DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PHOTOMETRIC SYSTEM GAIA MISSION OF THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY.Author:
CARRASCO MARTÍNEZ JOSÉ MANUEL.
Year:
2006.
University:
BARCELONA [
www.ub.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FÍSICA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FISICA.
Summary: The purpose of this thesis designing the set of filters that are the photometric system of the mission Gaia, of the European Space Agency (ESA), whose main purpose is to provide data to study the formation and evolution dynamics and chemistry Milky Way. The measures photometric provide basic diagnosis to classify all sources and parametrizarlas according to their nature, through observations that include a wide range of wavelengths, from the blue end to the infrared.