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    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

    In this issue: 'Special Launch'
    • 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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