Spanish ICTS contribution to ESA's Gaia mission - a RIA workshop

Madrid, 21 March 2012

Reunión organizada por la Red de Infraestructuras en Astronomía (RIA) con el objetivo de reunir a los científicos involucrados en el desarrollo de la misión Gaia con los agentes gestores de las ICTS para valorar las necesidades de la comunidad española en Gaia y las posibles aportaciones en el contexto actual y futuro de las ICTS españolas.

New: Report with conclusions and actions (uploaded, May 10th, 2012)

Session 1: Current status and overview towards the future.

9:00-11:00 Chair: Julia de León

• Welcome and introduction to the meeting: Pilar Román/CDTI, Jordi Torra/RIA, Carme Jordi
• Gaia status, spectroscopic and photometric surveys, Carme Jordi
• Auxiliary data for the Gaia data processing : Overview of the ground-based observing programs, Caroline Soubiran
• Data validation in the Gaia final catalog, Frédéric Arenou
• Gaia-ESO survey, Ignacio Negueruela
• High-resolution UVES in the Gaia-ESO survey, Jonay I. González

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

Session 1: Current status and overview towards the future (continuation).

11:30-12:00 Chair: Jesús Maíz-Apellániz

• Development of spectroscopic instrumentation in the Spanish framework (WEAVE, MIRADAS, MEGARA, EMIR, HEXA), Francesca Figueras
• VO as a tool for scientific exploitation of Gaia data, Enrique Solano

Session 2: Science cases

12:00-13:20

• Chemical Abundances in intermediate-age/old Open Clusters from the North, Ricardo Carrera et al
• The IACOB Project: Synergies for the Gaia Era, Sergio Simón-Díaz et al
• The bottom of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram with Gaia, José A. Caballero
• High-resolution spectroscopy of FGK-type stars pre- and post- Gaia, David Montes

13:20-15:00 Lunch at CDTI

Session 2: Science cases (continuation).

15:00-17:00 Chair: F. Comerón

• Surveys of massive stars: preparing for Gaia, Jesús Maíz-Apellániz
• Complementary observations of minor bodies for Gaia data, Rene Duffard et al
• UV-Visible spectra of primitive asteroids: support observations for the GAIA mission, Julia de León et al
• Identification/characterization of objects of unknown nature (outliers) observed by Gaia, Minia Manteiga et al
• Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies: end of the Milky Way missed satellites problem ?, Sebastián L. Hidalgo y Antonio Aparicio
• Complementing Gaia in star forming regions, Hervé Bouy
• Stellar tracers of Cygnus Arm, Amparo Marco
• Star formation in the Gould Belt: paving the way for Gaia, A. Mora

17:00-17:30 coffee break

Session 3: Open discussion by the audience.

17:30-18:30

Conclusions of the meeting and requests to the Spanish ICTS Proposals to present at the “Science with ORM and CAHA”