Gaia UB team meeting at Collbató

Last Friday 14th of April 2023, our annual meeting took place in Collbató.

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Veus de Gaia, la «màquina dels descobriments»

Mercè Romero i Josep Manel Carrasco són dos de la vintena d’investigadors del grup Gaia UB, o sigui, dues de les veus de la missió ESA Gaia. En aquesta entrevista a la web de la Facultat de Física de la UB parlen de Gaia. ESA Gaia va fer públic al mes de juny el tercer release, el Gaia Data Release (Gaia DR3), és a dir, les dades recopilades pel telescopi en els primers tres anys de la missió. Va tenir molta repercussió mediàtica. «Estem molt contents d’estar en totes les etapes del procés i de l’impacte en la comunitat científica de les dades que es publiquen» i «molt contents de veure que...

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Memory game

You want to train your memory? Gaia mission can help you with that while having fun!! The game consists in 2 copies of 20 different images, in total 40 cards with images related with the Gaia Mission. The aim of the game is to match up the identical images. You can play this game online: https://gaia.ub.edu/memory/ Steps: Each player turn a pair of cards up in their turn in order to locate the two identical cards. If identical images are found they will remain uncovered and the player has another turn. Otherwise, both cards will be hidden again and the player loses the turn. You must try to...

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Gaia EDR3 bulk catalogue available in a better compression format

The Gaia group at the University of Barcelona (IEEC – ICCUB), in cooperation with DAPCOM Data Services (a technological spin-off company of the UPC and the UB), has published an alternative copy of the bulk data files from Gaia EDR3 – the Early Data Release 3 from Gaia. Gaia EDR3 was published yesterday, 3rd December 2020. 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...

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Gaia EDR3 en tus manos

Now you can enjoy the conference Gaia, our Galaxy in your hands by our researchers, Mercè Romero and Josep Manel Carrasco that was given last Thursday, December 3rd at 19.00 via Youtube Live, the conference is in Spanish. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia satellite is revolutionizing the astronomy, providing unprecedented clues about the origin and evolution of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. Coinciding with the third publication of mission data, with more than 1.8 billion objects, we describe the mission, review Gaia’s strategy for observing the Universe, and analyse the latest...

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Gaia EDR3 en tus manos

Coloquio-tertulia sobre los datos de Gaia-eDR3 Jueves 3 de diciembre, 16:30 a 18:30 Video del acto en YouTube Objetivos de la reunión A las 12:00 del próximo 3 de diciembre se hará pública la tercera entrega de datos de la misión Gaia, sin duda otro valioso hito esperado por la comunidad astronómica y, muy en particular, por nuestra comunidad REG. El equipo DPAC España queremos compartir, mediante este coloquio-tertulia, las lecciones aprendidas durante las fases de tratamiento de los datos y la obtención de los primeros resultados científicos publicados en los “demonstration papers”. Os...

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