Programme (FINAL v20161107)
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TIME | WHAT | WHO | SLIDES |
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10.30-11.00 | Coffee | ||
11.00: | Gaia Mission and Status | Nigel Hambly | |
11.25 | What's in Gaia DR1 | Giorgia Busso | |
11.45: | Usage of Astrometric data (inc handling of errors) | Nick Rowell | |
12.15: | The Gaia data archive - intro in how to access Gaia Data and use of ADQL in the ESA archive. | Deborah Baines | |
12.45-13.45 | Buffet lunch | ||
13.45: | Use of Gaia DR1 data from TOPCAT | Mark Taylor | |
14:15: | API access with Python to the Gaia DR1 data | Mark Taylor | |
14.45-15.00 | Coffee (and split into breakout groups) | ||
15.00: | Participants Use Cases | ||
16.30: | Participant Feedback and Wrap-Up | ||
16.45 | Close |
Date and location
Weds 9th November 2016
The workshop will be on the 3rd floor of the H H Wills Physics Laboratory, Tyndall Avenue, BS8 1TL. Entrance is from Tyndall Avenue, as shown by this map. You can find information about getting to Bristol at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/maps/directions/.
The morning session will be in room 3.34, the afternoon including breakout sessions in 3.21 and 3.27.
Please contact Mark Taylor (m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk) if you have any further questions.
Attendees
Breakout groups indicated [A: Room 3.21] or [B: Room 3.27]
- Theo Le Bret (Oxford) [B]
- Catherine Hohenkerk (HM Nautical Almanac Office) [A]
- Avon Huxor (Bristol) [B]
- Christopher Manser (Warwick) [B]
- Susan Nelmes (HM Nautical Almanac Office) [A]
- David Wilson (Warwick) [B]
- Mark Birkinshaw (Bristol) [B]
- Paresh Prema (HM Nautical Almanac Office) [A]
- Rhys Morris (Bristol) [A]
- Diana Worrall (Bristol) [B]
- Mike Hawes (Herts) [B]
- Peter Allan (RAL) [B]
- Joseph Armstrong (Keele) [A]
- Rob Jeffries (Keele) [A]
- Matthew Green (Warwick) [A]
- Nick Wright (Keele) [A]
Tutors (Groups A, B)
- Debbie Baines (ESAC, ESA) [B]
- Giorgia Busso (IoA, Cambridge) [A]
- Nigel Hambly (IfA, Edinburgh) [B]
- Nick Rowell (IfA, Edinburgh) [A]
- Mark Taylor (Bristol) [A]
- George Seabroke (MSSL/UCL) [B]
What to Bring
Each attendee is requested to bring a personal laptop.
Wireless access is available to all attendees. Eduroam is the preferred access mechanism, but alternatively The Cloud wi-fi can be used.
Pre-Meeting Software
All attendees will get the chance to use the Gaia archive tools in the afternoon sessions. Please aim to install the following software (if you don't already have them).
Installing the 'helper' clients.
- Topcat (recent version, preferably v4.3-3+): see http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/topcat/#install
- Aladin (recent version, preferably v9+): see http://aladin.cds.unistra.fr/java/nph-aladin.pl?frame=downloading
Instructions for installing Python
Some scripting access will be provided using python.
If you don’t already have a Python (scientific) stack on your computer, you can easily install the Anaconda stack. This comes with “batteries included”, and comes packed with numpy (numerical python), scipy (scientific python), Astropy (astronomical Python library), and matplotlib (a plotting library). You can get the Python 2.7 or Python 3.5 Anaconda version from: https://www.anaconda.com/download If you don’t know which Python version to chose, then select Python 3.5 (graphical or command line installer -- either is OK).Background Material and Breakout Sessions
During the breakout sessions, the tutors and attendees will aim to work through a number of the use cases that attendees have suggested at the time of registration. In addition, attendees can work through cases that they suggest on the day, with help from the tutors.Attendees and tutors are encouraged to keep a running log (please edit this Google Doc) of what they work on during the breakout sessions. This will be a public document, hence will be shared with however discovers this link.
The Gaia DR1 data can be found at:
- ESA/ESAC: http://gea.esac.esa.int/archive/
- CDS: http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/gaia
- ARI: https://gaia.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/index.html
- AIP: https://gaia.aip.de/
- ASI/ASCD: http://gaia.asdc.asi.it/
- ADQL Gaia DR1 cookbook: https://gaia.ac.uk/data/gaia-data-release-1/adql-cookbook
- CDS ADQL quick info sheet: http://tapvizier.u-strasbg.fr/adql/help.html
- GAVO ADQL help sheet: http://docs.g-vo.org/adqlref/adqlref.pdf
- TOPCAT/STILTS for Gaia reference materials: http://www.star.bristol.ac.uk/~mbt/gaia/tutorial.html
- TOPCAT-friendly monolithic TGAS table (665 Mb): http://andromeda.star.bristol.ac.uk/data/tgas_source.fits
Meals
Lunch and teas / coffee refreshments will be provided for all attendees.