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RGB photometric calibration of 15 million Gaia stars

Although a catalogue of synthetic RGB magnitudes, providing photometric data for a sample of 1346 bright stars, has been recently published, its usefulness is still limited due to the small number of reference stars available, considering…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Nicolás Cardiel , Jaime Zamorano , Josep Manel Carrasco , Eduard Masana , Salvador Bará , Rafael González , Jaime Izquierdo , Sergio Pascual , Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel

Gaia Data Release 1: The archive visualisation service

Context: The first Gaia data release (DR1) delivered a catalogue of astrometry and photometry for over a billion astronomical sources. Within the panoply of methods used for data exploration, visualisation is often the starting point and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 A. Moitinho , A. Krone-Martins , H. Savietto , M. Barros , C. Barata , A. J. Falcão , T. Fernandes , J. Alves , A. F. Silva , M. Gomes , J. Bakker , A. G. A. Brown , J. González-Núñez , G. Gracia-Abril , R. Gutiérrez-Sánchez , J. Hernández , S. Jordan , X. Luri , B. Merin , F. Mignard , A. Mora , V. Navarro , W. O'Mullane , T. Sagristà Sellés , J. Salgado , J. C. Segovia , E. Utrilla , F. Arenou , J. H. J. de Bruijne , F. Jansen , M. McCaughrean , K. S. O'Flaherty , M. B. Taylor , A. Vallenari

The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Motivation, implementation, GIRAFFE data processing, analysis, and final data products

The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey is an ambitious project designed to obtain astrophysical parameters and elemental abundances for 100,000 stars, including large representative samples of the stellar populations in the Galaxy, and a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 G. Gilmore , S. Randich , C. C. Worley , A. Hourihane , A. Gonneau , G. G. Sacco , J. R. Lewis , L. Magrini , P. Francois , R. D. Jeffries , S. E. Koposov , A. Bragaglia , E. J. Alfaro , C. Allende Prieto , R. Blomme , A. J. Korn , A. C. Lanzafame , E. Pancino , A. Recio-Blanco , R. Smiljanic , S. Van Eck , T. Zwitter , T. Bensby , E. Flaccomio , M. J. Irwin , E. Franciosini , L. Morbidelli , F. Damiani , R. Bonito , E. D. Friel , J. S. Vink , L. Prisinzano , U. Abbas , D. Hatzidimitriou , E. V. Held , C. Jordi , E. Paunzen , A. Spagna , R. J. Jackson , J. Maiz Apellaniz , M. Asplund , P. Bonifacio , S. Feltzing , J. Binney , J. Drew , A. M. N. Ferguson , G. Micela , I. Negueruela , T. Prusti , H. -W. Rix , A. Vallenari , M. Bergemann , A. R. Casey , P. de Laverny , A. Frasca , V. Hill , K. Lind , L. Sbordone , S. G. Sousa , V. Adibekyan , E. Caffau , S. Daflon , D. K. Feuillet , M. Gebran , J. I. Gonzalez Hernandez , G. Guiglion , A. Herrero , A. Lobel , T. Merle , S. Mikolaitis , D. Montes , T. Morel , G. Ruchti , C. Soubiran , H. M. Tabernero , G. Tautvaisiene , G. Traven , M. Valentini , M. Van der Swaelmen , S. Villanova , C. Viscasillas Vazquez , A. Bayo , K. Biazzo , G. Carraro , B. Edvardsson , U. Heiter , P. Jofre , G. Marconi , C. Martayan , T. Masseron , L. Monaco , N. A. Walton , S. Zaggia , V. Aguirre Borsen-Koch , J. Alves , L. Balaguer-Nunez , P. S. Barklem , D. Barrado , M. Bellazzini , S. R. Berlanas , A. S. Binks , A. Bressan , R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , L. Casagrande , L. Casamiquela , R. S. Collins , V. D'Orazi , M. L. L. Dantas , V. P. Debattista , E. Delgado-Mena , P. Di Marcantonio , A. Drazdauskas , N. W. Evans , B. Famaey , M. Franchini , Y. Fremat , X. Fu , D. Geisler , O. Gerhard , E. A. Gonzalez Solares , E. K. Grebel , M. L. Gutierrez Albarran , F. Jimenez-Esteban , H. Jonsson , T. Khachaturyants , G. Kordopatis , J. Kos , N. Lagarde , H. -G. Ludwig , L. Mahy , M. Mapelli , E. Marfil , S. L. Martell , S. Messina , A. Miglio , I. Minchev , A. Moitinho , J. Montalban , M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro , C. Morossi , N. Mowlavi , A. Mucciarelli , D. N. A. Murphy , N. Nardetto , S. Ortolani , F. Paletou , J. Palous , J. C. Pickering , A. Quirrenbach , P. Re Fiorentin , J. I. Read , D. Romano , N. Ryde , N. Sanna , W. Santos , G. M. Seabroke , L. Spina , M. Steinmetz , E. Stonkute , E. Sutorius , F. Thevenin , M. Tosi , M. Tsantaki , N. Wright , R. F. G. Wyse , M. Zoccali , J. Zorec , D. B. Zucker

