Status of the verification partners

Status of the partners preparing for the Gaia Alerts verification

Information about the requirements

In order to become a member of the Gaia Follow-up Network for Transient Objects (Gaia-FUN-TO), especially to take part in the alerts verification, a potential partner must fullfil a number of requirements. The list of requirements is still to be fine-tuned, but they are:

1. react to an alert (or to a request with a target) and conduct its observations (in multiple filters) within 24h
2. reduce the photometric data and submit to the CPCS within 24h from the observation
3. flux calibrations better than 10% (0.1 mag)
4. perform at least 5 (TBC) tests before September 2013.

Partners in test

Loiano

• Contact person: Gisella Clementini (gisella.clementini oabo.inaf.it)
• Location: Loiano, Bologna, Italy
• 1.5m
• tests: 2011

Asiago

• Contact person: Gisella Clementini (gisella.clementini oabo.inaf.it)
• Location: Padova, Italy
• 1.82m

APT2

• Contact person: Gisella Clementini (gisella.clementini oabo.inaf.it)
• Location: Serra la Nave, Catania, Sicily
• robotic 80cm Ritchey-Cretien

TNT

• Contact person: Anna Piersimoni (piersimoni oa-teramo.inaf.it)
• Location: Teramo, Italy,
• 72cm Ritchey-Cretien

Swiss Euler

• Contact person: Laurent Eyer (laurent.eyer unige.ch)
• La Silla, Chile
• 1.2m

Belgian Mercatore

• Contact person: Laurent Eyer (laurent.eyer unige.ch)
• La Palma (Swiss time)
• 1.2m

Konkoly

• Contact person: Laszlo Szabados (szabados konkoly.hu)
• Location: Piszkesteto Mountain Station of the Konkoly Obs., Hungary
• 1m RCC, 60/90/180 cm Schmidt, 50 cm Cassegrain

Danish/Czech Telescope

• Contact person: Pavel Koubsky and Uffe Jorgensen
• La Silla
• 1.54m, remotely controlled by Czechs

GROND

• Contact person: Jochen Greiner, MPIE
• 2.2m La Silla
• 7 channels: Optical/NIR: grizJHK