Gaia current status
Skymap movie This “skymap” figure illustrates the areas of the sky that Gaia has already observed during these roughly five months of Commissioning. The axes are Equatorial coordinates (right ascension and declination), wheras the color scale indicates the measurement density (as observations per square degree). Such density depends both on the sky in itself and on the “scanning law” followed by Gaia. As we can see, there are areas where the density is significantly higher than in others. This is due to the special scanning laws in which Gaia has been operated during...
read moreGaia mission at UB TV
TV show: UB television Title: “La missió Gaia” Emission date: 8 April 2014 Link to the video about the ESA Gaia mission and our involvement produced by UB television. This video is only available in spanish or catalan. Carregant vídeo…
read moreGaia is out there!
On the night from 6-7 March 2014, we could observe, from two telescopes, TJO and TFRM, located at Montsec Observatory, Gaia oriented perpendicular to the Sun (SAA=0 deg). We show here two animations from the two different telescopes: Video from TJO telescope: We show a video with over 700 images obtained with the TJO during almost 4 hours. Gaia can be seen as a star moving from right to left in the center of the image. The changes in brightness are related to differences in the exposure time, which ranges from 5 to 20 seconds. Animation from TFRM telescope: It...
read moreOur team got the City of Barcelona award 2013
Were are happy! Our GaiaUB group is the winner of the City of Barcelona award 2013 in the category “Experimental Sciences and Technology”. The jury (Josep Amat, David Jou, Víctor Puntes, David Serrat i Fernando Albericio) gave the award to our team because of “the contribution, from the beginning, to the concept and design of the Gaia mission, satellite succesfully launched on 19th desember 2013 to perform a 3D map of the Milky Way”. The team did important contributions to the simulations module, processing and management of the data obtained from the satellite, and...
read moreSupercomputation and e-Science consolider video
The Spanish State Secretary of Research, Development and Innovation, Carmen Vela and the director of BSC-CNS, Mateo Valero, presented the more relevant scientific results of the Consolider Ingenio 2010 project “Supercomputación y eCiencia” (SyeC). During the event, a video summarizing the science perfomed in the framework of this project was presented. Among all these studies, Gaia is also mentioned in the video. The video is available on youtube in three different languages: English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9YPcPtPsuY Spanish:...
read moreGaia launched!
Gaia launch was successful. The event at room 105 went as planned GaiaUB enjoyed it and celebrated the launch with cava Here you can see the short video (thank to ESA) about the launch: You can also see a more complete video at the ESA blog entry http://blogs.esa.int/gaia/2013/12/19/gaia-liftoff/ General aspects Organization European Space Agency Major contractors EADS Astrium, e2v Technologies Launch date 19 December 2013. 09:12:18 GMT (10:12:18am EST) Launched from Kourou, French Guiana Launch vehicle Soyuz ST-B Mission length 5+1 years Mass 2030 kg Type of orbit...
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