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Gaia Data Release 3

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia space observatory will release its third data catalogue on 13 June 2022. Numerous events around the world will celebrate this success from 10 am (CEST). More information and links to the registration as well as to the German-language event via Zoom is available on the corresponding news page.

On 13 June 2022, the third Gaia catalogue will be presented in parallel live streams from all over Europe: Gaia DR3 national events are offered in various languages from Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

In Germany, there are four institutions contributing to the Gaia catalogues: the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), the Lohrmann Observatory at the Technical University of Dresden, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, and the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut of Heidelberg University. They invite the interested public and journalists to a hybrid German Gaia DR3 opening event at the Haus der Astronomie in Heidelberg.

The German event will start at 11:00, after the central ESA/Gaia/DPAC press briefing stream on ESA WebTV at 10:00 in English. At 12:00 the data will become available to the public through the Gaia Archive and the Gaia partner data centres.

 

ESA/Gaia/DPAC press briefing in English

10:00 CEST – 11:00 CEST
Livestream on ESA Web TV

 

Gaia DR3 release event in German

11:00 CEST – 12:00 CEST
Organized by AIP Potsdam, TU Dresden, MPIA Heidelberg, ARI Heidelberg
In-person (after registration only) @ Haus der Astronomie in Heidelberg
Livestream (open to all)

 

Preliminary programme

11:00

  • Welcome
  • The Gaia mission (Stefan Jordan)
  • Blue Photometer/Red Photometer spectra and stellar parameters (René Andrae)
  • Radial velocities and Radial Velocity Spectrograph spectra (Katja Weingrill)
  • Chemistry of the Milky Way (Stefan Jordan)
  • Gaia's quasars (Enrico Gerlach / Sergei Klioner)
  • Asteroid astronomy (Sergei Klioner)
  • Gaia's asteroids (Stefan Jordan)

12:00

  • Opening of the Gaia archive

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Last update: 8. June 2022