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most citedGaia Data Release 2. Summary of the contents and survey properties

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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…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 8 cited

The InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: latest science cases and simulations

Shelley A. Wright, Gregory Walth, Tuan Do +36

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) first light instrument IRIS (Infrared Imaging Spectrograph) will complete its preliminary design phase in 2016. The IRIS instrument design includes…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 2 cited

Sparse aperture differential piston measurements using the pyramid wave-front sensor

Carmelo Arcidiacono, Xinyang Chen, Zhaojun Yan +7

In this paper we report on the laboratory experiment we settled in the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) to investigate the pyramid wavefront sensor (WFS) ability to measure…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 176 cited

eXTP -- enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry Mission

S. N. Zhang, M. Feroci, A. Santangelo +181

eXTP is a science mission designed to study the state of matter under extreme conditions of density, gravity and magnetism. Primary targets include isolated and binary neutron star…