Programme
TIME | WHAT | WHO | SLIDES |
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Gaia-DR1 Session | |||
09.00: | Gaia Mission Status and looking ahead to DR2 | Nicholas Walton (IoA, Cambridge) | |
09.20: | What's in Gaia DR1 | Nicholas Walton (IoA, Cambridge) | |
09.50: | The ESA Gaia Archive | Deborah Baines (ESAC, ESA) | |
10.20: | The Gaia Data Archive: Plans for DR2 | Deborah Baines (ESAC, ESA) | |
10.30: | Coffee | ||
11.00-12.30: | NAM 2017 Plenary Session | ||
12.30-13.30: | Lunch | ||
13.30: | Gaia: Usage of Astrometric data (inc handling of errors) | Nigel Hambly (IfA, Edinburgh) | |
13.50: | Use of Gaia DR1 data from TOPCAT | Mark Taylor (Bristol) | |
14:20: | API access with Python to the Gaia DR1 data | Deborah Baines (ESAC, ESA) | |
14.30: | Spectroscopy in Gaia DR2 | George Seabroke (MSSL, UCL) | |
14.45: | Looking ahead - Variability in DR2 | Giorgia Busso (IoA, Cambridge) | |
15.00 | Close |
Date and Location
Mon 3rd July 2017
The workshop will be held as a parallel session at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting 2017 (NAM2017) in Hull, UK. Full details at https://nam2017.org/
Related Gaia Software
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). 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
- ARI ADQL tutorial page: http://docs.g-vo.org/adql-gaia with associated slides http://docs.g-vo.org/adql-gaia/html/pop.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