Gaia starts mapping the galactic bar in the Milky Way (Notícies UB, 16/07/2019)
Gaia starts mapping the galactic bar in the Milky Way (Notícies UB) The first direct measurement of the bar-shaped collection of stars at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy has been made by combining data from the Gaia mission (European Space Agency, ESA) with complementary observations by ground- and space-based telescopes. The study, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, was led by researchers from the Institute of Science Cosmos of the University of Barcelona and from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (Germany). The second release of data from Gaia star-mapping...
read moreRoger Mor: En busca del nacimiento de la Vía Láctea (El Mundo, 13/05/2019)
ROGER MOR En busca del nacimiento de la Vía Láctea (El Mundo) El científico del Instituto de Ciencias del Cosmos de la Universidad de Barcelona encabeza como primer firmante, un trabajo de investigación que profundiza en el porqué y cuándo del nacimiento de las estrellas de la Vía Láctea gracias a los datos de la sonda Gaia.
read moreThe article “El primer mapa 3D de la Vía Láctea” published in the Spanish version of Scientific American
By: C. Jordi, E. Masana Journal: Investigación y Ciencia, Nº 510, march 2019 Language: Spanish The article on the ESA’s Gaia space mission by Carme Jordi and Eduard Masana, researchers from the Barcelona Gaia team at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences UB, has been published on March in the journal Investigación y Ciencia. La misión Gaia, de la ESA, ha cartografiado con una precisión sin precedentes 1300 millones de estrellas de la galaxia. Sus resultados están cambiando la forma de ver y entender nuestro entorno cósmico. ¿Cómo se formó la Vía Láctea? ¿De dónde proceden las estrellas que...
read moreJordi Torra i Roca, Barcelona, 23/04/1949 – 26/02/2019
Ph.D. in Physics by the Universitat de Barcelona (1984) and Professor in the Department of Quantum Physics and Astrophysics in the same University, he focused his research career in the study of the structure, formation and evolution of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. He was one of the pioneers at European level in the development of the field of Astrometry from Space. In the 80s he accepted the challenge to lead the Spanish participation in the European Space Agency’s Hipparcos mission and, as a result from this work, Spain is fully participating in the Gaia mission, launched in 2013 and...
read moreGaia detects a shake in the Milky Way
Image: The spiral shape of fig 1c of our article appears inside an old watch symbolising the fact that these data has allowed us to date back the perturbation that shook the Milky Way disk. This figure shows how from the new obtained Gaia data we can know more about the past of the Galaxy. Credit: Edmon de Haro/iStock. Researchers of the UB and the University of Groningen lead one of the first big discoveries from the Gaia Mission, published in Nature A team led by researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB, UB-IEEC) and the...
read moreGaia DR2 bulk catalogue available in FAPEC format
The Gaia group at the Universitat de Barcelona (IEEC – ICCUB), in cooperation with DAPCOM Data Services S.L. (a technological spin-off company of the UPC and the UB), has published an alternative copy of the bulk data files from Gaia DR2 – the second data release from Gaia. Gaia DR2 was published on 25 April 2018. Besides the on-line catalogue, bulk CSV files were also made available for download – an interesting option for exhaustive analyses. Such files are officially offered in “csv.gz” format, that is, compressed with the widely known gzip compressor. On 6...
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