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The Gaia satellite, planned for launch by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2013, is the next generation astrometry mission following Hipparcos. Gaia's primary science goal is to determine the kinematics, chemical structure and evolution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-31 M. Todd , D. M. Coward , P. Tanga , W. Thuillot

Gaia is a satellite mission of the European Space Agency which is creating a catalogue of extremely accurate positions, distances and space motions of two billion stars in our Galaxy, along with more than one hundred thousand solar system…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Michael Perryman

Future space and ground-based survey programmes will produce an impressive amount of photometric data. The GAIA space mission will map the complete sky down to mag V=20 and produce time series for about 1 billion stars. Survey instruments…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Laurent Eyer , Jan Cuypers

Gaia is the cornerstone mission of the European Space Agency. From late 2013 it will start collecting superb astrometric, photometric and spectroscopic data for around a billion of stars of our Galaxy. While surveying the whole sky down to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-23 Lukasz Wyrzykowski , Simon Hodgkin , Nadejda Blogorodnova , Sergey Koposov , Ross Burgon

GAIA is an astrometric satellite which has been approved by the European Space Agency for launch in about 2010. It will measure the angles between objects in fields that are separated on the sky by about a radian. Data will stream…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. W. Evans , V. Belokurov

The European Gaia astrometry mission is due for launch in 2011. Gaia will rely on the proven principles of ESA's Hipparcos mission to create an all-sky survey of about one billion stars throughout our Galaxy and beyond, by observing all…

Scope of this contribution is twofold. First, it describes the potential of the global astrometry mission Gaia for detecting and measuring planetary systems based on detailed double-blind mode simulations and on the most recent predictions…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-23 M. G. Lattanzi , A. Sozzetti

Access to microarcsecond astrometry is now routine in the radio, infrared, and optical domains. In particular the publication of the second data release from the Gaia mission made it possible for every astronomer to work with easily…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-17 Anthony G. A. Brown

Gaia is a space mission currently measuring the five astrometric parameters as well as spectrophotometry of at least 1 billion stars to G = 20.7 mag with unprecedented precision. The sixth parameter in phase space (radial velocity) is also…

One of the most promising space missions of ESA is the astrometric satellite Gaia, which will provide very precise astrometry and multicolour photometry, for all 1.3 billion objects to V~20, and radial velocities with accuracies of a few…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Torres , E. Garcia-Berro , J. Isern , F. Figueras

Gaia is an astrometric mission that will be launched in spring 2013. There are many scientific outcomes from this mission and as far as our Solar System is concerned, the satellite will be able to map thousands of main belt asteroids (MBAs)…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 D. Bancelin , D. Hestroffer , W. Thuillot

The second data release of ESA's Gaia satellite (Gaia DR2) revolutionised astronomy by providing accurate distances, proper motions, apparent magnitudes, and in many cases temperatures and radial velocities for an unprecedented number of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-18 Tomaž Zwitter

ESA and NASA are studying projects having a tremendous return on variable star research. Other national space agencies are also studying or developing projects of smaller costs but with impressive returns. The projects range from global…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Laurent Eyer

Gaia is an ambitious ESA space mission which will provide photometric and astrometric measurements with the accuracies needed to produce a kinematic census of almost one billion stars in our Galaxy. These data will revolutionize our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-09-27 Benoit Famaey

Astrometry from space has unique advantages over ground-based observations: the all-sky coverage, relatively stable, and temperature and gravity invariant operating environment delivers precision, accuracy and sample volume several orders…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Gerard Gilmore

The second Gaia data release (DR2), contains very precise astrometric and photometric properties for more than one billion sources, astrophysical parameters for dozens of millions, radial velocities for millions, variability information for…

The measurement of the positions, distances, motions and luminosities of stars represents the foundations of modern astronomical knowledge. Launched at the end of the eighties, the ESA Hipparcos satellite was the first space mission…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 L. Eyer , P. Dubath , S. Saesen , D. W. Evans , L. Wyrzykowski , S. Hodgkin , N. Mowlavi

The Gaia astrometric mission - the Hipparcos successor - is described in some detail, with its three instruments: the two (spectro)photometers (BP and RP) covering the range 330-1050 nm, the white light (G-band) imager dedicated to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-24 E. Pancino

Gaia is an ambitious space astrometry mission of ESA with a main objective to map the sky in astrometry and photometry down to a magnitude 20 by the end of the next decade. While the mission is built and operated by ESA and an industrial…