Age determination for 269 $Gaia$ DR2 Open Clusters

$Context$. Gaia Second Data Release provides precise astrometry and photometry for more than 1.3 billion sources. This catalog opens a new era concerning the characterization of open clusters and test stellar models, paving the way for a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-13 D. Bossini , A. Vallenari , A. Bragaglia , T. Cantat-Gaudin , R. Sordo , L. Balaguer-Núñez , C. Jordi , A. Moitinho , C. Soubiran , L. Casamiquela , R. Carrera , U. Heiter

Gaia: unraveling the chemical and dinamical history of our Galaxy

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

Second Data Release of the All-sky NOIRLab Source Catalog

We announce the second data release (DR2) of the NOIRLab Source Catalog (NSC), using 412,116 public images from CTIO-4m+DECam, the KPNO-4m+Mosaic3 and the Bok-2.3m+90Prime. NSC DR2 contains over 3.9 billion unique objects, 68 billion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-31 David L. Nidever , Arjun Dey , Katie Fasbender , Stephanie Juneau , Aaron M. Meisner , Joseph Wishart , Adam Scott , Kyle Matt , Robert Nikutta , Ragadeepika Pucha

Photometric Determination of Main-Sequence Binaries with Gaia

Since its launch in 2013, the Gaia space telescope has provided precise measurements of the positions and magnitudes of over 1 billion stars. This has enabled extensive searches for stellar and sub-stellar companions through astrometric and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-11 A. L. Wallace

The daily processing of asteroid observations by Gaia

The Gaia mission started its regular observing program in the summer of 2014, and since then it is regularly obtaining observations of asteroids. This paper draws the outline of the data processing for Solar System objects, and in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-04 Paolo Tanga , Francois Mignard , Aldo Dell Oro , Karri Muinonen , Thierry Pauwels , William Thuillot , Jerome Berthier , Alberto Cellino , Daniel Hestroffer , Jean-Marc Petit , Benoit Carry , Pedro David , Marco Delbo , Grigori Fedorets , Laurent Galluccio , Mikael Granvik , Christophe Ordenovic , Hanna Pentikainen

Stellar Loci V: Photometric Metallicities of 27 Million FGK Stars based on Gaia Early Data Release 3

We combine LAMOST DR7 spectroscopic data and Gaia EDR3 photometric data to construct high-quality giant (0.7 $< (BP-RP) <$ 1.4) and dwarf (0.5 $< (BP-RP) < $ 1.5) samples in the high Galactic latitude region, with precise corrections for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Shuai Xu , Haibo Yuan , Zexi Niu , Lin Yang , Timothy C. Beers , Yang Huang

Gaia Early Data Release 3: Updated radial velocities from Gaia DR2

Gaia's Early Third Data Release (EDR3) does not contain new radial velocities because these will be published in Gaia's full third data release (DR3), expected in the first half of 2022. To maximise the usefulness of EDR3, Gaia's second…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-29 G. Seabroke , C. Fabricius , D. Teyssier , P. Sartoretti , D. Katz , M. Cropper , T. Antoja , K. Benson , M. Smith , C. Dolding , E. Gosset , P. Panuzzo , F. Thévenin , C. Allende Prieto , R. Blomme , A. Guerrier , H. Huckle , A. Jean-Antoine , R. Haigron , O. Marchal , S. Baker , Y. Damerdji , M. David , Y. Frémat , K. Janßen , G. Jasniewicz , A. Lobel , N. Samaras , G. Plum , C. Soubiran , O. Vanel , T. Zwitter , M. Ajaj , E. Caffau , L. Chemin , F. Royer , N. Brouillet , F. Crifo , L. Guy , N. Hambly , N. Leclerc , A. Mastrobuono-Battisti , Y. Viala

