Formerly
Staff member, Max-Planck-Institut for Astronomy, Heidelberg (2004-2019)
Postdoc research, New Mexico State University and NASA Ames research center (2001-2004)
Research and Teaching Interests
Astronomy
Astrophysics
Other Activities
Professional Society Memberships:
- member of the SF2A
- member of the EAS
- member of the Astronomische Gesellschaft
Honours and Awards
Commissariat à l´Énergie Atomique, Research grant (1995-2000)
Princeton University, Proctor fellow (1993–1994)
Humboldt fellow (2004-2006)
Professional Activities
Former referee for the Calar Alto Observatory (2006-2009)
Former referee for the European Southern Observatory (2015-2016)
Expert for the Marie-Curie COFUND programmes (2018)
Publications Include
Lam, M.C.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: The white dwarf luminosity functions from the Pan-STARRS 1 3π Steradian Survey, 2019, MNRAS 482, 715
Röser, S.; Schilbach. E.; Goldman, B.: Hyades tidal tails revealed by Gaia DR2, 2019, Astronomy & Astrophysics 621, 2
Smart., R.L.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Parallaxes of Southern Extremely Cool objects III: 118 L and T dwarfs, 2018, MNRAS 481, 354
Goldman, B.; Röser, S.; Schilbach, E.; et al.: A Large Moving Group within the Lower Centaurus Crux Association, 2018 Astrophysical Journal 868, 32
Malhan, K.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: STREAMFINDER II: A possible fanning structure parallel to the GD-1 stream in Pan-STARRS1, 2018, ApJ 478, 3862
Tang, S.-Y.;…; Goldman, B.: Characterization of Stellar and Substellar Members in the Coma Berenices Star Cluster, 2018, Astrophysical Journal 862, 106
Röser, S.; Schilbach. E.; Goldman, B.: et al.: A new compact young moving group around V1062 Scorpii, 2018, Astronomy & Astrophysics 614, 81
Tian, H.-J.;…; Goldman, B; et al.: A Gaia-PS1-SDSS (GPS1) Proper Motion Catalog Covering 3/4 of the Sky, 2017 Astrophysical Journal Supp 232, 4
Manjavacas, E.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Testing the existence of optical linear polarization in young brown dwarfs, 2017, MNRAS 468, 3024
Bernard, E. J.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: A Synoptic Map of Halo Substructures from the Pan-STARRS1 3π Survey, 2016, MNRAS 463, 1759
Röser, S.; Schilbach. E.; Goldman, B.: Nine new open clusters within 500 pc from the Sun, 2016, Astronomy & Astrophysics 595, 22
Manjavacas, E.; Goldman, B.; et al.: Hunting for brown dwarf binaries and testing atmospheric models with X-Shooter, 2016, MNRAS 455, 1341
Metchev, S.A.;…; Goldman, B.: Weather on Other Worlds. II. Survey Results: Spots are Ubiquitous on L and T Dwarfs, 2015, Astrophysical Journal 799, 154
Zapatero Osorio, M. R.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Spectroscopic follow-up of L- and T-type proper-motion member candidates in the Pleiades, 2014, Astronomy & Astrophysics 572, 67
Zapatero Osorio, M. R.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Search for free-floating planetary-mass objects in the Pleiades, 2014 Astronomy & Astrophysics 568, 77
Manjavacas, E.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.:New constraints on the formation and settling of dust in the atmospheres of young M and L dwarfs, 2014, Astronomy & Astrophysics 564, 55
Wang, P. F.; Chen, W. P.;…;Goldman, B; et al: Characterization of the Praesepe Star Cluster by Photometry and Proper Motions with 2MASS, PPMXL, and Pan-STARRS,2014, Astrophysical Journal 784, 57
Crossfield, I. J. M.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: A global cloud map of the nearest known brown dwarf, 2014, Nature 505, 654
Manjavacas, E.; Goldman, B.; Reffert, S.; Henning, T.: Parallax measurements of cool brown dwarfs, 2013, Astronomy & Astrophysics 560, 52
Biller, B. A.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Weather on the Nearest Brown Dwarfs: Resolved Simultaneous Multi-wavelength Variability Monitoring of WISE J104915.57–531906.1AB, 2013 Astrophysical Journal 7778, 10
Goldman, B.; Röser, S.; Schilbach, E.; et al.: Towards a complete stellar mass function of the Hyades. I. Pan-STARRS1 optical observations of the low-mass stellar content, 2013, Astronomy & Astrophysics 559, 43
Smart., R.L.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.:NPARSEC: NTT Parallaxes of Southern Extremely Cool objects. Goals, targets, procedures and first results, 2013, MNRAS 433, 2054
Slater, C.T.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: A Pan-STARRS1 View of the Bifurcated Sagittarius Stream, 2013, Astrophysical Journal 762, 6
Tremblay, P.-E.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Spectroscopic and photometric studies of white dwarfs in the Hyades, 2012, Astronomy & Astrophysics 547, 99
Deacon, Niall R.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: HIP 38939B: A New Benchmark T Dwarf in the Galactic Plane Discovered with Pan-STARRS1, 2012, ApJ 755, 94
