Start date: 02/10/2017

  End date: 03/10/2017

Meeting place: CEFCA, Plaza San Juan 1 (4º floor), Teruel

Organizer: Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón (CEFCA)

Scientific Rationale:

The Javalambre-Photometric Local Universe Survey, J-PLUS, is an unprecedented photometric survey which will cover several thousands of square degrees of the northern sky and is currently being carried out at the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre with T80Cam on the JAST/T80 telescope. By using a set of 12 broad, intermediate, and narrow band filters, J-PLUS will be a powerful 3D view of the nearby Universe that will characterise tens of millions of galaxies and stars of the Milky Way halo, with a wide range of astrophysical applications.

So far, J-PLUS has observed more than 500 square degrees and part of this data (a few tens of square degrees with approximately 150,000 stars and 75,000 galaxies) will be made public to  international community in September 2017. For this occasion, the J-PLUS team wishes to invite all interested scientists to Teruel for a two-days meeting. The goal of the event is to present the survey to the Spanish community, describe the potential and quality of the data, and discuss scientific cases and applications.

Additionally, it is planned to open the collaboration to new members of the National community and strengthen synergies with other ongoing projects. Finally, a hands-on tutorial will take place for the attendants to access and work directly with real data on their own science case.

Scientific organizing committee (SOC):

  • Kerttu Viironen (co-chair), CEFCA
  • Raul Angulo (co-chair), CEFCA
  • Carlos López San Juan (co-chair), CEFCA
  • Jorge Carvano, Observatorio Nacional (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)
  • Simone Daflon, Observatorio Nacional (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)
  • Jesús Falcón-Barroso, IAC
  • Alvaro Orsi, CEFCA
  • Héctor Vázquez-Ramió, CEFCA

Local organizing committee (LOC):

  • Alessandro Ederoclite (chair), CEFCA
  • Luisa Valdivielso (co-chair), CEFCA
  • Kerttu Viironen, CEFCA
  • Izaskun San Roman, CEFCA
  • Alvaro Orsi, CEFCA
  • Carlos López San Juan, CEFCA
  • Silvia Bonoli, CEFCA
  • Gonzalo Vilella Rojo, CEFCA
  • Daniele Spinoso, CEFCA
  • David Izquierdo, CEFCA

Calendar:

  • Registration deadline: 15 September
  • Meeting date: 2-3 October

More information:

This is a RIA supported workshop (AYA2015-71939-REDI):  NO FEE is requested.

A limited number of travel grants is available to support the lodging of participants to the meeting.