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The Department of Physics offers a number of astronomy/astrophysics courses, at both undergraduate level (first cycle) and advanced level (second cycle). Many of the courses are relevant to physics students in general, and some are more…

https://www.astro.lu.se/Education/courses- 2024-02-06

https://www.astro.lu.se/- 2020-11-26

A transcription of the first episode of season three. Nic: We are back! You are listening to the first episode of a brand new third season of the Meridian and we are once again coming to you from Lund Observatory in southern Sweden.   We…

https://www.astro.lu.se/meridian-s03e01- 2023-03-10

A transcription of the second episode of season three. Lucian: This is the second episode of the third season of the Meridian, and we are once again recording at Lund Observatory, Sweden. Crossing our local Meridian today, we are lucky to…

https://www.astro.lu.se/meridian-s03e02- 2023-03-17

 Join our 2025 mailing list and get information about upcoming stargazing sessions and other outreach activites hosted by our astronomers.  By joining our 2025 mailing list you will get information about upcoming events and have the chance…

https://www.astro.lu.se/form/register-interest-attending-outreach-event- 2024-12-06

A transcription of the third episode of season three. Rebecca:   Welcome to the third episode of the third season The Meridian, produced by and recorded at Lund Observatory in Sweden. Crossing our local Meridian today, we have our own…

https://www.astro.lu.se/meridian-s03e03- 2023-03-24

This event is organised in the context of the MW-Gaia COST Action   Lennart Lindegren,   Lund Observatory,   Dinner Erik Høg,   Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen,   Dinner David Hobbs, Lund Observatory,   Dinner Paul McMillan, Lund…

https://www.astro.lu.se/GaiaNIR/Roadmap/workshop-participants- 2023-07-13

Lund : 18-20 Jul 2023   Lund Observatory invites scientists to join the MW-Gaia 2023 meeting: Register for the MW-Gaia 2023 meeting This workshop that will be held in Lund, Sweden, on the 18th and 20th of July 2023. This workshop will…

https://www.astro.lu.se/GaiaNIR/Roadmap- 2023-07-21

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…

https://www.astro.lu.se/GaiaNIR/Roadmap/workshop-programme- 2023-09-15

Vi här på Lunds universitet är nyfikna att veta hur det gick sen för dig och ditt gymnasiearbete. Vi skulle därför uppskatta om du kunde svara på några frågor för oss:   I samband med ditt önskemål om att göra ett gymnasiearbete innom…

https://www.astro.lu.se/form/gymnasiearbete-innom-astronomiastrofysik- 2023-07-03

[This page is in Swedish] Det är uppenbart att många av landets gymnasieelever har mycket höga ambitioner när det gäller att forma och genomföra sina gymnasieprojekt.  Varje år får vi ett antal frågor och funderingar från elever som är…

https://www.astro.lu.se/Outreach/gymnasieprojekt- 2024-10-10

The Vision Mission Summary The Consortium Science and technology roadmap for μas studies of the Milky Way The Art of Astrometry and Computation All-Sky Visible and Near Infrared Space Astrometry Science Cases All-sky NIR astrometry to peer…

https://www.astro.lu.se/GaiaNIR- 2025-03-11

The Legacy The era of all-sky space astrometry began with the Hipparcos mission in 1989 and provided the first very accurate catalogue of apparent magnitudes, positions, parallaxes and proper motions of 120 000 bright stars at the…

https://www.astro.lu.se/GaiaNIR/Vision- 2022-01-20

A transcription of the sixth episode Nic:  This is the sixth and last episode of season one of the Meridian. We want to start by thanking everyone who has followed us on this journey into the world of podcasting and we hope to be back soon…

https://www.astro.lu.se/meridian-s01e06- 2021-11-25

A seminar series for young astronomers at Lund Observatory. The Källén Seminars for Young Astronomers is a seminar series organised by and intended for the young researchers of Lund Observatory. The seminar series is financed by the Gunnar…

https://www.astro.lu.se/meetings/kallen-seminars-young-astronomers- 2022-11-04

The development of a new space astrometry mission will require a large team of scientist, software developers and spacecraft engineers. Many lessons can be learned from the Gaia mission where DPAC (the Data Processing and Analysis…

https://www.astro.lu.se/GaiaNIR/consortium- 2025-03-11

OverviewAn obvious technological improvement to the current Gaia mission is to also go into the non-thermal Near-InfraRed (NIR) with a wavelength cutoff in the K-band allowing the new mission to probe deeper through the Galactic dust to…

https://www.astro.lu.se/GaiaNIR/mission-summary- 2025-03-11

There are three main science challenges for a new all-sky astrometry mission: 1. Peering through the dust: NIR astrometry (and simultaneous photometry) is crucial for penetrating obscured regions and for observing intrinsically red objects…

https://www.astro.lu.se/GaiaNIR/ScienceCase- 2025-03-11

A transcription of the mid-winter special episode, or the zeroth episode of season two. Nic:  This is a special holiday episode of the Meridian. Your hosts for this episode are me and Rebecca and our producer Anna, of course.  We are…

https://www.astro.lu.se/meridian-s02e00- 2021-12-21

SpacecraftThe space telescope will be based on an off-axis f=35m Korsch telescope as used for Gaia.  Spacecraft design from the ESA CDF study Optical surfaces and the light path from the ESA CDF study This design differs from Gaia's in…

https://www.astro.lu.se/missiondesign- 2025-03-11