Azerbaijan National Academy of Science

Since 2013, one of the space missions of the European Space Agency GAIA (Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics) was launched into Earth orbit. GAIA data is currently being analyzed by many research centers in the European Union.

The most important scientific task of the GAIA expedition is to clarify the emergence and development of our Galaxy with the help of star surveys. The data collected by GAIA will allow astronomers to better understand how stars arise and how they saturate the space around them when they die. The previously unattainable accuracy of parallax measurements, as well as the intrinsic and radial velocities of one billion stars (this is 0.5% of our Galaxy) will give astronomers a clearer picture of the development and structure of the Milky Way.

On the initiative of the director of the Shamakhi Astrophysical Observatory named after N. Tusi (SAO) of ANAS, corresponding member of ANAS Namik Jalilov and Professor Nariman Ismayilov in 2019, cooperation was established with the GAIA mission research group - OPTIKON group. The purpose of the cooperation program is to study the physical properties of unusual unknown transient objects detected by the GAIA telescope through ground-based observations over a wider time interval. To carry out these studies, a complex of devices was manufactured under the guidance of PhD in Physics, associate professor Khidir Mikailov.

Currently, in the framework of cooperation with the GAIA OPTIKON project, monitoring of various objects is carried out using the SAO telescope.

Within the framework of the project, from May 21 to June 23, 2020, the staff of the observatory - Professor N. Ismailov, associate professor H. Mikailov, Ilgar Alakbarov and young researchers - associate professor Orkhan Halilov, Sarkhan Bagirli and Sabahaddin Alishov, along with colleagues from the International Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw, conducted spectral and photometric observations of the supernova Gaia20cgo / SN2020jee. Observation results were analyzed and published in The Astronomers Telegram.

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