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Transcription of the fourth episode of the first season Nic:  This is season one, episode four, of the Meridian, our brand new podcast.  We are coming to you on today on the 15th of October, from Lund Observatory. The nights are getting…

https://www.astro.lu.se/meridian-s01e04- 2021-12-21

By emelie [dot] frid [at] atp [dot] lu [dot] se (Emelie Frid) - published 25 October 2021 Today is the 20 year anniversary of the inauguration of our new building here at Sölvegatan 27.  We celebrated with cake!

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/cake-20-year-anniversary-astronomy-building- 2023-03-27

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

https://www.astro.lu.se/GaiaNIR- 2023-04-12

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- 2022-01-20

Overview An 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- 2022-04-28

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- 2022-04-28

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

Spacecraft The 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- 2022-01-20

  < This could be presented as a picture (which is not as accessible to all audiences) or as general text> The 2010s Initial proposal... The 2020s Concept development and proposal phase. The 2030s Detailed design phase Mission acceptance…

https://www.astro.lu.se/timeline- 2022-04-28

By emelie [dot] frid [at] atp [dot] lu [dot] se (Emelie Frid) - published 13 January 2022 Congratulations to our very own Michiel Lambrechts, who has received a starting grant from the European Research Council (ERC)! More information:…

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/erc-starting-grant-michiel-lambrechts- 2023-03-27

Källén Seminar for Young Astronomers on March 1, 2022 The Density Gradient Inside Molecular-Gas Clumps as a Booster of their Star Formation Activity   ABSTRACT The presence of a gas volume-density gradient inside star-forming regions…

https://www.astro.lu.se/meetings/kallen-seminars-young-astronomers/previous-speakers/genevieve-parmentier- 2022-05-26

Källén Seminar for Young Astronomers on February 8, 2022 Seeing in 3D, modelling the structures of hot exoplanet atmospheres   ABSTRACT With the launch of JWST, astronomers are preparing to observe hot exoplanet atmospheres with…

https://www.astro.lu.se/meetings/kallen-seminars-young-astronomers/elspeth-lee- 2022-05-26

Källén Seminar for Young Astronomers on February 22, 2022 High-resolution transit spectroscopy: challenges and recent progress ABSTRACT I will briefly introduce the concept of transit photometry and spectroscopy and explain complementarity…

https://www.astro.lu.se/meetings/kallen-seminars-young-astronomers/previous-speakers/nikolai-piskunov- 2022-05-26

Källén Seminar for Young Astronomers on March 22, 2022 Venusian evolutionary histories and connections to present day observables ABSTRACT Despite Venus & Earth having distinct atmospheres and surface temperatures, they have similar…

https://www.astro.lu.se/meetings/kallen-seminars-young-astronomers/previous-speakers/michael-way- 2022-05-26

Källén Seminar for Young Astronomers on March 8, 2022 Probing the early Milky Way with the Pristine survey ABSTRACT The lowest metallicity stars that still exist today represent a window into the early Universe. Studying these stars gives…

https://www.astro.lu.se/meetings/kallen-seminars-young-astronomers/previous-speakers/else-starkenburg- 2022-05-26

A transcription of the first episode of season two. This is the first episode of the second season of the Meridian and we're once again coming to you from Lund Observatory in southern Sweden. It is the 4th of March and we're starting the…

https://www.astro.lu.se/meridian-s02e01- 2022-03-04

A transcription of the second episode of season two. Nic:  This is episode two of season two of the Meridian. It is March 11th, 2022 and we are once again coming to you from Lund Observatory, Lund University in southern Sweden.  Crossing…

https://www.astro.lu.se/meridian-s02e02- 2022-03-11