…and speaking of Gaia: the EAS (European Astronomical Society) 2024 conference is going on right now. It’s not all that relevant to this blog, since there’s a separate EPSC (Euro Planetary Science Conference), and they take care not to overlap much. Still, some links that might be worth a look:
eas.unige.ch/EAS2024/program.jsp
Gaia: The (TWO) Billion Star Galaxy Census: from the Solar System to our Milky Way and beyond
Symposium S4, 1-2 July 2024
– Gaia DR3: Highlight Science including a review of recent major science highlights in the Gaia DR3 and Gaia Focused Product releases.
– Gaia / GREAT/MW-Gaia / Gaia Unlimited Status
– Gaia EDR3/DR3/FPR: Highlight Science (The Milky Way as a Galaxy)
– Gaia EDR3/DR3/FPR: Highlight Science (The Birth, Life and Death of Stars)
– Gaia EDR3/DR3/FPR: Highlight Science (from Solar system to reference frames)
– Gaia networking and ground based synergies with Gaia
– Lunch session with an update on the Gaia Archive, and update on the ESA Voyage 2050 L mission concept (GaiaNIR), and also an opportunity for poster presenters to deliver a ‘lightening’ talk of their (e-)poster.