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

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Gaia Data Release 2. Summary of the contents and survey properties

Gaia Collaboration, A. G. A. Brown, A. Vallenari +4

We present the second Gaia data release, Gaia DR2, consisting of astrometry, photometry, radial velocities, and information on astrophysical parameters and variability, for sources…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 423 cited

Gaia Data Release 2: Mapping the Milky Way disc kinematics

Gaia Collaboration, D. Katz, T. Antoja +12

To illustrate the potential of GDR2, we provide a first look at the kinematics of the Milky Way disc, within a radius of several kiloparsecs around the Sun. We benefit for the firs…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 194 cited

Gaia Data Release 2: The Celestial reference frame (Gaia-CRF2)

F. Mignard, S. Klioner, L. Lindegren +3

The second release of Gaia data (Gaia DR2) contains the astrometric parameters for more than half a million quasars. This set defines a kinematically non-rotating reference frame i…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 637 cited

Gaia Data Release 2: Kinematics of globular clusters and dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way

Gaia Collaboration, A. Helmi, F. van Leeuwen +7

The goal of this paper is to demonstrate the outstanding quality of the second data release of the Gaia mission and its power for constraining many different aspects of the dynamic…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 3 cited

History of Globulettes in the Milky Way

Tiia Grenman, Erik Elfgren, Hans Weber

Globulettes are small (radii kAU) dark dust clouds, seen against the background of bright nebulae. A majority of the objects have planetary mass. These objects may be a sour…