Holger Voss
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Webpage: http://hvossgaia.wordpress.com Office number: V709 (7th floor new Physics Building) Telephone number: +34 93 402 11 26 Task: GAIA-CU5 (Photometric calibration), Payload Expert
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Dr. Holger Voss is a researcher involved in the calibration of photometric and spectrophotometric data in CU5 Gaia DPAC. He studied physics at the Free University of Berlin and received his doctorate at the Technical University of Berlin developed a search from land transits of extrasolar planets (Berlin Exoplanet Search Telescope) for the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in support of the space mission CoRoT.
He is currently involved in internal calibration internal Gaia photometric data in the G band and the selection of stars photometric standards. It also helps in characterizing the instrument and determination of parameters for data management on board.
It also contributes to the process of data validation before they are published.
He is actively contributes to public disclosure by communication tools and social networking activities with model rockets.
Most relevant publications:
- PhD thesis: Developing a ground-based search system for transits of extrasolar planets
- “Gaia broad band photometry”, Jordi et al. 2010, A&A 523, 48
- “The Berlin Exoplanet Search Telescope System”, Rauer et al. 2004, PASP 116, 38
- “Pre-Discovery Observations of CoRoT-1b and CoRoT-2b with the BEST Survey”, Rauer et al. 2010, AJ 139, 53
- “Comparative blind test of five planetary transit detection algorithms on realistic synthetic light curves”, Moutou et al. 2004, A&A 437, 355
- “The Gaia spectrophotometric standard stars survey – I. Preliminary results”,Pancina et al. 2012, MNRAS 426, 1767
- “Exoplanetary transits as seen by Gaia”, Voss et al. 2013, Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VII, Proceedings of the X Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA), held in Valencia, July 9 – 13, 2012, Eds.: J.C. Guirado, L.M. Lara, V. Quilis, and J. Gorgas., pp.738-743
