourge P.-O., Movchan A. I., Garrido R., Paparó M., Sahin
T., Antoci V., Udovichenko S. N., Csorba K., Crowe R., Berkey B., Stewart S., Terry D., Mkrtichian
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D. E., Aerts C., 2006, “Asteroseismology of the Cephei star 12 (DD) Lacertae: photometric observations, pulsational frequency analysis and mode identification”, Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society, 365, 327 – 338
159. Desmet M., Briquet M., Mazumdar A., Aerts C., 2006, “An asteroseismic study of the beta Cephei
star beta Canis Majoris”, Communications in Asteroseismology, 147, 113 – 116
160. Saesen S., Briquet M., Aerts C., 2006, “A line-profile analysis of the large-amplitude beta Cephei star
xi1 Canis Majoris”, Communications in Asteroseismology, 147, 109 – 112
161. Cuypers J., Goossens K., Schoenaers C., De Cat P., Aerts C., 2006, “Analysis of MERCATOR data Part II: variable A & F stars”, Communications in Asteroseismology, 147, 52 – 55
162. De Cat P., Briquet M., Aerts C., Goossens K., Saesen S., Cuypers J., Yakut K., Scuflaire R., Dupret
M.-A., 2006, “Analysis of MERCATOR data - Part I: variable B stars”, Communications in Asteroseismology, 147, 48 – 51
163. Aerts C., Jeffery C. S., Dhillon V. S., Marsh T. R., Groot P., 2006, “High-Speed Ultracam Colorimetry
of the Subdwarf B Star SDSS J171722.08+58055.8”, Baltic Astronomy, 15, 275 – 278
164. Jeffery C. S., Aerts C., Dhillon V. S., Marsh T. R., 2006, “Ultracam Photometry of Pulsating Subdwarf
B Stars”, Baltic Astronomy, 15, 259 – 268
165. Briquet M., Lefever K., Uytterhoeven K., Aerts C., 2005, “An asteroseismic study of the Cephei
star ✓ Ophiuchi: spectroscopic results”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 362, 619
– 625
166. Jeffery C. S., Aerts C., Dhillon V. S., Marsh T. R., Gänsicke B. T., 2005, “Multicolour high-speed
photometry of the subdwarf B star PG 0014+067 with ULTRACAM⇤ ”, Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society, 362, 66 – 78
167. Uytterhoeven K., Harmanec P., Telting J. H., Aerts C., 2005, “The orbit of the close spectroscopic
binary \varepsilon Lup and the intrinsic variability of its early B-type components”, Astronomy and
Astrophysics, 440, 249 – 260
168. Poretti E., Alonso R., Amado P. J., Belmonte J. A., Garrido R., Martı́n-Ruiz S., Uytterhoeven K.,
Catala C., Lebreton Y., Michel E., Suárez J. C., Aerts C., Creevey O., Goupil M. J., Mantegazza L.,
Mathias P., Rainer M., Weiss W. W., 2005, “Preparing the COROT Space Mission: New Variable
Stars in the Galactic Anticenter Direction”, The Astronomical Journal, 129, 2461 – 2468
169. De Cat P., Briquet M., Daszyńska-Daszkiewicz J., Dupret M. A., De Ridder J., Scuflaire R., Aerts C.,
2005, “A study of bright southern slowly pulsating B stars. III. Mode identification for singly-periodic
targets in spectroscopy”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 432, 1013 – 1024
170. Uytterhoeven K., Briquet M., Aerts C., Telting J. H., Harmanec P., Lefever K., Cuypers J., 2005,
“Disentangling component spectra of  Scorpii, a spectroscopic binary with a pulsating primary. II.
Interpretation of the line-profile variability”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 432, 955 – 967
171. Davis J., Mendez A., Seneta E. B., Tango W. J., Booth A. J., O’Byrne J. W., Thorvaldson E. D.,
Ausseloos M., Aerts C., Uytterhoeven K., 2005, “Orbital parameters, masses and distance to Centauri determined with the Sydney University Stellar Interferometer and high-resolution spectroscopy”,
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 356, 1362 – 1370
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172. Aerts C., Kolenberg K., 2005, “HD 121190: A cool multiperiodic slowly pulsating B star with moderate rotation”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 431, 615 – 622
173. Solano E., Catala C., Garrido R., Poretti E., Janot-Pacheco E., Gutiérrez R., González R., Mantegazza
L., Neiner C., Fremat Y., Charpinet S., Weiss W., Amado P. J., Rainer M., Tsymbal V., Lyashko
D., Ballereau D., Bouret J. C., Hua T., Katz D., Lignières F., Lüftinger T., Mittermayer P., Nesvacil
N., Soubiran C., van’t Veer-Menneret C., Goupil M. J., Costa V., Rolland A., Antonello E., Bossi M.,
Buzzoni A., Rodrigo C., Aerts C., Butler C. J., Guenther E., Hatzes A., 2005, “GAUDI: A Preparatory
Archive for the COROT Mission”, The Astronomical Journal, 129, 547 – 553
174. Ausseloos M., Scuflaire R., Thoul A., Aerts C., 2004, “Asteroseismology of the Cephei star ⌫
Eridani: massive exploration of standard and non-standard stellar models to fit the oscillation data”,
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 355, 352 – 358
175. Uytterhoeven K., Telting J. H., Aerts C., Willems B., 2004, “Interpretation of the variability of the
Cephei star Scorpii. II. The line-profile diagnostics”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 427, 593 – 605
176. Uytterhoeven K., Willems B., Lefever K., Aerts C., Telting J. H., Kolb U., 2004, “Interpretation of
the variability of the Cephei star Scorpii. I. The multiple character”, Astronomy and Astrophysics,
427, 581 – 592
177. Harmanec P., Uytterhoeven K., Aerts C., 2004, “Disentangling component spectra of  Sco, a spectroscopic binary with a pulsating primary. I. Improved physical elements and analysis of periodic
rapid variations of scalar quantities”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 422, 1013 – 1021
178. Decin L., Shkedy Z., Molenberghs G., Aerts M., Aerts C., 2004, “Estimating stellar parameters from
spectra. I. Goodness-of-fit parameters and lack-of-fit test”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 421, 281 –
294
179. De Ridder J., Telting J. H., Balona L. A., Handler G., Briquet M., Daszyńska-Daszkiewicz J., Lefever
K., Korn A. J., Heiter U., Aerts C., 2004, “Asteroseismology of the Cephei star ⌫ Eridani - III.
Extended frequency analysis and mode identification”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society, 351, 324 – 332
180. Thoul A., Scuflaire R., Ausseloos M., Aerts C., Noels A., 2004, “Asteroseismology of the Beta
Cephei star HD 129929. Effects of a change in the metal mixture”, Communications in Asteroseismology, 144, 35 – 40
181. Aerts C., Lamers H. J. G. L. M., Molenberghs G., 2004, “Maximum mass-loss rates of line-driven
winds of massive stars: The effect of rotation and an application to ⌘ Carinae”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 418, 639 – 648
182. Stello D., Kjeldsen H., Bedding T. R., De Ridder J., Aerts C., Carrier F., Frandsen S., 2004, “Simulating stochastically excited oscillations The mode lifetime of ⇠ Hya”, Solar Physics, 220, 207 –
228
183. Mathias P., Le Contel J.-M., Chapellier E., Jankov S., Sareyan J.-P., Poretti E., Garrido R., Rodrı́guez
E., Arellano Ferro A., Alvarez M., Parrao L., Peña J., Eyer L., Aerts C., De Cat P., Weiss W. W.,
Zhou A., 2004, “Multi-site, multi-technique survey of Doradus candidates. I. Spectroscopic results
for 59 stars”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 417, 189 – 199
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184. Schrijvers C., Telting J. H., Aerts C., 2004, “Line-profile variability in the
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 416, 1069 – 1079
Cephei star ✏ Centauri”,
185. Aerts C., Cuypers J., De Cat P., Dupret M. A., De Ridder J., Eyer L., Scuflaire R., Waelkens C., 2004,
“Long-term multicolour photometry and high-resolution spectroscopy of the two Doradus stars HD
12901 and HD 48501”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 415, 1079 – 1088
186. Dupret M.-A., Thoul A., Scuflaire R., Daszyńska-Daszkiewicz J., Aerts C., Bourge P.-O., Waelkens
C., Noels A., 2004, “Asteroseismology of the Cep star HD 129929. II. Seismic constraints on core
overshooting, internal rotation and stellar parameters”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 415, 251 – 257
187. Aerts C., Waelkens C., Daszyńska-Daszkiewicz J., Dupret M.-A., Thoul A., Scuflaire R., Uytterhoeven K., Niemczura E., Noels A., 2004, “Asteroseismology of the Cep star HD 129929. I.
