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Sebastien GUILLOT Post-doctoral Fellow at IRAP

9, avenue du Colonel Roche, BP 44346. 31028 Toulouse Cedex 4 [email protected] Citizenship: French Date of birth: August 6th, 1984 www.astro.puc.cl/~sguillot/

Research Interests Neutron , dense matter physics, High-energy phenomena, X-ray binaries and physics, globular clusters

Employment Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Toulouse, France 2018 CNES Post-doctoral Fellow Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Instituto de Astrofísica 2015 – 2017 FONDECYT Post-doctoral Fellow McGill University, Physics Department 2014 – 2015 Post-doctoral researcher and outreach coordinator

Education PhD in astrophysics, McGill University – Vanier Graduate Scholar 2014 Master in physics, McGill University 2009 Bachelor of Science (with distinctions), University of Victoria (BC, Canada) 2007 Euro-American Institute of Technology (EAI Tech, Sophia-Antipolis, France) 2001 – 2003 Note: Two-years preparation program in Astrophysics with courses in French/English, before transferring to UVic

Other Research Experience Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, U. of Colorado (Supervisor: Rosalba Perna) 2013 Research Internship – 2 months, funded by FRQNT International Internship Award). Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics (Supervisor: Alyssa Goodman) 2006 Research Assistant with the COMPLETE team. Sub-mm observations of molecular clouds – 3 months. McGill University, Physics Department (Supervisor: Gil Holder) 2005 Research Assistant. Theoretical Cosmology (weak gravitational lensing) – 4 months. IAP, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (Supervisor: François Bouchet) 2005 Research Assistant with Planck-HFI Satellite Data Processing Center team – 4 months. IAS, Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay, France (Supervisor: François Pajot) 2004 Research Assistant with the Planck-HFI Satellite Calibration team – 4 months.

Participation in International Observatory Collaborations Member of the “Extreme physics and compact objects” working group of X-ray Surveyor (to be proposed) Since 2016 Member of the “End points of ” working group of the ATHENA+ X-Ray Observatory Since 2015 Member of three working groups of the NICER Mission Since 2015 Member of the “ and rotating radio ” working group of the NuSTAR Observatory Since 2014

Observational Experience and Proposals PI on VLT program “The H-alpha disk emission from compact binaires in the cluster NGC 6397” (1.5 h) 2017 PI on VLT program “Constraining the neutron EoS with the qLMXB in the globular cluster ωCen” (1.0 h) 2017 PI on Chandra program “Globular cluster neutron stars and the dense matter Equation of State” (83 hours) 2016 PI on VLT program “Constraining the EoS with the qLMXB in the globular cluster ωCen” (1.5 h) 2016 Observing at Magellan Clay with LDSS3 instrument (1 night) 2016 Observing at SOAR Telescope with Goodman Spectrograph (2 nights) 2016 Co-I on XMM-Newton program “Searching for thermal X-ray emission from pulsars to constrain the EoS” (13 h) 2015 Co-I (but main writer) on Chandra program “qLMXBs and CVs in the globular cluster NGV 6304” (28 h) 2010 Co-I (but main writer) on Gemini South program “ measurement of LMXBs in NGC 6304” (12 h) 2009 Attendee at “1st Summer School on Multi-wavelength ” (EC program ITN 215212) 2009

Main Grants, Fellowships, and Scholarships ECOS-CONICYT France-Chile collaboration grant (as Co-I, but main writer and collaboration lead) 2017 Chandra observing grant (equivalent to ~ 40,000 € for US-based Co-Is) 2016 FONDECYT Post-doctoral Fellowship (3 years, equivalent to 110,000 €) 2015 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (3 years, equivalent to 105,000 €) 2011 McGill Graduate Office Dow-Hickson Fellowship (equivalent to 5,000 €) 2010

