most citedThe Gaia mission

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astro-ph.SR2017★ 101 cited

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…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 100 cited

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,…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 115 cited

Gaia Data Release 1, Pre-processing and source list creation

C. Fabricius, U. Bastian, J. Portell +1

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…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 2.1k cited

Gaia Data Release 1. Summary of the astrometric, photometric, and survey properties

Gaia Collaboration, A. G. A. Brown, A. Vallenari +5

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 magni…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 7.1k cited

The Gaia mission

Gaia Collaboration

Gaia is a cornerstone mission in the science programme of the European Space Agency (ESA). The spacecraft construction was approved in 2006, following a study in which the original…