Division Meeting at the XXIX General Assembly:
Honolulu, USA, 7 and 10 August 2015
General Information
As it was announced earlier Division A, as all other IAU Divisions, will have a dedicated Division Meeting in Honolulu. Division Meeting is a purely scientific meeting covering all research fields relevant for our Division.
The Meeting is scheduled for Friday, August 7 and Monday, August 10 (see Science Program of the IAU XXIX General Assembly). All Division Meetings will run in parallel, but no other meetings (scientific or business) will be scheduled for these time slots.
The Business Sessions of Commissions and Working Groups of Division A as well as the Business Session of the Division A itself are scheduled on the days around the Division Meeting: 5, 6, 11 and 12 August 2015.
Scientific Organizing Committee
The SOC of the Division Meeting consists of the members of the Steering Committee:
Anthony G.A. Brown (co-chair), Nicole Capitaine, Sylvio Ferraz-Mello, Catherine Y. Hohenkerk, Mizuhiko Hosokawa, Cheng-Li Huang, Sergei A. Klioner (co-chair), Jacques Laskar, Anne Lemaitre, Dennis D. McCarthy, François Mignard, Alessandro Morbidelli, Dimitri Pourbaix, Michael H. Soffel, Susan G. Stewart, Norbert Zacharias
Scientific Program
version of 1 June 2015
Invited presentations are shown in boldface.
Friday, 7 August 2015
Session I: 10:30 - 12:30 The field of Fundamental Astronomy
chair: Anthony Brown
10:30 - 10:35 An informal introduction of the first Division Meeting, Sergei Klioner
10:35 - 10:55 Origin of the great dichotomy of the Solar System: small terrestrial embryos and massive giant planet cores, Alessandro Morbidelli
10:55 - 11:15 URAT and the celestial reference frame, Norbert Zacharias
11:15 - 11:35 Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor Interferometric Parallaxes: How, Why, and What, Fritz Benedict
11:35 - 11:55 Constraint on the earth density near core-mantle boundary by free core nutation, Cheng-Li Huang
11:55 - 12:15 The ICRF-3: Status, Plans, and Multi-wavelength; Progress on the next generation Celestial Reference Frame, Christopher Jacobs
12:15 - 12:25 VGOS – the VLBI Global Observing System of the IVS, Rüdiger Haas
12:30 - 14:00 lunch
Session II: 14:00 - 15:30 Modern astrometry
chair: Norbert Zacharias
14:00 - 14:20 HST high-precision proper motions of globular clusters, Andrea Bellini
14:20 - 14:40 The Pan-STARRS Astrometric Survey, Eugene Magnier
14:40 - 15:00 Absolute astrometry with Pan-STARRS, Valeri Makarov
15:00 - 15:20 Infrared Space Astrometry missions: JASMINE, Naoteru Gouda
15:20 - 15:30 The NSDB database of astrometric observations of the natural planetary satellites and the Gaia astrometric reference catalogue, Jean-Eudes Arlot
15:40 - 16:00 coffee break
Session III: 16:00 - 17:50 Gaia mission status and first data processing results I
chair: Sergei Klioner
16:00 - 16:30 Gaia mission status, Timo Prusti
16:30 - 17:00 Gaia data processing status after the first year of the survey, Anthony Brown
17:00 - 17:30 Gaia astrometric data reduction one year into science operations, Uwe Lammers
17:30 - 17:50 First photometry results, Anthony Brown
17:50 - 18:00 coffee break
Session IV: 18:00 - 19:30 Gaia mission status and first data processing results II
chair: Sergei Klioner
18:00 - 18:20 First results from the Gaia Radial Velocity Spectrometer, George Seabroke
18:20 - 18:40 Gaia Science Alerts: Early Validation Phase Data from Gaia, Nic Walton
18:40 - 19:00 Solar system objects, and others peculiar bodies, with Gaia, Daniel Hestroffer
19:00 - 19:20 The variability analysis of the Gaia data, Laurent Eyer
19:20 - 19:30 Aligning VLBI and Gaia Extragalactic Celestial Reference Frames: source selection scenario, Geraldine Bourda
Monday, 10 August 2015
Session V: 08:30 - 10:00 Dynamical astronomy in the solar system and beyond
chair: Alessandro Morbidelli
