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Gaia and the dynamics of the Galaxy

Gaia is an ambitious ESA space mission which will provide photometric and astrometric measurements with the accuracies needed to produce a kinematic census of almost one billion stars in our Galaxy. These data will revolutionize our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-09-27 Benoit Famaey

Fifty Years in Fifteen Minutes: The Impact of the Parkes Observatory

The scientific output of Parkes over its fifty year history is briefly reviewed on a year-by-year basis, and placed in context with other national and international events of the time.

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-09 Philip Edwards

Pushing the limits of the Gaia space mission by analyzing galaxy morphology

The ESA Gaia mission, to be launched during 2013, will observe billions of objects, among which many galaxies, during its scanning of the sky. This will provide a large space-based dataset with unprecedented spatial resolution. Because of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-23 A. Krone-Martins , C. Ducourant , R. Teixeira , L. Galluccio , P. Gavras , S. dos Anjos , R. E. de Souza , R. E. G. Machado , J. -F. Le Campion

Pulsating star research and the Gaia revolution

In this article we present an overview of the ESA Gaia mission and of the unprecedented impact that Gaia will have on the field of variable star research. We summarise the contents and impact of the first Gaia data release on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 Laurent Eyer , Gisella Clementini , Leanne P. Guy , Lorenzo Rimoldini , Florian Glass , Marc Audard , Berry Holl , Jonathan Charnas , Jan Cuypers , Joris De Ridder , Dafydd W. Evans , Gregory Jevardat de Fombelle , Alessandro Lanzafame , Isabelle Lecoeur-Taibi , Nami Mowlavi , Krzysztof Nienartowicz , Marco Riello , Vincenzo Ripepi , Luis Sarro , Maria Süveges

An historical overview of Kronecker function rings, Nagata rings, and related star and semistar operations

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marco Fontana , K. Alan Loper

Gaia Data Release 2: Observations of solar system objects

The Gaia spacecraft of the European Space Agency (ESA) has been securing observations of solar system objects (SSOs) since the beginning of its operations. Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) contains the observations of a selected sample of 14,099…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Gaia Collaboration , F. Spoto , P. Tanga , F. Mignard , J. Berthier , B. Carry , A. Cellino

Gaia and massive stars in 2025

I present some of the highlights of the Gaia mission on massive stars and discuss what the fourth data release (DR4) will bring in late 2026. In the first part of the contribution I describe the different types of Gaia products available…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-27 J. Maíz Apellániz

Operations for Autonomous Spacecraft

Onboard autonomy technologies such as planning and scheduling, identification of scientific targets, and content-based data summarization, will lead to exciting new space science missions. However, the challenge of operating missions with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Rebecca Castano , Tiago Vaquero , Federico Rossi , Vandi Verma , Ellen Van Wyk , Dan Allard , Bennett Huffmann , Erin M. Murphy , Nihal Dhamani , Robert A. Hewitt , Scott Davidoff , Rashied Amini , Anthony Barrett , Julie Castillo-Rogez , Steve A. Chien , Mathieu Choukroun , Alain Dadaian , Raymond Francis , Benjamin Gorr , Mark Hofstadter , Mitch Ingham , Cristina Sorice , Iain Tierney

GAIA -- Composition, Formation and Evolution of our Galaxy

GAIA will provide a multi-colour photometric and astrometric census of some one billion compact sources, complete to 20th magnitude. In addition, spectra for radial velocities will be obtained for about 30 million stars brighter than V=17.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerry Gilmore

The Saas Fee Lectures on Strong Gravitational Lensing

A review of strong gravitational lensing and its astrophysical uses.

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 C. S. Kochanek

On the prospects of Near Earth Asteroid orbit triangulation using the Gaia satellite and Earth-based observations

Accurate measurements of osculating orbital elements are essential in order to understand and model the complex dynamic behavior of Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs). ESA's Gaia mission promises to have great potential in this respect. In this…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-19 Siegfried Eggl , Hadrien Devillepoix

Rubin Science Platform on Google: the story so far

We describe Rubin Observatory's experience with offering a data access facility (and associated services including our Science Platform) deployed on Google Cloud infrastructure as part of our pre-Operations Data Preview program.

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 William O'Mullane , Frossie Economou , Flora Huang , Dan Speck , Hsin-Fang Chiang , Melissa L. Graham , Russ Allbery , Christine Banek , Jonathan Sick , Adam J. Thornton , Jess Masciarelli , Kian-Tat Lim , Fritz Mueller , Sergey Padolski , Tim Jenness , K. Simon Krughoff , Michelle Gower , Leanne P. Guy , Gregory P. Dubois-Felsmann

Gaia: unraveling the chemical and dinamical history of our Galaxy

The Gaia astrometric mission - the Hipparcos successor - is described in some detail, with its three instruments: the two (spectro)photometers (BP and RP) covering the range 330-1050 nm, the white light (G-band) imager dedicated to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-24 E. Pancino

Mapping the stellar populations of the Milky Way with Gaia

Gaia will be ESA's milestone astrometric mission, and is due for launch at the end of 2013. Gaia will repeatedly map the whole sky measuring about one billion sources to V=20-22 mag. Its data products will be {\mu}as accuracy astrometry,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Carla Cacciari

