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PRAIA - Package for the Reduction of Astronomical Images Automatically - is a suite of astrometric and photometric tasks designed to cope with huge amounts of heterogeneous observations with fast processing, no human intervention, minimum…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-31 M. Assafin

Among the myriad of data collected by the ESA Gaia satellite, about 150 million spectra will be delivered by the Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) for stars as faint as G_RVS~16. A specific stellar parametrization will be performed for…

Distances from the Gaia mission will no doubt improve our understanding of stellar physics by providing an excellent constraint on the luminosity of the star. However, it is also clear that high precision stellar properties from, for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-07 O. L. Creevey , F. Thévenin

Modern spectroscopic surveys combined with Gaia distances are enabling reliable estimates of fundamental parameters for hundreds of Galactic O-type stars and the full range of spectral types and luminosity classes. Here we provide updated,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 G. Holgado , S. Simón-Díaz , A. Herrero

The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) will conduct a deep and wide imaging survey in the NUV-, u-, g-, r-, i-, z-, and y-bands. In this work, using theoretical data synthesized from the BOSZ spectra of Bohlin et al. (2017), along with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Xue Lu , Haibo Yuan , Kai Xiao , Bowen Huang , Ruoyi Zhang , Lin Yang , Timothy C. Beers , Shuai Xu

The Gaia satellite will observe about one billion stars and other point-like sources. The astrometric core solution will determine the astrometric parameters (position, parallax, and proper motion) for a subset of these sources, using a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-20 Lennart Lindegren , Uwe Lammers , David Hobbs , William O'Mullane , Ulrich Bastian , José Hernández

GAIA is the ``super-Hipparcos'' survey satellite selected as a Cornerstone 6 mission by the European Space Agency. GAIA can measure microlensing by the small excursions of the light centroid that occur during events. The all-sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. A. Belokurov , N. W. Evans

We present imaging results from a high Galactic latitude survey designed to examine the structure of the Galactic halo. The objective of the survey is to identify candidate halo stars which can be observed spectroscopically to obtain radial…

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…

The Gaia mission has been designed to perform absolute astrometric measurements with unprecedented accuracy; the end-of-mission parallax standard error is required to be 30 micro-arcseconds for a G2V type star of magnitude 15. These…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Thibaut Prod'homme , Berry Holl , Lennart Lindegren , Anthony G. A. Brown

We present a catalogue of distances, masses and ages for $\sim3$ million stars in the second Gaia data release with spectroscopic parameters available from the large spectroscopic surveys: APOGEE, Gaia-ESO, GALAH, LAMOST, RAVE and SEGUE. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-24 Jason L. Sanders , Payel Das

The Gaia SpectroPhotometric Standard Stars (SPSS) survey started in 2006, it was awarded almost 450 observing nights, and accumulated almost 100,000 raw data frames, with both photometric and spectroscopic observations. Such large…

Gaia is the cornerstone mission of the European Space Agency. From late 2013 it will start collecting superb astrometric, photometric and spectroscopic data for around a billion of stars of our Galaxy. While surveying the whole sky down to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-23 Lukasz Wyrzykowski , Simon Hodgkin , Nadejda Blogorodnova , Sergey Koposov , Ross Burgon

We discuss the impact that Gaia, a European Space Agency (ESA) cornerstone mission that has been in scientific operations since July 2014, is expected to have on the definition of the cosmic distance ladder and the study of resolved stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-08 Gisella Clementini , Alessia Garofalo , Tatiana Muraveva , Vincenzo Ripepi

The ESA Cornerstone Mission GAIA, to be launched prior to 2012 and with a nominal lifetime of 5 years, will improve the accuracy of Hipparcos astrometry by more than two orders of magnitude. GAIA high-precision global astrometric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. G. Lattanzi , S. Casertano , A. Sozzetti , A. Spagna

With the publication of Gaia DR2, 1.3 billion stars now have public parallax and proper motion measurements. In this contribution, we compare the results for sources that have both optical and radio measurements, focusing on circumstellar…

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…

ESA's Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics (GAIA) holds the promise of mapping out the detailed phase space structure of the Galactic halo by providing unprecedented annual proper motion and parallax of $1-10\muas$ astrometric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 HongSheng Zhao , Kathryn Johnston , Lars Hernquist , David Spergel

We have estimated fundamental parameters for a sample of co-moving stars observed by $Gaia$ and identified by Oh et al. (2017). We matched the $Gaia$ observations to the 2MASS and WISE catalogs and fit MIST isochrones to the data, deriving…