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...
read moreGaia: El Google Maps de la Vía Láctea publica los espectros de 200 millones de estrellas (in Spanish)
Artícle published in The Conversation by M. Romero-Gómez and J.M. Carrasco Martínez.
read moreCloud computing to unveil the mysteries of our galaxy
The Galactic RainCloudS project, an initiative led by members of the Faculty of Physics, the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICCUB) of the UB and the Institute for Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), was awarded the first position in the framework of the Cloud Funding for Research call of the European project Open Clouds For Research Environments (OCRE). The project competed against 27 proposals from twelve countries in a wide range of research disciplines. This first edition of Cloud Funding For Research funds the use of commercial computational cloud resources for research. The project counts...
read moreConstellations in 3D
Eduard Masana, lecturer at the Physics Faculty and researcher of the Gaia group of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB), explains how the perspective changes the way we see the stars in the sky, and how not all the stars are at the same distances, but they could be very far from each other. Using Orion as an example, this video guides us to build the constellation in 3-D. This activity was organised by the “VI Festa de la Ciència de la Universitat de Barcelona” in virtual version with the aim to keep the connection between research and society,...
read moreTeresa Antoja en El País (in Spanish)
You can see the full article here: La científica española que busca los secretos de la Vía Láctea desde niña
read moreJavier Castañeda explains Gaia IDU @CU3 Meeting
Following the last CU3 plenary meeting, interviews were held by Prof. Stefan Jordan with several of the CU3 managers: Dr. Michael Biermann, Prof. Lennart Lindegren, José Hernández, Dr. Javier Castañeda Pons, Prof. Sergei Klioner, and Dr. Katja Weingrill. They explain the contribution of CU3 to the Gaia mission. The videos can be seen in two versions (short 20 minutes and the longer, 50 mins) here: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/iow_20210623 The Gaia data releases contain a wealth of astrophysical data on about 1.8 billion stars in our Milky Way and beyond. The creation of these data...
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