08:30 - 08:50 Shadowing Lemma and Chaotic Orbit Determination, Andrea Milani
08:50 - 09:10 Galactic dynamics, Paul McMillan
09:10 - 09:20 Improvement of accuracy of planetary ephemerides by the example of EPM, Pitjeva
09:20 - 09:30 Recent developments in INPOP planetary ephemerides, Agnes Fienga
09:30 - 09:40 Improved orbits of Saturn and Jupiter from the Cassini and Juno missions, William Folkner
09:40 - 09:50 Natural Satellite Ephemerides at JPL, Robert Jacobson
09:50 - 10:00 Frequency analysis and representation of slowly diffusing solutions, Yanning Fu
10:00 - 10:30 coffee break
Session VI: 10:30 - 12:30 Earth rotation and geodynamics
chair: Cheng-Li Huang
10:30 - 10:50 Mass Transport and Dynamics in the Earth System: Unsolved Scientific Questions and Observational Requirements, Richard Gross
10:50 - 11:10 Development of a new model for short period ocean tidal variations of Earth rotation, Harald Schuh
11:10 - 11:30 Recent developments in the theory of the Earth’s precession and nutation, Jose Manuel Ferrándiz
11:30 - 11:40 On the use of ring laser gyroscope data for monitoring diurnal and semidiurnal signals in Earth rotation, Aleksander Brzezinski
11:40 - 11:50 The statistical properties and possible causes of polar motion prediction errors, Wieslaw Kosek
11:50 - 12:00 Effects of density stratification on the frequencies of the inertial modes of the Earth’s fluid core, Behnam Seyed-Mahmoud
12:00 - 12:10 Earth orientation parameters: excitation by atmosphere, oceans and geomagnetic jerks, Jan Vondrak
12:10 - 12:20 Medium- and Long-term Prediction of LOD Change by the Leap-step Autoregressive Model, Qijie Wang
12:20 - 12:30 The analysis of monthly STRF and EOPs based on CERS results, Xiaoya Wang
12:30 - 14:00 lunch
Session VII: 14:00 - 15:30 Space-Time Reference Frames
chair: Catherine Hohenkerk
14:00 - 14:20 Recent progress in time and frequency metrology, Felicitas Arias
14:20 - 14:30 Considerations for ICRF-3, Chopo Ma
14:30 - 14:40 Revisiting the VLBA Calibrator Surveys for ICRF3, David Gordon
14:40 - 14:50 A Complete Bank of Optical Images of the ICRF QSOs, Alexandre Andrei
14:50 - 15:00 The third release of the Large Quasar Astrometric Catalogue (LQAC-3), Jean Souchay
15:00 - 15:10 UTC(SU) and EOP(SU) – the only legal reference frames of Russian Federation, Nikolay Koshelyaevsky
15:10 - 15:20 Synchronization of Geodetic Observatories thanks to Time Transfer by Laser Link, Alexandre Belli
15:20 - 15:30 Selecting radio sources for constructing a more uniform and stable reference frame, Jia-Cheng Liu
15:30 - 16:00 coffee break
Session VIII: 16:00 - 18:00 Synergies across astronomy
chair: Anne Lemaitre
16:00 - 16:20 The Galaxy’s clocks: Time standards and gravitational-wave searches with pulsar timing arrays, Ryan Shannon
16:20 - 16:40 Masses and Orbital Parallax: What resolved double-lined spectroscopic binaries can do for you, Brian Mason
16:40 - 17:00 Using accurate phase space coordinates of ~100,000 halo field stars to constrain the Milky Way halo, Monica Valluri
17:00 - 17:10 Test of the density-wave theory using VLBI astrometry results, Nobuyuki Sakai
17:10 - 17:20 Synergies in Astrometry: Predicting Navigational Error of Visual Binary Stars, Susan Stewart
17:20 - 17:30 Using quasar physics to improve the celestial reference frame, Stanislav Shabala
17:30 - 17:40 Effect of positional instabilities of the reference radio sources on estimation of the relativistic parameter γ, Oleg Titov
17:40 - 17:50 On Constraining the Kerr Metric of the Massive Black Hole in the Galactic Center through the Relativistic Orbital Motion of the Closest Star: Full General Relativistic Treatment, Zhang Fupeng
17:50 - 18:00 The application of GNSS in the near-Earth navigation of China’s lunar probe CE-5T1, Yong Huang
Poster presentations