Observations, oscillation frequencies and stellar parameters”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 415, 241
– 249
188. Aerts C., De Cat P., Handler G., Heiter U., Balona L. A., Krzesinski J., Mathias P., Lehmann H., Ilyin
I., De Ridder J., Dreizler S., Bruch A., Traulsen I., Hoffmann A., James D., Romero-Colmenero E.,
Maas T., Groenewegen M. A. T., Telting J. H., Uytterhoeven K., Koen C., Cottrell P. L., Bentley J.,
Wright D. J., Cuypers J., 2004, “Asteroseismology of the Cephei star ⌫ Eridani - II. Spectroscopic
observations and pulsational frequency analysis”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,
347, 463 – 470
189. Briquet M., Aerts C., Lüftinger T., De Cat P., Piskunov N. E., Scuflaire R., 2004, “He and Si surface
inhomogeneities of four Bp variable stars”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 413, 273 – 283
190. Thoul A., Ausseloos M., Barban C., Briquet M., Bourge P.-O., Cuypers J., Daszynska-Daszkiewicz J.,
De Cat P., De Ridder J., Dupret M.-A., Montalban J., Noels A., Scuflaire R., Uytterhoeven K., Aerts
C., 2003, “A Hare and Hound in a BAG: Asteroseismology of Beta Cephei stars”, Communications
in Asteroseismology, 143, 25 – 28
191. Aerts C., 2003, “ENEAS: the European Network of Excellence in AsteroSeismology”, Communications in Asteroseismology, 143, 5 – 8
192. Thoul A., Aerts C., Dupret M. A., Scuflaire R., Korotin S. A., Egorova I. A., Andrievsky S. M.,
Lehmann H., Briquet M., De Ridder J., Noels A., 2003, “Seismic modelling of the beta Cep star EN
(16) Lacertae”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 406, 287 – 292
193. Poretti E., Garrido R., Amado P. J., Uytterhoeven K., Handler G., Alonso R., Martı́n S., Aerts C.,
Catala C., Goupil M. J., Michel E., Mantegazza L., Mathias P., Pretorius M. L., Belmonte J. A., Claret
A., Rodrı́guez E., Suarez J. C., Vuthela F. F., Weiss W. W., Ballereau D., Bouret J. C., Charpinet
S., Hua T., Lüftinger T., Nesvacil N., Van’t Veer-Menneret C., 2003, “Preparing the COROT space
mission: Incidence and characterisation of pulsation in the lower instability strip”, Astronomy and
Astrophysics, 406, 203 – 211
194. Aerts C., Thoul A., Daszyńska J., Scuflaire R., Waelkens C., Dupret M. A., Niemczura E., Noels A.,
2003, “Asteroseismology of HD 129929: Core Overshooting and Nonrigid Rotation”, Science, 300,
1926 – 1928
195. Aerts C., Lamers H. J. G. L. M., 2003, “Maximum mass-loss rates of line-driven winds of massive
stars”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 403, 625 – 635
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196. Briquet M., Aerts C., Mathias P., Scuflaire R., Noels A., 2003, “Spectroscopic mode identification
for the slowly pulsating B star HD 147394”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 401, 281 – 288
197. Aerts C., Lehmann H., Briquet M., Scuflaire R., Dupret M. A., De Ridder J., Thoul A., 2003, “Spectroscopic mode identification for the beta Cephei star EN (16) Lacertae”, Astronomy and Astrophysics,
399, 639 – 645
198. Briquet M., Aerts C., 2003, “A new version of the moment method, optimized for mode identification
in multiperiodic stars”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 398, 687 – 696
199. Dupret M.-A., De Ridder J., De Cat P., Aerts C., Scuflaire R., Noels A., Thoul A., 2003, “A photometric mode identification method, including an improved non-adiabatic treatment of the atmosphere”,
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 398, 677 – 685
200. Aerts C., De Cat P., 2003, “ Cep stars from a spectroscopic point of view”, Space Science Reviews,
105, 453 – 492
201. Teixeira T. C., Christensen-Dalsgaard J., Carrier F., Aerts C., Frandsen S., Stello D., Maas T., Burnet
M., Bruntt H., de Medeiros J. R., Bouchy F., Kjeldsen H., Pijpers F., 2003, “Giant Vibrations in Dip”,
Astrophysics and Space Science, 284, 233 – 236
202. Dupret M.-A., Scuflaire R., Noels A., Thoul A., Garrido R., Moya A., De Ridder J., De Cat P.,
Aerts C., 2003, “An Improved Method of Photometric Mode Identification: Applications to Slowly
Pulsating B, Cephei, Scuti and Doradus Stars”, Astrophysics and Space Science, 284, 129 –
132
203. De Ridder J., Molenberghs G., Aerts C., 2003, “Statistical Revision of the Moment Method”, Astrophysics and Space Science, 284, 125 – 128
204. Handler G., Aerts C., 2002, “A five-month multitechnique, multisite campaign on the Beta Cephei
star Nu Eridani”, Communications in Asteroseismology, 142, 20 – 24
205. Frandsen S., Carrier F., Aerts C., Stello D., Maas T., Burnet M., Bruntt H., Teixeira T. C., de Medeiros
J. R., Bouchy F., Kjeldsen H., Pijpers F., Christensen-Dalsgaard J., 2002, “Detection of Solar-like
oscillations in the G7 giant star xi Hya”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 394, L5 – L8
206. De Cat P., Aerts C., 2002, “A study of bright southern slowly pulsating B stars. II. The intrinsic
frequencies”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 393, 965 – 981
207. Cuypers J., Aerts C., Buzasi D., Catanzarite J., Conrow T., Laher R., 2002, “Multiperiodicity in the
light variations of the beta Cephei star beta Crucis”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 392, 599 – 603
208. Aerts C., Handler G., Arentoft T., Vandenbussche B., Medupe R., Sterken C., 2002, “The Scuti star
XX Pyx is an ellipsoidal variable”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 333, L35 –
L39
209. De Ridder J., Dupret M.-A., Neuforge C., Aerts C., 2002, “Influence of non-adiabatic temperature
variations on line profile variations of slowly rotating beta Cephei stars and SPBs. II. Simulations of
line profile time series”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 385, 572 – 584
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210. Dupret M.-A., De Ridder J., Neuforge C., Aerts C., Scuflaire R., 2002, “Influence of non-adiabatic
temperature variations on line profile variations of slowly rotating beta Cep stars and SPBs. I. Nonadiabatic eigenfunctions in the atmosphere of a pulsating star”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 385,
563 – 571
211. Willems B., Aerts C., 2002, “Tidally induced radial-velocity variations in close binaries”, Astronomy
and Astrophysics, 384, 441 – 451
212. Ausseloos M., Aerts C., Uytterhoeven K., Schrijvers C., Waelkens C., Cuypers J., 2002, “beta Centauri: An eccentric binary with two beta Cep-type components”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 384,
209 – 214
213. Aerts C., 2002, “The study of pulsating stars from the COROT exoplanet field data”, Communications
in Asteroseismology, 141, 20 – 25
214. Aerts C., et al., 2001, “Ground support with the MERCATOR telescope”, Journal of Astronomical
Data, 7, 8
215. Briquet M., De Cat P., Aerts C., Scuflaire R., 2001, “The B-type variable HD 131120 modelled by
rotational modulation”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 380, 177 – 185
216. Mathias P., Aerts C., Briquet M., De Cat P., Cuypers J., Van Winckel H., Le Contel J. M., 2001,
“Spectroscopic monitoring of 10 new northern slowly pulsating B star candidates discovered from the
HIPPARCOS mission”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 379, 905 – 916
217. Balona L. A., Aerts C., Božić H., Guinan E. F., Handler G., James D. J., Kaye A. B., Shobbrook
R. R., 2001, “Short period line profile and light variations in the Be star ! Orionis”, Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society, 327, 1288 – 1296
218. Chadid M., De Ridder J., Aerts C., Mathias P., 2001, “20 CVn: A monoperiodic radially pulsating
delta Scuti star”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 375, 113 – 121
219. Aerts C., Kaye A. B., 2001, “A Spectroscopic Analysis of the
8330”, The Astrophysical Journal, 553, 814 – 822
Doradus Star HD 207223 = HR
220. Uytterhoeven K., Aerts C., De Cat P., De Mey K., Telting J. H., Schrijvers C., De Ridder J., Daems
K., Meeus G., Waelkens C., 2001, “Line-profile variations of the double-lined spectroscopic binary
kappa Scorpii”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 371, 1035 – 1047
221. Lehmann H., Harmanec P., Aerts C., Božić H., Eenens P., Hildebrandt G., Holmgren D., Mathias P.,
Scholz G., Šlechta M., Yang S., 2001, “A new analysis of the radial velocity variations of the eclipsing
and spectroscopic binary EN Lacertae”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 367, 236 – 249
222. Briquet M., Aerts C., De Cat P., 2001, “Optical variability of the B-type star HD 105382: Pulsation
or rotation?”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 366, 121 – 128
223. Aerts C., 2000, “Follow-up photometry of six new beta Cephei stars discovered from the HIPPARCOS mission”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 361, 245 – 257
224. Eyer L., Aerts C., 2000, “A search for new gamma Doradus stars in the Geneva photometric database”,
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 361, 201 – 206
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225. De Cat P., Telting J., Aerts C., Mathias P., 2000, “A detailed spectroscopic analysis of varepsilon Per.
