Kumiko Kotera, the French astrophysicist who tracks the ghosts of the cosmos | EUROtoday

DWrinkle the obvious serenity of the evening sky cover cosmic phenomena of unimaginable violence. Explosions of large stars, collisions of compact stars, begins of intense radiation … To unravel the secrets and techniques of those nonetheless largely mysterious cataclysmic occasions, the astrophysicist Kumiko Kotera has launched a daring problem: to trace down probably the most elusive particles of the universe, the ultra-energy neutrinos. Specialist in cosmic rays – this circulation of loaded particles that completely bomb our planet since house -, it at this time shares its time between the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, which she has been working since 1 ^er January, and missions on the bottom within the Gobi desert or the Argentine Pampa. This is there, on the coronary heart of those PA …