Gaia People

Teresa Antoja

University of Barcelona

Teresa Antoja joined Gaia in 2017 as part of CU9 group at the University of Barcelona. She is working on the validation of Gaia data, especially of radial velocities.

She also belonged to the Gaia Archive Preparation (GAP, 2011-2013). From 2013 to 2016 Teresa worked at ESTEC where she held an ESA Fellowship in Space Science devoted to the preparation for the scientific exploitation of Gaia data.

Her main research fields and interests are:

- Disk kinematics, velocity distribution of the Solar Neighbourhood and surroundings, moving groups, dynamical streams
- Determination of the bar and spiral arms properties
- Effects on stellar thin/thick disk kinematics, orbital resonances
- Dynamical modeling of the spiral arms and bar, theories for spiral arm formation and dynamics
- Detection of Ultrafaint Dwarf Galaxies in the Milky Way with Gaia
- Gaia follow-up surveys, WEAVE survey for Gaia faint sources to obtain radial velocities and chemical abundances

[Published: 25/08/2017]