Renée Canavaggia
Renée Canavaggia, was a French astrophysicist and translator.
Canavaggia was born in Castelsarrasin, France, to Louise Patry of Limoges and Jerome Canavaggia, a Corsican magistrate. She was the youngest of three daughters; her older sisters were Marie and Jeanne. She studied philosophy at the University of Montpellier and then went to Paris with her sister Marie, staying in a flat at the Square de Port-Royal for a number of years. She then oriented her studies towards mathematics.
Career
In early 1930 she became a trainee at the Observatoire de Paris. Amongst other partnerships, she worked with astronomer and mathematician Henri Mineur on numerical methods and with astronomers Daniel Barbier and Daniel Chalonge on stellar classification. Between 1936 and 1940, she was works director at the office of stellar statistics of :fr:l'Institut d'astrophysique de Paris of Paris of which Chalonge was a founder member. From 1943 to 1945, she worked on the project to produce a celestial map of the entire sky.
She was a secretary then an organising committee member of the International Astronomical Union.
Scientific publications
Ephemerides of Pluto and position of the neighbouring stars from August 15 to November 19, 1930 Theory of the emission of light from nebulae. Translated from the English by Renée Canavaggia Study of the continuous spectrum of some stars between 3100 and 4600 angstroms. Variation in the distribution of energy in the α Gem spectrum, Balmer discontinuity of α UMi Study of the continuous radiation of a few stars between 3100 and 4600 angstroms -V: new measurements of D and Gamma On the variation of the electronic pressure and the gravity of α Cephei with the phase Thesis presented at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris to obtain the degree of Doctor of Physical Sciences: Variation of the Balmer discontinuity at Delta Cephei, Aquilae and Zeta Geminorum On a method of studying the absorbing properties of stellar atmospheres The spectrum of Nova Scuti Occultations observed at Renée Canavaggia's Paris Observatory The Balmer Discontinuity of HD 190 073 Spectrophotometric study of some sub-dwarves Study of the continuous radiation of some stars between 3100 and 4600 angstroms. The Balmer Discontinuity of some stars with extended atmospheres Research on the continuous spectrum of the Sun II. Variation of the Balmer discontinuity in α Cephei, α Aquilae, α Geminorum Research on the continuous spectrum of the Sun III. Continuous spectrum of the center of the disc between 3200 and 5000 angstroms Variation of the effective temperature and radius of a Cepheid The Yellow Giants: I. Models of atmospheres The Yellow Giants: II. Continuous spectra Cepheids: relative reddening given by photometry in six colors; verification of light variations Contributions: From the Institute of Astrophysics of Paris. Series B by Renée Canavaggia and Institute of Astrophysics of Paris. On the radiation of Cepheids The Cepheids The Cepheids: The time lag between luminosity extremes and the variation of light Effect of interstellar absorption on heterochromatic magnitudes: qualitative interpretation Cepheids and RR Lyraes, distance indicators Observations in six colors of stars of classification f, g and k analyzed from the point of view of the effects of interstellar reddening and chemical composition Photometric criteria of stellar population, using photometry from Lick Observatory Cepheids - a discussion Cepheids Dual aspect of the wavelength-dependent fluctuation of epsilon Aurigae'' ''