I. Determination of the orbital parameters and of the frequencies”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 359,
539 – 551
226. Shibahashi H., Aerts C., 2000, “Asteroseismology and Oblique Pulsator Model of
Astrophysical Journal, 531, L143 – L146
Cephei”, The
227. De Cat P., Aerts C., De Ridder J., Kolenberg K., Meeus G., Decin L., 2000, “A study of bright
southern slowly pulsating B stars. I. Determination of the orbital parameters and of the main frequency
of the spectroscopic binaries”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 355, 1015 – 1030
228. Stefl S., Balona L. A., Aerts C., 2000, “Simultaneous photometry and spectroscopy of the Be star 28
(omega) CMa III. Original data”, Journal of Astronomical Data, 6, 3
229. Chadid M., Kolenberg K., Aerts C., Gillet D., 1999, “First detection of a frequency multiplet in the
line-profile variations of RR Lyrae: towards an understanding of the Blazhko effect”, Astronomy and
Astrophysics, 352, 201 – 210
230. Aerts C., De Boeck I., Malfait K., De Cat P., 1999, “HD 42927 and HD 126341: two pulsating B
stars surrounded by circumstellar dust”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 347, 524 – 531
231. Balona L. A., Aerts C., Štefl S., 1999, “Simultaneous photometry and spectroscopy of the Be star 28
(omega) CMa - II. Line profile modelling”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 305,
519 – 526
232. Štefl S., Aerts C., Balona L. A., 1999, “Simultaneous photometry and spectroscopy of the Be star 28
(omega) CMa - I. Observational evidence of the periodic components of rapid variability”, Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 305, 505 – 518
233. Molenberghs G., Aerts C., De Cat P., 1999, “An improved method for the determination of the orbital
parameters of a binary system that contains a pulsating component”, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Supplement Series, 135, 383 – 390
234. Aerts C., De Cat P., Peeters E., Decin L., De Ridder J., Kolenberg K., Meeus G., Van Winckel H.,
Cuypers J., Waelkens C., 1999, “Selection of a sample of bright southern Slowly Pulsating B Stars
for long-term photometric and spectroscopic monitoring”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 343, 872 –
882
235. Robertson J. G., Bedding T. R., Aerts C., Waelkens C., Marson R. G., Barton J. R., 1999, “Interferometry and spectroscopy of beta Cen: a beta Cephei star in a binary systemˆ*”, Monthly Notices of
the Royal Astronomical Society, 302, 245 – 252
236. De Ridder J., Gordon K. D., Mulliss C. L., Aerts C., 1999, “New observations of 53 Persei”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 341, 574 – 578
237. Aerts C., Eyer L., Kestens E., 1998, “The discovery of new gamma Doradus stars from the HIPPARCOS mission”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 337, 790 – 796
238. Lamers H. J. G. L. M., Bastiaanse M. V., Aerts C., Spoon H. W. W., 1998, “Periods, period changes
and the nature of the microvariations of Luminous Blue Variables”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 335,
605 – 621
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239. Waelkens C., Aerts C., Kestens E., Grenon M., Eyer L., 1998, “Study of an unbiased sample of B
stars observed with Hipparcos: the discovery of a large amount of new slowly pulsating B stars”,
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 330, 215 – 221
240. Aerts C., De Cat P., Cuypers J., Becker S. R., Mathias P., De Mey K., Gillet D., Waelkens C.,
1998, “Evidence for binarity and multiperiodicity in the beta Cephei star beta Crucis”, Astronomy and
Astrophysics, 329, 137 – 146
241. Mathias P., Gillet D., Aerts C., Breitfellner M. G., 1997, “A spectroscopic study of the delta Scuti
star rho Puppis”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 327, 1077 – 1086
242. De Mey K., Aerts C., Waelkens C., Cranmer S. R., Schrijvers C., Telting J. H., Daems K., Meeus
G., 1997, “The line-profile variable Scorpii is a spectroscopic triple system.”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 324, 1096 – 1104
243. Telting J. H., Aerts C., Mathias P., 1997, “A period analysis of the optical line variability of Cephei:
evidence for multi-mode pulsation and rotational modulation.”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 322,
493 – 506
244. Schrijvers C., Telting J. H., Aerts C., Ruymaekers E., Henrichs H. F., 1997, “Line-profile variations
due to adiabatic non-radial pulsations in rotating stars. I. Observable characteristics of spheroidal
modes”, Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, 121, 343 – 368
245. Aerts C., 1996, “Mode identification of pulsating stars from line-profile variations with the moment
method: a more accurate discriminant.”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 314, 115 – 122
246. Mathias P., Aerts C., 1996, “A spectroscopic study of the Scuti star 20 Canum Venaticorum.”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 312, 905 – 911
247. De Mey K., Aerts C., Waelkens C., Van Winckel H., 1996, “The early-type multiple system ⌘ Orionis.
II. Line profile variations in component Ab.”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 310, 164 – 172
248. Aerts C., Krisciunas K., 1996, “Mode identification of the slowly pulsating F0V star V398 Aurigae
(9 Aur).”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 278, 877 – 882
249. Aerts C., Mathias P., Van Hoolst T., De Mey K., Sterken C., Gillet D., 1995, “Mode identification of
the Cephei star BW Vulpeculae.”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 301, 781
250. Aerts C., Waelkens C., 1995, “(Erratum) Line profile variations of rotating, pulsating stars.”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 293, 978 – 978
251. Aerts C., Molenberghs G., 1995, “Constraints on Be star geometry derived from combined photometric, IR excess, and optical polarimetry data.”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 293, 828 – 832
252. Mathias P., Aerts C., Gillet D., Waelkens C., 1994, “A spectroscopic analysis of the beta Cephei star
12 Lacertae”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 289, 875 – 884
253. Aerts C., Waelkens C., de Pauw M., 1994, “Mode identification with the moment method in four
multiperiodic Cephei stars: KK Velorum, ⌫ Eri, CMa, and V348 Normae”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 286, 136 – 148
254. Aerts C., Mathias P., Gillet D., Waelkens C., 1994, “Multiperiodicity and pulsation characteristics of
Cephei”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 286, 109 – 120
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255. Mathias P., Aerts C., de Pauw M., Gillet D., Waelkens C., 1994, “A Spectroscopic Analysis of the
Beta-Cephei Star Alpha-Lupi”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 283, 813
256. de Pauw M., Aerts C., Waelkens C., 1993, “Mode identification of pulsating stars from line profile
variations with the moment method. A theoretical study of the accuracy of the method”, Astronomy
and Astrophysics, 280, 493 – 507
257. Reid A. H. N., Aerts C., 1993, “Limits on mode identifications in rotating, non-radially pulsating
stars”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 279, L25 – L28
258. Aerts C., Waelkens C., 1993, “Line Profile Variations of Rotating Pulsating Stars”, Astronomy and
Astrophysics, 273, 135
259. Aerts C., de Pauw M., Waelkens C., 1992, “Mode identification of pulsating stars from line profile
variations with the moment method. an example - The Beta Cephei star Delta Ceti”, Astronomy and
Astrophysics, 266, 294 – 306
260. Aerts C., 1992, “Mode identification of pulsating stars from line profile variations with the moment
method”, The Atmospheres of Early-Type Stars, Lecture Notes in Physics 401, 163
261. Waelkens C., Aerts C., 1992, “Analysis of line profile variations in pulsating B stars”, The Atmospheres of Early-Type Stars, Lecture Notes in Physics 401, 159
17.3
Publications in Conference Proceedings
1. Aerts C., 2014, “Massive Star Asteroseismology in Action”, in New windows on massive stars: asteroseismology, interferometry, and spectropolarimetry, Eds G. Meynet, C. Georgy, J.H. Groh &
Ph. Stee, Proceedings of the International Asstronomical Union, IAU Symposium, 307, in press
(arXiv:1407.6479)
2. Saesen S., Briquet M., Aerts C., Miglio A., Carrier F., 2014, “An observational asteroseismic study of
the pulsating B-stars in the open cluster NGC 884”, in High-precision Asteroseismology, Proceedings
of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, 301, 479 – 480
3. Aerts C., 2013, “Asteroseismology of binary stars and a compilation of core overshoot and rotational
frequency values of OB stars”, in Setting a New Standard in the Analysis of Binary Stars, Eds K.