Reiners, A.; Joshi, N.; Goldman, B.: A Catalog of Rotation and Activity in Early-M Stars, 2012 Astronomical Journal 143, 93
Saito, R.K.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: VVV DR1: The first data release of the Milky Way bulge and southern plane from the near-infrared ESO public survey VISTA variables in the Vía Láctea, 2012, Astronomy & Astrophysics 537, 107
Liu, M.C.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: A Search for High Proper Motion T Dwarfs with PAN-STARRS1 + 2MASS + WISE, 2011, Astrophysical Journal 740, 32
Zapatero Osorio, M. R.; Béjar, V. J. S.; Goldman, B.; et al.; Near-infrared Linear Polarization of Ultracool Dwarfs, 2011, Astrophysical Journal 740, 4
Deacon, Niall R.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.:Four New T Dwarfs Identified in Pan-STARRS 1 Commissioning Data, 2011, Astronomical Journal 142, 77
Wang, W.; Boudreault, S.; Goldman, B.; The substellar mass function in the central region of the open cluster Praesepe from deep LBT observations, 2011, Astronomy&Astrophysics 531, 164
Andrei, A. H.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Parallaxes of Southern Extremely Cool Objects. I. Targets, Proper Motions, and First Results, 2011, AJ 141, 54
Stumpf, M. B.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Resolving the L/T transition binary SDSS J2052-1609 AB, 2011, Astronomy & Astrophysics 525, 123
Minniti, D.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: The VVV Survey of the Milky Way: first year results, 2011, Boletín de la Asociación Argentina de Astronomía 54, 265
Minniti, D.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV): The public ESO near-IR variability survey of the Milky Way, 2010, New Astronomy 15, 433
Goldman, B.; et al.: A new benchmark T8-9 brown dwarf and a couple of new mid-T dwarfs from the UKIDSS DR5+ LAS, 2010, MNRAS 405, 1140
Boudreault, S.; Bailer-Jones, C. A. L.;Goldman, B.; et al.: Brown dwarfs and very low mass stars in the Praesepe open cluster: a dynamically unevolved mass function? 2010, Astronomy & Astrophysics 510, 27
Quanz, S.P.; Goldman, B.; et al.: Search for Very Low-Mass Brown Dwarfs and Free-Floating Planetary-Mass Objects in Taurus, 2010 Astrophysical Journal 708, 770
Bihain, G.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Candidate free-floating super-Jupiters in the young σ Orionis open cluster, 2009, Astronomy & Astrophysics 506, 1169
Goldman, B.; et al.: Polarisation of very-low-mass stars and brown dwarfs. I. VLT/FORS1 optical observations of field ultra-cool dwarfs, 2009, Astronomy & Astrophysics 502, 929
Tisserand, P.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: New Magellanic Cloud R Coronae Borealis and DY Persei type stars from the EROS-2 database: the connection between RCBs, DYPers, and ordinary carbon stars, 2009, Astronomy & Astrophysics 501, 985
Rahal, Y. R.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: The EROS2 search for microlensing events towards the spiral arms: the complete seven season results, 2009, Astronomy & Astrophysics 500, 1027
Marquette, J. B.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: The beat Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds: an analysis from the EROS-2 database, 2009, 495, 249
Goldman, B.; et al.: Binarity at the L/T brown dwarf transition. Adaptive optics search for companions, 2008, Astronomy & Astrophysics 490, 763
Kowalski, M.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Improved Cosmological Constraints from New, Old, and Combined Supernova Data Sets, 2008, Astrophysical Journal 686, 749
Goldman, B.; et al.: CLOUDS search for variability in brown dwarf atmospheres. Infrared spectroscopic time series of L/T transition brown dwarfs, 2008, Astronomy & Astrophysics 487, 277
Marquette, J. B.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Discovery of a peculiar Cepheid-like star towards the northern edge of the Small Magellanic Cloud, 2008, Astronomy & Astrophysics 486, 891
Tisserand, P.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: R Coronae Borealis stars in the Galactic bulge discovered by EROS-2, 2008, Astronomy & Astrophysics 481, 673
Tisserand, P.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.:Limits on the Macho content of the Galactic Halo from the EROS-2 Survey of the Magellanic Clouds, 2007, Astronomy & Astrophysics 469, 387
Assef, R. J.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Removing the Microlensing Blending-Parallax Degeneracy Using Source Variability, 2006, Astrophysical Journal 649, 954
Hamadache, C.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Galactic Bulge microlensing optical depth from EROS-2, 2006, Astronomy & Astrophysics 454, 185
Afonso, C.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: The OGLE-II event sc5_2859: a classical nova outburst?, 2006, Astronomy & Astrophysics 450, 233
Goldman, B.: Ultra-cool dwarf variability, 2005, AN 130, 2278
Garavini, G.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Spectroscopic Observations and Analysis of the Unusual Type Ia SN 1999ac, 2005, Astronomical Journal 130, 2278
