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GREAT Chemo-Dynamical Survey

News

• 20110724: The Gaia-ESO Survey wiki can be found at http://great.ast.cam.ac.uk/GESwiki

• 20110322: All further material related to the proposal - PI: Gerry Gilmore and Sofia Randich 'ESO-Gaia Survey' is now available on request by email to the survey PI.

• 20110204: both the GCDS-MW and GCDS-OC ESO VLT Large Survey proposals have been favourably evaluated at the LoI stage - being invited by ESO to propose a unified single GCDS full proposal to meet the end March 2011 deadline.

Key Objectives

• This paper (v0.9) (pdf) sets out the key science drivers behind the GCDS

• This paper (v1.0) (pdf) outlines the current thinking behind the structure of the GCDS

Meetings

• GCDS Paris Meeting : 27 April 2010 : Look here for key background information

• GCDS Planning meeting : Mon 28 June 2010 (ESTEC/ ESA, Noordwijk, NL)

• GCDS VLT Survey Planning : Fri 17 Sep 2010 (Obs Paris, France)

GCDS Science Experiments

• SE1: Mass Distribution of the Galaxy

• SE2: Galaxies formation and evolution traced by chemistry

• SE3: Clusters and star formation and evolution

• SE4: Additional and Legacy Science

GCDS Key Activities

• VLT Large Surveys

  • GCDS-MW: 'The Gaia-ESO survey: Galactic Astrophysics via VISTA Imaging, Gaia Astrometry, and Eso SpectrOscopy'

  • GCDS-OC: 'Open Star Clusters: the path from molecular clouds to the MW disc population'.

GCDS Functional Working Groups

• FWG1: Survey Planning

• FWG2: Data Management (this was TWG4)

• FWG3: Instrumentation Development (this was TWG1 and TWG2)

GCDS Structure and Organisation

• GCDS Structure

• GCDS Organisation (includes document describing principles of the Consortium)

• GCDS Steering Group
• GCDS Institute Council

Background

• Other Relevant Surveys

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