• Final tests on parallelized computing
• Final test on asynchronous jobs
• First version of the new web interface

• YY invited Prof. F. Mignard (OCA) and Prof. G. Gilmore (IoA) to the summer school of distance ladder by using EU-FP7 money. (http://stella.astron.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/CDSchool/) Number of participants are 71, from 19 countries. They are the potential users of Gaia data. FM and GG had lectures. In these lectures, characteristics of Gaia data and its possible science topics are introduced. These lectures are useful for potential users of Gaia data. Audiences understood how and what purpose the astrometric data will be used. JASMINE member have discussion with FM on Nano-JASMINE data analysis (YY went to Tokyo for organizing/attending the discussion meeting). Kye of the Nano-JASMINE data analyis will be the accuracy of attitude reconstruction. In Gaia observations, number of stars on the same focal plane will be large. Attitude will be reconstructed easily. On the other hand in Nano-JASMINE, attitude reconstruction will be hard problem like the case of Hipparcos. Also JASMINE member have discussion with GG on possible collaboration of post-Gaia and Japan astrometry community. Infrared astrometry technique will be the candidate of post-Gaia collaboration with Japan. Viewgraphs of FM and GG will be here. Please ask file read password to YY. Sorry, I cannot remove password.

• Costigan has lead the development of ideas for the simple archive interface, through telecons (15th June) and wiki enteries (http://wiki.cosmos.esa.int/gaia-dpac/index.php/CU9:960:Simple_Archive_Query). She has also been in contact with a number of amateur groups to gain ideas as to how they expect to interact with the Gaia archive.

• Costigan has investigated and written up ideas for the Living Archive aspect of the Gaia archive (GCO-003).
• Costigan tool part in the CU9 Plenary meeting in Barcelona, where she presented the document on the Living archive to the Archetecture splinter, as well as those issues brought up in GCO-002. Costigan also presented those requirements gather from amateur user groups for the development of the simple archive interface.

• Hypki finished a draft document on the project deliverables for WP2 T2.3 "Confronting complex models with complex catalogues - User Requirements Specification"
• Hypki finished a draft document on the project deliverables for WP2 T2.3 "Confronting complex models with complex catalogues - Technical Specification"
• Hypki took part in the CU9 plenary meeting in Barcelona, 21-23 September 2015. He verified with other CU9 members the technical feasibility of the proposed advanced requirements specified in the deliverable T2.3

• Realization of tests for proper motion and parallaxes
• Comparison of BGM model simulation done specifically for TGAS with AGISLab simulation to determine reliability of the model and set the thresholds for validation
• Run test on preliminary TGAS solution
• Report on the validation of TGAS for proper motions and parallaxes

• Preparation and selection of new small catalogues and groups of stars to confront with Gaia data: Cepheids, RRLyrae, Rave, VLBI, Tycho2 and Simbad High Velocity stars,... - Babusiaux, Ruiz-Dern, Turon
• Test improvements, adapted to ValidationTools optimizations - Babusiaux, Shih
• Tests for TGAS ready and operational, already running at ESAC with real TGAS data - Babusiaux, Arenou, Ruiz-Dern:
  • Priority 1:
    • Sky homogeneity (only duplications test case, WP944_Val_010_001)
    • Comparison to Hipparcos astrometry (WP944_Val_030_003)
    • Parallax Zero-Point using very distant stars (WP944_Val_030_006)
  • Priority 2:
    • Known High Proper Motion stars (WP944_Val_030_004)
  • Priority 3:
    • Known issues for specific stars (WP944_Val_010_003)
    • Parallax Zero-Point using external distances (WP944_Val_030_005)

• Draft of Validation Test Report with all implemented tests and the results obtained using TGAS simulated data and Hipparcos data - Ruiz-Dern

• brought five internal consistency tests to full operation - Findeisen
• standardised all code in preparation for first TGAS preliminary solution (see above) - Findeisen
• initial release of StatisticalTools library of analysis tools - Findeisen
• extensive calibration simulations of several validation tests; reports on simulation results pending - Findeisen

• Participation to Genius telecon T8 (June 5) - Arenou
• Participation to Genius telecon T9 (July 3) - Arenou
• Organisation of T5/WP940 telecon T11 with validation managers (June 18) - Arenou
• Organisation of T5/WP940 telecon T12 with validation managers (July 10) - Arenou
• Organisation of 5 telecons with T5.2 - Arenou
• Organisation, run, and diffusion of the first TGAS preliminary solution (June 26) - Arenou

• Development of summaryStatistics package (June) - Leclerc
• Integration of Vaex - Breddels

• Gilmore.pdf: Presentations of CDL summer school.