The IAU Division A Working Group on the Third Realization of the ICRF: Background, Goals, Plans, Ralph Gaume
The Reversal of Time Sequence and abrupt direction change of Astrophysical Jets, Biping Gong
Ultra-rapid earth rotation determination with VLBI during CONT11 and CONT14, Rüdiger Haas
Final Update of the IAU Commission 4 Working Group on Standardizing Access to Ephemerides and File Format Specification, James Hilton
IAU Working Group for Numerical Standards of Fundamental Astronomy (NSFA): Past Efforts and Future Endeavors, Brian Luzum
The application of Scaled Sensitivity Matrix method on high-frequency Earth orientation variation, Weijing Qu
Gaia Reference frame determination: the AVU/GSR pipeline, Alberto Vecchiato
Hydrological signal in polar motion excitation from a combination of geophysical and gravimetric series, Małgorzata Wińska
LOTT: A new small telescope to monitor lunar orientation parameters, Chengli Huang
Lunar Radio_phase Ranging in Chinese Lunar Lander Mission for Astrometry, Jinsong Ping
Estimating the velocity of the Solar barycenter, Minghui Xu
SPICE as an IAU Recommendation for Planetary Ephemerides, Charles Acton
The XPM2 Catalogue, Volodymyr Akhmetov
Studying impacts of strategy choices concerning the Celestial Reference Frame on the estimates of nutation time series during geodesic VLBI Analysis, César Gattano
Status of the JPL Horizons Ephemeris System, Jon Giorgini
SOFA 2015: Authoritative Tools & Standard Models, Catherine Hohenkerk
Coordinate System Issues in Binary Star Computations, George Kaplan
Correction to polar motion data due to the model of geocenter motion determined from SLR, GNSS and GRACE observations, Wieslaw Kosek
New determination of astrometric parameters of MSP J1939+2134 with CVN, Liang Li
Derivation of stellar parameters from Gaia RVS spectra with prediction uncertainty using Generative Artificial Neural Networks (GANNs), Minia Manteiga
Earth's Variable Rotation from 750BC to present, Leslie Morrison
Estimation of Solar Angular Momentum from Lense-Thirring Precession of Mercury, Ryan Park
Monitoring spectroscopic binaries in anticipation of Gaia, Dimitri Pourbaix
Development of Broadband VLBI System and its Application to T&F Transfer, Mamoru Sekido
Long term monitoring of extragalactic sources in the framework of the Gaia ESA mission, François Taris
New members in TW Hydrae association, Ramachrisna Teixeira
Progress in Research on Diurnal and Semidiurnal Earth Rotation Change, Xueqing Xu
JASMINE data analysis, Yoshiyuki Yamada
Analytical dynamics models for space missions around minor bodies, Josué Cardoso dos Santos
Night sky brightness at Kottamia observatory site using DMSP satellite images, Ahmed Osman
The physical applicability conditions of the Bjerknes equation in dynamics of planetary systems, Murat Zhussupov
Is the Fine-Structure Constant Inconstant? Le Thong
Establishing a Network of faint DA white dwarfs as Spectrophotometric Standards, Abhijit Saha
Testing methods for accurate hydroxyl maser astrometry at low frequencies, Gabor Orosz
Utilizing the Lunar Laser Ranging datasets alongside the radioscience data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to improve the dynamical model of the Moon, Vishnu Viswanathan
The Sequential Evolution of Universes Based on Fundamental Forces, Catherine Derow
Does the Newtonian Gravity "Constant" G Vary? Peter Noerdlinger
Business Sessions of the Division A Commissions and Working Groups at the XIX General Assembly in Honolulu
After a consultation with the Commisison Presidents and the Chairs of the Working Groups the following time schedule of the Business Sessions was compiled:
All Sessions (except for the Business Session of Division A) will be organized in Room 326A of the Hawaii Convention Center. The room will be set theater-style for 50+ attendees. A beamer, screen and wireless Internet connection will be available.