****************** 2nd Announcement, 27 July 2014 ************************
Gaia-FUN-SSO 3rd Workshop
Third Workshop on the Gaia Follow-Up Network for the Solar System Objects
to be held in Paris Observatory, PARIS, France on November 24-26, 2014
URL:
http://www.imcce.fr/hosted_sites/gaiafun2014/***********************************************************************
This is the second announcement of the Gaia-FUN-SSO workshop to be held in Paris Observatory on November 24, 25 and 26.
Registration on line is now open at
http://www.imcce.fr/hosted_sites/gaiafun2014/inscription.phpScientific Rationale
The Gaia satellite has been launched on December 19, 2013 and the operations have begun in 2014. During this mission, Solar System Objects (SSO) will be observed by Gaia and their state vector will be measured with an unprecedented precision. New objects will certainly be detected; among them probably interesting ones such as NEAs. Nevertheless, due to the constraints imposed by its scanning law, Gaia will not be able to monitor these objects and to improve their provisional orbital model. Therefore complementary ground-based observations are required. During the previous years, this ground based activity has been organized through the set-up of the Gaia-FUN-SSO network. This task is performed in the frame of the Coordination Unit 4 of the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium, devoted to the data processing of specific objects. Several training observation campaigns have been performed and, in 2014, the real Gaia astrometric alerts are arriving. The goal of the network is to recover newly detected targets by astrometric observations on alert; so that a preliminary orbit can be computed at IAU/MPC. This activity is coordinated by a central node at IMCCE, Paris Observatory, interacting with the Gaia daily data processing all along the mission. We organize this year a new Gaia-FUN-SSO workshop in Paris in November 2014 in order to discuss the first months of activity of this network. During this workshop, the participants will have the opportunity to be informed about the status of the Gaia mission, about the alert process for SSO and about the ground-based data processing. But they will also be invited to present their feedback information in relation with this program, or to present their equipment, instruments and observing sites, and discuss tuning of the alert strategy. Large time slots will be reserved for discussions.
Thematics
. Status of the Gaia mission
. Gaia observation of the Solar System Objects
. News about the Gaia-FUN-SSO organization
. Model of NEOs population
. Synergies with other Gaia follow-up /alert networks
. Feedback about the first astrometric alerts
. Presentation of new observing sites participating to the network
. Results of the last training campaigns
. Round table for discussion of the on-alert process
. Round table about the actions to be carry out during the following period
Scientific Organizing Committee
. W. Thuillot (co-Chair, IMCCE, Paris Observatory, France)
. P. Tanga (co-Chair, Laboratoire Lagrange, OCA, France)
. B. Carry (IMCCE, Paris Observatory, France)
. A. Cellino (Torino obs., Italy)
. D. Hestroffer (IMCCE, Paris Observatory, France)
. F. Mignard (OCA, France)
. E. Perozzi (Deimos, Spain)
. L. Wyrzykowski (University of Warsaw, Poland & Cambridge,UK)
Program
. Monday 24 November: 10:00-17:15 Welcome address and first session on the general context
. Tuesday 25 November: 9:30-17:15 second session – 19:30 Social event in “Salle Cassini” of the Paris Obs.
. Wednesday 26 November: 9:30-15:30 third session and closure of the meeting.
Invited communications
Several invited communications will be given:
· Martin Altmann (Heidelberg, Germany) : “Ground Based Optical Tracking of Gaia”
· Mikael Granvik (Helsinki, Finland; to be confirmed) : “Asteroid population”
· Ettore Perozzi (Deimos, Spain) : “the ESA-SSA NEO program”
· Timo Prusti (ESA) : “status of the Gaia mission”
· Lukasz Wyrzykowski (Warsaw Univ., Poland & Cambridge, UK) : “Gaia as a Transient Survey”
Participation
The maximum number of participant is 50 due to the size of the conference room. A participation fee of 60 Euros will be paid by each participant at his arrival. A registration desk will be opened at the meeting site starting on Monday 24 November 9:15 a.m.
Registration
For the registration connect and register online on the web page
http://www.imcce.fr/hosted_sites/gaiafun2014/ Location : The workshop will take place at the Paris Observatory - Room: Salle de l'Atelier
77 avenue Denfert Rochereau, 75014 Paris (France) – WIFI connexion will be possible – Eduroam connexion possible.
Accomodation :
· The Paris Observatory is located downtown and several hotels and restaurants are available all around. Do not hesitate to book a hotel room as soon as possible. Several addresses are given on the workshop website, see
http://www.imcce.fr/hosted_sites/gaiafun2014/information.php.
· Lunches will be offered to the participants.
Grants
A few grants for travels or accommodation will be available on request to the SOC (gaia-fun-sso@imcce.fr).
Next key dates
15 Oct.: deadline for grant requests
10 Nov. : deadline for submitting short abstracts
10 Nov. : deadline for registration
15 Nov. : 3rd announcement - preliminary program
24-26 Nov.: workshop sessions
Publication
The proceedings of this workshop will be published. Every participant will receive one issue.
