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Aims. With the next generation of large surveys coming to the stage of observational cosmology soon, it is important to explore their potential synergies and to maximise their scientific outcomes. In this study, we aim to investigate the…

Interstellar extinction is a major obstacle in determining accurate stellar parameters from photometry near the Galactic disk. It is especially true for globular clusters at low galactic latitudes, which suffer from significant amounts of,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-05 Csilla Kalup , László Molnár

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

By combining spectroscopic data from the LAMOST DR7, SDSS DR12, and corrected photometric data from the Gaia EDR3, we apply the Stellar Color Regression (SCR; Yuan et al. 2015a) method to recalibrate the SDSS Stripe 82 standard stars…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Bowen Huang , Haibo Yuan

The Gaia mission has been designed to perform absolute astrometric measurements with unprecedented accuracy; the end-of-mission parallax standard error is required to be 30 micro-arcseconds for a G2V type star of magnitude 15. These…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Thibaut Prod'homme , Berry Holl , Lennart Lindegren , Anthony G. A. Brown

We present a sub-arcsecond cross-match of Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) against the INT Galactic Plane Surveys (IGAPS) and the United Kingdom Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS). The resulting cross-match of Galactic Plane Surveys (XGAPS)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 S. Scaringi , M. Monguio , C. Knigge , M. Fratta , B. Gaensicke , P. J. Groot , A. Rebassa-Mansergas , O. Toloza

We use the Gaia DR2 catalog to improve the astrometric accuracy of about 1.7 billion objects in Pan-STARRS1 Data Release 2 (PS1 DR2). We also obtain proper motions for these PS1 objects. The cross match between Gaia and PS1 reveals…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-09 Stephen H. Lubow , Richard L. White , Bernie Shiao

The spectrophotometric flux calibration of recent spectroscopic surveys has reached a limiting systematic precision of approximately 1-3 percent, and is often biased near the wavelengths associated with H I Balmer absorption. As we prepare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-12 Ryan Cooke , Nao Suzuki , J. Xavier Prochaska

In crowded fields, small-aperture photometry can reduce contamination errors from neighboring sources compared to larger aperture photometry. However, the UVIS encircled energy (EE) varies with detector position and focus variations on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 K. Huynh , V. Bajaj , J. Mack , A. Calamida

With the plentiful information available in the Gaia BP/RP spectra, there is significant scope for applying discriminative models to extract stellar atmospheric parameters and abundances. We describe an approach to leverage an `Uncertain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-20 Connor P. Fallows , Jason L. Sanders

Context. Euclid will carry out a deep survey benefiting the discovery and characterisation of ultracool dwarfs (UCDs), especially in the Euclid Deep Fields (EDFs), which the telescope will scan repeatedly throughout its mission. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Jerry Jun-Yan Zhang , Nicolas Lodieu , Eduardo Martín

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 ESA Euclid mission will produce photometric galaxy samples over 15000 square degrees of the sky that will be rich for clustering and weak lensing statistics. The accuracy of the cosmological constraints derived from these measurements…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 M. S. Cagliari , B. R. Granett , L. Guzzo , M. Bolzonella , L. Pozzetti , I. Tutusaus , S. Camera , A. Amara , N. Auricchio , R. Bender , C. Bodendorf , D. Bonino , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , M. Castellano , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , R. Cledassou , G. Congedo , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , L. Corcione , M. Cropper , H. Degaudenzi , M. Douspis , F. Dubath , S. Dusini , A. Ealet , S. Ferriol , N. Fourmanoit , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , P. Franzetti , B. Garilli , C. Giocoli , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , S. V. H. Haugan , H. Hoekstra , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , P. Hudelot , K. Jahnke , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , M. Kilbinger , T. Kitching , M. Kummel , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , I. Lloro , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , R. Massey , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , S. M. Niemi , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , W. J. Percival , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , M. Poncet , L. Popa , F. Raison , R. Rebolo , J. Rhodes , H. -W. Rix , M. Roncarelli , E. Rossetti , R. Saglia , R. Scaramella , P. Schneider , M. Scodeggio , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , D. Tavagnacco , A. N. Taylor , I. Tereno , R. Toledo-Moreo , E. A. Valentijn , L. Valenziano , Y. Wang , N. Welikala , J. Weller , G. Zamorani , J. Zoubian , M. Baldi , R. Farinelli , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , G. Polenta , E. Romelli , T. Vassallo , A. Humphrey

As part of the data processing for Gaia Data Release~1 (Gaia DR1) a special astrometric solution was computed, the so-called auxiliary quasar solution. This gives positions for selected extragalactic objects, including radio sources in the…

The outcome of upcoming cosmological surveys will depend on the accurate estimates of photometric redshifts. In the framework of the implementation of the photo-z algorithm for Euclid, we are exploring new avenues to improve…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 Audrey Galametz , Roberto Saglia , Stephane Paltani , Nikolaos Apostolakos , Pierre Dubath

The Gaia-ESO Survey is a large public spectroscopic survey that aims to derive radial velocities and fundamental parameters of about 10^5 Milky Way stars in the field and in clusters. Observations are carried out with the multi-object…

The spatial variation of the colour of a galaxy may introduce a bias in the measurement of its shape if the PSF profile depends on wavelength. We study how this bias depends on the properties of the PSF and the galaxies themselves. The bias…

Asteroseismic data can be used to determine surface gravities with precisions of < 0.05 dex by using the global seismic quantities Deltanu and nu_max along with Teff and [Fe/H]. Surface gravity is also one of the four stellar properties to…

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