• Mignard.pdf: Presentations of CDL summer school.

• YY invited Prof. F. Mignard (OCA) and Prof. G. Gilmore (IoA) to the summer school of distance ladder by using EU-FP7 money. (http://stella.astron.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/CDSchool/) Number of participants are 71, from 19 countries. They are the potential users of Gaia data. FM and GG had lectures. In these lectures, characteristics of Gaia data and its possible science topics are introduced. These lectures are useful for potential users of Gaia data. Audiences understood how and what purpose the astrometric data will be used. JASMINE member have discussion with FM on Nano-JASMINE data analysis. Kye of the Nano-JASMINE data analyis will be the accuracy of attitude reconstruction. In Gaia observations, number of stars on the same focal plane will be large. Attitude will be reconstructed easily. On the other hand in Nano-JASMINE, attitude reconstruction will be hard problem like the case of Hipparcos. Also JASMINE member have discussion with GG on possible collaboration of post-Gaia and Japan astrometry community. Infrared astrometry technique will be the candidate of post-Gaia collaboration with Japan. Viewgraphs of FM and GG will be here. Please ask file read password to YY. Sorry, I cannot remove password.

• Gilmore.pdf: Presentations of CDL summer school.

• Mignard.pdf: Presentations of CDL summer school.

WP1 - Management

WP2 - User community

• Costigan has lead the development of ideas for the simple archive interface, through telecons (15th June) and wiki enteries (http://wiki.cosmos.esa.int/gaia-dpac/index.php/CU9:960:Simple_Archive_Query).
• Costigan has worked on estabilishing Beta testing alongside with N. Hambley and G. Garcia. This mainly included a detailed review the use case scenarios (AB-026), their implementation status, and possibility of testing with the current data sets available. This has been written up (GCO-002) and is awaiting further review from other parties.

WP3 - System design

WP4 - Data Exploitation

WP5 - Validation

WP6 - Support

WP7 - Dissemination

• Gaiaverse's mobile optimization.
• Mozilla, Chrome and Internet Explorer optimization as to achieve better performance.
• Introduction of multilingual contents and revision of the previous ones according to the comments submitted by the Editorial Board.

• Gaiavere's mobile optimization.
• Mozilla and Internet Explorer optimization as to achieve better performance.
• Introduction of mulilingual contents and revision of the previous ones according to the comments submitted by the Editorial Board.

Gaiaverse is planned to be launched in the beginning of July.

• 06/2015 Marese (ASDC) provided a LL document on the planned WP240 Seamless data retrieval across archives and wavelength domains
• 06/2015 Michele Fabrizio selected for WP240 1 yr contract at ASDC will begin in july 2015
• 06/2015 ASDC organized a workshop on cross-matching in different wavelength domain, from gamma-ray to FIR.
• 06/2015 Solano put Marese and Francois-Xavier Pineau of FP7 Arches in contact - someone from Genius will attend the Arches end of program conference in Paris

• 06/2015 Update on standalone TAP access being deveoped by OATs: IA2_status_proTrimTele.18.06.2015.pdf

Summary of activities June 2015 - August 2015

T7.3 - Community portal, outreach and academic activities

Summary of activities March 2014 - May 2015

100 - Management

• Second GENUS trimestral telecon on 18 of June 2015.

200 - User community

300 - System design

T3.1 Technical Coordination

T3.2 Aspects of archive interface design

T3.3 VO infrastructure

T3.4 Data Centre collaboration

T3.5 Data mining environments

400 - Data Exploitation

T4.2 - Visualization

T4.3 - Data Mining

T4.4 - VO tools and services

500 - Validation

T5.1 - Technical coordination

T5.2 - Definition of problem cases, validation scenarios and tools

T5.3 - Simulation versus reality: from models to observables

T5.4 - Confronting Gaia to external archives

T5.5 - Data demining: outlier analysis

T5.6 - Transversal tools for special objects

600 - Support

T6.2-Simulated Catalogue

T6.3-Science Alerts testbed

700 - Dissemination

T7.1 - Coordination of dissemination activities

T7.2 - Community portal infrastructure

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