Publications (39)
Gaia Data Release 3: Chemical cartography of the Milky Way
Gaia Collaboration, A. Recio-Blanco, G. Kordopatis +447
Gaia DR3 opens a new era of all-sky spectral analysis of stellar populations thanks to the nearly 5.6 million stars observed by the RVS and parametrised by the GSP-spec module. The…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: The Galactic anticentre
Gaia Collaboration, T. Antoja, P. McMillan +417
We aim to demonstrate the scientific potential of the Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) for the study of the Milky Way structure and evolution. We used astrometric positions, proper…
Gaia Focused Product Release: Sources from Service Interface Function image analysis -- Half a million new sources in omega Centauri
Gaia Collaboration, K. Weingrill, A. Mints +400
Gaia's readout window strategy is challenged by very dense fields in the sky. Therefore, in addition to standard Gaia observations, full Sky Mapper (SM) images were recorded for ni…
Gaia Data Release 3: A Golden Sample of Astrophysical Parameters
Gaia Collaboration, O. L. Creevey, L. M. Sarro +445
Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) provides a wealth of new data products for the astronomical community to exploit, including astrophysical parameters for a half billion stars. In this wor…
Gaia Data Release 3: Reflectance spectra of Solar System small bodies
Gaia Collaboration, L. Galluccio, M. Delbo +444
The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has been routinely observing Solar System objects (SSOs) since the beginning of its operations in August 2014. The Gaia data rel…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: Acceleration of the solar system from Gaia astrometry
Gaia Collaboration, S. A. Klioner, F. Mignard +414
Context. Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) provides accurate astrometry for about 1.6 million compact (QSO-like) extragalactic sources, 1.2 million of which have the best-quali…
Gaia Data Release 3: The extragalactic content
Gaia Collaboration, C. A. L. Bailer-Jones, D. Teyssier +444
The Gaia Galactic survey mission is designed and optimized to obtain astrometry, photometry, and spectroscopy of nearly two billion stars in our Galaxy. Yet as an all-sky multi-epo…
Simultaneous LSST and Euclid observations - advantages for Solar System Objects
C. Snodgrass, B. Carry, J. Berthier +17
The ESA Euclid mission is a space telescope that will survey ~15,000 square degrees of the sky, primarily to study the distant universe (constraining cosmological parameters throug…
Euclid. I. Overview of the Euclid mission
Euclid Collaboration, Y. Mellier, Abdurro'uf +1134
The current standard model of cosmology successfully describes a variety of measurements, but the nature of its main ingredients, dark matter and dark energy, remains unknown. Eucl…
CASTAway: An Asteroid Main Belt Tour and Survey
N. E. Bowles, C. Snodgrass, A Gibbings +42
CASTAway is a mission concept to explore our Solar System's main asteroid belt. Asteroids and comets provide a window into the formation and evolution of our Solar System and the c…
Euclid: Detecting Solar System objects in Euclid images and classifying them using Kohonen self-organising maps
A. A. Nucita, L. Conversi, A. Verdier +141
The ESA Euclid mission will survey more than 14,000 deg of the sky in visible and near-infrared wavelengths, mapping the extra-galactic sky to constrain our cosmological model…
Gaia Data Release 3: Summary of the content and survey properties
Gaia Collaboration, A. Vallenari, A. G. A. Brown +453
We present the third data release of the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, GDR3. The GDR3 catalogue is the outcome of the processing of raw data collected with the Gaia instrum…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: The celestial reference frame (Gaia-CRF3)
Gaia Collaboration, S. A. Klioner, L. Lindegren +448
Gaia-CRF3 is the celestial reference frame for positions and proper motions in the third release of data from the Gaia mission, Gaia DR3 (and for the early third release, Gaia EDR3…
Isolating the mechanisms for asteroid surface refreshing
F. E. DeMeo, M. Marsset, D. Polishook +10
Evidence is seen for young, fresh surfaces among Near-Earth and Main-Belt asteroids even though space-weathering timescales are shorter than the age of the surfaces. A number of me…
Gaia Data Release 3: Pulsations in main sequence OBAF-type stars
Gaia Collaboration, J. De Ridder, V. Ripepi +445
The third Gaia data release provides photometric time series covering 34 months for about 10 million stars. For many of those stars, a characterisation in Fourier space and their v…
Asteroid mass estimation using Markov-chain Monte Carlo
L. Siltala, M. Granvik
Estimates for asteroid masses are based on their gravitational perturbations on the orbits of other objects such as Mars, spacecraft, or other asteroids and/or their satellites. In…
Optical spectropolarimetry of binary asteroid Didymos-Dimorphos before and after the DART impact
S. Bagnulo, Z. Gray, M. Granvik +7
We have monitored the Didymos-Dimorphos binary asteroid in spectropolarimetric mode in the optical range before and after the DART impact. The ultimate goal was to obtain constrain…
Gaia Data Release 3: Mapping the asymmetric disc of the Milky Way
Gaia Collaboration, R. Drimmel, M. Romero-Gomez +453
With the most recent Gaia data release the number of sources with complete 6D phase space information (position and velocity) has increased to well over 33 million stars, while ste…
Potential asteroid discoveries by the ESA Gaia mission: Results from follow-up observations
B. Carry, W. Thuillot, F. Spoto +42
Since July 2014, the ESA Gaia mission has been surveying the entire sky down to magnitude 20.7 in the visible. In addition to the millions of stars, thousands of Solar System Objec…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: The Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars
Gaia Collaboration, R. L. Smart, L. M. Sarro +420
