Parallel sessions

The ESA Gaia mission is creating a 3-D map of over two billion stars in our Milky Way. Gaia Early Data Release 3 was issued December 2020 ( https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/early-data-release-3 ) with the full third release (http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/release) to follow in 2022.

This parallel session will provide an introduction and status to the Gaia mission, an overview of the catalogue contents including scientific quality and practical information on how to handle and access them from the Gaia archive for science research. Information will also be given on the future availability of an advanced science data platform that will provide powerful capabilities in user access and manipulation to the bulk Gaia data. The session will also look ahead as to what to expect from the full third Gaia data release.

The session will be of interest to PhD and early stage researchers.