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Spectrograph aboard the GAIA satellite operates in the near-IR, in the 8490-- 8740 \AA window accessible also from the ground. The most important parameter yet to be determined is the spectral resolution. Realistic estimates of the zodiacal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tomaz Zwitter

Gaia's milli-arcsec (mas) astrometric precision allows systematic identification of optically-selected sub-kpc dual active galactic nuclei (AGN), off-nucleus AGN, and small-scale lensed quasars by `varstrometry' -- where variability-induced…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-20 Hsiang-Chih Hwang , Yue Shen , Nadia Zakamska , Xin Liu

The Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) is a large wide-field spectroscopic stellar survey of the Milky Way. Over the period 2003-2013, 574,630 spectra for 483,330 stars have been amassed at a resolution of R=7500 in the Ca-triplet region of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-13 Matthias Steinmetz

We have mapped the number density and mean vertical velocity of the Milky Way's stellar disk out to roughly two kiloparsecs from the Sun using Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) and complementary photo-astrometric distance information from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-14 Axel Widmark , Lawrence M. Widrow , Aneesh Naik

Selection effects, such as interstellar extinction and varying survey depth, complicate efforts to determine the gravitational potential - and thus the distribution of baryonic and dark matter - throughout the Milky Way galaxy using stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-03 Taavet Kalda , Gregory Green

Gaia DR2 has delivered full-sky 6-D measurements for millions of stars, and the quest to understand the dynamics of our Galaxy has entered a new phase. Our aim is to reveal and characterize the kinematic sub-structure of the different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-14 P. Ramos , T. Antoja , F. Figueras

Gaia-DR2 has provided an unprecedented number of white dwarf candidates of our Galaxy. In particular, it is estimated that Gaia-DR2 has observed nearly 400,000 of these objects and close to 18,000 up to 100 pc from the Sun. This large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 S. Torres , C. Cantero , A. Rebassa-Mansergas , G. Skorobogatov , F. M. Jiménez-Esteban , E. Solano

This paper presents the specification, design, and development of the Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) on the European Space Agency's Gaia mission. Starting with the rationale for the full six dimensions of phase space in the dynamical…

Gaia Early Data Release 3 contains astrometry and photometry results for about 1.8 billion sources based on observations collected by the ESA Gaia satellite during the first 34 months of operations. This paper focuses on the photometric…

The occurrence of multiple stars, dominantly binaries, is studied using the \textit{Gaia}-ESA DR2 catalogue. We apply the optimized statistical method that we previously developed for the analysis of 2D patterns. The field of stars is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-05 Petr Zavada , Karel Píška

The RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) is a spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way. We use the subsample of spectra with spectroscopically determined values of stellar parameters to determine the distances to these stars. The list currently…

Temperature and luminosity are the two key diagnostics of a star, yet these cannot come directly from survey data, but must be imputed by comparing those data to models. SED fitting offers a high-precision method to obtain both parameters…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-08 I. McDonald , A. A. Zijlstra , N. J. Cox , J. Bernard-Salas

We present part 2 of the 6th and final Data Release (DR6 or FDR) of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE), a magnitude-limited (9<I<12) spectroscopic survey of Galactic stars randomly selected in the southern hemisphere. The RAVE…

In astronomy, we are witnessing an enormous increase in the number of source detections, precision, and diversity of measurements. Additionally, multi-epoch data is becoming the norm, making time-series analyses an important aspect of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-22 Laurent Eyer , Maria Süveges , Joris De Ridder , Sara Regibo , Nami Mowlavi , Berry Holl , Lorenzo Rimoldini , Francois Bouchy

The Gaia DR2 catalog released in 2018 gives information about more than one billion stars, including their extremely precise positions that are not affected by the atmosphere, as well as the magnitudes in the G, RP, and BP passbands. This…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 F. R. Lin , Q. Y. Peng , Z. J. Zheng

The Milky Way halo is one of the few galactic haloes that provides a unique insight into galaxy formation by resolved stellar populations. Here, we present a catalogue of $\sim$47 million halo stars selected independent of parallax and…

Red dwarf stars, which represent 75% of stars in the Milky Way, can be studied in great detail in the solar neighborhood where the sample is more complete. We intend to better characterize red dwarf candidates selected from the Gaia Catalog…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Andrea Mejías , Dante Minniti , Javier Alonso-García , Juan Carlos Beamín , Roberto K. Saito , Enrique Solano

Streams of stars from captured dwarf galaxies and dissolved globular clusters are identifiable through the similarity of their orbital parameters, a fact that remains true long after the streams have dispersed spatially. We calculate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Nicholas W. Borsato , Sarah L. Martell , Jeffrey D. Simpson

We produce a new photometric calibration for the combined six-filter system formed by $Gaia$ DR2 + EDR3 $G$+$G_{\rm BP}$+$G_{\rm RP}$ using an improved STIS/HST spectrophotometric library with very red stars. The comparison between observed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-07 J. Maíz Apellániz , M. Weiler

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