We produce a clean and well-characterised catalogue of objects within 100\,pc of the Sun from the \G\ Early Data Release 3. We characterise the catalogue through comparisons to the…
The discovery and characterization of a kilometre sized asteroid inside the orbit of Venus
Bryce T. Bolin, T. Ahumada, P. van Dokkum +8
Near-Earth asteroid population models predict the existence of bodies located inside the orbit of Venus. Despite searches up to the end of 2019, none had been found. We report disc…
Gaia Data Release 1. Testing the parallaxes with local Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars
Gaia Collaboration, G. Clementini, L. Eyer +588
Parallaxes for 331 classical Cepheids, 31 Type II Cepheids and 364 RR Lyrae stars in common between Gaia and the Hipparcos and Tycho-2 catalogues are published in Gaia Data Release…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: Structure and properties of the Magellanic Clouds
Gaia Collaboration, X. Luri, L. Chemin +417
We compare the Gaia DR2 and Gaia EDR3 performances in the study of the Magellanic Clouds and show the clear improvements in precision and accuracy in the new release. We also show…
Asteroid mass estimation with the robust adaptive Metropolis algorithm
L. Siltala, M. Granvik
The bulk density of an asteroid informs us about its interior structure and composition. To constrain the bulk density one needs an estimate for the mass of the asteroid. The mass…
Gaia Data Release 2: Observational Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams
Gaia Collaboration, C. Babusiaux, F. van Leeuwen +450
We highlight the power of the Gaia DR2 in studying many fine structures of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (HRD). Gaia allows us to present many different HRDs, depending in partic…
Gaia Focused Product Release: Radial velocity time series of long-period variables
Gaia Collaboration, M. Trabucchi, N. Mowlavi +403
The third Gaia Data Release (DR3) provided photometric time series of more than 2 million long-period variable (LPV) candidates. Anticipating the publication of full radial-velocit…
Euclid: Asteroid rotation periods from the Euclid Ecliptic Survey
B. Y. Irureta-Goyena, B. Altieri, J. -P. Kneib +142
The Euclid Ecliptic Survey was conducted during the calibration phase of the mission, 23-31 December 2023, as a campaign to study Solar System objects. We used data from this surve…
The Palomar twilight survey of 'Ayló'chaxnim, Atiras, and comets
B. T. Bolin, F. J. Masci, M. W. Coughlin +29
Near-sun sky twilight observations allow for the detection of asteroid interior to the orbit of Venus (Aylos), the Earth (Atiras), and comets. We present the results of observation…
Gaia Data Release 3: Stellar multiplicity, a teaser for the hidden treasure
Gaia Collaboration, F. Arenou, C. Babusiaux +447
The Gaia DR3 Catalogue contains for the first time about eight hundred thousand solutions with either orbital elements or trend parameters for astrometric, spectroscopic and eclips…
Euclid: Identification of asteroid streaks in simulated images using StreakDet software
M. Pöntinen, M. Granvik, A. A. Nucita +57
The ESA Euclid space telescope could observe up to 150 000 asteroids as a side product of its primary cosmological mission. Asteroids appear as trailed sources, that is streaks, in…
Gaia Focused Product Release: A catalogue of sources around quasars to search for strongly lensed quasars
Gaia Collaboration, A. Krone-Martins, C. Ducourant +398
Context. Strongly lensed quasars are fundamental sources for cosmology. The Gaia space mission covers the entire sky with the unprecedented resolution of " in the optical, ma…
Euclid: Identification of asteroid streaks in simulated images using deep learning
M. Pöntinen, M. Granvik, A. A. Nucita +114
Up to 150000 asteroids will be visible in the images of the ESA Euclid space telescope, and the instruments of Euclid offer multiband visual to near-infrared photometry and slitles…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: Summary of the contents and survey properties
Gaia Collaboration, A. G. A Brown, A. Vallenari +423
We present the early installment of the third Gaia data release, Gaia EDR3, consisting of astrometry and photometry for 1.8 billion sources brighter than magnitude 21, complemented…
The Hamburg Meteorite Fall: Fireball trajectory, orbit and dynamics
P. G. Brown, D. Vida, D. E. Moser +10
The Hamburg (H4) meteorite fell on January 17, 2018 at 01:08 UT approximately 10km North of Ann Arbor, Michigan. More than two dozen fragments totaling under one kilogram were reco…
Origin of asteroid (469219) Kamo`oalewa: the main asteroid belt or the Giordano Bruno crater on the Moon?
M. Fenucci, B. NovakoviÄ, M. Granvik +1
Asteroid Kamo`oalewa is the target of the Tianwen-2 sample-return mission by CNSA. Because of its orbit and its spectral properties, it was proposed that Kamo`oalewa originated fro…
Gaia Data Release 1. Open cluster astrometry: performance, limitations, and future prospects
Gaia Collaboration, F. van Leeuwen, A. Vallenari +589
Context. The first Gaia Data Release contains the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS). This is a subset of about 2 million stars for which, besides the position and photometry,…
Machine Learning Assisted NEO Discovery and Polarimetric Characterisation with Astronomical Surveys
G. A. Verdoes Kleijn, T. Grobler, S. J. Chong +12
We are a group of over two dozen astronomers, computer scientists, data scientists and digital Big Data research platform experts at 11 universities and research institutes in Sout…
Discovery of a dormant 33 solar-mass black hole in pre-release Gaia astrometry
Gaia Collaboration, P. Panuzzo, T. Mazeh +412
Gravitational waves from black-hole merging events have revealed a population of extra-galactic BHs residing in short-period binaries with masses that are higher than expected base…
Object classification with Convolutional Neural Networks: from KiDS to Euclid
G. A. Verdoes Kleijn, C. A. Marocico, Y. Mzayek +11
Large-scale imaging surveys have grown about 1000 times faster than the number of astronomers in the last 3 decades. Using Artificial Intelligence instead of astronomer's brains fo…