Other Scholarships, Awards, and Honorific Memberships European Commission AHEAD Visitor programme 2017 European Commission AHEAD Trans-National Access to X-ray Data-Analysis travel grant 2016 McGill Scarlet Key Society Award and Membership Since 2013 International Internship Award, Fonds de Recherche du Québec: Nature and Technology (FRQNT) 2013 McGill Physics Department GREAT Travel Award (3 occurrences) 2012, 2013, 2014 McGill Graduate Travel Funding Award (3 occurrences) 2011, 2012, 2013 McGill Graduate Office Provost Graduate Fellowship 2009 Rutherford Physics Department Principal’s Graduate Fellowship 2008 McGill Graduate Office Recruitment Excellence Fellowship 2007 Victoria Center of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Price 2007 University of Victoria Physics Department Scholarship 2006 Euro-American Institute of Technology Best GPA Scholarship 2002

Teaching Experience Participation in the development of a teacher training workshop in science education (“Teacher Inquiry Institute”) 2015 Guest lecturer for the course “The inside and Out”, at McGill University. 2015 Participation in astronomy course development at McGill Physics Department (astronomy laboratory) 2013 – 2014 Certificate from the T-PULSE Tomlinson University-Level Science Education workshop at McGill 2013 Laboratory Coordinator – Introductory physics course (~700 students) 2008 – 2012 Laboratory Instructor – Introductory physics course 2007 – 2008

Student Supervision and Mentorship Maud Thepenier – M.Sc. student at Université de Toulouse 2018 Goran Doll Carriel – B.Sc. Student at Pontificia Católica Universidad de Chile 2017– 2018 Rodrigo Moraga Merino – B.Sc. Student at Pontificia Católica Universidad de Chile 2017 Nicolas Baillot d’Etivaux – PhD Student at Université de Lyon / IPNL 2016 – 2018 Cristobal Reyes Muñoz – B.Sc. Student at Pontificia Católica Universidad de Chile 2015 – 2017 José Rafael Fentes – M.Sc. Student at Pontificia Católica Universidad de Chile 2016 Manuel Pichardo Marcano – M.Sc. Internship Student at IRAP, Toulouse, France (now PhD at Texas Tech) 2016

Outreach Experience Participation in the Fermi MasterClass Chile 2016 2016 Successful IAU Grant Proposal (ref.: OAD TF2-2015B-1345-AAAP, 2730 euros) 2015 Scientific consultant to a team primary school teachers as part of “Eclairs de Sciences” programme 2012 – 2015 Astronomy Ambassador of the American Astronomical Society Since 2013 Co-founder and coordinator of AstroMcGill, the astronomy outreach program at McGill University Since 2012 Host of over 40 AstroMcGill Podcasts Since 2012 Host of numerous observing events (night sky and solar observing) Since 2012 Facilitator and presenter of numerous astronomy activities in primary/secondary schools Since 2012 Numerous newspapers (La Presse, McGill Reporter), radio (Radio Canada, CBC Montreal Radio), and 2012 – 2015 TV interviews (CBC National, RDI, CTV Montreal) about the Transit of Venus, landing of ESA’s Philae

Public Lectures “Les étoiles à neutrons: bien plus fascinantes que les trous noirs”, for the Societé d’Astronomie de Toulouse 2016 “Neutron Stars – More awesome than black-holes”, AstroMcGill Public Lecture (~200 attendees) 2015 “Are we there yet? Climbing the rungs of the distance ladder”, AstroMcGill Public Lecture (~80 attendees) 2015 “The 2014J”, for the McGill University Student Astronomy Club 2014 “What do we learn by studying the Cosmos?”, for the McGill University Student Astronomy Club 2013 “What do we learn by studying the Cosmos?”, at the Cummings Community Center (Montreal) 2013

Academic Responsibilities Peer-review work: Referee for A&A, ApJ, MNRAS, Time Allocation Committee for Gemini Observatory and NuSTAR Telescope Evaluation of research project for the Argentinian Commission of Sciences FONCyT LOC member of workshop “Treasures hidden in High-energy Catalogs”, to be held at IRAP (Toulouse) 2018 Co-organizer of daily astro-ph discussion group at the Instituto de Astrofisica, PUC 2017 McGill Space Institute Coordinator (interim) 2014 – 2015 Membre of the Scientific Council of the Centre de Recherche en Astrophysique du Québec (CRAQ) 2010 – 2014 Assistant organizer of two annual meetings of the CRAQ (~80 attendees) 2011 and 2014 Public relation officer of the astrophysics group at McGill University 2012 – 2013 President of the McGill Graduate Association of Physics Students 2010 – 2012 Lead organizer of the annual graduate student workshop of the CRAQ (~30 attendees) 2009

