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Welcome!

The 17th Gaia Science Alerts workshop and the ACME Time-Domain Workshop will take place in in Frejus, France, and online 31 Aug - 4 Sep 2026

The main topics:

• Eleven Years of Gaia Science Alerts: overview, statistics and major discoveries.

• Lessons Learned from Alerts from Space: operational experience and alert detection pipelines.

• Future Space Transient Missions: SVOM, UltraSAT, PhotSAT, Einstein Probe, Roman, PLATO, Ariel.

• Preparing for the LSST Era: alert streams, brokers, filtering and follow-up coordination.

• Follow-up Infrastructure and Telescope Networks: robotic networks and global follow-up systems.

• BHTOM System: platform for coordinated follow-up and time-domain data management.

• Citizen Science and Amateur Astronomy: small telescope contributions and EASST observing campaigns.

• Alert Brokers and Machine Learning: real-time alert processing, classification and filtering.

• Multi-Messenger Astronomy: counterparts to gravitational waves, neutrinos and gamma-ray bursts.

• Solar System Alerts: detection and follow-up of asteroids, comets and moving objects.

• Rare and Exotic Transients: tidal disruption events, luminous red novae and other unusual phenomena.

• Legacy and Archival Science: long-term value of the Gaia Alerts dataset for variability and ML training.

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• Agenda

• Registration - opens soon

• Logistical information

• Download poster in high resolution (38 MB)

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Workshop Organising Committee

Workshop Organising Committee:

• Łukasz Wyrzykowski (OAUW, NCBJ, EASST, Warsaw)
• Stephane Basa (LAM, Marseille)
• Michel Dennefeld (IAP, Paris)
• Fraser Gillan (NCBJ, Warsaw)
• Priscila Pessi (NCBJ, Warsaw)
• Simon Hodgkin (IoA, Cambridge)
• Justyna Olszewska (UAM, Poznan)

The workshop is supported by the EC Horizon Europe ACME grant no 101131928.

Send enquiries to gaia.alerts2026@gmail.com