Press Radio & TV

The discoveries of the Gaia mission

By
Josep Manel Carrasco, ICCUB-IEEC
Date
Language
CA

The astronomer Josep Manel Carrasco explains the discoveries of the Gaia mission to the radio station Radio Sant Boi, especially about the second Gaia data release DR2. Since the release, several research groups across the world have been using the data, and 1.700 papers have been published.


Josep Manel Carrasco is a researcher of the Gaia group at the ICCUB, where he works with the photometric and spectrometric calibration of the mission's data, evaluating the state of the satellite and creating the data catalog in the CU9 coordination unit. Creator of the Miralcel dissemination project, he is a regular collaborator of the La República Santboiana program on Radio Sant Boi. He recently published the book "Cosmos: A Quick Immersion" in Tibidabo Ediciones.

Related News & Activities

First calibrated XP spectra
Source
Agència Espacial Europea (ESA)
Language
CA
Gaia has proven to be a powerful tool providing very precise astrometry and photometry in the first releases of the mission (see Gaia DR2 and Gaia DR1). The third release and beyond (find here the current release scenario planning) will include some calibrated spectrophotometric data.

Related Material

Videos
Participació espanyola a la missió Gaia

Gaia is a cornerstone mission of the European Space Agency of this decade. Its objective is to clarify the origin and evolution of our Galaxy.

Source
GaiaUB
Language
CA
ES
EN
Popularisation of Science
Books & Handbooks
La història de transit de venus

Josep Manel Carrasco and Jordi del Río ofer us these comic, based in de Salvador Ribas's text.

Author
Josep Manel Carrasco, ICCUB-IEEC
Language
CA
ES
EN
Comic