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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

Context. Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3), published in December 2020, features improved photometry and astrometry over that published in the previous DR2 file, and includes a substantially larger number of sources, of the order of 2,000…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-14 I. González-Santamaría , M. Manteiga , A. Manchado , A. Ulla , C. Dafonte , P. López Varela

Context. We present a celestial reference frame (CRF) based on the combination of independent, multifrequency radio source position catalogs using nearly 40 years of Very Long Baseline Interferometry observations at the standard geodetic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Maria Karbon , Axel Nothnagel

Gaia Data Release 3 contains a wealth of new data products for the community. Astrophysical parameters are a major component of this release. They were produced by the Astrophysical parameters inference system (Apsis) within the Gaia Data…

A new realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF) is presented based on the work achieved by a working group of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) mandated for this purpose. This new realization, referred to as…

At about 1000 days after the launch of Gaia we present the first Gaia data release, Gaia DR1, consisting of astrometry and photometry for over 1 billion sources brighter than magnitude 20.7. We summarize Gaia DR1 and provide illustrations…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-15 Gaia Collaboration , A. G. A. Brown , A. Vallenari , T. Prusti , J. de Bruijne , F. Mignard , R. Drimmel , 585 co-authors

Context. Cepheids are pulsating stars that play a crucial role in several astrophysical contexts. Among the different types, the Classical Cepheids are fundamental tools for the calibration of the extragalactic distance ladder. They are…

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

Gaia Data Release 2 (Gaia DR2) contains results for 1693 million sources in the magnitude range 3 to 21 based on observations collected by the European Space Agency Gaia satellite during the first 22 months of its operational phase. We…

Context. As part of Gaia Data Release 3 (Gaia DR3), epoch photometry has been released for 1.2 million sources centred on M31. This is a taster for Gaia Data Release 4 where all the epoch photometry will be released. Aims. In this paper the…

Astrometric discovery of sub-stellar mass companions orbiting stars is exceedingly hard due to the required sub-milliarcsecond precision, limiting the application of this technique to only a few instruments on a target-per-target basis as…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 B. Holl , A. Sozzetti , J. Sahlmann , P. Giacobbe , D. Ségransan , N. Unger , J. B. Delisle , D. Barbato , M. G. Lattanzi , R. Morbidelli , D. Sosnowska

Gaia's Early Third Data Release (EDR3) does not contain new radial velocities because these will be published in Gaia's full third data release (DR3), expected in the first half of 2022. To maximise the usefulness of EDR3, Gaia's second…

We risk reaching false scientific conclusions if we test our physical theories against subsets of the Gaia catalogue without correcting for the biased process by which stars make it into our sample. In this paper we produce selection…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-24 Andrew Everall , Douglas Boubert

The Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3), published in June 2022, delivers a diverse set of astrometric, photometric, and spectroscopic measurements for more than a billion stars. The wealth and complexity of the data makes traditional approaches for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-15 F. Anders , A. Khalatyan , A. B. A. Queiroz , S. Nepal , C. Chiappini

We extend previous works by considering two additional radio frequencies (K band and X/Ka band) with the aim to study the frequency dependence of the source positions and its potential connection with the physical properties of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Niu Liu , Sebastien Lambert , Patrick Charlot , Zi Zhu , Jia-Cheng Liu , Nan Jiang , Xiao-Sheng Wan , Cheng-Yu Ding

We present a cross-calibration of Hipparcos and Gaia EDR3 intended to identify astrometrically accelerating stars and to fit orbits to stars with faint, massive companions. The resulting catalog, the EDR3 edition of the Hipparcos-Gaia…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-17 Timothy D. Brandt

At the core of the Gaia mission is a multi-epoch survey consisting of astrometric, photometric, spectrophotometric, and spectroscopic measurements. The astrometric time series provides parallaxes and proper motions, along with information…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-05 Laurent Eyer

Launch of the Gaia space observatory started a new era in astrometry when the accuracy of star coordinates increased by thousands of times. Significant improvement of accuracy was also expected for the coordinates of the Solar system…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Nikolay V. Emelyanov , Mikhail Kovalev , Maxim I. Varfolomeev

We present the first high-precision proper motion catalog, tied to the International Celestial Reference System (ICRS), of infrared astrometric reference stars within R $\leq$ 25" (1 pc) of the central supermassive black hole at the…