Name: The Gaia NIR mission and the engagement of the Spanish Community
Start: 2026-01-28T09:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-01-30T14:00:00+01:00
Location: Agencia Espacial Española (AEE) headquarters in Sevilla

The Gaia NIR mission and the engagement of the Spanish Community

from Wednesday 28 January 2026 (09:30) to Friday 30 January 2026 (14:00)

Monday 26 January 2026
Tuesday 27 January 2026
Wednesday 28 January 2026

09:30

09:30 - 11:00

11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30

11:30

11:30 - 13:00

13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 16:40
Contributions

15:00 Welcome and summary of the ministerial meeting - Isabel Pérez Grande (TBC)

15:15 Spanish industrial partners, current developme - Cecilia Hernández (TBC)

15:30 Voyage 2050: GaiaNIR in context - TBC (TBC)

15:45 The GaiaNIR mission and the hidden regions of our Galaxy, including the inclusion of RVS and end-of-mission accuracies - David Hobbs

16:25 Reflections from Gaia - Anthony Brown (TBC)
16:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:40 - 17:10
17:10
17:10 - 18:30
Contributions

17:10 The current detector study

17:30 A huge challenge: onboard and on ground data processing - Jordi Portell de Mora (ICCUB)

17:50 Radial velocity calculations for GaiaNIR - Mészáros Szabolcs

18:10 The GaiaNIR photometry - Josep Manel Carrasco Martínez (Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya)
Thursday 29 January 2026
09:30
09:30 - 10:50
Contributions

09:30 The Galactic nucleus - Francisco Nogueras-Lara

09:50 Bulge and Galactic bar (VVV, MOONS, LSST) - Óscar A. González

10:10 Dwarf galaxies - Giuseppina Battaglia

10:30 XMC dynamics (SDSS-V) - Óscar Jiménez
10:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:20
11:20
11:20 - 13:00
Contributions

11:20 Relativistic effects impact on the astrometric model & Celestial reference frame - Gabriel Rodríguez Moris (Lohrmann Observatory, Technische Universität Dresden)

11:40 Low mass stars in IR - Miriam Cortés Contreras (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

12:00 White dwarfs - Santiago Torres Gil (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

12:20 High mass stars & star forming regions - Sara Berlanas

12:40 Exoplanets - Juan Carlos Morales / Manuel Perger
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 16:30
Contributions

15:00 Round table with industry - Different industry representatives
16:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00
17:00
17:00 - 18:30
Contributions

17:00 Solar system - Rene Duffard (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía - CSIC)

17:15 Oral contribution

17:30 Oral contribution

17:45 Oral contribution

18:00 Oral contribution

18:15 Oral contribution
Friday 30 January 2026
09:30
09:30 - 10:50
Contributions

09:30 The GaiaNIR simulator and BGM - Xavier Luri / Eduard Masana

09:50 The Jasmine simulator - Pau Ramos

10:10 Kinematics of dwarf galaxies in M31 and the Local Group - Isabel Santos-Santos

10:30 Modeling the MW exoplanets - Chloé Padois (Universitat de Barcelona - ICCUB)
10:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:20
11:20
11:20 - 12:40
Contributions

11:20 Roman & HAYDN - Friedrich Anders (Universitat de Barcelona)

11:40 Euclid - Eduardo Martín

12:00 Rubin - LSST - Laura Toribio San Cipriano (CIEMAT)

12:20 HWO & LIFE - José A. Caballero (Centro de Astrobiología CSIC-INTA)
12:40

12:40 - 13:30