Summary of activities June 2015 - August 2015
WP1 - Management
- Second GENUS trimestral telecon on 18 of June 2015.
WP2 - User community
- 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
- 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.
- 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
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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.
WP3 - 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
WP4 - Data Exploitation
T4.2 - Visualization
T4.3 - Data Mining
T4.4 - VO tools and services
WP5 - Validation
T5.1 - Technical coordination
- 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
T5.2 - Definition of problem cases, validation scenarios and tools
- 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
T5.3 - Simulation versus reality: from models to observables
- 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
T5.4 - Confronting Gaia to external archives
- 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
T5.5 - Data demining: outlier analysis
- Development of summaryStatistics package (June) - Leclerc
- Integration of Vaex - Breddels
T5.6 - Transversal tools for special objects
WP6 - Support
T6.2-Simulated Catalogue
T6.3-Science Alerts testbed
WP7 - Dissemination
T7.1 - Coordination of dissemination activities
T7.2 - Community portal infrastructure
Once the Editorial Board gave the OK to the portal design, further steps have been done:
- 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.
A Gaiaverse's Twitter account has been created, whose objective is to reinforce the portal dissemination around and establish users engagement from the very beginning. This Gaiaverse account will complement the GENIUS project account.
Gaiaverse is planned to be launched in the beginning of July.
T7.3 - Community portal, outreach and academic activities