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The second Gaia data release (Gaia-DR2) contains, beyond the astrometry, three-band photometry for 1.38 billion sources. We have used these three broad bands to infer stellar effective temperatures, Teff, for all sources brighter than G=17…

We describe a new catalog of accelerating star candidates with Gaia $G\le 17.5$ mag and distances $d\le 100$ pc. Designated as Gaia Nearby Accelerating Star Catalog (GNASC), it contains 29,684 members identified using a supervised…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-19 Marc L. Whiting , Joshua B. Hill , Benjamin C. Bromley , Scott J. Kenyon

Based on astrometric data from Gaia DR2, we employ an unsupervised machine learning method to blindly search for open star clusters in the Milky Way within the Galactic latitude range of |b| < 20 degrees. In addition to 2,080 known…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-02 Zhi-Hong He , Ye Xu , Chao-Jie Hao , Zhen-Yu Wu , Jing-Jing Li

The second Gaia data release (GDR2) provides precise five-parameter astrometric data (positions, proper motions and parallaxes) for an unprecedented amount of sources (more than $1.3$ billion, mostly stars). The use of this wealth of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 X. Luri , A. G. A. Brown , L. M. Sarro , F. Arenou , C. A. L. Bailer-Jones , A. Castro-Ginard , J. de Bruijne , T. Prusti , C. Babusiaux , H. E. Delgado

We present a novel, data-driven analysis of Galactic dynamics, using unsupervised machine learning -- in the form of density estimation with normalizing flows -- to learn the underlying phase space distribution of 6 million nearby stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-05 Sung Hak Lim , Eric Putney , Matthew R. Buckley , David Shih

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) are amongst the fastest objects in our Milky Way. These stars are predicted to come from the Galactic center (GC) and travel along unbound orbits across the Galaxy. In the coming years, the ESA satellite Gaia will…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-21 T. Marchetti , O. Contigiani , E. M. Rossi , J. G. Albert , A. G. A. Brown , A. Sesana

The escape velocity profile of the Milky Way offers a crucial and independent measurement of its underlying mass distribution and dark matter properties. Using a sample of stars from Gaia DR3 with 6D kinematics and strict quality cuts, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-02 Cian Roche , Lina Necib , Tongyan Lin , Xiaowei Ou , Tri Nguyen

The Gaia DR3, released in June 2022, included low-resolution BP/RP (XP) spectra that have been exploited for the classification of various types of emission-line objects using machine-learning techniques. The Gaia Extended Stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Lionel Mulato , Jaroslav Merc , Stéphane Charbonnel , Olivier Garde , Pascal le Dû , Thomas Petit

GAIA (originally the acronym for Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics) is a mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) which will make the largest, most precise three dimensional map of our Galaxy by an unparalleled survey of…

Popular Physics · Physics 2021-06-10 Priya Hasan

The aim of the analysis of data from the Gaia Space Observatory is to obtain kinematic parameters of the collective motion of stars in a part of our galaxy. This research is based on a statistical analysis of the motion of {$55,038,539$}…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-18 Petr Zavada , Karel Píška

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…

Three-dimensional (3D) maps of Galactic interstellar dust are a tool for a wide range of uses. We aim to construct 3D maps of dust extinction in the Local Arm and surrounding regions. Gaia EDR3 photometric data were combined with 2MASS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-25 R. Lallement , J. -L. Vergely , C. Babusiaux , N. L. J. Cox

Here we show that precise Gaia EDR3 proper motions have provided robust estimates of 3D velocities, angular momentum and total energy for 40 Milky Way dwarfs. The results are statistically robust and are independent of the Milky Way mass…

Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) provides the first classifications for the sources in Gaia's all-sky database. Most Gaia sources are stars in the Milky Way, but DR3 also contains many sources that belong to nearby galaxies, as well as background…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-06 J. Hales , P. Barmby

Despite the advances provided by large-scale photometric surveys, stellar features - such as metallicity - generally remain limited to spectroscopic observations often of bright, nearby low-extinction stars. To rectify this, we present a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-19 Connor P. Fallows , Jason L. Sanders

The second data release from the Gaia mission (DR2) provides a comprehensive and unprecedented picture of the motions of astronomical sources in the plane of the sky, extending from the solar neighborhood to the outer reaches of the Milky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-24 Joshua D. Simon

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 DR3 provides >181, 000 radial velocity solutions for single-lined spectroscopic binaries (SB1s) which can be used to search for non-interacting compact object+star binary candidates by selecting systems with large mass functions. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 T. Jayasinghe , D. M. Rowan , Todd A. Thompson , C. S. Kochanek , K. Z. Stanek

Gaia is undertaking a deep synoptic survey of the Galaxy, but photometry from individual epochs has, as of yet, only been released for a minimal number of sources. We show that it is possible to identify variable stars in Gaia Data Release…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Shion Andrew , Samuel J. Swihart , Jay Strader

We present maps of the stellar streams detected in the Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) and Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) catalogs using the STREAMFINDER algorithm. We also report the spectroscopic follow-up of the brighter DR2 stream members…