Languages Skills • French (first language) • English (fluent) • Spanish (fluent) • German (basics) Sebastien GUILLOT Post-doctoral Fellow at IRAP

List of publications and other contributions h-index 8; 445 citations

List of Refereed Publications (8 as first author)

1) “NICER observes the effects of an X-ray bursts on the accretion environment in X-1”, Laurens Keek, Zaven Arzoumanian, Peter Bult, Edward M. Cackett, Deepto Chakrabarty, Jérôme Chenevez, Andrew C. Fabian, Sebastien Guillot, Tolga Güver, et al. January 2018, Submitted to ApJ Letters.

2) “Dense matter with eXTP - White paper in support of the mission concept of the Extended X-ray Timing mission”, Anna Watts, WenFei Yu, Juri Poutanen, Shu Zhang, Alessandro Patruno, …, Sebastien Guillot, et al. December 2017, Submitted to Science China Journal.

3) “Old but still warm: Far-UV detection of PSR B0950+08”, George G. Pavlov, Blagoy Rangelov, Oleg Kargaltsev, Andreas Reisenegger, Sebastien Guillot, Cristobal Reyes, November 2017, ApJ, vol. 850, 79P.

4) “Thermal X-ray emission identified from the millisecond PSR J1909-3744”, Natalie A. Webb, Denis Leahy, Nicolas Baillot d’Etivaux, Didier Barret, Lucas Guillemot, Sebastien Guillot, Jérôme Margueron, Coleman Miller, October 2017, Submitted to A&A.

5) “ detection of the PSR J2124-3358 and its far-UV bow shock nebula”, Blagoy Rangelov, George G. Pavlov, Oleg Kargaltsev, Andreas Reisenegger, Sebastien Guillot, Cristobal Reyes, February 2017, ApJ, vol. 835, 264R.

6) “The NuSTAR view of the non-thermal emission from PSR J0437-4715”, Sebastien Guillot, Victoria M. Kaspi, Robert F. Archibald, Matteo Bachetti, Chris Flynn, Fabian Jankowski, Matthew Bailes, Steven Boggs, Finn E. Christensen, William W. Craig, Charles A. Hailey, Fiona A. Harrison, Daniel Stern, William Zhang. December 2016, MNRAS, vol. 463, 2612.

7) “Nustar Observations of 1E 1048.1-5937”, Chengwei Yang, Robert F. Archibald, Julia K. Vogel, Hongjun An, Victoria M. Kaspi, Sebastien Guillot, Andrei M. Belobodorov, Michael Pivovaroff. November 2016, ApJ, vol. 831, 80Y.

8) “The Dense Matter Equation of State from Neutron Star Radius and Mass Measurements”, Feryal, Özel, Dimitrios Psaltis, Tolga Güver, Gordon Baym, Craig Heinke, Sebastien Guillot, March 2016, ApJL, vol. 820, 28O.

9) “A high braking index for a pulsar”, Robert F. Archibald, Eric V. Gotthelf, Robert D. Ferdman, Victoria M. Kaspi, Sebastien Guillot, Fiona A. Harrison, Evan F Keane, Michael Pivovaroff, Daniel Stern, Shriharsh P. Tendulkar, Jon A. Tomsick. March 2016, ApJL, vol. 819, 16A.

10) “Modelling of the Surface Emission of the Low Magnetic Field Magnetar SGR 0418+5729”, Sebastien Guillot, Rosalba Perna, Nanda Rea, Daniele Vigano, José Pons. October 2015, MNRAS, vol. 452, 3357.

11) “Phase-Resolved Nustar And Swift-XRT Observations Of Magnetar 4U 0142+61”, Shriharsh P. Tendulkar, Romain Hascöet, Chengwei Yang, Victoria M. Kaspi, Andrei M. Belobodorov, Hongjun An, Matteo Bachetti, Steven E. Boggs, Finn E. Christensen, William W. Craig, Sebastien Guillot, Charles A. Hailey, Fiona A. Harrison, Daniel Stern, William Zhang. July 2015, ApJ. vol. 808, 32

12) “Rejecting Proposed Dense Matter Equations of State with Quiescent Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries”, Sebastien Guillot and Robert E. Rutledge, November 2014, ApJL. vol 796, L3.

