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The third Gaia data release is published in two stages. The early part, Gaia EDR3, gives very precise astrometric and photometric properties for nearly two billion sources together with seven million radial velocities from Gaia DR2. The…

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…

We present a method to identify likely visual binaries in Gaia eDR3 that does not rely on parallax or proper motion. This method utilizes the various PSF sizes of 2MASS/Gaia, where at $<2.5$" two stars may be unresolved in 2MASS but…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-03 Ilija Medan , Sébastien Lépine

Astrometric microlensing is a unique tool to measure stellar masses. It allows us to determine the mass of the lensing star with an accuracy of a few per cent. In this paper, we update, extend, and refine our predictions of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Jonas Klüter , Ulrich Bastian , Markus Demleitner , Joachim Wambsganss

Context. The Gaia satellite will measure highly accurate absolute parallaxes of hundreds of millions of stars by comparing the parallactic displacements in the two fields of view of the optical instrument. The requirements on the stability…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Fredrik Windmark , Lennart Lindegren , David Hobbs

We present an overview of eclipsing systems of the HW-Virginis type, based on space observations from the TESS Mission. We perform a detailed analysis of the properties of AA Dor, which was monitored for almost a full year. This excellent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 A. S. Baran , R. H. Østensen , U. Heber , A. Irrgang , S. Sanjayan , J. H. Telting , M. D. Reed , J. Ostrowski

The importance of studying the Gaia DR2 parallax zero-point by external means was underlined by Lindegren et al. (2018), and initiated by several works making use of Cepheids, eclipsing binaries, and asteroseismology. Despite a very…

The Gaia early Data Release 3 has delivered exquisite astrometric data for 1.47 billion sources, which is revolutionizing many fields in astronomy. For a small fraction of these sources, the astrometric solutions are poor, and the reported…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Jan Rybizki , Gregory Green , Hans-Walter Rix , Kareem El-Badry , Markus Demleitner , Eleonora Zari , Andrzej Udalski , Richard L. Smart , Andrew Gould

We derive Bayesian distances for all stars in the RV sample of Gaia DR2, and use the statistical method of Schoenrich, Binney & Asplund(2012) to validate the distances and test the Gaia parallaxes. In contrast to other methods, which rely…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-05 Ralph Schönrich , Paul McMillan , Laurent Eyer

The Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) contains results derived from 78 billion individual field-of-view transits of 2.5 billion sources collected by the European Space Agency's Gaia mission during its first 34 months of continuous…

We present a catalogue of 362 million stellar parameters, distances, and extinctions derived from Gaia's early third data release (EDR3) cross-matched with the photometric catalogues of Pan-STARRS1, SkyMapper, 2MASS, and AllWISE. The higher…

Gaia parallax measurements for stars with poor astrometric fits -- as evidenced by high renormalized unit weight error (RUWE) -- are often assumed to be unreliable, but the extent and nature of their biases remain poorly quantified. High…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-23 Kareem El-Badry

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

Binary stars containing a white dwarf and a main-sequence star, WDMS binaries, can be used to study a wide range of aspects of stellar astrophysics. We build a magnitude-limited sample of unresolved WDMS binaries from Gaia DR3 to enlarge…

White dwarf stars are ubiquitous in the Galaxy, and are essential to understanding stellar evolution. While most white dwarfs are photometrically stable and reliable flux standards, some can be highly variable, which can reveal unique…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Maya Steen , J. J. Hermes , Joseph A. Guidry , Annabelle Paiva , Jay Farihi , Tyler M. Heintz , Brison B. Ewing , Nathanial Berry

(abridged)Multiple systems for which the astrometric and spectroscopic orbit are known offer the unique possibility of determining the distance to these systems directly without any assumptions. They are therefore ideal objects for a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Martin Groenewegen

Parallaxes measured by the Gaia mission have huge significance for astronomy, but parallaxes in Gaia DR2 are known to have systematic errors that depend on the source position and other quantities. We use the abundant information in faint…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-20 Mark A. Fardal , Roeland van der Marel , Andres del Pino , Sangmo Tony Sohn

The advent of high-precision Gaia parallaxes for Milky Way Cepheids enables per cent-level calibration of the local distance ladder and $H_0$. We revisit the Milky Way Cepheid calibration from Gaia EDR3 parallaxes using a fully…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-11 Richard Stiskalek , Adam Riess , Harry Desmond , Guilhem Lavaux , Dan Scolnic

Gaia DR3 parallaxes are used to calibrate preliminary period--luminosity relations of O-rich Mira variables in the 2MASS $J$, $H$ and $K_s$ bands using a probabilistic model accounting for variations in the parallax zeropoint and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-31 Jason L. Sanders

Updated systemic proper motion estimates for 58 Milky Way satellite galaxies, based on Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3), are provided. This sample is identical to that studied by McConnachie & Venn (2020) and the methodology is essentially…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 Alan W. McConnachie , Kim A. Venn