Most significant research discoveries in Astrophysics to date,
with significance and impact (see also reviews)
Découvertes les plus importantes en Astrophysique à date,
avec évaluation et impact (voir aussi syntheses)
- - 2000 Physical Behaviour of Magnetism in Clumps
First observational relationships between magnetic field strengths and clump sizes
(different than Larson's relations for clouds), field strenghs and gas density values, etc.
*** "I like the idea of different scaling laws on smaller scales. This is
an important breakthrough."
[Dr. Bruce Elmegreen, FCP Editor, 2000 Sept. 05].
2000 Vallée, J.P. Ap.J., 538, 226-232.
- see List of Ref. Papers, no. 127
- - 1996 Pitfalls in Galactic Magnetic Field research
Reversals of Milky Way's Galactic Magnetic Field - identification
and description of numerous observational pitfalls that led others astray
1996 Vallée, J.P. Astron. & Astrophysics, 308, 433-440
- see List of Ref. Papers, no. 119
1997 Vallée, J.P. Fundamentals of Cosmic Physics, 19,1-89
- see List of Ref. Papers, no. 122
- - 1996 Bending and bifurcation of Cloud Magnetic Field
First observational proof of Magnetic Field bifurcation and bending in a large molecular cloud,
never predicted by MHD theories
1996 Vallée, J.P., Bastien, P. Astron. & Astrophysics, 313, 255-268
- see List of Ref. Papers, no. 120
- - 1995 Starformation and Core collisions - the role of escaping cloudlets:
First direct observational proof of the triggering of star formation
from the collision of two cloud cores.
*** "For the first time, two
escaping cloudlets are observed, and best interpreted as a result a
cloud collision event by two nearby clouds";"Vallée (1995) has
collected CONVINCING data for a cloud collision event..."
[Miniati,F, Ryu,D., Ferrara,A., Jones,T.W. 1999, ApJ, 510, 726-746.]
1995 Vallée, J.P. Astron. J., 110, 2256-2260
- see List of Ref. Papers, no. 117
1995 Vallée, J.P. Astron. J., 109, 1724-1728
- see List of Ref. Papers, no. 114
- - 1994 Link between Starformation rate and the Galactic Magnetic Field :
First direct observational proof of a link between star formation rate
or efficiency and galactic Magnetic Field strength - found to be
at a much weaker level than predicted by all theories
1994 Vallée, J.P. Astrophysical Journal, 433, 778-779
- see List of Ref. Papers, no. 106
- - 1993 VALLEE'S LAW - linking a supershell's magnetic field and gas:
First observational link shown to exist giving a scaling relation
between the magnetic field B in a supershell around an interstellar
superbubble and the gas density in the supershell, of the form B
proportional to gas density n elevated to the power k=1.0
*** The scaling relation between a supershell magnetic field strength B
and its thermal gas density n, of the form B ~ n, is now called in the
scientific literature as "VALLEE'S LAW"
[Kamaya 1998, ApJ,493,L95-L99].
1993 Vallée, J.P. Astrophys. J., 419, 670-673.
- see List of Ref. Papers, no. 102
1997 Vallée, J.P. Fundam. Cosmic Physics, 19, 1-89.
- see List of Ref. Papers, no. 122
- - 1993 Link between Galactic dynamo and galactic dynamic
First observational proof of a direct link between galactic dynamo and
galactic dynamics - creation of a morphological deformation parameter,
and its use to correlate with the galactic Magnetic Field shape (axi or
bi symmetric)
1993 Vallée, J.P. Astrophys. & Space Science, 206, 275-284
- see List of Ref. Papers, no. 101
1994 Vallée, J.P. Journal Roy. Astron. Soc. Canada, 88, 201-212
- see List of Ref. Papers, no. 105
1995 Vallée, J.P. Astron. & Astrophys., 301, 11-17
- see List of Ref. Papers, no. 115
- - 1990 Link between large scale gas and large scale Magnetic Field
First observational detection of direct relation between thermal gas
density and Magnetic Field strength B, for large scales > 100 pc,
of the form B proportional to gas density to the power 0.2
1990 Vallée, J.P. Astron. & Astrophysics, 239, 57-62
- see List of Ref. Papers, no. 91
1995 Vallée, J.P. Astrophysics & Space Science, 234, 1-10
- see List of Ref. Papers, no. 118
- - 1990 First observational detection of a large-scale magnetic field
in the Local Supercluster, in the form of
an excess rotation measure in the Virgo supercluster of galaxies
1990 Vallée, J.P. Astron. J., 99, 459-462
- see List of Ref. Papers, no. 85
- - 1989 First measures of magnetic field strength using carbon radio
recombination lines in molecular cloud edges
*** "The ONLY attempt to compute the magnetic field
using Carbon recombination lines was made by Vallée (1989)."
