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We use the data from Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) to study the kinematic properties of Milky Way globular clusters. We measure the mean parallaxes and proper motions (PM) for 170 clusters, determine the PM dispersion profiles for more…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-14 Eugene Vasiliev , Holger Baumgardt

Nearby galaxies provide populations of stellar and non-stellar sources at a common distance and in quantifiable environments. All are observed through the Milky Way foreground, with varying degrees of contamination that depend on observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-05 P. Barmby

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

We present a mock stellar catalog, matching in volume, depth and data model the content of the planned Gaia early data release 3 (Gaia EDR3). We have generated our catalog (GeDR3mock) using galaxia, a tool to sample stars from an underlying…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Jan Rybizki , Markus Demleitner , Coryn Bailer-Jones , Piero Dal Tio , Tristan Cantat-Gaudin , Morgan Fouesneau , Yang Chen , Rene Andrae , Leo Girardi , Sanjib Sharma

One of the novelties of the Gaia-DR3 with respect to the previous data releases is the publication of the multiband light curves of about 1 million AGN. The goal of this work was the creation of a catalogue of variable AGN, whose selection…

Gaia used a large sample of photometrically selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and quasars to remove the residual spin of its global proper motion system in order to achieve a maximally inertial reference frame. A small fraction of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-06 Valeri V. Makarov , Nathan J. Secrest

Context. The Gaia third Data Release (DR3) presents the first catalogue of full-sky variable Young Stellar Object (YSO) candidates observed by the Gaia space telescope during the initial 34 months of science operations. Aims. Numerous types…

In this paper we characterize magnitude-dependent systematics in the proper motions of the Gaia EDR3 catalog and provide a prescription for their removal. The reference frame of bright stars (G<13) in EDR3 is known to rotate with respect to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 Tristan Cantat-Gaudin , Timothy D. Brandt

Quasars are very important in materializing the reference frame. The excess emission of AGNs (active galactic nuclei) in the mid infrared band can be used to identify quasar candidates. As extremely distant and point like objects, quasars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-12 Qiqi Wu , Shilong Liao , Zhaoxiang Qi , Hao Luo , Zhenghong Tang , Zihuang Cao

Gaia data release 2 (DR2) provides the best non-rotating optical frame aligned with the radio frame (ICRF) thanks to the inclusion of about half-million quasars in the 5-parameter astrometric solution. Given their crucial diagnostic role…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-25 Shilong Liao , Beatric Bucciarelli , Zhaoxiang Qi , Sufen Guo , Zihuang Cao , Zhenghong Tang

We present the first Gaia catalogue of eclipsing binary candidates released in Gaia DR3, describe its content, provide tips for its usage, estimate its quality, and show illustrative samples. The catalogue contains 2,184,477 sources with G…

The detection of exoplanets using astrometry has long been an area of interest, but is fraught with challenges. The Gaia mission is fundamentally reshaping this field thanks to its unprecedentedly precise all-sky astrometric observations.…

The third Gaia data release (DR3) contains $\sim$170\,000 astrometric orbit solutions of two-body systems located within $\sim$500 pc of the Sun. Determining component masses in these systems, in particular of stars hosting exoplanets,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-17 Johannes Sahlmann , Pablo Gómez

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…

Aims. The photometric validation of the Gaia DR1 release of the ESA Gaia mission is described and the quality of the data shown. Methods. This is carried out via an internal analysis of the photometry using the most constant sources.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 D. W. Evans , M. Riello , F. De Angeli , G. Busso , F. van Leeuwen , C. Jordi , C. Fabricius , A. G. A. Brown , J. M. Carrasco , H. Voss , M. Weiler , P. Montegriffo , C. Cacciari , P. Burgess , P. Osborne

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…

Gaia's very accurate astrometric measurements will allow the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF) to be improved by a few orders of magnitude in the optical. Several sets of quasars are used to define a kinematically stable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-03 R. K. Bachchan , D. Hobbs , L. Lindegren

Positions and proper motions of Gaia sources are expressed in a reference frame that ideally should be non-rotating relative to distant extragalactic objects, coincident with the International Celestial Reference System (ICRS), and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-15 Lennart Lindegren

Gaia Data Release 3 provides novel flux-calibrated low-resolution spectrophotometry for about 220 million sources in the wavelength range 330nm - 1050nm (XP spectra). Synthetic photometry directly tied to a flux in physical units can be…

(abridged) The third data release of Gaia, has provided stellar parameters, metallicity [M/H], [{\alpha}/Fe], individual abundances, broadening parameter from its RVS spectra for about 5.6 million objects thanks to the GSP-Spec module. The…