Post-doctoral fellowship at Arcetri to work on Gaia spectrophotometric stars and on globular clusters

 Applications are open to a post-doctoral fellowship, extendable to a maximum of 6 years, to work on Spectrophotometry and the ESA/Gaia space mission at the Osservatorio Astrofísico di Arcetri.

 

 The awarded fellows is expected to carry out the followings activities for the Gaia mission, in particular:

 

(i) preparation of the spectrophotometric standard stars grid for the flux calibration of Gaia photometry and spectroscopy;

 

(ii) science validation activities of the preliminary data for the second Gaia data release (foreseen in April 2018) in crowded stellar fields and more specifically in globular clusters;

 

(iii) activities to prepare the official science demonstration paper on globular clusters and dwarf galaxies for the second Gaia data release; 

 

(iv) writing of technical documentation and refereed scientific papers about the above activities.

 

 The activities will be carried out under the supervision of Dr. Elena Pancino.

 

 For more information, please check the link: https://www.arcetri.astro.it/gare-e-concorsi/182-gare-e-concorsi/concors..., for more information.