Gaia broad band photometry

The scientific community needs to be prepared to analyse the data from Gaia, one of the most ambitious ESA space missions, to be launched in 2012. The purpose of this paper is to provide data and tools in order to predict in advance how…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 C. Jordi , M. Gebran , J. M. Carrasco , J. de Bruijne , H. Voss , C. Fabricius , J. Knude , A. Vallenari , R. Kohley , A. Mora

Gaia Early Data Release 3: The celestial reference frame (Gaia-CRF3)

Gaia-CRF3 is the celestial reference frame for positions and proper motions in the third release of data from the Gaia mission, Gaia DR3 (and for the early third release, Gaia EDR3, which contains identical astrometric results). The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Gaia Collaboration , S. A. Klioner , L. Lindegren , F. Mignard , J. Hernández , M. Ramos-Lerate , U. Bastian , M. Biermann , A. Bombrun , A. de Torres , E. Gerlach , R. Geyer , T. Hilger , D. Hobbs , U. L. Lammers , P. J. McMillan , H. Steidelmüller , D. Teyssier , C. M. Raiteri , S. Bartolomé , M. Bernet , J. Castañeda , M. Clotet , M. Davidson , C. Fabricius , N. Garralda Torres , J. J. González-Vidal , J. Portell , N. Rowell , F. Torra , J. Torra , A. G. A. Brown , A. Vallenari , T. Prusti , J. H. J. de Bruijne , F. Arenou , C. Babusiaux , O. L. Creevey , C. Ducourant , D. W. Evans , L. Eyer , R. Guerra , A. Hutton , C. Jordi , X. Luri , C. Panem , D. Pourbaix , S. Randich , P. Sartoretti , C. Soubiran , P. Tanga , N. A. Walton , C. A. L. Bailer-Jones , R. Drimmel , F. Jansen , D. Katz , M. G. Lattanzi , F. van Leeuwen , J. Bakker , C. Cacciari , F. De Angeli , M. Fouesneau , Y. Frémat , L. Galluccio , A. Guerrier , U. Heiter , E. Masana , R. Messineo , N. Mowlavi , C. Nicolas , K. Nienartowicz , F. Pailler , P. Panuzzo , F. Riclet , W. Roux , G. M. Seabroke , R. Sordo , F. Thévenin , G. Gracia-Abril , M. Altmann , R. Andrae , M. Audard , I. Bellas-Velidis , K. Benson , J. Berthier , R. Blomme , P. W. Burgess , D. Busonero , G. Busso , H. Cánovas , B. Carry , A. Cellino , N. Cheek , G. Clementini , Y. Damerdji , P. de Teodoro , M. Nuñez Campos , L. Delchambre , A. Dell'Oro , P. Esquej , J. Fernández-Hernández , E. Fraile , D. Garabato , P. García-Lario , E. Gosset , R. Haigron , J. -L. Halbwachs , N. C. Hambly , D. L. Harrison , D. Hestroffer , S. T. Hodgkin , B. Holl , K. Janßen , G. Jevardat de Fombelle , S. Jordan , A. Krone-Martins , A. C. Lanzafame , W. Löffler , O. Marchal , P. M. Marrese , A. Moitinho , K. Muinonen , P. Osborne , E. Pancino , T. Pauwels , A. Recio-Blanco , C. Reylé , M. Riello , L. Rimoldini , T. Roegiers , J. Rybizki , L. M. Sarro , C. Siopis , M. Smith , A. Sozzetti , E. Utrilla , M. van Leeuwen , U. Abbas , P. Ábrahám , A. Abreu Aramburu , C. Aerts , J. J. Aguado , M. Ajaj , F. Aldea-Montero , G. Altavilla , M. A. Álvarez , J. Alves , R. I. Anderson , E. Anglada Varela , T. Antoja , D. Baines , S. G. Baker , L. Balaguer-Núñez , E. Balbinot , Z. Balog , C. Barache , D. Barbato , M. Barros , M. A. Barstow , J. -L. Bassilana , N. Bauchet , U. Becciani , M. Bellazzini , A. Berihuete , S. Bertone , L. Bianchi , A. Binnenfeld , S. Blanco-Cuaresma , T. Boch , D. Bossini , S. Bouquillon , A. Bragaglia , L. Bramante , E. Breedt , A. Bressan , N. Brouillet , E. Brugaletta , B. Bucciarelli , A. Burlacu , A. G. Butkevich , R. Buzzi , E. Caffau , R. Cancelliere , T. Cantat-Gaudin , R. Carballo , T. Carlucci , M. I. Carnerero , J. M. Carrasco , L. Casamiquela , M. Castellani , A. Castro-Ginard , L. Chaoul , P. Charlot , L. Chemin , V. Chiaramida , A. Chiavassa , N. Chornay , G. Comoretto , G. Contursi , W. J. Cooper , T. Cornez , S. Cowell , F. Crifo , M. Cropper , M. Crosta , C. Crowley , C. Dafonte , A. Dapergolas , P. David , P. de Laverny , F. De Luise , R. De March , J. De Ridder , R. de Souza , E. F. del Peloso , E. del Pozo , M. Delbo , A. Delgado , J. -B. Delisle , C. Demouchy , T. E. Dharmawardena , S. Diakite , C. Diener , E. Distefano , C. Dolding , H. Enke , C. Fabre , M. Fabrizio , S. Faigler , G. Fedorets , P. Fernique , A. Fienga , F. Figueras , Y. Fournier , C. Fouron , F. Fragkoudi , M. Gai , A. Garcia-Gutierrez , M. Garcia-Reinaldos , M. García-Torres , A. Garofalo , A. Gavel , P. Gavras , P. Giacobbe , G. Gilmore , S. Girona , G. Giuffrida , R. Gomel , A. Gomez , J. González-Núñez , I. González-Santamaría , M. Granvik , P. Guillout , J. Guiraud , R. Gutiérrez-Sánchez , L. P. Guy , D. Hatzidimitriou , M. Hauser , M. Haywood , A. Helmer , A. Helmi , M. H. Sarmiento , S. L. Hidalgo , N. Hładczuk , G. Holland , H. E. Huckle , K. Jardine , G. Jasniewicz , A. Jean-Antoine Piccolo , Ó. Jiménez-Arranz , J. Juaristi Campillo , F. Julbe , L. Karbevska , P. Kervella , S. Khanna , G. Kordopatis , A. J. Korn , Á Kóspál , Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska , K. Kruszyńska , M. Kun , P. Laizeau , S. Lambert , A. F. Lanza , Y. Lasne , J. -F. Le Campion , Y. Lebreton , T. Lebzelter , S. Leccia , N. Leclerc , I. Lecoeur-Taibi , S. Liao , E. L. Licata , H. E. P. Lindstrøm , T. A. Lister , E. Livanou , A. Lobel , A. Lorca , C. Loup , P. Madrero Pardo , A. Magdaleno Romeo , S. Managau , R. G. Mann , M. Manteiga , J. M. Marchant , M. Marconi , J. Marcos , M. M. S. Marcos Santos , D. Marín Pina , S. Marinoni , F. Marocco , D. J. Marshall , L. Martin Polo , J. M. Martín-Fleitas , G. Marton , N. Mary , A. Masip , D. Massari , A. Mastrobuono-Battisti , T. Mazeh , S. Messina , D. Michalik , N. R. Millar , A. Mints , D. Molina , R. Molinaro , L. Molnár , G. Monari , M. Monguió , P. Montegriffo , A. Montero , R. Mor , A. Mora , R. Morbidelli , T. Morel , D. Morris , T. Muraveva , C. P. Murphy , I. Musella , Z. Nagy , L. Noval , F. Ocaña , A. Ogden , C. Ordenovic , J. O. Osinde , C. Pagani , I. Pagano , L. Palaversa , P. A. Palicio , L. Pallas-Quintela , A. Panahi , S. Payne-Wardenaar , X. Peñalosa Esteller , A. Penttilä , B. Pichon , A. M. Piersimoni , F. -X. Pineau , E. Plachy , G. Plum , E. Poggio , A. Prša , L. Pulone , E. Racero , S. Ragaini , M. Rainer , N. Rambaux , P. Ramos , P. Re Fiorentin , S. Regibo , P. J. Richards , C. Rios Diaz , V. Ripepi , A. Riva , H. -W. Rix , G. Rixon , N. Robichon , A. C. Robin , C. Robin , M. Roelens , H. R. O. Rogues , L. Rohrbasser , M. Romero-Gómez , F. Royer , D. Ruz Mieres , K. A. Rybicki , G. Sadowski , A. Sáez Núñez , A. Sagristà Sellés , J. Sahlmann , E. Salguero , N. Samaras , V. Sanchez Gimenez , N. Sanna , R. Santoveña , M. Sarasso , M. Schultheis , E. Sciacca , M. Segol , J. C. Segovia , D. Ségransan , D. Semeux , S. Shahaf , H. I. Siddiqui , A. Siebert , L. Siltala , A. Silvelo , E. Slezak , I. Slezak , R. L. Smart , O. N. Snaith , E. Solano , F. Solitro , D. Souami , J. Souchay , A. Spagna , L. Spina , F. Spoto , I. A. Steele , C. A. Stephenson , M. Süveges , J. Surdej , L. Szabados , E. Szegedi-Elek , F. Taris , M. B. Taylor , R. Teixeira , L. Tolomei , N. Tonello , G. Torralba Elipe , M. Trabucchi , A. T. Tsounis , C. Turon , A. Ulla , N. Unger , M. V. Vaillant , E. van Dillen , W. van Reeven , O. Vanel , A. Vecchiato , Y. Viala , D. Vicente , S. Voutsinas , M. Weiler , T. Wevers , Ł. Wyrzykowski , A. Yoldas , P. Yvard , H. Zhao , J. Zorec , S. Zucker , T. Zwitter

