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Session 1a, 0915 to 1000 GMT: Contents of the Gaia catalogue

Intended audience: astronomers, professional and amateur, and interested press.

Welcome from Robert Massey, Royal Astronomical Society

Chair: Nicholas Walton, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge

Session 1b, 1000 to 1030 GMT: Two science papers using new data release

Chair: Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge

“The LMC and SMC”, Francesca De Angeli, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
“The acceleration of the Solar System”, Floor van Leeuwen, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge

Session 2, 1030 to 1100 GMT: main press briefing (open to interested astronomers)

Chair: Robert Massey, Royal Astronomical Society

"The Gaia data release and the 100 pc solar neighbourhood", Giorgia Busso, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
Questions from the media

(Image credit: ESA)

Gaia data release briefing