Pavlovski, A. Tkachenko, and G. Torres, EAS Publications Series, 64, 323 – 330
4. Schmid V. S., Debosscher J., Degroote P., Aerts C., 2013, “Asteroseismology of eclipsing binary stars
using Kepler and the HERMES spectrograph”, in Setting a New Standard in the Analysis of Binary
Stars, Eds K. Pavlovski, A. Tkachenko, and G. Torres, EAS Publications Series 64, 421 – 422
5. Marcos-Arenal P., Zima W., De Ridder J., Huygen R., Aerts C., 2013, “The ASTROID Simulator
Software Package: Realistic Modelling of High-Precision High-Cadence Space-Based Imaging”, in
BAASP 2013 Conference papers, Vol. 2, Space Research Review pages, 19 – 25 (arXiv:1402.2582)
6. Schmid V., Aerts C., Debosscher J., 2013, “Asteroseismology of Binary Stars”, Massive Stars: From
alpha to Omega, id.98
7. Simon-Diaz S., Castro N., Herrero A., Aerts C., Puls J., Markova N., 2013, “Macroturbulent broadening and its consequences on the study of rotational velocities and pulsations in massive stars”, Massive
Stars: From alpha to Omega, id.28
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8. Lampens P., Tkachenko A., Lehmann H., Debosscher J., Aerts C., Beck P. G., Bloemen S., Kochiashvili N., Derekas A., Smith J., Tenenbaum P., Twicken J., 2013, “Puzzling Low-Frequency Variations in the Scuti-type Kepler Star KIC 5988140 (HD 188774)”, Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Conference Series, 479, 99
9. Hambleton K., Beck P., Bloemen S., Vos J., Prsa A., Kurtz D., Aerts C., 2013, “Panoramix: The Red
Giant Heartbeat Star”, In Giants of Eclipse, 40301
10. Aerts C., Hussain G., Patat F., 2013, “Normal Programme Applications for HARPS are Most Welcome”, The Messenger, 153, 5
11. Poretti E., Rainer M., Mantegazza L., Floquet M., Mathias P., Amado P., Aerts C., Uytterhoeven
K., 2013, “The Spectroscopic Observations of CoRoT Asteroseismic Targets with HARPS”, Stellar
Pulsations: Impact of New Instrumentation and New Insights, 31, 39
12. Simón-Dı́az S., Castro N., Herrero A., Aerts C., Puls J., Markova N., 2013, “Macroturbulent Broadening: A Single Snap-Shot Approach to Investigate Pulsations in Massive Stars?”, Astronomical Society
of the Pacific Conference Series, 465, 19
13. Blomme R., Briquet M., Degroote P., Mahy L., Aerts C., Cuypers J., Godart M., Gosset E., Hareter
M., Montalban J., Morel T., Nieva M. F., Noels A., Oreiro R., Poretti E., Przybilla N., Rainer M.,
Rauw G., Schiller F., Simon-Diaz S., Smolders K., Ventura P., Vučković M., Auvergne M., Baglin A.,
Baudin F., Catala C., Michel E., Samadi R., 2013, “CoRoT Observations of O Stars: Diverse Origins
of Variability”, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, 465, 13
14. Poretti E., Rainer M., Mantegazza L., Floquet M., Mathias P., Amado P., Aerts C., Uytterhoeven K.,
2013, “The Spectroscopic Observations of CoRoT Asteroseismic Targets with HARPS”, Advances in
Solid State Physics, 31, 39
15. Merges F., Prins S., Pessemier W., Raskin G., Perez Padilla J., Van Winckel H., Aerts C., 2012,
“MESA: Mercator scheduler and archive system”, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 8451,
16. Aerts C., Dupret M.-A., 2012, “On the Seismic Modelling of Rotating B-type Pulsators in the Traditional Approximation”, Progress in Solar/Stellar Physics with Helio- and Asteroseismology, 462,
103
17. Maceroni C., Gandolfi D., Montalbán J., Aerts C., 2012, “The Impact of CoRoT and Kepler on
Eclipsing Binary Science”, IAU Symposium, 282, 41 – 46
18. Telting J., Ostensen R., Oreiro R., Reed M., Farris L., O’Toole S., Aerts C., 2012, “Orbits of Hot
Subdwarf Binaries in the Kepler Field”, Fifth Meeting on Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects,
452, 147
19. Simón-Dı́az S., Herrero A., Uytterhoeven K., Castro N., Aerts C., Puls J., 2011, “Is macroturbulence
in OB Sgs related to pulsations?”, IAU Symposium, 272, 549 – 550
20. Godart M., Dupret M.-A., Noels A., Aerts C., Simón-Dı́az S., Lefever K., Puls J., Montalban J., Ventura P., 2011, “Pulsations in massive stars: effect of the atmosphere on the strange mode pulsations”,
IAU Symposium, 272, 503 – 504
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21. Welsh W. F., Orosz J. A., Gilliland R. L., Aerts C., Brown T. M., Brugamyer E., Cochran W. D.,
Guzik J. A., Kurtz D. W., Latham D. W., Marcy G. W., Quinn S. A., Zima W., Koch D. G., Borucki
W. J., Kepler Science Team, 2011, “KOI-54: The Remarkable Pulsating, Periastron-Pumped Binary
Star”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 43, #103.07
22. Vandersteen J., Raskin G., Agócs T., Morren J., Østensen R. H., Pessemier W., Prins S., Swevers
J., Tulloch S. M., van Winckel H., Aerts C., 2010, “MAIA: a rapid three-channel photometry CCD
instrument for asteroseismology observations”, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
(SPIE) Conference Series, 7735
23. Kawaler S. D., Handler G., Aerts C., Bedding T., Catelan M., Cunha M., Eyer L., Jeffery S., Martinez
P., Oláh K., Pollard K., Somasundaram S., 2010, “Commission 27: Variable Stars”, Transactions of
the International Astronomical Union, Series B, 27, 209 – 210
24. Guinan E. F., Wasatonic R., Engle S., Aerts C., Morajjevi E., Eaton J., Fekel F., Coughlin J., Stewart
H., 2010, “MOST Ultra-High Precision Photometry of the Luminous Blue Supergiant Rigel - Probing
the Interior of a Future Type II Supernova”, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #216,
2164, #423.05
25. Aerts C., Debosscher J., Sarro L., Degroote P., Neiner C., Maceroni C., Ribas I., Auvergne M.,
Deleuil M., Ollivier M., Jorda L., Samadi R., 2009, “Discovery of New Hot Pulsators in the CoRoT
Exoplanet Database and Their Potential for Asteroseismology”, Solar-Stellar Dynamos as Revealed
by Helio- and Asteroseismology: GONG 2008/SOHO 21, 416, 401
26. Briquet M., Uytterhoeven K., Morel T., Aerts C., De Cat P., Mathias P., Lefever K., Miglio A.,
Poretti E., Martı́n-Ruiz S., Paparó M., Rainer M., Carrier F., Gutiérrez-Soto J., Valtier J. C., Benkő
J. M., Bognár Z., Niemczura E., Amado P. J., Suárez J. C., Moya A., Rodrı́guez-López C., Garrido
R., 2009, “An asteroseismic study of the Cephei CoRoT main target HD 180642: results from the
ground-based campaign”, American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 1170, 394 – 396
27. Semaan T., Neiner C., Martayan C., Debosscher J., Sarro L. M., Frémat Y., Aerts C., 2009, “Characterization and parameter determination of CoRoT variable stars with FLAMES”, American Institute
of Physics Conference Series, 1170, 391 – 393
