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The Selection of Tenured Astronomers in France
The organization of the recruitment of tenured astronomers and
astrophysicists in France is presented and compared with the setup in other
countries. The ages for getting tenure have increased from 27-28 in 1980 to 31
today. Foreign scientists constitute at least 11% of the recruits and the delay
in their hiring is quantified. The large reliance on national tenure committees
is justified, while the increased targeting of positions is questioned and a
compromise proposed.Comment: Final refereed version. One sentence added plus several other
modifications. 20 page
DENIS Observations of Multibeam Galaxies in the Zone of Avoidance
Roughly 25% of the optical extragalactic sky is obscured by the dust and
stars of our Milky Way. Dynamically important structures might still lie hidden
in this zone. Various surveys are presently being employed to uncover the
galaxy distribution in the Zone of Avoidance (ZOA) but all suffer from
(different) limitations and selection effects.
We illustrate the promise of using a multi-wavelength approach for
extragalactic large-scale studies behind the ZOA, i.e. a combination of three
surveys -- optical, systematic blind HI and near-infrared (NIR), which will
allow the mapping of the peculiar velocity field in the ZOA through the NIR
Tully-Fisher relation. In particular, we present here the results of
cross-identifying HI-detected galaxies with the DENIS NIR survey, and the use
of NIR colours to determine foreground extinctions.Comment: Accepted for publication in PASA. Proceedings of workshop "HI in the
Local Universe, II", held in Melbourne, Sept. 1998. 9 pages, LaTeX2e, 2
encapsulated PS figures, 3 JPEG figures, Full resolution figures 2, 3 and 4
and full resolution paper are at
ftp://ftp.iap.fr/pub/from_users/gam/PAPERS/HICONF
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