– The posters (with a possibliy limited pdf resolution) are the following: Blomme et al.: Emission-line Stars and Early-type Stars with Gaia - Bourda et al.: Future radio reference frames and implications for the Gaia link Busso: The Photometric Gaia Processing Chen & Ko: Membership Identification of Globular Clusters Di Matteo et al.: The impact of minor mergers on the anisotropy of stellar orbits Gouda et al.: Series of JASMINE missions Hatsutori et al.: Performance evaluation of (…)
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Scientific Programme
– Invited talks: 20 min + 5 min questions .
– Contributed talks: 12 min + 3 min questions.
– The ELSA 2010 programme with timing is available here.
– The poster list is here. A complete list of the talks (invited and contributions) and posters, along with the abstracts, is available here.
– The booklet of abstracts is available here.
Monday 7 June
Welcome
Session 1: ELSA and Gaia: context and status
Sessions 2 and 3: Modelling Gaia
| Gaia data simulations: a powerful tool to prepare for scientific exploitation | X. Luri & C. Babusiaux |
| Testing instrument capabilities from simulations | D. Gardiol |
| Long term analysis for the BAM device | D. Bonino & D. Gardiol (contribution) |
| Modelling the attitude: lessons learnt from Hipparcos | F. van Leeuwen |
Sessions 3 and 4: Detectors and radiations
| Modelling the attitude of the Gaia satellite | D. Risquez |
| Radiation effects on Gaia CCDs | T. Prod’homme |
| Native and irradiated Charge Transfer Inefficiency characterization | J.F. Pasquier |
| Implementation of models for Charge Transfer Inefficiency (CTI) in the Gaia pixel-level data simulator | M. Weiler & C.Babusiaux |
| Next generation of light detectors in Astronomy | R. Kohley |
Session 4: Gaia data processing: harware and network side
| Hardware and networks for Gaia data processing | W. O’Mullane et al. |
| The CNES role in the GAIA data processing | X. Passot & O. La Marle (contribution) |
Welcome drink
Dessert talk: The Depth of Heavens: belief and knowledge during 2500 years, E. Høg
Tuesday 8 June
Session 1: Processing massive data flows
Sessions 1 and 2: Gaia astrometry
| The astrometric solution of Gaia: A hard problem | L. Lindegren & U. Bastian |
| Monitoring the quality of the astrometric solution | A. Bombrun |
| Characterizing the astrometric errors in the Gaia catalogue | B. Holl et al. |
| News on Seeking Gaia’s Astrometric Core Solution with AGIS | U. Lammers & L. Lindegren (contribution) |
| Global Sphere Reconstruction in the Astrometric Verification Unit | U. Abbas |
Session 3: Space astrometry: from milli- to micro-arcsec astrometry
| Nano-JASMINE: use of AGIS for the next astrometric satellite | Y. Yamada |
| Space Interferometry Mission (SIM)-Lite Status | M. Shao et al. (contribution) |
| The Joint Milli-Arcsecond Pathfinder Mission | Gaume et al. (contribution) |
Sessions 3 and 4: Gaia photometry and variability analysis
| Gaia photometry (G and BP/RP): methods, performance and problems | C. Jordi et al. |
| Gaia spectro-photometry calibration and comparison to ground-based systems | C. Cacciari |
| The variable Universe through Gaia’s eyes | L. Eyer et al. |
| Study of short period variables and small amplitude periodic variables | M. Varadi & L. Eyer |
| Real-time classification of astronomical transients | A. Mahabal |
Wednesday 9 June
Session 1: Gaia spectroscopy and stellar parameter determination
| The Gaia spectroscopic instrument (RVS): a technical challenge | M. Cropper & D.Katz |
| Gaia spectroscopy: methods, performances and scientific returns | D. Katz et al. |
| Ground-based RVS standard stars | G. Jasniewicz et al. |
Session 2: Ground-based spectroscopy
| Hunting for stellar streams in the solar neighbourhood with the SDSS and GSC-II kinematic survey | P. re Fiorentin |
| Tests of MATISSE on large spectral datasets from the ESO archive | C. Worley et al. (contribution) |
| Prospects for wide field multi-object spectroscopic instrumentation | K. Freeman |
| GYES, a multifibre spectrograph for the CFHT, and European context | P. Bonifacio et al. (contribution) |
Session 3: Solar system objects
| New perspectives in Solar System science: Gaia in the 2015 context | P. Tanga & F. Mignard |
| Inverse methods for asteroid orbit computation | D. Oszkiewicz et al. |
| Complementary ground-based observations for Solar System applications | W. Thuillot & D. Hestroffer |
Visit of the Department of the definition of the atomic time, BIPM (20 people max)
Gala dinner
Thursday 10 June
Sessions 1 and 2: Stars: basic elements of the Universe
Sessions 3 and 4: The Galaxy and its neighbours
| The Galaxy with Large Surveys: Successes and Future Analysis Challenges | M. Juric |
| Prospect for dynamical modelling of the Galaxy: Gaia in the 2015 context | D. Pfenniger |
| The chemical evolution of the Galactic thick and thin disks | C. Chiappini |
| A New Mechanism for Galactic Disc Mixing: Implications to the Milky Way Evolution | I. Minchev (contribution) |
| Preparing the Besancon Galaxy Model for the comparison with Gaia data | M.A. Czekaj et al. |
| Can we use the nearby velocity distribution to constrain the properties of the bar and the spiral arms of the MW? Gaia capabilities | T. Antoja et al. (contribution) |
| Gaia: new perspectives in understanding the galactic bulge | C. Babusiaux |
| Dynamical inference from a kinematic snapshot | J. Bovy & D. Hogg (contribution) |
Friday 11 June
Session 1: The Galaxy and outside
| New perspectives from the Galactic halo | A. Helmi |
| Modelling stellar populations in galaxies resolved in stars by Gaia | M. Belcheva et al. |
| Synthetic and Observed Spectra of Stars and Stellar Populations as Templates for Gaia | T. Saguner et al. |
| The unresolved galaxies with Gaia | M. Kontizas et al. |
Session 2: Gaia and beyond
| QSO survey and reference frame with Gaia | P. Charlot |
| How I expect to access the GAIA catalogue | D. Hogg |
| Gaia outreach features available to the scientific community | C. Blasco |
| Concluding remarks | A. Brown |