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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 Gaia satellite, planned for launch by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2013, is the next generation astrometry mission following Hipparcos. While mapping the whole sky, the Gaia space mission is expected to discover thousands of Solar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-04 M. Todd , P. Tanga , D. M. Coward , M. G. Zadnik

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

Since July 2014, the ESA Gaia mission has been surveying the entire sky down to magnitude 20.7 in the visible. In addition to the millions of stars, thousands of Solar System Objects (SSOs) are observed daily. By comparing their positions…

Gaia is an all sky, high precision astrometric and photometric satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA) due for launch in 2010-2011. Its primary mission is to study the composition, formation and evolution of our Galaxy. Gaia will…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. A. L. Bailer-Jones

The Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission is a NASA observatory designed to discover and characterize near-Earth asteroids and comets. The mission's primary objective is to find the majority of objects large enough to cause severe…

The European Space Agency Gaia satellite, planned for launch in late 2013, will perform systematic astrometric observations of the whole sky over a five year period. During this mission many thousands of Solar System Objects down to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-31 M. Todd , P. Tanga , D. M. Coward , M. G. Zadnik

The Gaia satellite, to be launched in 2012, will offer an unprecedented survey of the whole sky down to magnitude 20. The multi-epoch nature of the mission provides a unique opportunity to study variable sources with their astrometric,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-25 Laurent Eyer , Nami Mowlavi , Mihaly Varadi , Maxime Spano , Isabelle Lecoeur-Taibi , Gisella Clementini

Gaia is a satellite mission of the ESA, aiming at absolute astrometric measurements of about one billion stars (all stars down to 20th magnitude, with unprecedented accuracy. Additionally, magnitudes and colors will be obtained for all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Stefan Jordan

Accurate measurements of osculating orbital elements are essential in order to understand and model the complex dynamic behavior of Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs). ESA's Gaia mission promises to have great potential in this respect. In this…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-19 Siegfried Eggl , Hadrien Devillepoix

The Gaia satellite will survey the entire celestial sphere down to 20th magnitude, obtaining astrometry, photometry, and low resolution spectrophotometry on one billion astronomical sources, plus radial velocities for over one hundred…

In this communication, we show how asteroids observations from the Gaia mission can be used to perform local tests of General Relativity (GR). This ESA mission, launched in December 2013, will observe --in addition to the stars-- a large…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-19 A. Hees , D. Hestroffer , C. Le Poncin-Lafitte , P. David

In its all-sky survey, the ESA global astrometry mission Gaia will perform high-precision astrometry and photometry for 1 billion stars down to $V = 20$ mag. The data collected in the Gaia catalogue, to be published by the end of the next…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Sozzetti

The GBOT group is in charge of the Ground Based Optical Tracking of the Gaia satellite. In concrete terms, since the launch of Gaia, our task is to take every night, using ground based medium-class telescopes, short sequences of $10$ or…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 S. Bouquillon , D. Souami

Gaia is a European Space Agency (ESA) astrometry space mission, and a successor to the ESA Hipparcos mission. Gaia's main goal is to collect high-precision astrometric data (i.e. positions, parallaxes, and proper motions) for the brightest…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Lukasz Wyrzykowski , Simon Hodgkin

Gaia is the next astrometry mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), following up on the success of the Hipparcos mission. With a focal plane containing 106 CCD detectors, Gaia will survey the entire sky and repeatedly observe the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. H. J. de Bruijne

Gaia is a cornerstone mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) selected in 2000, with a target launch date of 2011. The Gaia mission will perform a survey of about 1 billion sources brighter than V=20. Its goal is to provide astrometry…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-09 Laurent Eyer

The ESA Cornerstone Mission GAIA, to be launched prior to 2012 and with a nominal lifetime of 5 years, will improve the accuracy of Hipparcos astrometry by more than two orders of magnitude. GAIA high-precision global astrometric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. G. Lattanzi , S. Casertano , A. Sozzetti , A. Spagna

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

The ESA Gaia mission, to be launched during 2013, will observe billions of objects, among which many galaxies, during its scanning of the sky. This will provide a large space-based dataset with unprecedented spatial resolution. Because of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-23 A. Krone-Martins , C. Ducourant , R. Teixeira , L. Galluccio , P. Gavras , S. dos Anjos , R. E. de Souza , R. E. G. Machado , J. -F. Le Campion
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