28. Desmet M., Aerts C., Matthews J. M., Cameron C., Kuschnig R., Walker G. A. H., Yang S., Bohlender D., Østensen R., Briquet M., Guenther D. B., Moffat A. F. J., Rucinski S., Sasselov D., Weiss
W. W., 2009, “MOST reveals Spica as an Eclipsing Binary”, American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 1170, 376 – 378
29. Álvarez M., Sareyan J. P., Parrao L., Peña J. H., Fox-Machado L., Poretti E., Martin S., Amado P.,
Garrido R., Aerts C., Csurby Z., Paparo M., 2009, “On the variability of HD 170699 - a possible
COROT Target”, Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica Conference Series, 35, 148 – 149
30. Prusti T., Aerts C., Grebel E. K., Jordi C., Klioner S. A., Lindegren L., Mignard F., Randich S.,
Walton N. A., 2009, “A Roadmap for Delivering the Promise of Gaia”, IAU Symposium, 254, 483 –
486
31. Kawaler S. D., Handler G., Aerts C., Bedding T. R., Catelán M., Cunha M., Eyer L., Jeffery C. S.,
Martinez P., Olah K., Pollard K., Somasundaram S., 2009, “Commission 27: Variable Stars”, Transactions of the International Astronomical Union, Series A, 27, 254 – 259
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32. Giménez A., Kawaler S. D., Aerts C., Christensen-Dalsgaard J., Breger M., Guinan E. F., Kurtz D. W.,
Rucinski S. M., 2009, “Division V: Vaviable Stars”, Transactions of the International Astronomical
Union, Series A, 27, 251 – 253
33. Giampapa M. S., Aerts C., Bedding T., Bonanno A., Brown T. M., Christensen-Dalsgaard J., Dominik
M., Ge J., Gilliland R. L., Harvey J. W., Hill F., Kawaler S. D., Kjeldsen H., Kurtz D. W., Marcy G. W.,
Matthews J. M., Monteiro M. J. P. F. G., Schou J., 2009, “Asteroseismology: The Next Frontier in
Stellar Astrophysics”, astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, 2010, 91
34. Debosscher J., Sarro L. M., López M., Aerts C., 2008, “Methodology for Automated Supervised
Classification of Light Curves in the CoRoT Exoplanet Database”, American Institute of Physics
Conference Series, 1082, 245 – 251
35. Lefèvre L., Michel E., Aerts C., Kaiser A., Neiner C., Poretti E., Garrido R., Baglin A., Auvergne
M., Catala C., Weiss W., Balaguer-Núñez L., Maceroni C., Ribas I., 2008, “Blue edge of the Scuti
stars versus red edge of the SPB stars. How will CoRoT data help ?”, SF2A-2008, 489
36. Aerts C., 2008, “Preface”, Communications in Asteroseismology, 155, 6 – 15
37. Aerts C., 2008, “Core Overshoot and Nonrigid Internal Rotation of Massive Stars: Current Status
from Asteroseismology”, IAU Symposium, 250, 237 – 244
38. Lefever K., Puls J., Aerts C., 2008, “Periodically Variable B-type Supergiants: Empirical Evidence
for Non-Radial Gravity-Mode Oscillations”, Mass Loss from Stars and the Evolution of Stellar Clusters, 388, 193
39. Moffat A. F. J., Marchenko S. V., Lefèvre L., Chené A.-N., St-Louis N., Zhilyaev B. E., Aerts C.,
Saio H., Walker G. A. H., Matthews J. M., Kuschnig R., Cameron C., Rowe J. F., Guenther D. B.,
Rucinski S. M., Sasselov D., Weiss W. W., 2008, “Pulsations Beneath the Winds: Unique Precise
Photometry from MOST”, Mass Loss from Stars and the Evolution of Stellar Clusters, 388, 29
40. Morel T., Briquet M., Aerts C., 2008, “The Chemical Composition of B-type Pulsators: Some Unexpected Results”, Precision Spectroscopy in Astrophysics, 301 – 302
41. Aerts C., Hekker S., Desmet M., Carrier F., Zima W., Briquet M., De Ridder J., 2008, “High-Precision
Spectroscopy of Pulsating Stars”, Precision Spectroscopy in Astrophysics, 161 – 164
42. van Spaandonk L., Fontaine G., Brassard P., Aerts C., 2008, “Modeling the Pulsating sdB Star PG
1605+072”, Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects, 392, 387
43. Pereira C., Jeffery C. S., Fontaine G., Charpinet S., Aerts C., Ahmad A., Connolly E., Vučković M.,
Dhillon V. S., Marsh T. R., 2008, “Multisite Multicolour Photometric Observations of the Nonradially
Pulsating SdB Star Balloon 090100001: A White Light Frequency Analysis”, Hot Subdwarf Stars and
Related Objects, 392, 293
44. Vučković M., Østensen R., Bloemen S., Decoster I., Aerts C., 2008, “Orbital Effects in VLT–UVES
Spectra of AA Dor and NY Vir”, Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects, 392, 199
45. Hu H., Vučković M., Østensen R., Nelemans G., Aerts C., Groot P. J., 2008, “Evolutionary and
Observational Constraints on PG 1336-018 (NY Vir)”, Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects, 392,
117
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46. Aerts C., Kawaler S. D., Christensen-Dalsgaard J., Bedding T. R., Cacciari C., Cottrell P. L., Cunha
M., Handler G., Martinez P., Sasselov D. D., Somasundaram S., Welch D. L., 2007, “Commission 27:
Variable Stars”, Transactions of the International Astronomical Union, Series B, 26, 168 – 170
47. Christensen-Dalsgaard J., Giménez A., Guinan E. F., Aerts C., Balona L. A., Sahade J., 2007, “Division v: Variable Stars”, Transactions of the International Astronomical Union, Series B, 26, 165 –
167
48. Owocki S. P., Štefl S., Aerts C., Barbuy B., Fabregat J., Gies D. R., Guinan E. F., Henrichs H. F.,
Peters G. J., Porter J. M., Rivinius T., Štefl S., 2007, “Division Iv-V / Wg: Active B-Type Stars”,
Transactions of the International Astronomical Union, Series B, 26, 151 – 153
49. Aerts C., 2007, “Asteroseismology of Close Binary Stars”, IAU Symposium, 240, 432 – 441
50. Hu H., Nelemans G., Groot P., Aerts C., 2007, “Binary Evolution Channels explaining the subdwarf
B star PG1336-018”, IAU Symposium, 240, 384
51. Buzasi D. L., Bruntt H., Aerts C., Preston H. L., 2007, “Variability Among B Stars Observed with
WIRE”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 38, 111
52. Lefever K., Puls J., Aerts C., 2007, “A Grid of FASTWIND NLTE Model Atmospheres of Massive
Stars”, The Future of Photometric, Spectrophotometric and Polarimetric Standardization, 364, 545
53. Aerts C., Kawaler S., Bedding T., Cacciari C., Christensen-Dalsgaard J., Cottrell P., Cunha M., Handler G., Martinez P., Sasselov D., Seetha S., Welch D., 2007, “Commission C27: Variable Stars”,
Transactions of the International Astronomical Union, Series A, 26, 247 – 258
54. Christensen-Dalsgaard J., Aerts C., Giménez A., Guinan E. F., Balona L. A., Sahade J., 2007, “Division V: Variable Stars”, Transactions of the International Astronomical Union, Series A, 26, 245 –
245
55. Owocki S., Aerts C., Fabregat J., Gies D., Henrichs H., McDavid D., Porter J., Rivinius T., Peters
G., Štefl S., 2007, “Inter-Division IV/V WG on Active OB Stars”, Transactions of the International
Astronomical Union, Series A, 26, 241 – 242
56. Telting J., Schrijvers C., Ilyin I., Uytterhoeven K., De Ridder J., Aerts C., Henrichs H., 2007, “A