Gaia data processing. SEAPipe: The source environment analysis pipeline

Aims. To describe two potential options for the Source Environment Analysis pipeline, SEAPipe, for the Gaia mission. This pipeline will enable the discovery of sources which are new to Gaia, in the sense that they were not found by the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 D. L. Harrison , F. van Leeuwen , P. J. Osborne , P. W. Burgess , F. De Angeli , D. W. Evans

Radial velocities from Gaia BP/RP spectra

The Gaia mission has provided us full astrometric solutions for over 1.5B sources. However, only the brightest 34M of those have radial velocity measurements. As a proof of concept, this paper aims to close that gap, by obtaining radial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-31 Sill Verberne , Sergey E. Koposov , Elena M. Rossi , Tommaso Marchetti , Konrad Kuijken , Zephyr Penoyre

Binary Pulsar Distances and Velocities from Gaia Data Release 2

The second data release from the Gaia mission (Gaia DR2) includes, among its billion entries, as- trometric parameters for binary companions to a number of known pulsars, including white dwarf companions to millisecond pulsars and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-30 Ross J. Jennings , David L. Kaplan , Shami Chatterjee , James M. Cordes , Adam T. Deller

GaiaNIR: Note on processing and photometry

Some ideas for onboard processing and photometry with an astrometry satellite are presented, especially designed for GaiaNIR which may be launched about 2045 as a successor of Gaia. - Increased sensitivity, reduced image overlap, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-20 Erik Høg

The First Look of Gaia: Daily data quality and instrument health assessment with automated early warnings

The ESA Gaia mission is a 10+ year astrometric whole-sky scan, demanding consistent data quality over the whole timespan of operations Aims. The Gaia First Look (FL) is a system whose aim is monitoring the data quality to identify problems,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 M. Altmann , Z. Balog , W. Löffler , U. Bastian , M. Biermann , A. Sagrista Selles , M. Davidson , N. Rowell , E. Serpell , A. Abreu Aramburu , T. Brüsemeister , C. Crowley , M. Hauser , S. Jordan , J. Martín-Fleitas , A. Mora , E. Fernandez del Peloso , U. Stampa

Photometric Catalogue for Space and Ground Night-Time Remote-Sensing Calibration: RGB Synthetic Photometry from Gaia DR3 Spectrophotometry

Recent works have made strong efforts to produce standardised photometry in RGB bands. For this purpose, we carefully defined the transmissivity curves of RGB bands and defined a set of standard sources using the photometric information…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-28 J. M. Carrasco , N. Cardiel , E. Masana , J. Zamorano , S. Pascual , A. Sánchez de Miguel , R. González , J. Izquierdo

Modelling the Galaxy in the era of Gaia

The body of photometric and astrometric data on stars in the Galaxy has been growing very fast in recent years (Hipparcos/Tycho, OGLE-3, 2-Mass, DENIS, UCAC2, SDSS, RAVE, Pan Starrs, Hermes, ...) and in two years ESA will launch the Gaia…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-16 James Binney

The ESA Gaia Archive: Data Release 1

ESA Gaia mission is producing the more accurate source catalogue in astronomy up to now. That represents a challenge on the archiving area to make accessible this information to the astronomers in an efficient way. Also, new astronomical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-31 Jesús Salgado , Juan González-Núñez , Raúl Gutiérrez-Sánchez , Juan-Carlos Segovia , Javier Durán , Jose-Luis Hernández , Christophe Arviset