Workshop Programme
This event is organised in the context of the MW-Gaia COST Action.
Program (confirmed speakers)
July 18
13:00-14:30 Session 1: Next generation astrometry in the context of Voyage 2050 (Intro. & Chair D. Hobbs)
- David Hobbs, Lund Observatory: The GaiaNIR Mission
- Daisuke Kawata, Mullard Space Science Laboratory: The JASMINE Mission
- Fabien Malbet, University of Grenoble Alpes: The Theia Mission
- Erik Høg: A brief review of 70 years with astrometry. From meridian circles to Gaia and beyond
15:00-17:30 Session 2: WG1: The Milky Way as a Galaxy: key issues for GaiaNIR (Chair: Xavier Luri)
- Cristina Chiappini, AIP Potsdam: Stellar populations in the Galactic bulge: orbital-chemical analysis
- Mercè Romero-Gómez & Teresa Antoja, ICC Barcelona: GaiaNIR mock catalogues to study the capabilities towards the inner disc
- Alis Deason, Durham (Online): The Milky Way Halo with GaiaNIR
- Ignacio Negueruela, Massive young open clusters
- Else Starkenburg, Groningen (Online): Galactic Archaeology to its limits
19:30 Casual Meet Up in Lund
July 19
09:00-10.20 Session 3: WG2: The Life and Death of Stars: key issues for GaiaNIR (Chair: Gisella Clementini)
- Tatiana Muraveva, INAF-OAS Bologna (Online): RR Lyrae stars as distance indicators and metallicity tracers: impact of Gaia and GaiaNIR
- Tristan Cantat, MPI Heidelberg: Star clusters and the Galactic mid-plane
- Giuliano Iorio, Explore the population of metal-rich RR Lyrae stars with GaiaNIR
10:50-12.30 Session 4: WG3: Planetary Systems Near and Far: key issues for GaiaNIR (Chair: Santi Roca Fàbrega)
- Paolo Tanga, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur: The Solar System at mas and μas accuracy
- Alessandro Sozzetti, INAF-OATo Torino: Exoplanet demographics in the 2050s: How does GaiaNIR fit in?
- René Heller, MPI Göttingen (Online): Inspection of exoplanetary system properties near and far
- Daniel Hestroffer, Paris Observatory: Lessons learned from Gaia toward µas astrometry on small solar system bodies
13:30-14:50 Session 5: WG5: Impact, Inclusiveness and Outreach: building the GaiaNIR community inclusively (Chair: Sergei Klioner)
- Stefan Jordan, ARI Heidelberg: Beyond the Data: Engaging the Public with Astrometry Missions through Visualisations and Fascinating Insights
- Luis Aguilar, IOA, Mexico: Engaging minorities in science: A Latin American perspective
- Tineke Roegiers, ESA: Gaia mission: challenges in communication for large data releases
15:30-17:20 Session 6: WG4: Gaia Fundamentals: Space and Time: key issues for GaiaNIR (Chair: Sonia Anton)
- Joss Bland-Hawthorn, University of Sydney (Online): A new experiment in near-field cosmology
- Sergei Klioner, Lohrmann Observatory: Developments of relativistic aspects of Gaia for next generation
- Robin Geyer, Lohrmann Observatory: Influence and detection of gravitational waves in Gaia-like astrometry
- Eero Vaher, Lund Observatory: The Gaia bright reference frame using binaries
17:30 Mingle in foyer with glass of wine
19:30 Season buffé dinner in Lund in Weibullsalen, Tegnérs Matsalar (price 500 SEK)
July 20
09:00-11:00 Session 7: Technical challenges (Chair: Nic Walton)
- Guy Rixon, IOA Cambridge, NIR Detector options
- Josep Manel Carrasco, ICC Barcelona: Photometric Systems
- Wolfgang Loeffler, ARI Heidelberg: Infrared Full Sky Scanning Mission as a Data Processing Challenge
- Nicholas Rowell, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh: Experiences from the Gaia in-flight instrument modelling and suggestions for GaiaNIR
- Gregor Traven, University of Ljubljana, Detection of multiple stellar systems from modern-precision single-epoch photometry
11:30-12:45 Session 8: GaiaNIR discussion, challenges, and next steps (Chair: David Hobbs & Nic Walton)
- All: How does GaiaNIR rank in national funding programs
- All: Open discussion on who needs to do what first
- All: Roadmap towards an L5 proposal
Organizing the workshop
SOC
- Nicholas WALTON
- Carme JORDI
- Anthony BROWN
- Despina HATZIDIMITRIOU
- Gisella CLEMENTINI
- Joris DE RIDDER
- Sonia ANTON
- Sarunas MIKOLAITIS
- David HOBBS
LOC
- David HOBBS
- Santi ROCA FÀBREGA
- Judith KORTH
- Michal PAWLAK
- Eero VAHER