Gaia 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...
read moreGaia: la galaxia en 3D
Conference: Planetario de Madrid Title: “Gaia: la galaxia en 3D” Emission date: 27 Nov 2013 Link to the video of the talk given by X. Luri at the Madrid Planetarium on 27th of November 2013), giving an overview of the Gaia mission. Here you have the video of his talk (in spanish). Gaia; la galaxia en 3D from Planetario de Madrid on Vimeo.
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