High-Resolution Spectroscopic Survey of Cephei Pulsations in Bright Stars”, Active OB-Stars:
Laboratories for Stellare and Circumstellar Physics, 361, 64 –
57. Sarro L. M., Debosscher J., Aerts C., 2006, “Classification of CoRoT Exoplanet Light Curves”, ESA
Special Publication, 1306, 385
58. Appourchaux T., Berthomieu G., Michel E., Aerts C., Ballot J., Barban C., Baudin F., Boumier P.,
De Ridder J., Floquet M., Garcia R. A., Garrido R., Goupil M.-J., Lambert P., Lochard J., Neiner
C., Poretti E., Provost J., Roxburgh I., Samadi R., Toutain T., 2006, “Data Analysis Tools for the
Seismology Programme”, ESA Special Publication, 1306, 377
59. Catala C., Poretti E., Garrido R., Solano E., Cutispoto G., Pagano I., Distefano E., Romano P., Alonso
R., Amado P. J., Martin-Ruiz S., Rainer M., Uytterhoeven K., Aerts C., Antonello E., Belmonte
J. A., Bossi M., Handler G., Hubert A.-M., Janot-Pachecho E., Lebreton Y., Mantegazza L., Mathias
P., Michel E., Neiner C., Suarez J. C., Weiss W. W., 36 Co-Authors, 2006, “The Ground-Based
Observations in Preparation and Support of the Seismology Programme”, ESA Special Publication,
1306, 329
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60. Noels A., Aerts C., Plesseria J. Y., 2006, “The Belgian Contribution”, ESA Special Publication, 1306,
115
61. Michel E., Baglin A., Auvergne M., Catala C., Aerts C., Alecian G., Amado P., Appourchaux T.,
Ausseloos M., Ballot J., Barban C., Baudin F., Berthomieu G., Boumier P., Bohm T., Briquet M.,
Charpinet S., Cunha M. S., De Cat P., Dupret M. A., Fabregat J., Floquet M., Fremat Y., Garrido R.,
Garcia R. A., Goupil M.-J., Handler G., Hubert A.-M., Janot-Pacheco E., Lambert P., Lebreton Y.,
Lignieres F., Lochard J., Martin-Ruiz S., Mathias P., Mazumdar A., Mittermayer P., Montalban J.,
Monteiro M. J. P. F. G., Morel P., Mosser B., Moya A., Neiner C., Nghiem P., Noels A., Oehlinger J.,
Poretti E., Provost J., Renan de Medeiros J., De Ridder J., Rieutord M., Roca-Cortes T., Roxburgh I.,
Samadi R., Scuflaire R., Suarez J. C., Theado S., Thoul A., Toutain T., Turck-Chieze S., Uytterhoeven
K., Vauclair G., Vauclair S., Weiss W. W., Zwintz K., 2006, “The Seismology Programme of CoRoT”,
ESA Special Publication, 1306, 39
62. Aerts C., 2006, “The pulsations and potential for seismology of B stars”, Proceedings of SOHO
18/GONG 2006/HELAS I, Beyond the spherical Sun, 624,
63. Roth M., Luhe O. v. d., Palle P., Thompson M. J., Christensen-Dalsgaard J., Monteiro M. J. P. F. G.,
Gizon L., Di Mauro M. P., Aerts C., Daszynska-Daszkiewicz J., Corbard T., 2006, “European helioand asteroseismology network HELAS”, Proceedings of SOHO 18/GONG 2006/HELAS I, Beyond
the spherical Sun, 624,
64. Hekker S., Aerts C., De Ridder J., Carrier F., 2006, “A line profile analysis of the pulsating red giant
star Ophiuchi (G9.5III)”, Proceedings of SOHO 18/GONG 2006/HELAS I, Beyond the spherical Sun,
624,
65. Roth M., Lühe O. v. d., Pallé P., Thompson M., Christensen-Dalsgaard J., Monteiro M. J. P. F. G,
Gizon L., Di Mauro M. P., Aerts C., Daszynska-Daszkiewicz J., Corbard T., 2006, “Helas-European
Helio- and Asteroseismology Network”, SOHO-17. 10 Years of SOHO and Beyond, 617,
66. Yakut K., Aerts C., 2006, “Physical Parameters of the Overcontact Binary AH Cnc in the Old Open
Cluster M 67”, Astrophysics of Variable Stars, 349, 375
67. Lefever K., Puls J., Aerts C., 2006, “Fundamental Parameters of Massive OBA Stars: Studying the
GAUDI Sample in Preparation of COROT”, Astrophysics of Variable Stars, 349, 277
68. Debosscher J., Aerts C., Vandenbussche B., 2006, “Classification of COROT Exoplanet Light Curves”,
Astrophysics of Variable Stars, 349, 219
69. Freyhammer L. M., Hensberge H., Sterken C., De Cat P., Aerts C., 2006, “The oscillation modes of
the beta Cephei star in HD 92024 in the open cluster NGC 3293 .”, Memorie della Societa Astronomica
Italiana, 77, 334
70. De Cat P., Goossens K., Bouckaert F., Eyer L., Cuypers J., De Ridder J., Flanders}, Aerts C., Dupret
M.-A., Grigahcène A., Many Observers, 2006, “Observational results for northern and southern (candidate) gamma Doradus stars .”, Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, 77, 313
71. Lefever K., Puls J., Aerts C., 2006, “Study of a sample of periodically variable B-type supergiants”,
Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, 77, 135
72. Aerts C., Sterken C., 2006, “Astrophysics of variable stars : proceedings of a meeting held in Pécs,
Hungary, 5-10 September 2005”, Astrophysics of Variable Stars, 349,
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73. Catala C., Aerts C., Aigrain S., Antonello E., Appourchaux T., Auvergne M., Baglin A., Barge P.,
Barstow M. A., Baudin F., Boumier P., Collier Cameron A., Christensen-Dalsgaard J., Cutispoto G.,
Deeg H., Deleuil M., Desidera S., Donati J.-F., Favata F., Foing B. H., Gameiro J. F., Garcia R.,
Garrido F., Horne K., Lanza A. F., Lanzafame A. C., Lecavelier Des Etangs A., Léger A., Mas-Hesse
M., Messina S., Micela G., Michel E., Monteiro M. J. P. F. G., Mosser B., Noels A., Pagano I.,
Piotto G., Poretti E., Rauer H., Roca-Cortes T., Rodono M., Rouan D., Roxburgh I., Schneider J.,
Strassmeier K., Turck-Chièze S., Vauclair S., Vidal-Madjar A., Weiss W. W., Wheatley P., 2005, “The
life of stars and their planets”, 39TH ESLAB Symposium on Trends in Space Science and Cosmic
Vision 2020, 588, 99 – 104
74. Turon C., Done C., Quirrenbach A., et al., 2005, “Trends in space astronomy and Cosmic Vision
2015-2025”, 39TH ESLAB Symposium on Trends in Space Science and Cosmic Vision 2020, 588,
53
75. Saesen S., Briquet M., Aerts C., 2005, “A line-profile analysis of the large-amplitude Beta Cephei
star Xi1 Canis Majoris”, ”Distant Worlds”, Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting, held
4-7 July, 2005 in Liège, Belgium.
76. Desmet M., Briquet M., Mazumdar A., Aerts C., 2005, “An asteroseismic study of the Beta Cephei
star Beta Canis Majoris”, ”Distant Worlds”, Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting, held
4-7 July, 2005 in Liège, Belgium.
77. De Cat P., Briquet M., Aerts C., Goossens K., Saesen S., Cuypers J., Yakut K., Scuflaire R., Dupret
M.-A., Observers M., 2005, “Analysis of Mercator data Part I: variable B stars”, ”Distant Worlds”,
Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting, held 4-7 July, 2005 in Liège, Belgium.
78. Cuypers H. J., Goossens K., Schoenaers C., De Cat P., Aerts C., Observers M., 2005, “Analysis of
Mercator data Part II: variable AF stars”, ”Distant Worlds”, Joint European and National Astronomy
Meeting, held 4-7 July, 2005 in Liège, Belgium.
