First year of the Gaia Science Alerts

TL;DR

This paper discusses Gaia's early data processing for detecting transient astronomical events, presents initial scientific results from 2014/2015, and details the follow-up network for Gaia alerts.

Contribution

It introduces the Gaia anomaly detection pipeline and reports initial findings, advancing real-time sky monitoring capabilities.

Findings

Detection of various transient events in early Gaia data

Establishment of a ground-based follow-up network

First scientific results from Gaia alerts in 2014/2015

Abstract

Since mid 2014 Gaia mission delivers daily millions of observations of the whole sky. Among them we search for transient events, e.g., supernovae, microlensing events, cataclysmic variables, etc. In my talk I describe the near-real-time Gaia data processing pipeline for anomaly detection, show first scientific results from years 2014/2015 and describe the organization of the ground-based network for the photometric and spectroscopic follow-up of Gaia alerts.