Ode to Gaia
Posted by Gaia UB team on Sep 17, 2013 in blog
Looking up, above the brigth sky
in the darkness where the stars shine high
measuring angles and positions,
never a mission had so much ambitions.
Plotting a map of the Milky Way
and bringing our knowledge a step further away,
unraveling the Galaxy mistery.
This is how Gaia will go down in history.
Guiseppe, 30/01/2013
Giuseppe Altavilla completed his PhD at the Astronomy Department of the University of Padua (Italy) at the beginning of 2004. During his PhD he worked on a supernova search at intermediate redshift and on the absolute calibration of type Ia SNe. As a postdoc he moved to Barcelona (Spain) within the european RTN project “The Physics of Type Ia Supernova Explosions”. Nowadays he is a postdoc at the Observatory of Bologna (Italy) and he is involved in the ESA mission Gaia. As a member of the CU5, DU13, he is concerned in the absolute calibration of the Gaia G-band and BP/RP photometric system and he is actively involved in the ground based observations aimed at this goal. An Ode to Gaia was written by him early this year.
