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Since its launch in 2013, the Gaia space telescope has provided precise measurements of the positions and magnitudes of over 1 billion stars. This has enabled extensive searches for stellar and sub-stellar companions through astrometric and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-11 A. L. Wallace

Gaia is ESA's ambitious space astrometry mission the main objective of which is to astrometrically and spectro-photometrically map 1000 Million celestial objects (mostly in our galaxy) with unprecedented accuracy. The announcement of…

The Gaia mission will provide an unprecedented 3D view of our galaxy, it will obtain astrometric, photometric and spectrographic data for roughly one billion stars. We are particularly interested in the treasure chest of new data Gaia will…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-30 L. Hindson , R. Napiwotzki , U. Heber , M. Lemke

The determination of atmospheric parameters is the first and most fundamental step in the analysis of a stellar spectrum. Current and forthcoming surveys involve samples of up to several million stars, and therefore fully automated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Allende Prieto

The ESA Gaia space astrometry mission will perform an all-sky survey of stellar objects complete in the nominal magnitude range G = [6.0 - 20.0]. The stars with G lower than 6.0, i.e. those visible to the unaided human eye, would thus not…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-14 J. Martín-Fleitas , A. Mora , J. Sahlmann , R. Kohley , B. Massart , J. L'hermitte , M. Le Roy , P. Paulet

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

As the most ancient branch of astronomy, astrometry has been developed for thousands of years. However, it has only recently become possible to utilize astrometry for the detection of exoplanets. Gaia, an astrometric surveyor of 1 billion…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-14 Fabo Feng

Stellar physical and dynamical properties are essential knowledge to understanding the structure, formation, and evolution of our Galaxy. We produced an all-sky uniformly derived catalog of stellar astrophysical parameters (APs; age, mass,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-06 M. Fouesneau , R. Andrae , T. Dharmawardena , J. Rybizki , C. A. L. Bailer-Jones , M. Demleitner

Astrometry from space has unique advantages over ground-based observations: the all-sky coverage, relatively stable, and temperature and gravity invariant operating environment delivers precision, accuracy and sample volume several orders…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Gerard Gilmore

The Gaia optical observations are not the most suitable spectral domain for studying the low-mass, faintest and reddest part of the main sequence. Nevertheless, the large number of objects observed with an unprecedented precision, including…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-11 Céline Reylé

The second Gaia data release (DR2), contains very precise astrometric and photometric properties for more than one billion sources, astrophysical parameters for dozens of millions, radial velocities for millions, variability information for…

Tens of millions of new variable objects are expected to be identified in over a billion time series from the Gaia mission. Crossmatching known variable sources with those from Gaia is crucial to incorporate current knowledge, understand…

An accurate and precise Kepler Stellar Properties Catalog is essential for the interpretation of the Kepler exoplanet survey results. Previous Kepler Stellar Properties Catalogs have focused on reporting the best-available parameters for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-04 Travis A. Berger , Daniel Huber , Jennifer L. van Saders , Eric Gaidos , Jamie Tayar , Adam L. Kraus

The Gaia mission has observed over 2 billion stars repeatedly across the entire sky over 10 years, revealing the many astronomical objects that vary on human timescales from seconds to years. Its repeated astrometric, photometric,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 L. Eyer , P. Huijse , N. Chornay , J. De Ridder , B. Holl , L. Rimoldini , K. Nienartowicz , G. Jevardat de Fombelle

The first data release from the Gaia mission contains accurate positions and magnitudes for more than a billion sources, and proper motions and parallaxes for the majority of the 2.5~million Hipparcos and Tycho-2 stars. We describe three…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-15 C. Fabricius , U. Bastian , J. Portell , others

Gaia DR3 provides radial velocities for 33 million stars and spectroscopically derived atmospheric parameters for more than five million targets. When combined with the astrometric data, these allow us to derive orbital and stellar…

The Gaia satellite was selected as a cornerstone mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) in October 2000 and confirmed in 2002 with a current target launch date of 2011. The Gaia mission will gather on the same observational principles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Eyer , F. Mignard

Multiple stellar systems are ubiquitous in the Milky Way, but are often unresolved and seen as single objects in spectroscopic, photometric, and astrometric surveys. Yet, modeling them is essential for developing a full understanding of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Axel Widmark , Boris Leistedt , David W. Hogg

Gaia is an astrometric space experiment that is measuring positions, proper motions as well as parallaxes for a huge number of stars. It operates a medium-dispersion spectrometer, the RVS, that provides spectra and thus radial velocity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-24 E. Gosset , Y. Damerdji , T. Morel , L. Delchambre , J. -L. Halbwachs , G. Sadowski , D. Pourbaix , A. Sozzetti , P. Panuzzo , F. Arenou

Machine learning has increasingly gained more popularity with its incredibly powerful ability to make predictions or calculated suggestions for large amounts of data. We apply the machine learning classification to 85,613,922 objects in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Yu Bai , JiFeng Liu , Song Wang