79. Barban C., De Ridder J., Mazumdar A., Carrier F., Eggenberger P., De Ruyter S., Vanautgaerden J.,
Bouchy F., Aerts C., 2004, “New observations of solar-like oscillations in red giant stars”, SF2A2004: Semaine de l’Astrophysique Francaise, 203
80. Aerts C., Harmanec P., 2004, “Pulsating components in close binaries”, Spectroscopically and Spatially Resolving the Components of the Close Binary Stars, 318, 325 – 333
81. Barban C., De Ridder J., Mazumdar A., Carrier F., Eggenberger P., De Ruyter S., Vanautgaerden J.,
Bouchy F., Aerts C., 2004, “Detection of Solar-Like Oscillations in Two Red Giant Stars”, SOHO 14
Helio- and Asteroseismology: Towards a Golden Future, 559, 113
82. Aerts C., Scuflaire R., Thoul A., 2004, “Derivation of the Rotational Frequency of Massive Stars
from Seismic Studies”, Stellar Rotation, 215, 199
83. De Ridder J., Aerts C., Dupret M.-A., 2004, “Mode identification using photometry and spectroscopy”,
IAU Colloq. 193: Variable Stars in the Local Group, 310, 466
84. De Ridder J., Cuypers J., De Cat P., Uytterhoeven K., Schoenaers C., Davignon G., Raskin G., Vanautgaerden J., Broeders E., De Meester W., van Malderen R., De Ruyter S., Vandenbussche B., Maas T.,
Kolenberg K., Reyniers M., Decin G., Acke B., Ausseloos M., Aerts C., van Winckel H., Waelkens
C., 2004, “First results of Mercator observations of variable A and F stars”, IAU Colloq. 193: Variable
Stars in the Local Group, 310, 263
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85. De Cat P., De Ridder J., Uytterhoeven K., Davignon G., Raskin G., Cuypers J., Schoenaers C.,
Daszyńska-Daszkiewicz J., Aerts C., van Winckel H., Ausseloos M., Broeders E., De Meester W.,
Vanautgaerden J., van Malderen R., Vandenbussche B., Acke B., Decin G., Decin L., Kolenberg K.,
Maas T., De Ruyter S., Reyniers M., Reyniers T., van Kerckhoven C., Waelkens C., 2004, “First
results of Mercator observations of variable B stars”, IAU Colloq. 193: Variable Stars in the Local
Group, 310, 238
86. Handler G., Aerts C., An International Team Of 50 Astronomers, 2004, “Asteroseismology of the
Cep star ⌫ Eri: initial results”, IAU Colloq. 193: Variable Stars in the Local Group, 310, 221
87. Jankov S., Mathias P., Domiciano de Souza A., Jr., Uytterhoeven K., Aerts C., 2004, “Latitude distribution of nonradial pulsations in rapidly rotating B stars”, IAU Colloq. 193: Variable Stars in the
Local Group, 310, 204
88. De Cat P., Daszyńska-Daszkiewicz J., Briquet M., Dupret M.-A., Scuflaire R., De Ridder J., Niemczura E., Aerts C., 2004, “g-mode pulsations in slowly pulsating B stars”, IAU Colloq. 193: Variable
Stars in the Local Group, 310, 195
89. Weiss W. W., Aerts C., Aigrain S., Alecian G., Antonello E., Baglin A., Bazot M., Collier-Cameron
A., Charpinet S., Gamarova A., Handler G., Hatzes A., Hubert A.-M., Lammer H., Lebzelter T.,
Maceroni C., Marconi M., de Martino D., Janot-Pacheco E., Pagano I., Paunzen E., Pinheiro F. J. G.,
Poretti E., Ribas I., Ripepi V., Roques F., Silvotti R., Surdej J., Vauclair G., Vauclair S., Zwintz K.,
2004, “Additional science potential for COROT”, Stellar Structure and Habitable Planet Finding,
538, 435 – 444
90. Mathias P., Chapellier E., Le Contel J.-M., Jankov S., Sareyan J.-P., Garrido R., Rodriguez E., Poretti
E., Alvarez M., Arellano Ferro A., Parrao L., Peña J., Eyer L., Aerts C., De Cat P., Weiss W. W.,
Zhou A., 2004, “ Doradus stars as Eddington targets: a spectroscopic study”, Stellar Structure and
Habitable Planet Finding, 538, 355 – 358
91. Aerts C., Baglin A., Christensen-Dalsgaard J., Goupil M. J., Houdek G., Kjeldsen H., Kollath Z.,
Kurtz D., Lebreton Y., Maceroni C., Noels A., Schwarzenberg-Czerny A., Škoda P., Solano E.,
Thompson M. J., 2004, “ENEAS: the European Network of Excellence in AsteroSeismology”, Stellar
Structure and Habitable Planet Finding, 538, 247 – 250
92. Deeg H. J., Horne K., Favata F., The Eddington Science Team, Aerts C., Antonello E., Badiali M.,
Catala C., Christensen-Dalsgaard J., Gimenez A., Grenon M., Penny A., Rauer H., Roxburgh I. W.,
Schneider J., Waltham N. R., 2004, “Planet Detection Capabilities of the Eddington Mission”, Planetary Systems in the Universe, 202, 448
93. Mathias P., Chadid M., Chapellier E., Le Contel J.-M., Sareyan J.-P., Garrido R., Rodriguez E., Poretti
E., Alvarez M., Parrao L., Arellano Ferro A., Eyer L., Aerts C., De Cat P., Weiss W. W., Zhou A.,
2003, “Multisite Multitechnique Monitoring of a Large Sample of Doradus Candidates”, Asteroseismology Across the HR Diagram, 359 – 362
94. Jankov S., Mathias P., Aerts C., De Cat P., Domiciano de Souza A., 2003, “Time Variability of NRP
Modes along Orbital Phase in Per”, Asteroseismology Across the HR Diagram, 327 – 330
95. Briquet M., Aerts C., 2003, “A new version of the moment method, optimized for mode identification
in multiperiodic stars”, Interplay of Periodic, Cyclic and Stochastic Variability in Selected Areas of
the H-R Diagram, 292, 365
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96. Kolenberg K., Aerts C., Fokin A., Dziembowski W., Chadid M., Gillet D., 2003, “An interpretation
of the line profile variations of RR Lyrae”, Interplay of Periodic, Cyclic and Stochastic Variability in
Selected Areas of the H-R Diagram, 292, 171
97. Stello D., Carrier F., Aerts C., Frandsen S., Bouchy F., Kjeldsen H., Teixeira T., Pijpers F., ChristensenDalsgaard J., 2003, “Solar-Like Oscillations in the Giant Star XI Hydrae”, IAU Joint Discussion, 12
98. Briquet M., Luftinger T., Aerts C., De Cat P., 2003, “Surface Mapping of the he SI Distribution of
Four B Stars”, IAU Joint Discussion, 9
99. Kolenberg K., Aerts C., Chadid M., Gillet D., 2003, “Can the Presence of a Magnetic Field explain
the Blazhko Effect in RR Lyrae?”, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, 305, 167
100. Aerts C., Lehmann H., Scuflaire R., Dupret M. A., Briquet M., De Ridder J., Thoul A., 2003, “Mode
Identification and Seismic Modelling of the Cep Star EN(16)Lac”, Asteroseismology Across the HR
Diagram, 493 – 496
101. Briquet M., Aerts C., 2003, “A New Version of the Moment Method, Optimized for Mode Identification in Multiperiodic Stars”, Asteroseismology Across the HR Diagram, 469 – 472
102. Aerts C., Cuypers J., Dupret M.-A., De Ridder J., Scuflaire R., Eyer L., 2003, “Photometric Mode
Identification in the Two Doradus Stars HD 12901 and HD 48501”, Asteroseismology Across the HR
Diagram, 461 – 464
103. Uytterhoeven K., Telting J. H., Aerts C., 2003, “Analysis of the Frequency Spectrum of the Spectroscopic Binary Cephei Star Scorpii”, Asteroseismology Across the HR Diagram, 409 – 412
104. Turcotte S., Aerts C., Knoglinger P., 2003, “Searching for Line Profile Variability in HgMn Stars”,
Asteroseismology Across the HR Diagram, 405 – 408
105. Eyer L., Aerts C., van Loon M., Bouckaert F., Cuypers J., 2002, “The gamma Doradus stars campaign”, Observational Aspects of Pulsating B- and A Stars, 256, 203
106. Balona L. A., Handler G., Aerts C., Bozic H., Guinan E. F., James D. J., Kaye A. B., Shobbrook
R. R., 2002, “Omega Orionis and the Be stars”, Observational Aspects of Pulsating B- and A Stars,
256, 9
107. De Cat P., Aerts C., 2002, “Slowly pulsating B stars as asteroseismic targets for Eddington”, Stellar
Structure and Habitable Planet Finding, 485, 257 – 260
108. Cuypers J., Aerts C., Buzasi D., Catanzarite J., Conrow T., Laher R., 2002, “Asteroseismology ”on a
WIRE””, Stellar Structure and Habitable Planet Finding, 485, 41 – 47
109. Cuypers J., Aerts C., Buzasi D., Catanzarite J., Conrow T., Laher R., 2002, “A Flower on a WIRE:
