Current Research :

 Publications:

• Giant low surface brightness halos in distant radio galaxies: USS0828+193, 2002,  Villar-Martìn M., Vernet J., di Serego Alighieri S., Fosbury R., Pentericci L., Cohen M., Goodrich R., Humphrey A., MNRAS 
  astro-ph/0206118

• Investigating the nature of the z~2.8 submillimeter selected galaxy SMM J02399 - 0136 with VLT spectropolarimetry

Vernet J. and A. Cimatti, 2001, A&A, v. 380, 409
astro-ph/0110376
 
• Radio Galaxies at z~2.5: results from Keck spectropolarimetry

Vernet J., Fosbury R. A. E., Villar-Martìn M., Cohen M. H., Cimatti A., di Serego Alighieri S., 2001, A&A, v 366, 7
astro-ph/0010640
 
• Interpreting the kinematics of the extended gas in distant radiogalaxies from 8-10m telescope spectra

Villar-Martin M., Alonso-Herrero A., di Serego Alighieri S. and Vernet J., 2000, A&A Supl., v. 147, 291, astro-ph/0009275
 
• The UV radiation from z~2.5 radio galaxies: Keck spectropolarimetry of 4C 23.56 and 4C-00.54

Cimatti A. and di Serego Alighieri S., Vernet J., Cohen M. H., and Fosbury R. A. E., 1998, ApJ Letters, v. 499, L21
astro-ph/9803311
 
• An Anomalous Ultraviolet Extension in NGC 6251

Crane P. and Vernet J., 1997, ApJ Letters,  v. 486, L91
astro-ph/9706277

    Proceedings:

• Gas metallicity and early evolution of distant radiogalaxies, Villar-Martìn M., Fosbury R. A. E., Vernet J., Cohen M. H., Cimatti A. and di Serego Alighieri S.  in the proceedings of the Euroconference: "The evolution of galaxies. I - Observational Clues", 2000, Eds.J. M, Vilchez, G. Stasinska & E. Perez astro-ph/0008085
• Keck spectropolarimetry of z~2.5 radio galaxies, Vernet J., Fosbury R. A. E., Villar-Martìn M., Cohen M. H., di Serego Alighieri S. and Cimatti A.  in the PASP proceedings of the conference on "The Hy-Redshift Universe: Galaxy Formation and Evolution at High Redshift", Berkeley, June 1999, Eds. A.J. Bunker & W.J.M. van Breugel.
• The contribution of galaxies to the ionising background radiation,  Valls-Gabaud D. and Vernet J. in  "Chemical Evolution from Zero to High Redshift", ESO Astrophysics Synposia,  Eds. Walsh J. and Rosa M., (Berlin: Springer Verlag).
• Origin of the continuum of high redhsift radio galaxies,  Vernet J., Fosbury R. A. E., Villar-Martìn M., Cohen M. H., Cimatti A., di Serego Alighieri S.  in  "Chemical Evolution from Zero to High Redshift", ESO Astrophysics Synposia,  Eds. Walsh J. and Rosa M., (Berlin: Springer Verlag).
• The NV/CIV ratio in high redshift radio galaxies, Fosbury R. A. E., Vernet J., Villar-Martìn M., Cohen M. H., Cimatti A., di Serego Alighieri S. in  "Chemical Evolution from Zero to High Redshift", ESO Astrophysics Synposia,  Eds. Walsh J. and Rosa M., (Berlin: Springer Verlag),astro-ph/9901115
• The Structure and Composition of High Redshift Radio Galaxies,  Fosbury R. A. E., Vernet J., Villar-Martìn M., Cohen M. H., di Serego Alighieri S., Cimatti A., Pentericci L. and McCarthy P.,  in the Proceedings of the Pula International Workshop on "NICMOS and the VLT: A New Era of High Resolution Near Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy", May 26-27 1998, ed. Freudling W. , ESO, astro-ph/9808066
• Optical continuum structure of Cygnus A, Fosbury R. A. E., Vernet J., Villar-Martìn M., Cohen M. H., Ogle P. M., Tran H. D., Hook R. N.,  in the Proceedings of the KNAW Conference, October 1997, Roettgering, Best and Lehnert, eds, Reidel, astro-ph/9803310
• Keck spectropolarimetry of radio galaxies at z~2.5, Cimatti A., di Serego Alighieri S., Vernet J., Cohen M. H., Fosbury R. A. E., in the Proceedings of the Rome meeting on "The Young Universe: Galaxy Formation and Evolution at Intermediate and High Redshift", September 1997, [ps], [fig1], [fig2]
• Extended UV emission in NGC6251, Crane P. and Vernet J., 1998, in the Proceedings of the 184th IAU meeting on "The Central Regions of the Galaxy and Galaxies", ed. Sofue Y.
• Extended UV Emission in the Nucleus of NGC6251, Crane P. and Vernet J., 1997, Bull. American Astron. Soc., 190, #39.13
• Galaxies and the Ionising Background Radiation, Valls-Gabaud D. and Vernet J., 1997, in the Proceedings of 13th IAP Colloquium on "Structure and Evolution of the IGM from QSO Absorption Lines", ed. Petitjean P. and Charlot S., Paris July 1-5 1997.
• The ionising background revisited: what is contribution of young massive stars ?, Vernet J. and Valls-Gabaud D., in Proceedings of the RGO Meeting on "HST and the High Redshift Universe", Cambridge, July 1996.

    Miscellaneous:

• Hubble Finds A Bare Black Hole Pouring Out Light, Crane P., Vernet J. and NASA, HST Press Release STScI-PRC97-28