DPAC Newsletter
No. 24: October 21, 2014
In this issue:
DPAC News
Gaia status
Coordination Unit 7
Words of Gaia: Ecliptic
Gaia at your fingertips
PAYLOAD Experts
PhD corner
Calendar
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No. 23: April 25, 2014
In this issue:
Gaia project and DPAC News
CU2
Kourou
Cosmos & NDA
IGSL
How to chain observations of new minor planets ?
PhD corner
Calendar
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No. 22: January 16, 2014
DPAC News
The selection of Gaia as ESA's 6th Cornerstone Mission
Gaia Tracking and Orbit Determination
The orbit of Gaia
Gaia commissioning
A busy Christmas period for Gaia on its way to L2
Launch souvenirs
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No. 21: July 30, 2013
In this issue:
DPAC News
CU5
Words of Gaia: HEALPix
The Gaia Initial QSO Catalogue
Identification of known Solar system objects observed by Gaia
PhD corner
Calendar
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No. 20: May 3, 2013
In this issue:
DPAC News
Words of Gaia: Quasar
CU3
Ondřejov Observatory of the Astronomical Institute
Optimisation of the Scanning Law for a Relativity Experiment with Jupiter
GBOT Data Storage and Processing Centre
PhD and post-doc corner: Lovro Palaversa
Calendar of meetings
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No. 19: February 1, 2013
In this issue:
DPAC News
Words of Gaia: Proper motions
Strasbourg
CU1
Gaia and unresolved galaxies
Initial Data Flow: From Gaia to DPAC
Consortium info
Calendar of meetings
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No. 18: October 26, 2012
In this issue:
DPAC News
Words of Gaia: Lagrangian point L2
Focus on partners: Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux & Catania Astrophysical Observatory
Radial velocities for the HTPM project
Gaia Intermediate Data Releases
PhD and Post Doc corner: Nadejda Blagorodnova
Calendar of meetings
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No. 17: July 19, 2012
In this issue:
Words of Gaia: Ptolemy's Catalogue of Fixed Stars
Focus on partners: The Gaia DPCT (Torino) team & Leibniz-Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP)
Eight ways to see double stars that seem single
Period analysis of variable objects in Gaia
PhD and Post Doc corner: Toni Santana i Ros
Calendar of meetings
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No. 16: April 27, 2012
In this issue:
The Gould's Belt
Focus on partners: The Gaia team at the Konkoly Observatory (Hungary) & The Gaia team at GEPI (France)
The DPAC processing system
Where do we stand with AGIS in the year before launch?
PhD and Post Doc corner: Cheng Liu
Calendar of meetings
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No. 15: January 30, 2012
In this issue:
Words of Gaia: Grating
Focus on partners: The Gaia team at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) & The Gaia team at LUPM (France)
Towards an accurate alignment of the VLBI and Gaia frames
Modelling the RVS Background Signal arising from Point Sources
PhD and Post Doc corner: Paraskevi Tsalmantza
Calendar of meetings
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No. 14: October 26, 2011
In this issue:
DPAC News
Words of Gaia: Bug
Focus on partners: The Gaia team at OATo (Italy) & The Gaia team at IMCCE (France)
Spacecraft Test Campaigns
The AMBRE Project
PhD and Post Doc corner: Th. Merle
Calendar of meetings
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No. 13: July 25, 2011
In this issue:
DPAC News
Words of Gaia: Quaternions
Focus on partners: The Gaia team at University of A Coruña (Spain) & The Astrophysics Gaia team at the Liège University (Belgium)
INPOP, Planetary ephemerides for Gaia
The RVS Single transit analysis
PhD and Post Doc corner on the DPAC wiki
Calendar of meetings
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No. 12: April 29, 2011
In this issue:
DPAC News
GREAT News!