13) “Measurement of the Radius of Neutron Stars with High S/N Quiescent Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries in Globular Clusters”, Sebastien Guillot, Mathieu Servillat, Natalie A. Webb, Robert E. Rutledge, July 2013, ApJ. vol. 722, 7. 14) “Discovery of a candidate quiescent low-mass X-ray binary in the globular cluster NGC 6553”, Sebastien Guillot, Robert E. Rutledge, Edward F. Brown, George G. Pavlov, Vyacheslav E. Zavlin, September 2011, ApJ. vol. 738, 129.

15)“Neutron Star Radius Measurement with the Quiescent Low-mass X-ray Binary U24 in NGC 6397”, Sebastien Guillot, Robert E. Rutledge, Edward F. Brown, May 2011, ApJ. vol. 732, 88.

16) “Chandra Observations of Quiescent Low-Mass X-ray Binaries in the Globular Cluster NGC 6304”, Sebastien Guillot, Robert E. Rutledge, Edward F. Brown, George G. Pavlov, Vyacheslav E. Zavlin, July 2009, ApJ. vol. 699, 1418.

17) “X-ray spectral identification of three Candidate Quiescent Low-Mass X-ray Binaries in the Globular Cluster NGC6304”, Sebastien Guillot, Robert E. Rutledge, Lars Bildsten, Edward F. Brown, George G. Pavlov, Vyacheslav E. Zavlin, January 2009, MNRAS vol. 392, 665.

List of Conference Proceedings

1) “The broadband X-ray emission of the millisecond pulsar PSR J0437-4715”, Sebastien Guillot 2017, Accepted in IAU Proceedings Series, Conference IAUS 337: Pulsar Astrophysics: The Next 50 years.

2) “Neutron stars in globular clusters as tests of nuclear physics”, Sebastien Guillot 2016, MmSAI vol. 87, 512.

List of Invited Seminar Presentations

1) OAS Seminars, Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, France, September 2017 2) Graviticulas Seminars, Instituto de fisica, PUC, Santiago, Chile, April 2017 3) IAP Seminars, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, France, April 2017 4) IRAP Seminars, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Toulouse, France, March 2017 5) MSU Colloquium, Montana State University, February 2017 6) UDEC Seminar, Universidad de Concepción, Chile, November 2016 7) SRON Seminar, Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, Netherlands, June 2016 8) IPNL Seminars, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon, France, April 2016 9) IRAP Seminars, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Toulouse, France, April 2016 10) JINA-CEE Online Seminar series, Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, January 2016. 11) LUTH Seminar, Laboratoire Univers & Théories, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, Septembre 2015. 12) Dept. of Astronomy Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. June 2015. 13) ITC Seminar, Institute for Theory & Computation, Harvard Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA. Oct. 2013. 14) Lunch Seminar, CEA-Saclay, France, July 2013. 15) CITA Seminar, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, ON, June 2013. 16)INP Seminar, Institute for Nuclear Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Feb. 2013. 17) JILA Seminar, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, U of Colorado, Boulder, CO, Feb. 2013. 18) CESR Seminar, Centre d’Etudes Spatiale des Rayonnements, Toulouse, France, January 2009.

List of Invited Conference Presentations

1) “Neutron Star radius measurements: New results and future prospects”, Invited talk at NuSYM 2016 conference, Beijing, China, June 2016

2) “Neutron Star Radius Measurements: Challenges and Prospects”, Invited talk at the “JINA-CEE International Symposium on Neutron Star in the Multi-messenger Era”, Ohio U., May 2016

3) “Equation of State Constraints from Neutron Star Observations: the good, the bad and the ugly”, Invited lecture at the NewCompStar School, Bucharest, September 2015 4) “Let’s Jazz up the Neutron Star Radius Measurements”, Invited talk at the Conference “The Neutron Star Radius and all that Jazz”, Montreal, Canada, June 2015

5) “Combining Neutron Star Observations to Constrain the Dense Matter Equation of State”, Invited talk at the 2015 Gordon Conference on “Nuclear Matter Equation of State”, New London, NH, June 2015

6) “Neutron Star Observations in Nuclear Astrophysics”, Invited review talk at the JINA-CEE Frontiers Meeting 2015, Michigan State University, March 23-25th, 2015

7) “Measuring MNS, MNS/RNS, RNS or R∞”, Invited lecture at the workshop “Structure and Signals of Neutron Stars”, Galileo Galilei Institute, Florence. March 2014.