[Roshi, D.A. 2007, ApJ, 658, L41-L44]
1989, Vallée, J.P. Astron. & Astrophys., 224, 191-198.
- see List of Ref. papers, no. 79
- - 1988 Magnetic Field in Scutum spiral arm
First direct observation of Magnetic Field in Scutum spiral arm of
our Galaxy
1988 Vallée,J.P.,Simard-Normandin,M.,Bignell,R. Astrophys.J.,331,321-324
- see List of Ref. Papers, no. 70
- - 1988 Giant 1 Megaparsec Head-Tail Radio Galaxy IC711
First detection of a radio trail from a head-tail galaxy in a cluster
exceeding 1 Mpc in extent from the optical galactic nucleus
1988 Vallée,J.P.,Strom,R.G. Astron.J., 95, 1360-1362
- see List pf Ref. Papers, no. 76
- - 1986 Magnetic Field inside a cluster of galaxies but outside galaxies
First direct observation of a Magnetic Field in the intracluster gas
inside a cluster of galaxies
*** "The FIRST successful demonstration of Faraday rotation of the polarized emission
from background radio sources seen through a cluster atmosphere was presented by
Vallee et al. (1986) for A2319. Vallee et al (1987) combined the RM excess in A2319 with
the density estimates from X-ray observations by Jones et al.(1979) to estimate a field
strength of 2 microGauss..."
[C.Carilli & G.Taylor, 2002, Annual Rev. Ast&Ast, vol.40, p.329]
1986 Vallée, J.P.,MacLeod,J.M.,Broten,N.W. Astron.&Astrophys.,156,386-390
- see List of Ref. Papers, no. 53
1987 Vallée,J.P.,Macleod,J.M.,Broten,N.W. Astrophys.Lett&Comm.,25,181-186
- see List of Ref. Papers, no. 56
- - 1983 Magnetic Field in Perseus spiral arm
First direct observation of Magnetic Field in Perseus spiral arm of
our Galaxy
1983 Vallée, J.P. Astron. & Astrophys., 124, 147-150
- see List of Ref. Papers, no. 35
- - 1979 CHOICE OF "PAPILLON" NAME
Choice of name ("Papillon") made by VallTeeacute;e for the distant galaxy IC708,
on account of its radio appearance. [Often called since in the
scientific literature as PAPILLON; Listed in "Nomenclature Dictionary"
(p. 6.7) of Fernandez et al. 1983, Astron. & Astrophys. Suppl, 52, 1.]
1979 Vallée,J.P.,Wilson,A.S.,van der Laan,H.Astron.&Astrophys.,77,183-188
- see List of Ref. Papers, no. 20
- - 1976 Largest Head-Tail Galaxy so far
Observational discovery of the largest Head-tail radio galaxy (IC711)
1976 Vallée,J.P., Wilson,A.S. Nature, 259, 451-454
- see List of Ref. Papers, no. 10
1987 Vallée,J.P., Roger,R.S. Astron. J., 94, 1-6
- see List of Ref. Papers, no. 57
- - 1973 Magnetic Field in local superbubble
Observational discovery of the Magnetic Field in the NPS superbubble
in the Orion spur
1973 Vallée,J.P., Kronberg,P.P. Nature Physical Science, 246, 49-51
- see List of Ref. Papers, no. 4