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Scientific results from the Gaia mission
winter term 2018/2019
Lecturer: Stefan Jordan with Ulrich Bastian
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2 participants
Lecturer: Stefan Jordan with Ulrich Bastian
Link to LSF
2 participants
Scientific results from the Gaia mission - A new view of our galaxy (MVSem, WS18/19)
Master Pflichtseminar
If the time of the seminar is not fitting into your schedule, please send an Email to jordan@ari.uni-heidelberg.de. In that case we may be able to find a new date.
Aim:
This seminar aims at presentations of scientific results from the Gaia mission. The second Gaia catalogue containing data for more than 1.7 billion stars was published on April 25, 2018 and changed our view of the stars and our Milky Way. Within five months the Gaia Data Release 2 led to more than 400 scientific papers from dozens of different fields of astronomy. The idea of this seminar is to choose the most interesting and fascinating results as topics for presentations and to learn more about the Gaia data which will revolutionise our understanding of the Milky Way and the stars.
Supervisors:
Stefan Jordan (jordan@ari.uni-heidelberg.de)
Ulrich Bastian (bastian@ari.uni-heidelberg.de)
ARI/ZAH, Mönchhofstr. 12-14, 69118 Heidelberg
Location:
ARI Seminar room (first floor)
Time:
Tuesdays, 9:15-10:45
First Seminar:
October 16, 2018, 9:15
Next dates:
November 6, 2018, 11:15: Uli Bastian on Gaia data reduction
Student presentations on Gaia Science:
December 18, 2018, 10:00
In order to obtain the 6 credit points students must give a presentation and write a summary on the presentation and topic (about 10 pages).
Suggested topics for seminar talks
- Gaia DR2 and hypervelocity stars
- Gaia DR2 and stellar streams
- Gaia DR2 and spiral arms
- Gaia DR2 and structures in the phase-space
Some information about the Gaia mission:
- ESA Gaia homepage: http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia
- Info on Gaia Data Release 2:https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr2
- Info on Gaia Data Release 1: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr1
- Papers based on Gaia Data Release 2: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?library&libname=Gaia+DR2&libid=58e66b71f4
- Papers for the suggested topics: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?library&libname=Suggested+Papers+for+Gaia+Seminar+(Gaia+DR2)&libid=58e66b71f4
- Genius/DPAC Gaia homepage: http://gaiaverse.eu
- Papers based on Gaia Data Release 1: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?library&libname=Gaia+DR1&libid=58e66b71f4
- „Gaia -First Data Release': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z_O66Z4l6Y
- Detailed information about Gaia DR2: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr2
- Gaia Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTUZKJKqW_n-9dlDBQP7CluQw3IVd4dEC
- Gaia DR2 - Video guides for scientist: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/guide-to-scientists
Mandatory for all: Read the DR2 overview paper: 2018arXiv180409365G and the Astrometry paper: 2018arXiv180409366L
Your presentation should have a lenght of 30 minutes plus 15 minutes of discussion.
We will suggest some highlight topics and papers on October 30, 11:15).
After this you can send your choice of a topic to jordan@ari.uni-heidelberg.de with CC to bastian@ari.uni-heidelberg.de
Material
Practice groups
- Group Group (Stefan Jordan, Ulrich Bastian)
2 participants
