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Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), as a University of Excellence, is one of the leading and most
dynamic research institutions in the country. Founded in 1828, today it is a globally oriented,
regionally anchored top university as it focuses on the grand challenges of the 21st century. lt
develops innovative solutions for the world's most pressing issues. In research and academic
programs, the university unites the natural and engineering sciences with the humanities, social
sciences and medicine. This wide range of disciplines is a special feature, facilitating interdisciplinarity
and transfer of science to society. As a modern employer, it offers attractive working conditions to all
employees in teaching, research, technology and administration. The goal is to promote and develop
their individual abilities while empowering everyone to reach their full potential. TUD embodies a
university culture that is characterized by cosmopolitanism, mutual appreciation, thriving innovation
and active participation. For TUD diversity is an essential feature and a quality criterion of an excellent
university. Accordingly, we welcome all applicants who would like to commit themselves, their
achievements and productivity to the success of the whole institution.
At the **Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Department of Geosciences, Institute of Planetary**
**Geodesy**, the **Lohrmann Observatory** offers for the MSCA Doctoral Network “MWGaiaDN: Revealing
the Milky Way with Gaia” a position as**
**Research Associate / PhD student **(M/F/x)***
(due to funding, the salary is calculated according to MSCA regulation)
starting **September 1, 2023.** The position is limited to 36 months. The period of employment is
governed by Fixed Term Research Contracts Act (Wissenschaftszeitvetragsgesetz-WissZeitVG). The
position offers the chance to obtain further academic qualification (e.g. PhD).
The project is funded by the MARIA SKŁODOWSKA CURIE doctoral network within Horizon Europe
Programme of the European Commission [Cordis link]. The network MWGaiaDN consists of 10
academic partners across Europe at which 12 PhD students will be active in the network researching
a range of topics with Gaia and other data.
The goal of the ESA space telescope **Gaia** [ESA link] is the determination of the spatial positions and
velocities as well as the astrophysical characteristics of about 2 billion celestial objects. Gaia is
considered as a revolution in astronomy and enjoys the highest international reputation. The team of
the **Lohrmann Observatory **is part of the European Gaia Consortium and primarily responsible for
the relativistic aspects of the data processing, the details of the Gaia Celestial Reference Frame as well
as the definition, computation and analysis of the astrometric solutions of Gaia.
**Tasks**:One of the important results from Gaia is its astrometric catalogue of Active Galactic Nuclei
(AGN), the latest version of which contains about 1.9 million sources with high-quality astrometric
solutions. AGNs represent compact extragalactic sources on the sky for which Gaia is able to deliver
good astrometry. The accuracy of the AGN astrometry from Gaia has now reached the accuracy of the
radio astrometry that was dominating the field of AGN astrometry up to recently. Next data releases
of Gaia are expected to surpass the current level of accuracy by a factor of up to 10. Astrometric
catalogues of AGNs from Gaia play several important roles: building Gaia Celestial Reference Frame,
revealing systematic errors in Gaia astrometry, allowing to discuss certain physical properties of the
AGNs etc. It is therefore necessary to investigate and improve the characteristics of the AGN catalogue
from Gaia. This PhD project aims to characterize the systematic errors in the parallaxes and proper
motions of various subsets of AGNs delivered in Gaia Data Release 3. This includes a search of
correlations between the level of systematic errors in AGN astrometry on various characteristics of
the AGNs published by Gaia and available from other sources. The ultimate goal is to introduce an
index for each source characterizing its astrometric quality. The results of this project will pave the
way for an improved treatment of AGNs in the future Gaia Data Releases. The project includes a
number of secondments in the partner universities of the network.
**Requirements**:
- university degree (Master degree or equivalent) in astronomy, physics, or related areas with
- strong skills in research (proven by master thesis or equivalent).- Experience with a modern object-oriented computer language. Ability to work with data in
- modern computational environments.- Proof of English proficiency. Basic communication skills in German are helpful.
- Applicants must not already hold a doctoral degree at the date of recruitment.
- Applicants must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies etc.) in
Germany for more than 12 months in
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