Science with SKA

Highlights are presented about the science to be done with SKA. as well as state of the art science already done today with its precursors (MeerKAT, ASKAP) and pathfinders (LOFAR, NenuFAR), with accent on the expected breakthroughs.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-09 Francoise Combes

Gaia Data Release 1: Validation of the photometry

Aims. The photometric validation of the Gaia DR1 release of the ESA Gaia mission is described and the quality of the data shown. Methods. This is carried out via an internal analysis of the photometry using the most constant sources.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 D. W. Evans , M. Riello , F. De Angeli , G. Busso , F. van Leeuwen , C. Jordi , C. Fabricius , A. G. A. Brown , J. M. Carrasco , H. Voss , M. Weiler , P. Montegriffo , C. Cacciari , P. Burgess , P. Osborne

The Gaia satellite: a tool for Emission Line Stars and Hot Stars

The Gaia satellite will be launched at the end of 2011. It will observe at least 1 billion stars, and among them several million emission line stars and hot stars. Gaia will provide parallaxes for each star and spectra for stars till V…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-26 Christophe Martayan , Yves Fremat , Ronny Blomme , Anthony Jonckheere , Marcelo Borges , Bertrand De Batz , Bernard Leroy , Rosanna Sordo , Jean-Claude Bouret , Fabrice Martins , Jean Zorec , Coralie Neiner , Yael Nazé , Evelyne Alecian , Michele Floquet , Anne-Marie Hubert , Danielle Briot , Anatholy Miroshnichenko , Indrek Kolka , Philippe Stee , Thierry Lanz , Georges Meynet

Overview and stellar statistics of the expected Gaia Catalogue using the Gaia Object Generator

Aims: An effort has been undertaken to simulate the expected Gaia Catalogue, including the effect of observational errors. A statistical analysis of this simulated Gaia data is performed in order to better understand what can be obtained…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-02 X. Luri , M. Palmer , F. Arenou , E. Masana , J. de Bruijne , E. Antiche , C. Babusiaux , R. Borrachero , P. Sartoretti , F. Julbe , Y. Isasi , O. Martinez , A. C. Robin , C. Reylé , C. Jordi , J. M. Carrasco

The Pierre Auger Observatory III: Other Astrophysical Observations

Astrophysical observations of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with the Pierre Auger Observatory

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-07-26 The Pierre Auger Collaboration , P. Abreu , M. Aglietta , E. J. Ahn , I. F. M. Albuquerque , D. Allard , I. Allekotte , J. Allen , P. Allison , J. Alvarez Castillo , J. Alvarez-Muñiz , M. Ambrosio , A. Aminaei , L. Anchordoqui , S. Andringa , T. Antičić , A. Anzalone , C. Aramo , E. Arganda , F. Arqueros , H. Asorey , P. Assis , J. Aublin , M. Ave , M. Avenier , G. Avila , T. Bäcker , M. Balzer , K. B. Barber , A. F. Barbosa , R. Bardenet , S. L. C. Barroso , B. Baughman , J. Bäuml , J. J. Beatty , B. R. Becker , K. H. Becker , A. Bellétoile , J. A. Bellido , S. BenZvi , C. Berat , X. Bertou , P. L. Biermann , P. Billoir , F. Blanco , M. Blanco , C. Bleve , H. Blümer , M. Boháčová , D. Boncioli , C. Bonifazi , R. Bonino , N. Borodai , J. Brack , P. Brogueira , W. C. Brown , R. Bruijn , P. Buchholz , A. Bueno , R. E. Burton , K. S. Caballero-Mora , L. Caramete , R. Caruso , A. Castellina , O. Catalano , G. Cataldi , L. Cazon , R. Cester , J. Chauvin , S. H. Cheng , A. Chiavassa , J. A. Chinellato , A. Chou , J. Chudoba , R. W. Clay , M. R. Coluccia , R. Conceição , F. Contreras , H. Cook , M. J. Cooper , J. Coppens , A. Cordier , U. Cotti , S. Coutu , C. E. Covault , A. Creusot , A. Criss , J. Cronin , A. Curutiu , S. Dagoret-Campagne , R. Dallier , S. Dasso , K. Daumiller , B. R. Dawson , R. M. de Almeida , M. De Domenico , C. De Donato , S. J. de Jong , G. De La Vega , W. J. M. de Mello Junior , J. R. T. de Mello Neto , I. De Mitri , V. de Souza , K. D. de Vries , G. Decerprit , L. del Peral , O. Deligny , H. Dembinski , N. Dhital , C. Di Giulio , J. C. Diaz , M. L. Díaz Castro , P. N. Diep , C. Dobrigkeit , W. Docters , J. C. D'Olivo , P. N. Dong , A. Dorofeev , J. C. dos Anjos , M. T. Dova , D. D'Urso , I. Dutan , J. Ebr , R. Engel , M. Erdmann , C. O. Escobar , A. Etchegoyen , P. Facal San Luis , I. Fajardo Tapia , H. Falcke , G. Farrar , A. C. Fauth , N. Fazzini , A. P. Ferguson , A. Ferrero , B. 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The Sphere-Packing Problem

A brief report on recent work on the sphere-packing problem.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-07-16 N. J. A. Sloane