List of International Conference Presentations

1) “ATHENA’s constraints on the dense matter equation of state from qLMXBs” at “The X-ray ” conference, Rome, Italy, June 2017. 2) “Measuring the neutron star radius with NICER” at the NewCompStar 2017 Conference, Warsaw, Poland, March 2017 3) “The NuSTAR view of the non-thermal emission from PSR 0437-4715” – CONFERENCE CANCELLED at the “COSPAR 2016” conference, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2016. 4) “ATHENA’s constraints on the dense matter equation of state from qLMXBs” – CONFERENCE CANCELLED at the “COSPAR 2016” conference, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2016. 5) “Testing nuclear physics from space with quiescent low-mass X-ray binaries” – CONFERENCE CANCELLED at the “COSPAR 2016” conference, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2016. 6) “The Surface Emission of the Magnetar SGR 0418+5729”, at the “European Week of Astronomy and Space Sciences 2016” conference, Athens, Greece, July 2016. 7) “Neutron Stars in Globular Clusters as Tests of Nuclear Physics”, at the “ as Cosmic Laboratories for Astrophysics – MODEST 16” conference, Bologna, Italy, April 2016. 8) “Measuring the Neutron Star Radius to Constrain the Dense Matter Equation of State”, at the “Frontiers of Neutron Star Astrophysics” conference, Ithaca, NY, May 2014. 9) “The Neutron Star Radius and the Dense Matter Equation of State”, at the meeting “Structure and Signals of Neutron Stars: from Birth to Death”, Florence, March 2014. 10) “The Neutron Star Radius and the Dense Matter Equation of State”, Dissertation talk at the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Washington, DC, January 2014. 11)“The Neutron Star Radius and the Dense Matter Equation of State”, at the 4th Bonn Neutron Star Workshop, Bonn, Germany, December 2013. 12) “The Measurement of the Neutron Stars Radius”, at 27th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Dallas, TX, December 2013.. 13) “Measuring the Radius of Neutron Stars”, at the 221st meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Long Beach, CA, January 2013. 14) “Measuring the Radius of Neutron Stars”, at “X-Ray Binaries: Celebrating 50 years Since the Discovery of Sco X-1” meeting, Boston, MA, July 2012. 15) “Discovery of qLMXBs in globular clusters: a step to constrain the dense matter equation of state”, at the 12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Paris, France, July 2009.

List of International Conference Posters

1) “The broadband X-ray emission of the millisecond pulsar PSR J0437-4715”,

at the IAU Symposium 337: Pulsar Astrophysics, Manchester, UK, September 2017 2) “Testing nuclear physics with neutron stars in globular clusters”, at the Latin American Regional IAU Meeting 2016, Cartegena, Colombia, October 2015 3) “Constraining the dense matter equation of state with ATHENA-WFI observations of neutron stars”, at the conference “Exploring the Hot and Energetic Universe: The first scientific conference dedicated to the Athena X-ray observatory”, Madrid, Spain, September 2015. 4) “The Measurement of the Neutron Star Radius”, at the High-Energy Astrophysics Division meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Chicago. IL, August 2014. 5) “The Measurement of the Neutron Star Radius”, Invited poster contribution at the NuSYM 2013 conference, East Lansing, MI, July 2013. 6) “X-ray spectral identification of three Candidate qLMXBs in the Globular Cluster NGC 6304”, at the 212th American Astronomical Society in St-Louis, MO, June 2008. 7) “X-ray spectral identification of three Candidate qLMXBs in the Globular Cluster NGC 6304”, at the Canadian Astronomical Society Annual meeting in Victoria, BC, Canada, May 2008