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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…

In the light of new full-sky surveys, many attempts of creating a consistent Galactic model were made. The main interest is to estimate the still poorly understood dark matter content. However, the results vary depending on methodology,…

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(abridged) We present a catalog of 2357 point sources detected during 590 ks of Chandra observations of the 17-by-17 arcminute field around Sgr A*. This field encompasses a physical area of 40 by 40 pc at a distance of 8 kpc. The…

We present first results from the ASCA Medium Sensitivity Survey (AMSS; or the GIS catalog project). From the serendipitous fields amounting to 106 degE-2, we determined the Log N - Log S relations in the 0.7-7 keV and 2-10 keV bands with…

The tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) is a standard candle that can be used to help refine the determination of the Hubble constant. $Gaia$ Data Release 3 (DR3) provides synthetic photometry constructed from low-resolution BP/RP spectra…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-26 Siyang Li , Stefano Casertano , Adam G. Riess

We used the "primary dataset" of Gaia Data Release 1 (DR1) to search for parallax measurements of central stars (CSs) of Galactic planetary nebulae (PNe), to determine PN distances. We found that a trigonometric parallax is available for 16…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-01 Letizia Stanghellini , Beatrice Bucciarelli , Mario G. Lattanzi , Roberto Morbidelli

We investigate a sample of 3412 {\it International Celestial Reference Frame} (ICRF3) extragalactic radio-loud sources with accurate positions determined by VLBI in the S/X band, mostly active galactic nuclei (AGN) and quasars, which are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-20 Valeri V. Makarov , Ciprian T. Berghea , Julien Frouard , Alan Fey , Henrique R. Schmitt

We present the results of the very first search for faint Milky Way satellites in the Gaia data. Using stellar positions only, we are able to re-discover objects detected in much deeper data as recently as the last couple of years. While we…

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Identifying and removing binary stars from stellar samples is a crucial but complicated task. Regardless of how carefully a sample is selected, some binaries will remain and complicate interpretation of results, especially via flux…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-08 Kendall Sullivan , Adam L. Kraus , Travis A. Berger , Daniel Huber

Gaia mission will offer an exceptional opportunity to perform variability studies. The data homogeneity, its optimised photometric systems, composed of 11 medium and 4-5 broad bands, the high photometric precision in G band of one milli-mag…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Laurent Eyer

The availability of reliable bolometric corrections and reddening estimates, rather than the quality of parallaxes will be one of the main limiting factors in determining the luminosities of a large fraction of Gaia stars. With this goal in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 Luca Casagrande , Don A. VandenBerg

We have analyzed the retrieval of the relation between mass and absolute Gaia G magnitude as obtained from theoretical models by \cite{2012MNRAS.427..127B} for the stars of different luminosity classes. For subgiant and main-sequence stars,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-26 Oleg Malkov , Dana Kovaleva , Aleksandr Zhukov , Olga Dluzhnevskaya

The second data release of the Gaia mission includes an advance catalog of variable stars. The classification of these stars are based on sparse photometry from the first 22 months of the mission. We set out to investigate the purity and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 László Molnár , Emese Plachy , Áron L. Juhász , Lorenzo Rimoldini

This study performs a multi-wavelength astrometric and photometric examination of a high-confidence sample $(N = 120,418)$ derived from a parent population of 2.36 million unique WDSS-seeded systems. By establishing an empirical polynomial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-04 Andrew Soon

Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) gives trigonometric parallaxes for nearly 1.5 billion sources. Inspection of the EDR3 data for sources identified as quasars reveals that their parallaxes are biased, that is systematically offset from…

The relative photometric calibration errors in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (LS), which are used for DESI target selection, can leave imprints on the DESI target densities and bias the resulting cosmological measurements. We characterize…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-29 Rongpu Zhou , Arjun Dey , Dustin Lang , John Moustakas , Edward F. Schlafly , David J. Schlegel

We identify and investigate known ultracool stars and brown dwarfs that are being observed or indirectly constrained by the Gaia mission. These objects will be the core of the Gaia ultracool dwarf sample composed of all dwarfs later than M7…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 R. L. Smart , F. Marocco , J. A. Caballero , H. R. A. Jones , D. Barrado , J. C. Beamin , D. J. Pinfield , L. M. Sarro

We present a comparison of Gaia Data Release 1 (DR1) parallaxes with photometric parallaxes for a sample of 212 Galactic Cepheids at a median distance of 2~kpc, and explore their implications on the distance scale and the local value of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Stefano Casertano , Adam G. Riess , Beatrice Bucciarelli , Mario G. Lattanzi

The Chandra Source Catalog (CSC) is a virtual X-ray astrophysics facility that enables both detailed individual source studies and statistical studies of large samples of X-ray sources detected in ACIS and HRC-I imaging observations…

Understanding which sources are present in an astronomical catalogue and which are not is crucial for the accurate interpretation of astronomical data. In particular, for the multidimensional Gaia data, filters and cuts on different…