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* celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first Gaia Alerts
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* Eleven Years of Gaia Science Alerts: overview of the Gaia Alerts system, statistics, major discoveries and scientific highlights.
* science highlights and update on the Gaia mission
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* science highlights and updates on the Gaia Alerts
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* Lessons Learned from Alerts from Space: operational experience from Gaia, alert detection pipelines
* science highlights and tutorials on the BHTOM follow-up system for a global telescope network
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* results in transient and time-domain astronomy (from supernovae and quasars to stars and asteroids)
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* Future Space Transient Missions: SVOM, UltraSAT, PhotSAT, Einstein Probe, Roman Space Telescope, PLATO, Ariel.
* synergies in the time domain between optical and radio facilities
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* synergies between optical telescope networks and multimessenger facilities
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* Preparing for the LSST Era: alert stream, broker systems, alert filtering and coordination of follow-up observations.
* new members of the BHTOM telescope network
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* organization of the follow-up
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* Follow-up Infrastructure and Telescope Networks: robotic telescope networks, scheduling systems and coordinated follow-up of transient events across the globe.
* opportunities for small and mid-sized telescopes
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* BHTOM System: a platform for automated coordination of follow-up observations, data collection and management of time-domain observations
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* Citizen Science and Amateur Astronomy: contributions of amateur astronomers and small telescopes, observing campaigns through the EASST community.
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* Alert Brokers and Machine Learning: real-time alert processing, classification and filtering using machine learning techniques and broker systems.
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* Multi-Messenger Astronomy: optical counterparts of gravitational wave events, neutrino alerts and gamma-ray bursts, and the role of Gaia alerts in identifying and monitoring these sources.
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* Solar System Alerts: detection and follow-up of asteroids, comets and other moving objects, and the role of time-domain surveys in planetary defense and solar system science.
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* Rare and Exotic Transients: unusual and poorly understood phenomena such as tidal disruption events, luminous red novae and other rare classes of transients.
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* Legacy and Archival Science: long-term value of the Gaia Alerts dataset for variability studies, precursor activity of transients and training datasets for machine learning.
  
  

Revision as of 13:44, 10 March 2026

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 of the Gaia Alerts system, statistics, major discoveries and scientific highlights.
  • Lessons Learned from Alerts from Space: operational experience from Gaia, alert detection pipelines
  • Future Space Transient Missions: SVOM, UltraSAT, PhotSAT, Einstein Probe, Roman Space Telescope, PLATO, Ariel.
  • Preparing for the LSST Era: alert stream, broker systems, alert filtering and coordination of follow-up observations.
  • Follow-up Infrastructure and Telescope Networks: robotic telescope networks, scheduling systems and coordinated follow-up of transient events across the globe.
  • BHTOM System: a platform for automated coordination of follow-up observations, data collection and management of time-domain observations
  • Citizen Science and Amateur Astronomy: contributions of amateur astronomers and small telescopes, observing campaigns through the EASST community.
  • Alert Brokers and Machine Learning: real-time alert processing, classification and filtering using machine learning techniques and broker systems.
  • Multi-Messenger Astronomy: optical counterparts of gravitational wave events, neutrino alerts and gamma-ray bursts, and the role of Gaia alerts in identifying and monitoring these sources.
  • Solar System Alerts: detection and follow-up of asteroids, comets and other moving objects, and the role of time-domain surveys in planetary defense and solar system science.
  • Rare and Exotic Transients: unusual and poorly understood phenomena such as tidal disruption events, luminous red novae and other rare classes of transients.
  • Legacy and Archival Science: long-term value of the Gaia Alerts dataset for variability studies, precursor activity of transients and training datasets for machine learning.





Workshop Organising Committee

Workshop Organising Committee:

  • Lukasz Wyrzykowski (Warsaw)
  • Simon Hodgkin (Cambridge)
  • Stephane Basa (LAM)
  • Fraser Gillan (NCBJ, Warsaw)
  • Priscila Pessi (NCBJ, Warsaw)

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