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ESA SCIENCE NEWSLETTER

ISSUE #01/2025 - 21 JAN 2025

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			Director of Science Town Hall in January Building on the overwhelming interest in ESA's First Director of Science Town Hall, it is our pleasure to invite all members of the scientific community to the Second Director of Science Town Hall, to be held virtually on 23 January 2025 from 14:00 CET.  The Town Hall will provide an opportunity to understand the plans and priorities of the ESA Science programme, with a particular focus on how it will continue to serve the interests of the scientific community. Registration for the event is available on the Town Hall website. Read more

			Call for Medium and Fast missions to be issued on 19 March 2025 The next Call for Medium (M8) and Fast (F3) mission opportunities will be issued on 19 March 2025. The Call documentation, including a technical annex, will provide details of the programmatic context, boundary conditions (for example, payload provision, cost and schedule, mission profiles, international collaboration), as well as outlines of the two-phase submission process and the timeline for proposal endorsement by funding agencies. Preliminary information concerning this Call can be found in the recording of the briefing meeting held on 11 December, the presentation files, and the Q&A from the meeting, which are available at the Call website. Read more

			Exploratory Call for mini-Fast mission proposals to be issued on 19 March 2025 An exploratory Call for a new type of agile mission in the ESA Science Programme - mini-Fast missions - will be issued on 19 March 2025. The purpose of this Call is to probe the interest in and feasibility of mini-Fast missions, which could address science objectives implementable in a period of less than five years (from Phase 0 to launch). Such missions could benefit the Science Programme by allowing higher involvement and visibility for many Member States, opening opportunities for new communities, increasing the cadence of missions, and investigating new implementation schemes. Preliminary information concerning this exploratory Call can be found in the recording of the briefing meeting held on 11 December, the presentation files, and the Q&A from the meeting, which are available online. Read more

	Recent science highlights: XMM-Newton catches giant black hole’s X-ray oscillations Last starlight for ground-breaking Gaia

	Upcoming ESA conferences: ESLAB Euclid symposium 2025 *24 - 26 March 2025, Leiden, Netherlands* The ESLAB Euclid Symposium 2025 will focus on Euclid science and on the upcoming Euclid quick data release, including a preview of the deep field areas, which is planned for March 2025. A special session will be devoted to the description of the Euclid data and first scientific results.

	X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions & repeating nuclear transients *16-19 June 2025, ESA/ESAC, Madrid, Spain* Extreme-variability, often repeating phenomena associated with supermassive black holes including tidal disruption events, quasi-periodic eruptions, and changing-look AGN are observed with increasing frequency. This workshop will provide an environment where observers and theorists can together advance our understanding of the dynamic and complex environments which exist in galactic nuclei.

	The 3rd international Machine Learning in Heliophysics hybrid conference *22-26 September 2025, ESA/ESAC, Madrid, Spain and online* The ML-Helio conference will focus on data science techniques to tackle fundamental problems in space weather forecasting, automatic event identification, feature detection and tracking, as well as combination of physics-based models with ML techniques. It will consist of lectures, complemented by hands-on tutorials on Python tools and data resources available to the heliophysics machine learning community.

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