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Astrophysics in Burkina Faso

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

Claude Carignan ,
Luc Turbide  and
Jean Koulidiati
Claude Carignan
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique Expérimentale (LAE), Département de physique, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-ville, Montréal, Qc, CanadaH3C 3J7 Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement (LPCE), Observatoire d'Astrophysique de l'Université de Ouagadougou (ODAUO), UFR/SEA, B.P. 7021, Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso Department of Astronomy, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosh 7701, South Africa email: ccarignan@ast.uct.ac.za
Luc Turbide
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique Expérimentale (LAE), Département de physique, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-ville, Montréal, Qc, CanadaH3C 3J7
Jean Koulidiati
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement (LPCE), Observatoire d'Astrophysique de l'Université de Ouagadougou (ODAUO), UFR/SEA, B.P. 7021, Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso
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Abstract

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On the African continent, most of the activities in Astronomy are found in South Africa where full training in Astrophysics is given in a few Universities and where most of the professional astronomers and of the research instruments (from small telescopes to the 11m SALT, in the optical) can be found. In 2007, we started a full program (undergraduate and graduate) in Astrophysics at the Université de Ouagadougou and an Observatory (ODAUO), for teaching purposes, was also built. In October 2009, we put in crates the 1m Marly telescope in La Silla, Chile which will be rebuilt in 2011-12, as a full research telescope, on mount Djaogari in Burkina Faso.

Keywords

telescopessite testingsurveysgalaxies: ISMISM: kinematics and dynamics

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