Asteroseismology of a Massive Star”, IAU Colloq. 185: Radial and Nonradial Pulsationsn as Probes
of Stellar Physics, 259, 620
110. Kolenberg K., Aerts C., Chadid M., Gillet D., 2002, “The Blazhko Effect Unravelled?”, IAU Colloq. 185: Radial and Nonradial Pulsationsn as Probes of Stellar Physics, 259, 414
111. Chadid M., Mathias P., De Ridder J., Aerts C., 2002, “Mode Identification in the Scuti Star 20
CVn”, IAU Colloq. 185: Radial and Nonradial Pulsationsn as Probes of Stellar Physics, 259, 334
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112. Briquet M., Scuflaire R., Aerts C., De Cat P., 2002, “Detailed Line-Profile Modeling of B Stars with
Chemical Inhomogeneities”, IAU Colloq. 185: Radial and Nonradial Pulsationsn as Probes of Stellar
Physics, 259, 266
113. Briquet M., Noels A., Aerts C., Mathias P., 2002, “The Slowly Pulsating B Star HD 147394”, IAU
Colloq. 185: Radial and Nonradial Pulsationsn as Probes of Stellar Physics, 259, 234
114. Mathias P., Le Contel J.-M., Aerts C., De Cat P., van Winckel H., Robbrecht E., Briquet M., Cuypers
J., 2002, “Spectroscopic Monitoring of 10 Northern SPB Candidates”, IAU Colloq. 185: Radial and
Nonradial Pulsationsn as Probes of Stellar Physics, 259, 232
115. De Ridder J., Aerts C., Dupret M.-A., Neuforge C., 2002, “Do Temperature Variations at the Surface
of a Hot Non-Radial Pulsator Change Significantly the Line-Profile Variations?”, IAU Colloq. 185:
Radial and Nonradial Pulsationsn as Probes of Stellar Physics, 259, 218
116. Ausseloos M., Aerts C., Uytterhoeven K., 2002, “A Study of the Orbital and Intrinsic Variability
of the Double-Lined Spectroscopic Binary Centauri”, IAU Colloq. 185: Radial and Nonradial
Pulsationsn as Probes of Stellar Physics, 259, 86
117. Uytterhoeven K., Aerts C., 2002, “Multiperiodicity in the Line-Profile Variations of the Spectroscopic
Binary Cep Star Scorpii”, IAU Colloq. 185: Radial and Nonradial Pulsationsn as Probes of
Stellar Physics, 259, 84
118. Willems B., Aerts C., 2002, “Tidally Induced Oscillations in Close Binaries”, IAU Colloq. 185:
Radial and Nonradial Pulsationsn as Probes of Stellar Physics, 259, 76
119. Aerts C., Bedding T. R., Christensen-Dalsgaard J., 2002, “Radial and Nonradial Pulsations as Probes
of Stellar Physics”, IAU Colloq. 185: Radial and Nonradial Pulsationsn as Probes of Stellar Physics,
259,
120. Aerts C., et al., 2001, “Ground support with the MERCATOR telescope”, First COROT/MONS/MOST
Ground Support Workshop, 95 – 95
121. Aerts C., 2000, “A group of interesting periodically variable B-type supergiants”, The Third MONS
Workshop: Science Preparation and Target Selection, 131
122. Zerbi F. M., Aerts C., Handler G., Kaye A. B., Poretti E., 2000, “Understanding the Doradus
Phenomenon using MONS”, The Third MONS Workshop: Science Preparation and Target Selection,
91
123. Aerts C., Uytterhoeven K., De Ridder J., De Cat P., 2000, “Observing B-type pulsators with MONS”,
The Third MONS Workshop: Science Preparation and Target Selection, 59
124. Aerts C., 2000, “Multimode Detections from Surveys”, IAU Colloq. 175: The Be Phenomenon in
Early-Type Stars, 214, 192
125. Aerts C., Eyer L., 2000, “Mode Identification from Line-Profile Variations”, Delta Scuti and Related
Stars, 210, 113
126. Eyer L., Aerts C., 2000, “New Gamma Doradus Stars from the Hipparcos Mission and Geneva Photometry”, IAU Colloq. 176: The Impact of Large-Scale Surveys on Pulsating Star Research, 203,
449 – 450
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127. Briquet M., Aerts C., De Cat P., 2000, “Optical Variability of the Lambda Eri Star HD 105382:
Pulsation or Rotation?”, IAU Colloq. 176: The Impact of Large-Scale Surveys on Pulsating Star
Research, 203, 437
128. De Cat P., Aerts C., 2000, “Binary Slowly Pulsating B Stars”, IAU Colloq. 176: The Impact of
Large-Scale Surveys on Pulsating Star Research, 203, 436
129. De Ridder J., Aerts C., 2000, “The Origin and Interpretation of Line Profile Variations of Pulsating B
Stars”, IAU Colloq. 176: The Impact of Large-Scale Surveys on Pulsating Star Research, 203, 432 –
433
130. Aerts C., De Cat P., De Ridder J., Kolenberg K., Waelkens C., Mathias P., Briquet M., 2000, “LongTerm Photometric and Spectroscopic Monitoring of Slowly Pulsating B Stars”, IAU Colloq. 176: The
Impact of Large-Scale Surveys on Pulsating Star Research, 203, 395 – 400
131. Chadid M., Gillet D., Kolenberg K., Aerts C., 2000, “Blazhko Effect and Magnetic Field in RR
Lyrae”, IAU Colloq. 176: The Impact of Large-Scale Surveys on Pulsating Star Research, 203, 318
– 319
132. Kolenberg K., Aerts C., Chadid M., Gillet D., 2000, “First Detection of a Frequency Multiplet in
the Line Profile Variations of RR Lyrae: Towards an Understanding of the Blazhko Effect”, IAU
Colloq. 176: The Impact of Large-Scale Surveys on Pulsating Star Research, 203, 286 – 290
133. Aerts C., De Cat P., Eyer L., 1999, “Long-term spectroscopic monitoring of pulsating B stars: a
tribute to the CAT.”, The Messenger, 96, 23 – 25
134. Aerts C., Eyer L., 1998, “The discovery of new Gamma Doradus stars”, Delta Scuti Star Newsletter,
12, 24 – 25
135. Shibahashi H., Aerts C., 1998, “Asteroseismology of beta Cephei”, New Eyes to See Inside the Sun
and Stars, 185, 395
136. Aerts C., Waelkens C., De Cat P., 1998, “Slowly pulsating B stars - new insights from HIPPARCOS”,
New Eyes to See Inside the Sun and Stars, 185, 295
137. Aerts C., De Mey C., De Cat P., Waelkens C., 1998, “Pulsations in Early-Type Binaries”, A Half
Century of Stellar Pulsation Interpretation, 135, 380
138. Waelkens C., Aerts C., Grenon M., Eyer L., 1998, “Pulsating B Stars Discovered by HIPPARCOS”,
A Half Century of Stellar Pulsation Interpretation, 135, 375
139. Lamers H. J. G. L. M., Bastiaanse M. V., Aerts C., 1998, “The Nature of the Microvariations of
Luminous Blue Variables”, A Half Century of Stellar Pulsation Interpretation, 135, 159
140. Balona L. A., Stefl S., Aerts C., 1998, “Modeling of Rapid HeI 667.8 Line Profile Variations in the
Be Star 28 CMa”, A Half Century of Stellar Pulsation Interpretation, 135, 147
141. Mathias P., Aerts C., 1995, “First results with Elodie for the Scuti star 14 Aur.”, Lett. OHP, No. 14,
p. 5 - 6, 14, 5 – 6
142. De Mey K., Aerts C., Van Winckel H., Waelkens C., 1995, “Eta Orionis”, IAU Colloq. 155: Astrophysical Applications of Stellar Pulsation, 83, 311
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143. Telting J., Aerts C., Mathias P., 1995, “A Period Analysis of the Optical Line Variability of Beta
Cephei”, IAU Colloq. 155: Astrophysical Applications of Stellar Pulsation, 83, 297
144. Aerts C., Van Hoolst T., Mathias P., 1995, “Mode Identification of the BetaCephei star BW Vulpeculae”, IAU Colloq. 155: Astrophysical Applications of Stellar Pulsation, 83, 56
145. Denoyelle J., Aerts C., Waelkens C., 1994, “Main-sequence broadening; Be stars; and stellar rotation
in H and Chi Persei”, Pulsation; Rotation; and Mass Loss in Early-Type Stars, 162, 151
146. Aerts C., 1994, “Mode Identification in Pulsating Stars”, Pulsation; Rotation; and Mass Loss in
Early-Type Stars, 162, 75
147. Aerts C., de Pauw M., 1993, “Line-Profile Variations of Rotating Pulsating Stars”, IAU Colloq. 139:
New Perspectives on Stellar Pulsation and Pulsating Variable Stars, 182
148. Aerts C., Balona L. A., Waelkens C., 1990, “Line Proffle Variations in Cephei Stars”, Confrontation
Between Stellar Pulsation and Evolution, 11, 290
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