The Gaia satellite is a major European Space Agency project (https://sci.esa.int/web/gaia), launched in December 2013, providing a survey of fundamental stellar parameters such as parallaxes (distances), proper motions, spectral properties, radial velocities and uniquely accurate, full-sky, astrometry and photometry. The current survey covers just under 2 billion objects.
The Gaia data releases have made a very broad and deep impact on astrophysics over the past few years, touching nearly every aspect of astronomy, and especially in helping us in understanding the complex process involved in the formation of our own Galaxy. Gaia is now amongst the most scientifically productive space science missions ever.
Monday June 13 2022 marks the release of the next major catalogue from the Gaia mission: Gaia DR3. The team in the UK, who have a leading role in the processing of the mission data, will be presenting the new release, highlighting how the range of new data (for instance full astrophysical characterisation of many of the sources in the catalogue) will enable fundamental new understanding of the cosmos in the coming years. The presentations will include pointers to the science that can be expected, illustrated with a range of exciting new visualisations.
Event website:
https://gaia.ac.uk/gaia-dr3-uk-event
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr3-events#UK
Event scientific organiser: Dr Nicholas Walton [email protected]
RAS: Dr Robert Massey [email protected]
Goonhilly: Ms Olivia Smedley [email protected]
Image credit:
ESA/Gaia/DPAC; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. Acknowledgement: A. Brown, S. Jordan, T. Roegiers, X. Luri, E. Masana, T. Prusti and A. Moitinho.
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Great lectures, thank you for All the presentations and the hard work through years and the years to come with the DR3.
The only superfluous contribution came from Caroline Harper, emphesizing the UK-Part, instead of a european collaboration. I wondered why she doesn't Mentoren the importance of the brexit. Her contribution reminds me anyway to a polital officer speach on scientific discussion forum during the soviet era.
I can’t wait for the exoplanet detect by Astrometry with GAIA.
he he Juppie ja jeey❤ you finely the thentional diverentional realetifety but this onley can wurk when oll your numbers are negative❤😮❤