University of Virginia, College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Rapid Results from the Gaia Data Release 2

May 14, 2018

UVA astronomer Nitya Kallivayalil was interviewed on German public radio about the very rapid prepartion and submission of papers just after the second data release from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission. Kallivayalil's paper featured the discovery of satellite galaxies that are falling into the Milky Way with the Magellanic Clouds (http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/1805.01448). The paper was submitted within a week of the data release!

You can listen to the full interview (in German) at http://ondemand-mp3.dradio.de/file/dradio/2018/05/14/offener_sternenkatalog_neue_wege_bei_der_auswertung_gaia_dlf_20180514_1640_0a2233e1.mp3

Image: 
Galaxy Stars