GaiaNIR: NEXT GENERATION ASTROMETRIC MISSION. Gathering the interest of the Italian Community
Rationale
The proposal of a new astrometric space mission, GaiaNIR, was submitted to ESA in response to the call for Voyage 2050 and was recommended by the Senior Committee.
Built on the Gaia principles, GaiaNIR is an astrometric mission in the near IR, to be launched around 2045.
The main goals are to explore the previously inaccessible components of the Galaxy, obscured by dust, in the near-IR and to achieve a significant improvement in parallaxes and, most importantly, in proper motions by combining Gaia's epochs with new observations over a 20-year period. Finally, this will ensure a revision of the Gaia reference frame
A description of GaiaNIR can be found at:
More information about the project can be found at:
The discussion about the on-board instruments is on-going. Several options are under discussion: disperse photometry, low/medium resolution spectroscopy.
The goal of the meeting is to gather the interest of the Italian community on this project, submitting science cases, discussing the requirements for the on-board instruments (photometry, infrared spectroscopy, resolution, spectral range).
Location
The meeting will be held at the INAF Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio in Bologna (Sala Sollima, 4th floor - take the elevator and the right-hand corridor) on January 17-18, 2024
Address: via Piero Gobetti 93/3 (close to the CNR area).
Remote attendance
The meeting sessions will be broadcasted, and a Slack channel will be open for comments/questions. The following link can be used for remote connection: https://meet.google.com/xeg-xbgd-izc
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Confirmed speakers
- D. Hobbs
- L. Prisinzano
- G. Sacco
- M. Guarcello
- M. Marconi
- A. Sozzetti
- M. Bellazzini
- A. Bonomo
- V. Nascimbeni
- G. Bono
- R. Drimmel
- L. Magrini
- D. Busonero
- D. Massari
- F. Annibali
- G. Clementini
- M.T. Crosta
When registering, please indicate if you think you will be participating in person or on-line
Dead-lines
Registration is now open. There is no registration fee.
Dead-line for abstract submission: 23 December, 2023
Dead-line for registration (in person attendance): 23 Decembre, 2023
Dead-line for registration (on-line attendance): 15 January, 2023
Organizing committee
SOC
- Antonella Vallenari (INAF, Padova)
- Angela Bragaglia (INAF, Bologna)
- Mario Lattanzi (INAF, Torino)
- Tatiana Muraveva (INAF, Bologna)
- Loredana Prisinzano (INAF, Palermo)
- Paola Re Fiorentin (INAF, Torino)
- Alessandro Sozzetti (INAF, Torino)
LOC
- Angela Bragaglia (INAF, Bologna)
- Alessia Garofalo (INAF, Bologna)
- Rosanna Sordo (INAF, Padova)
