Start: 07/01/2014

End: 12/31/2018

Gaia @ AIP

The Gaia Mission is an ambitious attempt to measure a large part of our Milky Way with high precision. The Coordination Unit 9 of the DPAC consortium prepares the publications of the Gaia satellite mission. As part of CU9, I participated in Gaia@AIP, the Gaia data mirror at the Leibniz-Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP).

Gaia image of our Milky Way and neighboring galaxies. (Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC)

The approx. 5 TB of the Gaia catalog at the AIP are stored in a PostgreSQL database. Special spherical queries can be performed using PgSphere. Access is via a web interface based on the Daiquiri framework.

Screenshot of the Gaia@AIP query interface.

Collaboration

• Leibniz-Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP)

• Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)

References

• Gaia@AIP

Publications

• Gaia Data Release 1. Summary of the astrometric, photometric, and survey properties
  Gaia Collaboration
  (2016)
  ADS: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016A%26A...595A...2G
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629512
  
• Gaia Data Release 2. Summary of the contents and survey properties
  Gaia Collaboration
  (2018)
  ADS: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018A%26A...616A...1G
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833051