Tisserand, P.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: EROS 2 photometry of probable R Coronae Borealis stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, 2004, A&A 424, 245
Blanc, G.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Type Ia supernova rate at a redshift of ~0.1, 2004, Astronomy & Astrophysics 423, 881
Garavini, G.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Spectroscopic Observations and Analysis of the Peculiar SN 1999aa, 2004, Astronomical Journal 128, 387
Afonso, C.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Bulge microlensing optical depth from EROS 2 observations, 2003, Astronomy & Astrophysics 404, 145
Afonso, C.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Limits on Galactic dark matter with 5 years of EROS SMC data, 2003, Astronomy & Astrophysics 400, 915
Benedict, G. F.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: A Mass for the Extrasolar Planet Gliese 876b Determined from Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor 3 Astrometry and High-Precision Radial Velocities, 2002, Astrophysical Journal 581, 115
Goldman, B.; et al.: EROS 2 proper motion survey: Constraints on the halo white dwarfs, 2002, Astronomy & Astrophysics 389 L69
Derue, F.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Observation of periodic variable stars towards the Galactic spiral arms by EROS II, 2002, Astronomy & Astrophysics 389, 149
Beaulieu, J.-P.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Blue irregular variable stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud from EROS2: Herbig Ae/Be or classical Be stars? 2001, Astronomy & Astrophysics 380, 168
Afonso, C.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Photometric constraints on microlens spectroscopy of EROS-BLG-2000-5, 2001, Astronomy & Astrophysics 378, 1014
Derue, F.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Observation of microlensing toward the galactic spiral arms. EROS II 3 year survey, 2001, Astronomy & Astrophysics 373, 126
Hardin, D.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.:Type Ia supernova rate at z~0.1, 2000, Astronomy & Astrophysics 362, 419
Basri, G.;…; Goldman, B.: An Effective Temperature Scale for Late-M and L Dwarfs, from Resonance Absorption Lines of Cs I and Rb I, 2000, ApJ 538, 363
Goldman, B.: EROS II proper motion survey for halo cool white dwarfs, 2000, Nuclear Physics B PSupp, 87, 495
Afonso, C. ;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Combined Analysis of the Binary Lens Caustic-crossing Event MACHO 98-SMC-1, 2000, Astrophysical Journal 352, 340
Lasserre, T.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Not enough stellar mass Machos in the Galactic halo, 2000, Astronomy & Astrophysics 355, 39
Martín, E.L.; Delfosse, X.; Basri, G.; Goldman, B.; et al.: Spectroscopic Classification of Late-M and L Field Dwarfs, 1999, AJ 118, 2466
Goldman, B.; et al.: EROS 2 proper motion survey: a field brown dwarf, and an L dwarf companion to LHS 102, 1999, Astronomy & Astrophysics 351, 1
Derue, F.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Observation of microlensing towards the galactic spiral arms. EROS II. 2 year survey, 1999, Astronomy & Astrophysics 351, 87
Bauer, F.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: A slope variation in the period-luminosity relation for short period SMC Cepheids, 1999, Astronomy & Astrophysics 348, 175
Afonso, C.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Microlensing towards the Small Magellanic Cloud EROS 2 two-year analysis, 1999, Astronomy & Astrophysics 344, 63
Melchior, A.-L.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: AGAPEROS: Searching for microlensing in the LMC with the pixel method. I. Data treatment and pixel light curves production, 1999, Astronomy and Astrophysics Supp. 134, 377
Goldman, B.; et al.:The microlensing searches for Galactic dark matter, 1999, Physics Reports 307,107
Melchior, A.-L.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: AGAPEROS: searches for microlensing in the LMC with the pixel method. II. Selection of possible microlensing events, 1998, Astronomy and Astrophysics 339, 658
Afonso, C.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: EROS 2 intensive observation of the caustic crossing of microlensing event MACHO SMC-98-1, 1998, A&A 337, 17
Palanque-Delabrouille, N.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Microlensing towards the Small Magellanic Cloud EROS 2 first year survey, 1998, A&A 332, 1
Renault, C.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Observational limits on MACHOS in the Galactic Halo, 1997, Astronomy and Astrophysics 324, 69
Nguyen, H. V.; Böhm, K.;…; Goldman, B.; et al.: Identifying User Interests within the Data Space – a Case Study with SkyServer, 18th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, DOI:10.5441/002/edbt.2015.64