Focus on partners: The IfA Gaia team at Edinburgh University, UK & The Gaia team at Lund Observatory, Sweden
Classification with Apsis
Soyuz launchpad in Kourou
ELSA: Ummi Abbas
Calendar of meetings
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No. 11: January 31, 2011
In this issue:
DPAC News
Words of Gaia: Hammer-Aitoff projection
Focus on partners: The CNES GAIA team & Department of Physics at the University of Helsinki, Finland
Cross matching for Gaia
The Besançon Galaxy model
ELSA: Luca Santoro
Calendar of meetings
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No. 10: October 29, 2010
In this issue:
DPAC News
Words of Gaia: JAVA
The Gaia model
Focus on partners: ARI & ESAC
The role of solar activities on the Gaia mission flow
Gaia observations of asteroids: waiting for the revolution
ELSA: Aidan Fries
Calendar of meetings
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No. 9: July 23, 2010
In this issue:
DPAC News
Words of Gaia: Window
Focus on Partners: The Astronomical Padova Observatory & the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur
The morphology of millions of Galaxies that Gaia will observe
Calibration of the Gaia clock
Focus on ELSA
GREAT update
Agenda
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No. 8: April 29, 2010
In this issue:
DPAC News
Words of Gaia: Stellar Classification
Focus on Partners: The Royal Observatory of Belgium & the Gaia team at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge
The Gaia Astrometric Survey of Planetary Systems
A million of CPU hours for Gaia simulation
Focus on ELSA programme: Mihaly Varadi
New on Gaia web portal
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No. 7: January 28, 2010
In this issue:
DPAC Project Office
Words of Gaia: Radial Velocity
Focus on Partners: Department of Astronomy at the University of Vienna, Austria & Division of Astronomy and Space Physics at Uppsala University, Sweden
Astrometric velocity determination
Ground-Based Observations for Gaia
Focus on ELSA programme: Thibaut Prod'homme
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No. 6: October 30, 2009
In this issue:
Testing the DPAC integration: when the journey together begins
Focus on Partners: Copenhagen University - The Niels Bohr Institute & Geneva Observatory, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Radial Velocity Zero-Point for the Gaia RVS
Photometric Science alert
ELSA School on "the Techniques of Gaia" (28 September - 2 October)
News and events: November in Nice
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No. 5: July 30, 2009
In this issue:
Critical Design Review
Words of Gaia
Focus on Partners: NKU of Athens & Lohrmann-Observatorium, TU Dresden
Testing General Relativity with Gaia
Monitoring the Gaia Basic Angle
Focus on ELSA programme: Ester Pasquato
News and events
Agenda
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No. 4: April 30, 2009
In this issue:
MOC at ESOC
Focus on Partners: University of Lisbon & Observatoire de Besançon
Gaia data volume in perspective
Managing stellar multiplicity or the art of recycling
Mass of planets
Focus on ELSA programme: Dagmara Oszkiewicz
Gaia at IAU
Agenda
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No. 3: January 22, 2009
In this issue:
The Gaia Project / DPAC Interface Control Document
Consortium main figures
Focus on Partners: K.U. Leuven & Astronomical Observatory of Bologna
Gaia satellite
Building the Gaia Main Database
Focus on ELSA programme: Berry Holl
DPAC public webpages
Agenda
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No. 2: October 16, 2008
In this issue:
DPAC news
GAIA or Gaia?
Consortium figures
Focus on Partners: Universidad de Barcelona & Mullard Space Science Laboratory
DPAC Development cycles
Gaia and periodic variable stars
Developing Gaia's astrometric solution seeker
WMAP posing as test object for Gaia's Ground Based Optical Tracking Project
Focus on ELSA programme: Maya Belcheva
News from GREAT (Gaia Research for European Astronomy Training)
Agenda
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No. 1: March 20, 2008
In this issue:
Main features of DPAC organisation
News from DPAC executive
Focus on partners
Gaia Focal Plane
Reference system and Frame
Abundances: an astrophysical challenge for Gaia
Launcher
About ELSA programme
Calendar
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