Summary of activities December 2014 - February 2015

100 - Management

• First annual review report Brussels, 16 Dec 2014 (XL, NB, AB, FA, NH, LB)
• Reviewer report received 19 Jan 2015
• After many technical problems, final submission of economic report 28 Jan 2015 (PP beta-version opened on 19 Dec 2014).

200 - User community

300 - System design

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

• Test and debug of WP943 software and its installation on the ESAC Hudson system (HZ, AR, CR))
• Development of a special version of Besancon Galaxy Model for bright stars and generation of mock star catalogues to compare with Tycho data and preparation for TGAS validation (AR and RM)
• Development of data analyzing utilities for quantification of validation criteria.
• Update of VTS documents according to implementation of test procedures.
• Addition of validation procedures relevant for TGAS validation to VTS document and improvement of validation procedures for parallax.
• Addition of validation procedures for testing scale-dependent anomalies in the distribution of sources using decomposition to spherical harmonic to VTS documents. Development of software for implementation of these tests is undergoing.

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

T7.3 - Community portal, outreach and academic activities